For Healthy Society, Father Knows Best

Science Proves Common Sense Dept.  Swedish scientists have found that “Children Who Have An Active Father Figure Have Fewer Psychological And Behavioral Problems,” according to a report on Science Daily.  In addition, “Children who lived with both a mother and father figure also had less behavioural problems than those who just lived with their mother.”  Dr Anna Sarkadi from the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at Uppsala University, Sweden, explained:

“For example, we found various studies that showed that children who had positively involved father figures were less likely to smoke and get into trouble with the police, achieved better levels of education and developed good friendships with children of both sexes.
    “Long-term benefits included women who had better relationships with partners and a greater sense of mental and physical well-being at the age of 33 if they had a good relationship with their father at 16.”

This backs up the “intuitive assumption” that involvement with a biological father or father figure has a positive influence on children – be it spending time with them talking, sharing in their activities, or playing an active role in their care and development.  They said the father is particularly helpful for kids who are socially or economically disadvantaged.  Public policy makers and employers need to recognize the importance of this role in a man’s life, they said, for the good of society.

Ask: who are the people who typically want to break down traditional marriage, confuse gender roles, and contribute to governmental policies (e.g., the welfare state, taxes that penalize marriage, promotion of alternate lifestyles) that make it harder for kids to have a father and mother at home?  Sorry to insult your intelligence with such a giveaway question.  You guessed it: liberals.  Evolutionists, who are predominantly liberal in their politics, often portray Dad as nothing but a gene donor, a biological entity selfishly seeking to pass on his own genes at any cost, married or not.  Is it any wonder a society immersed in evolutionary thinking is going to have little use for the traditional family?  As a result of sick liberal, progressive policies (see book review), we have inherited a host of societal ills: crime, drugs, antisocial behavior, a sense of hopelessness, suicide.  The kids most in need of a father – economically disadvantaged blacks, for instance – grow up predominantly in fatherless homes.
    Don’t count on this announcement making liberals slap their foreheads like in the V8 commercials and say, “Oh!  I could have had a nuclear family.”  How ironic that this study came out from that ultra-liberal society, Sweden.  Most politicians realize that fatherless homes are a ticking time bomb for societal catastrophe.  Fewer of them connect the effect to the cause: anti-family legislation and social experimentation, rooted in a materialistic, evolutionary philosophy.
    There are bad dads – abusive, alcoholic, selfish – but the exceptions prove the rule.  God designed a family to have one father and one mother.  The kids not only need the different roles of the man and the woman, the parents need the sense of responsibility that having children brings.  It’s all a system to engender health and harmony from the family unit upwards to society.  It almost looks like it was planned that way.  Should anyone be surprised at the horrendous consequences of abandoning the Master plan?
    Support the ministries that are trying to bring governmental, educational and corporate policies back from the abyss of social experimentation, and promulgate environments that encourage two-parent families: Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, Traditional Values Coalition, and others.  Most of all, do all you can to set a good example.