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This is from Feb 2018.
It's not just dads, but fatherlessness is a huge problem in this country. I grew up in a single mother home, but I was fortunate that she was well equipped to deal with my hateful ass. I was angry and full of rage at a very young age. I was violent and people feared who I was, but also who I'd become. My mother worked to instill empathy and compassion in me, but she wasn't alone. My grandparents were a massive factor in my life. They taught me love because they were the first to love me after my mom. It's easy to excuse mom because she "has" too, but others have a choice.
I've seen statistics that like 90% of death row inmates were involved in foster care at some point. How many gang bangers have a real dad around? I grew up always wanting a real dad and not having it was painful as hell. It still bothers me now. Mine died with I was 3, and I hadn't seen him since I was 1. I have no memories of him, but I had 2 felonious stepfathers that weren't exactly teachers of the way.
I just feel like the breakdown of the family and the connectedness of kids to their fathers particularly ruin things for the rest of us. Most moms aren't as equipped as mine was nor have the support that mine did. It took years and years to break my violence up into other activities. I still deal with it now, but it's not the same. When I told my 3rd-grade teacher I was a teacher, she literally looked at my daughters and said I was the worst student she ever had. She wasn't lying and she offered to pray for us all. I do all the time.
I think this is a battle that can be won. Obviously, I believe my faith had a huge part in all of this. It wouldn't have happened without it. Society, especially on social media, sows divisions, hatred, anger, dehumanization of the other, and all this while preaching equality and whatever. You can't have both. Our kids are overrun with media from all sides at all time. There is very little time to think and process anything. Kids don't put down the phone and just breathe or do something else. They are inundated by hyper-violent and sexualized images left and right. They are pushed by peers through some of those same means in lots of directions, and it isn't easy for them to walk away. You HAVE to respond, to act, to be seen, to be heard, and never can you take a break.
I don't know if this all makes sense or not. I'm just arguing that family(fathers particularly) have to step up and be there for their kids. If you took away violent crims committed by fatherless young men, we'd live in relative tranquility.
This is from Feb 2018.
It's not just dads, but fatherlessness is a huge problem in this country. I grew up in a single mother home, but I was fortunate that she was well equipped to deal with my hateful ass. I was angry and full of rage at a very young age. I was violent and people feared who I was, but also who I'd become. My mother worked to instill empathy and compassion in me, but she wasn't alone. My grandparents were a massive factor in my life. They taught me love because they were the first to love me after my mom. It's easy to excuse mom because she "has" too, but others have a choice.
I've seen statistics that like 90% of death row inmates were involved in foster care at some point. How many gang bangers have a real dad around? I grew up always wanting a real dad and not having it was painful as hell. It still bothers me now. Mine died with I was 3, and I hadn't seen him since I was 1. I have no memories of him, but I had 2 felonious stepfathers that weren't exactly teachers of the way.
I just feel like the breakdown of the family and the connectedness of kids to their fathers particularly ruin things for the rest of us. Most moms aren't as equipped as mine was nor have the support that mine did. It took years and years to break my violence up into other activities. I still deal with it now, but it's not the same. When I told my 3rd-grade teacher I was a teacher, she literally looked at my daughters and said I was the worst student she ever had. She wasn't lying and she offered to pray for us all. I do all the time.
I think this is a battle that can be won. Obviously, I believe my faith had a huge part in all of this. It wouldn't have happened without it. Society, especially on social media, sows divisions, hatred, anger, dehumanization of the other, and all this while preaching equality and whatever. You can't have both. Our kids are overrun with media from all sides at all time. There is very little time to think and process anything. Kids don't put down the phone and just breathe or do something else. They are inundated by hyper-violent and sexualized images left and right. They are pushed by peers through some of those same means in lots of directions, and it isn't easy for them to walk away. You HAVE to respond, to act, to be seen, to be heard, and never can you take a break.
I don't know if this all makes sense or not. I'm just arguing that family(fathers particularly) have to step up and be there for their kids. If you took away violent crims committed by fatherless young men, we'd live in relative tranquility.
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