Family. What is it? What happened to it?

Family

Because the liberal attitudes, these days, would prefer to burn me at the stake rather than listen to sound advice, I will probably hear plenty on what I have to say. The fact is, there is a reason for the melt down of ‘family’.

You might tend to blame it on the ‘bra burners’ but it goes back further than that. We can all thank WWII for the interior melt down of the U.S. As the U.S. goes, so goes the world.

Until WWII women stayed home and raised the children and kept a home for the family. Along with it came lessons in ‘right from wrong’ because ‘family’ had to survive.

It was WWII that caused the women to come out of the home and work in the factories. All the working aged men were gone off to war and we needed planes and ships and warfare. Who was left to support the troops in these ways? Women!

Once women got a taste of this newly found freedom, it was hard to push them back into their previous roles. What’s more, we had less men to support these families and many women had to resume the role of ‘bread winner’. That is when things began to change.

As time went by and the children born into this war, grew up, they had different opinions about the role of women. Now enter the era of the ‘bra burner’. The women’s lib groups.

If people don’t think this demoralized men, you’ve got another thing coming. I’ve watched while women became the strong ones in society and men became wimps.

Once upon a time, children had 2 strong role models to follow. There was a definite division between male and female. Today, it’s hard to tell who rules the household and who does not. Which model shall the boys follow after?

Along with the melt down of family structure, came confusion and frustration for more than half the families. Children practically raised themselves. A child so neglected that when something horrible happened, the parents were the first to admit surprise. How could they have known their own son was harboring murder in his heart, when they hardly speak to that child.

Everyone is too busy gaining. They gain money, they gain goods, they gain bigger houses and more toys and better appliances and prettier clothes. They gain social status, they work toward the mysterious day called retirement. Something had to suffer. It was the children.

Few families, go on outings together any more because they don’t have the time. Few families, spend quality time because the television is lord and master of the household. Few children go out to play and climb trees because it’s too much work putting on all those helmets and knee guards and safety goggles. It’s easier to just sit and play a video game. It’s safer.

Nobody wants to risk a broken arm, lest the authorities come and take away their children. How did those authorities ever gain so much control over our own homes? Could it be that we were too busy driving to work?

Today you find both parents working 40 hours a week and what for? It’s all for that soccer team? It’s all for those special clothes your kids want? Is it all for a new car?

What have you traded your children for? Think about it?

Men – do you not understand that children and a home need a mother?
Women – do you not understand that with household skills you could save enough grocery money simply by your own cooking, to not need that job?

With you both at work all the time, there is no ‘presence’ in the home. There is not ‘rock’, no stability, no home.