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The Breakdown & Bad Parenting

 
(This may offend some, but so be it)
We know that the breakdown of the Standard family dynamic is responsible for most of the social ills today.  But what precipitated the breakdown?  This breakdown can be traced significantly to the Feminist movement of the 50's, 60's, and 70's. (I'll come back to this in a moment)
  • Households that require two incomes to support their lifestyle are living beyond their means. 
    When both parents work full time, energy and focus that should be spent on the kids is taken away from them. 
  • When both parents work full time, it takes time, energy and focus away from the spouse.
  • When both parents work full time, they are often too "exhausted" to go to church regularly; they want their "down time". 
These factors lead to a breakdown in the fundamental structure of the family unit. Parents are too exhausted to do the business of parenting after their "real world" job.

Now, how is it that Feminists caused this? Simply and insidiously. They twisted the meaning of "Equality" to mean something that it does not. Don't misunderstand me:  I view women as my equals in terms of the value that they bring to the table. But the idea that just because two things are of equal value, they must be the same, and do the same things, and perform the same functions, and produce the same results is ridiculous. If I have a $5,000.00 car and a $5,000.00 hot tub, they are equally valuable, but do completely different things. Equality is not “Sameness”.  

What’s really sad is that by twisting that meaning and propagating the myth that in order to have value, a woman must do all the same things a man can do, the feminist movement actually denigrates women and diminishes their value. They denigrate women by insinuating that their natural role and what they already bring to the table simply “isn’t good enough”. They devalue women by trying to shoehorn women into roles they were not meant for, many of whom subsequently perform at a deficit to men, all the while neglecting the functions and roles for which they are meant, thus netting a product of lesser value.

In a family when both parents are working outside of the house, the balance of the family dynamic is thrown WAY off. This contributes to low church attendance, high divorce rates, teen delinquency, lack of parental supervision, etc.  There's an added evil bonus too:  Kids who grow up in families like this don't get to see how a family unit should work, and thus have no good frame of reference when they have families of their own.

I’ll grant that there are some generalizations in my rant, but overall, it's undeniable.
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