Fatherhood Isn’t Rocket Science, Elon — And You Can’t Outsource It

[Michie]

Despite his vast wealth, Musk cannot possibly be a living and loving presence to all of his 13 children and their four mothers.

The first and most important duty of a father is to love his child’s mother. This is how a man ordinarily becomes a father in the first place. By this criterion, Elon Musk presents a bad example of fatherhood.

Before I go any further, let me clarify one point: Each and every one of Elon Musk’s children is a beloved child of God. Each one exists because God loves them and wants them to exist. I thank God for the life of Elon and Ashley’s new baby. We must never regret the child.

Still, Musk is a bad dad. Elon Musk has fathered 13 children with four women. How can he possibly love all four of these women and their children the way each one of them should be loved? And even if the moms are willing to settle for a mere share of Musk’s attention, their children didn’t exactly get a vote. The kids still need him to love them and their mom as well.

As numerous studies have shown, children flourish in continuously-married, low-conflict, heterosexual-couple households. Economist Melissa Kearney recently demonstrated the benefits children get from married parents in her book, The Two-Parent Privilege. Sociologist Brad Wilcox and his team at the Institute for Family Studies have been accumulating this type of evidence for decades. But what is behind these numbers? Why exactly do kids consistently fare so much better with their own married parents?

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Fatherhood Isn’t Rocket Science, Elon — And You Can’t Outsource It

COMMENTARY: Despite his vast wealth, Musk cannot possibly be a living and loving presence to all of his 13 children and their four mothers.

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[RileyG]

I wonder if all of Musk’s children know him well. What a sad situation.

 

[Angeldove97]

As numerous studies have shown, children flourish in continuously-married, low-conflict, couple households.

^^ Studies have found that same sex couples and their children do perfectly fine too. Just saying....

 

[RileyG]

As numerous studies have shown, children flourish in continuously-married, low-conflict, couple households.

^^ Studies have found that same sex couples and their children do perfectly fine too. Just saying....

Keep in mind, we find same-sex “relationships” sinful and disordered.

And yes! Children, by design, deserve both a mother AND a father.

I don’t care what so called secular studies say.

God and his design wins!

 

[fide]

I feel like I just got caught in a totally gratuitous and useless gossip session. Fortunately this one was easily escaped.

 

[Michie]

Baby No. 14: Neuralink Director Shivon Zilis, Elon Musk welcome fourth child together

Elon Musk and tech executive Shivon Zilis welcomed their fourth child together, according to an X post by Zilis on Friday.

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[WarriorAngel]

Some prayers for his faith to grow.
he has taken baby steps.

 

[Michie]

I didn’t know he held any faith. I thought he was atheist or agnostic that just called himself a cultural Christian.

 

[RileyG]

I didn’t know he held any faith. I thought he was atheist or agnostic that just called himself a cultural Christian.

That's what I'm thinking, too.

 

[RileyG]

I feel like I just got caught in a totally gratuitous and useless gossip session. Fortunately this one was easily escaped.

That's fair. To be honest, I don't like him that much. There's something about him that makes me uneasy. Maybe I'm being too judgmental? I dunno.

 

[fide]

That's fair. To be honest, I don't like him that much. There's something about him that makes me uneasy. Maybe I'm being too judgmental? I dunno.

It's important to seek to discern rightly; "judging" is something else entirely. It is very dangerous to "judge" another. Whenever we are tempted to judge (and it is a temptation, and one that we must conquer), we ought to ask ourselves, and then God, "Who am I, Lord, to judge another man?"
Related to that thought, I think I'm remembering correctly when I say, Teresa of Avila said and wrote that we must never leave the "Room of Self-Knowledge." Most of us, sadly, have never entered that room of horrors. If by grace He has led us there, then we know the horrors to be seen there and we are convicted even more deeply for ever seeking to escape it to presume to hide ourselves from ourselves, and judge another.
Related also is understanding the nature of the love which we are commanded to live: it is the very love by which Jesus - and the full Holy Trinity - loved and loves all human persons of His own creation, in His own image. We were created to love as He loves, thus He made it possible by creating us in His image. A likeness exists, a place in us exists within our nature to love as He loves; thus His New Commandment is right and righteous. And possible, by His grace, and in His mercy.
Related and helpful, I believe, also is His letter to Ephesus, in the Book of Revelation:

Rev 2:1 "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: 'The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands.
Rev 2:2 "'I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear evil men but have tested those who call themselves apostles but are not, and found them to be false;
Rev 2:3 I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.
Rev 2:4 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
Rev 2:5 Remember then from what you have fallen, repent and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
Rev 2:6 Yet this you have, you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
Rev 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.'

Those are some things to think about, Riley - a journey that I continue on, a journey that He mercifully is willing to help us on.