Today at 01:57 AM Texas Lynn said this in Post #12 (http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?postid=657981#post657981)
The two-parent, working-husband, obedient wife and children model never was entirely universal as some claim. Families are doing fine as individual entities. The economic impetus toward traditional marriage is long gone, and good riddance to it. People are free to make their own destinies regarding their adult lives. Except in certain backward precincts, single mothers are honored as strivers. I'm sure I've met countless people who have no relationship with their biological fathers and do not want any because these individuals abandoned their children. This cohort encompasses people from their teens to their eighties.
the fact that you have "met countless people who have never met their father" only serves to support A_B_lievers point that the "family" is all but destroyed.
Families are doing fine as individual entities? Modern suburban family life consists of mother/father (*maybe* father), and 2 children (pref boy and girl). The children are born when the cost benefit analysis says its prudent, and children are overall considered a financial burden rather than a gift from God.
People have always been free to make their own destiny, but I think you mean "free from social constraints" which is another sign of bad times... society has lessened the social stigma from child abandonment and crimes against the family.
The solution to that is a button on the set labeled "power". BTW art imitates life, not vice versa. Violence in the media is merely a mirror image of life. 500 years ago Thomas Hobbes lamented common folks lives were "nasty, brutish, and short"....in that interval we've lengthened lifespans but have much catching up to do regarding the quality of it.
thats true, and the solution to murder is that we keep ourselves away from murderers, lest we be killed ourselves... As a solution to all immorality, lets hide from it!
What "cathing up to do" do you see us as having to do with the quality of life?
This is greatly exagerated. I think people with a political agenda are deliberately misrepresenting this. If parents did appropriately discipline children and educate them about sexuality then there'd be no need for the community to step in, now, would it?
is it? your argument seems circular. "the state isn't doing the parents roles, if the parents did their job, the state wouldn't have to do it for them"
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