Throughout history there has been no stronger institute than the
family. The tribal aspect of society has been around as long as
humans.
When we look at what a small family can do to affect society it can
be tremendous. The Maccabean brothers’ revolt during the Roman
occupation of the Holy Land became a legendary story still discussed
several centuries later.
I believe the family structure is a godly institution for several
reasons. First and foremost I say it fully reflects the character of
God Himself. God has the characteristics of being the Provider,
Leader, Disciplinarian, and Protector. The characters expected of any
father in a family.
He also has the Nurturing, Loving, and Caring attributes normally
associated with the mother of any family.
And when a woman and a man are united in matrimony, I sincerely
believe they are completing the full character of God in order to
raise their children in the admonition and knowledge of a Holy God.
This produces a strong and united generation. And in turn a stronger
nation and society.
In America today we see the degradation of this structure in many
ways, and coming from many sides. Most homes that have two parents see
both parents working to make ends meet. This leaves many children to
raise themselves in areas where a parent is needed to properly show
them the way. Instead we see Television and Video games, Movies, and
popular music CD’s raising them, after they have been in public school
being taught the current agenda being forced upon them by a liberal
institution.
I believe the beginning of this degradation started from the
Feminist Movement of the 60’s and 70’s that removed the mother from
the home. They took the duties and social responsibilities normally
associated with the father. This left kids to be raised by school
systems and whatever influence they encountered on a daily basis. We
can also see a significant increase in the rate of divorce and in
children being raised in single parent homes. And we see the
statistics pointing to the criminal rate of children, being raised in
fatherless homes, significantly greater than children who have been
raised in a home with a father. Not just a single parent home mind
you, but a fatherless home.
The second movement was the Civil Rights Movement that included
children and exempted them from discipline from parents and other
authority figures. The Dr. Spock genre basically eliminated any
practical discipline from home and school. Lawyers have made a fortune
with kids being allowed to sue at the drop of a hat.
The third has been and still is the Teachers Union. The NEA has not
only taken it upon themselves to introduce and remove whatever they
deemed appropriate for our children, but have taken it upon themselves
to push the Liberal Agenda into our children under the guise of
education.
The fourth has been this huge movement to remove God from Schools
and society in direct opposition to the intention of the Framers of
our Constitution. So we now sit in a society where our children have
been raised by electronics and media, with no real consequences for
their action or inaction. You see, we can no longer take a hand to our
children’s’ backside without fear of being arrested and jailed.
Teachers, who have pushed hard for children to turn their parents in
after a spanking, have seen the tables turn when they also have no
real recourse. The teachers complain that the parents have no
involvement in a child’s life and therefore send their kids to school
undisciplined and rude. But hey, thanks to the ACLU those same kids
who can sue their parents can also sue the teachers if they feel
slighted or mistreated in any way.
And we not only see the removal of God from our schools and
society, but the introduction of religions and social values that have
never been a huge part of this society. Homosexuality and Islam is
being taught, Political Correctness is being taught, and the
underlying result is a nation of undisciplined and godless children.
Children who see no problem with having sex at very young ages.
Children who have been taught that they should investigate alternate
sexual lifestyles, children who are encouraged to sue their parents
every time they get disciplined. And no, I do not mean beaten, I mean
disciplined. But a parent cannot even listen to their children talk on
the phone anymore without fear of legal repercussion as was evidenced
recently in Washington.
We see Homosexuals trying to marry, adopt children, and even having
them created in a laboratory in order to try and imitate a true family
structure.
We see a strong influx of immigrants who have much stronger family
values than indigent Americans do. People from Mexico, Asia, India,
and other places that still subscribe to traditional family values in
the home and outside.
And we see the educational level of those kids rising higher while
American children ride lower. We see a better disciplined and better
educated youth in many of our immigrants.
We see them taking care of their parents instead of shipping them
off to an Old Folks Home. We see them being raised by two parents, and
see the traditional family values alive within their homes.
We see those respecting parents instead of suing them. We see them
working instead of staying home until their parents pass on. We see
those becoming men and women instead of waiting for a relative to die
in order to collect easy money.
And if this is what we see, where then will our children be in 10
years? Twenty years? I say lazier, and less educated, and stricken
with depression. But we can stop this flood of immorality and take
both our God back, and our family structure. We can eliminate the
great socialization of our school systems and bring it back to an
effective means of education.
We can change back the laws that have become so warped and twisted
that our children are being raised as drones and social robots. If a
small percentage of people have changed these laws to accommodate
their Liberal agendas, than the majority of this nation can take those
laws and change them back to the moral and common sense based laws
they once were.
And in time we will have our children back. Or values can return,
and we can once again be a strong nation that stems from a strong
family base. And within that family we can fully, and without shame
show forth the character of God Almighty and raise our children with
that character etched in their memory for decades to come.
Get out and vote. Write your representatives and congressmen, and
never give up the good fight until we have taken back what has been
stolen from us and our children.
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