This mantra was glamorized (though not coined) by Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and was quickly inculcated both in Prager’s generation and those that followed. Prager rightly defines America’s new narrative, which is directed specifically to women: “You don’t need a man; you need a career. Then you’ll be happy.”
Her father was ■■■■■■
Just cohencidence of course.
And THERE is where the disconnect comes in.
For once, magog in his OP is correct. But the very values that he says (correctly) are under attack ore the Judeo-Christian values which he himself attacks for other reasons. In so doing, he actually helps promote the very attacks on the family that he is concerned about.
Dad worked. Mom took care of the house. My childhood was idylic. I got everything I needed; especially learning to be honorable. By 16 years old, I was mature enough to enlist in the Navy. Show me a bad point.
There’s not a thing wrong with that arrangement, no bad point to highlight. Other arrangements can and have produced the same or better results as well.
This comes up routinely in threads about the breakdown of the traditional family structure.
Amazing things can come out of the most catastrophic circumstances. There are always exceptions to the generalization.
Statistically, and in spite of exception counter examples, the intact family consisting of a married (MARRIED) mother and father is far more likely (statistically) to produce ideal children. And the further a family diverges from that model, the more likely (statistically) the children raised in alternative models will encounter a host of social ills – from drugs, to high school dropout, to crime, to teen sex, to teen pregnancy, to sexually transmitted diseases, to suicide, to poverty, etc.
There isn’t a legitimate study out there that doesn’t point out this paradigm.