When did fathers become objects of ridicule in our culture? I can't pinpoint the exact time myself but I can honestly say it was in my lifetime. I grew up during a time in which most fathers were breadwinners and most mothers stayed home to take care of the household chores and raise the children. Husbands took pride in providing a good home and the necessities of life for their families while their wives took pride in keeping the home running smoothly and looking out for the needs of their husbands and children.
None of my friends were the product of single parent families unless one of the parents had died. Divorce was something rare in those days, at least in the small village where I was raised, and it was most certainly something the majority frowned upon. To be a widow was lamentable. To be a divorcee was scandalous.
Television sitcoms back then often revolved around traditional families which reflected true life. Father Knows Best, The Donna Reed Show, Leave It To Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet all had the same family structure. The father was wise, loving and kind, but firm. He was the definite head of the family who was deferred to by his wife as well as being respected and perhaps a little feared by his children. They came to him for his wisdom and advice and admired him for being a strong, positive role model.
So what happened? Today we have sitcoms where fathers are portrayed as drooling idiots who are disrespected by their offspring and who are constantly being shown the error of their ways by their more intelligent, more competent better halves. We see men who behave like mentally challenged children who are constantly earning the scorn and ire of their spouses.
They are demeaned and ridiculed by other family members and the female heads of the household are charged with the responsibility of fixing the chaos and disorder they create. Examples of this abound but I think the earliest example I can point to is Married With Children. Many shows would follow their formula.
Even commercials have gotten into the act, many of them depicting men as foolish, juvenile and irresponsible while their wives are depicted as mature, emotionally stable, long suffering and endlessly more competent.
Where functional families used to be the norm now we are given example after ad nauseum example of family dysfunction. No wonder so many people on the left scorn traditional families and traditional values. If I thought those television sitcoms were an accurate reflection of most American families I'd have a pretty skewed view as well.
In a discussion about this very issue the other day I was quite shocked when a female acquaintance said that she didn't know what the big deal was about single women raising children alone. "Fathers are not really necessary," she said seriously to my absolute incredulity.
That statement alone is a testament to the successful brainwashing in our society by a Jewish run media who has convinced a generation of idiots and dullards that fathers are dispensible. It frustrates and angers me that we have become a society where men are not valued and respected in their role as parent.
Fathers are very necessary if children are going to be raised well to become emotionally healthy, stable, well-adjusted and productive citizens. I'm not saying that single mothers can't do a good job of raising their kids because many can and do, but it's not the ideal.
Girls need a father because it's the first man she will have a close relationship with and her relationship with him will colour all future relationships with men. Women often choose to marry men very like their fathers because their fathers had all the qualities they wanted in a man. My own husband is very like my father in a lot of ways.
The reason a boy needs a father should be self evident to all but the 75 IQers among us. He needs to learn how to become a man and it takes a man to teach him. When my son was born I knew how to take care of a baby and I knew that children needed a lot of love and caring attention but I hadn't even the vaguest notion of how to teach my son to be a man. That's what fathers are for.
If we want to see a glaring example of what happens when fathers are absent, just take a look at the poor black neighbourhoods in American cities where there is a near 70% illegitimacy rate and black fathers are rarely found living with their children in this largely matriarchal society. Could the absence of a strong father figure have anything to do with the 50% teen pregnancy rate and the out of control crime rate of angry black youths? I dare say yes.
So why are fathers so denigrated in our society? I think the answer is again axiomatic. The largely Jewish controlled media hates the traditional family and traditional Christian family values. They are anathema to their agenda and they seek to undermine it and destroy it by any means possible.
Don't let them fool you. Fathers are valuable. They are very valuable and play an indispensible role in the raising of their children. We should thank our lucky stars that so many of them are decent, responsible human beings who take their role as fathers and the raising of future productive citizens seriously.
If people refused to watch the mindless drivel that passes for entertainment on television these days perhaps we could have some sort of return to sanity. I'm sick of seeing these dysfunctional families with their mouthy, disrespectful offspring in sitcom after stupid sitcom. It is a fact that Jews are heavily involved in conceiving, writing, directing and producing these programs and they do it deliberately to advance their agenda.
Being a good father is something that every male parent should aspire to and we should celebrate those who succeed at it, not denigrate and mock them.
Fathers are undoubtedly and unarguably important in the lives of their children. To say otherwise is to adopt the mantra of the Jewish supremacists who see the nuclear family and traditional Christian values as the enemy to be mocked, ridiculed and eventually destroyed.
One can only imagine the upbringing of some of these Hollywood types if this is their view of what a family is and how it functions. Of course to them, a family is any two people living under the same roof whether or not they're related to each other.
Rational people know better.
Poster Comment:
When it comes to TV, I can remember when it changed: "All in the Family," one of the most lying programs ever.