- When one searches to find the causes for America's rapid
deterioration, there is no shortage of suspects. However, my thirty-plus
years experience as a pastor, counselor, and researcher has convinced me
that there is no greater threat to America's future survival than the overall
negative effect that modern-day feminism has had, and is having, upon our
homes and churches.
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- In just over three decades, the feminist movement has
completely uprooted and rewritten the norm for American family life. No
longer are women seen as nurturers and helpmeets. The push for "equality"
has done much more than move America's women from the kitchen to the boardroom;
it has moved them from under the arm and next to the side of their husbands
to, in many cases, a place of independence from, and lordship over, them.
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- Wives and mothers today seem to take pride in their ability
to "control" their husbands. At the same time, however, they
seem to be oblivious to the fact that they have absolutely no control over
their children. But neither will they allow their husbands (or anyone else)
to discipline their children. As a result, today's kids are growing up
mostly undisciplined, unrestrained, and uncontrollable.
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- Ask any teacher, Sunday School teacher, coach, or youth
worker, and they will tell you the same thing: today's children are out
of control! Many people have far more control over their pets than they
do their own children.
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- Sadder still is the fact that the only answer anyone
seems inclined to proffer is to put these kids on behavior modification
drugs, which, as almost anyone knows, only exacerbates the problem. The
problem with most children is not an inability to sit still and learn;
it is the inability of parents to make their children sit still and learn.
When it comes to making children mind, many parents today seem to be absolutely
and totally helpless. I have never seen anything like it.
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- Please don't misunderstand me. I am not one who believes
that all of our marital and family problems are due to women working outside
the home. I don't believe that at all. However, I do believe that any couple
that places their personal careers or ambitions above their primary responsibility
to raise respectable, honest, obedient children is not only failing their
children; they are failing our country.
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- Selfish, materialistic, egocentric children do not make
good citizens. They don't make good employees, good policemen, good teachers,
good judges, good pastors, good congressmen, good physicians, or good role
models. In fact, they don't make good anythings.
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- Ever since our politically correct society decided that
America's fathers and husbands were no longer qualified to be the heads
of their families, our society has fallen into chaos. America's dads are
reduced to being the butt end of every comedian's joke, the fall guy in
every sitcom, and the stupid buffoon in every television commercial.
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- However, it does not matter what Gloria Steinem and her
feminist friends think about it, there is an established natural order
for healthy, productive family life. Man has a natural headship responsibility
to both his family and his community. When men surrender this responsibility,
or when women wrestle it away from them, the entire family and social structures
collapse. And that is exactly what is currently happening.
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- (c) Chuck Baldwin
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