Fathers are important. It's amazing that today I even have to say that. When God created mankind, He created both males and females. The first commandment He gave them was to have children and begin a family. The father is the patriarch; the mother, the matriarch. Neither could conceive a child without the other. In today's world, this common sense definition of father, mother, and family has been turned on its ear. Of course, there are non-traditional families through death, divorce, and abandonment; nevertheless, children need both of their parents.
Watch fathers with their children. They love them as much as the mother does, but parent them quite differently. The blessed child has both. I remember talks like this with my father and my own daughter's time with her daddy. I miss both.
I've heard many comments lately about the current state of affairs in America. People want to blame the police, blame others who are different, blame the president or the democrats. In truth, we are reaping what we sowed when we took fathers out of the equation. I watched a video of well-know black men who put the blame squarely at the feet of a society that has almost eliminated the father.
All lives matter. All children deserve to be born into a family with a mother and a father. Unfortunately that is becoming more rare. Equally unfortunate is the inarguable fact that our society is toxic to families, and particularly critical of the traditional role of fatherhood.
God bless good fathers everywhere who nurture and train their children with love and with an eye to the future. It is easier to raise a good boy or girl than it is to fix a broken man or woman. Fathers, I salute you with fond memories of my own father, who was one of the best. His children and his grandchildren and even his great-grandchildren rise up and call him blessed.
Every boy's model and every girl's first sweetheart should be his/her daddy.
© Dr. Kathleen Rawlings Buntin Danielson, June 2020
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