Genesis 3:16
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Over the years the faces of orphanages in the U.S. have changed quite a bit. Once bastions of congregations – more warehouse than home – they’re now called shelters or cottages and attempt to simulate family life as best as possible.
There are exceptions though. In fact, the most popular modern day social construct to house the fatherless happen to be our jails. Studies reveal that up to 75 percent of all inmates grew up without a father in their lives.
Dr Daniel Amneus, Professor of English at Cal State University, in his book The Garbage Generation put it this way: “Most criminals come from female-headed families. So too, most gang members, addicts, rapists, and educational failures. Most illegitimate births occur to females who themselves grew up in female-headed families”.
Amneus went on to say: “If we are to deal meaningfully with crime, we must reduce the number of female-headed families; we must prevent the divorce courts from expelling half of society’s fathers from their homes; we must terminate a welfare system which displaces millions of men from the principal male role, that of family-provider. What we must do”, Amneus concludes “is make the father the head of the family”.
Can’t you almost just hear God shaking His head and chuckling? That’s only what He’s been saying since the dawn of time.
