Well-Hidden Conspiracy Against Fatherhood Research Paper
The Well-Hidden Conspiracy Against Fatherhood
Arthur L. Johnson
ENG 325
Julie Pal-Agrawal
July 24, 2014
INTRODUCTION Now is the time for all good fathers to come to the aid of the family, for the greatest and most damaging conspiracy facing humanity today is the well-conspired one against fatherhood. Very few people understand it, as well as the deadly consequences this conspiracy already has on society. The fallacy of the so-called absent father continues to persist, because his impact is belittled culturally, judicially and legislatively-a direct insult to our Heavenly Father, and society is a generation or two away from becoming truly fatherless. The researcher will break down the role of the father, explain the conspiracy from the concept of academic heresy, evaluate the conspiracy within the judicial legal system, present an oral argument on the spiritual aspect of why this conspiracy even exists, as well as a counter narrative. This eye-opening report will alert you to the war against the core constitution of our society.
BODY …show more content…
A Father’s Impact Great fathers bring many positive benefits to their children that no other person is as likely to bring-not uncles, cousins, neighbors, big brothers, teachers or mentors. A father builds (even in discipline), never destroys; embodies the creation and life. Being traditionally unappreciated compared to mothers, fathers prepare their kids for the rough realities of life, teaching them to be accountable, respectable, thus to be firm but fair in all judgment. As the article states, “Good citizens and leaders don 't automatically appear without good models and mentors. The first of these are parents – fathers and mothers” (Tichenor, McQuillan, Greil, Contreras, & Shreffler, 2011). Therefore, belittling the role of the father risks what is good for the whole of society, male or female.
The God-intended purpose of the familial unit is for the father to be the head of the family and protector, as well as provider. To secure his legacy, a father must make himself honorable, thus his children must follow the concept of the 5th Commandment…honor thy father and mother. Cementing his unconditional reverence, a father explains to his children why fatherhood is more important than his career. As much as a dad appreciates his occupation by explaining that his career does provide for his family, on any given day his career can change-he will always be their father no matter where he was employed, or God forbid, if he was unemployed. Even though he may not be in the home, a protective father makes his children understand the purpose of his hands-on presence is necessary to keep so-called thugs from trying to attempt to recruit his son with the allure of “street-life”. A dedicated father educates his daughter that his constant presence keeps her from being pimped by society’s (or peer pressure’s) view of what beauty is, let alone young men from trying to pressure her into any type of sexual conduct. Most definitely, a father’s presence is valuable to ward off any attempt of molestation, which usually happens within the family. A great father knows it is important that his daughter has a positive relationship with him. A dad teaches his daughter that she’s valuable and deserving of love, thus makes sure he models the same behavior towards her. A protective father talks about the skills girls need to refuse sex, in order protect themselves when young men attempt to negotiate a sexual encounter. Girls with involved, respectful fathers learn (through their quality time with dad) how a potential mate is supposed to treat them, and are less likely to find themselves involved in a violent or unhealthy relationship. If girls find themselves in said situation, they know to leave, thus if their mate refuses to let them go, they could always get the assistance of their dad. However, as the text states, “Society does not respect the importance of a male figure in a girl’s life…the issue of safety is one of them, dads play a role in a girl’s sense of self, her ability to discern what makes a potentially good partner and as a romantic gatekeeper” (Henderson, 2014). “Fatherless young men have astronomical incarceration rates, high dropout stats or the school-to-prison pipeline, the travails of Black males are garnering much-needed attention” (Henderson, 2014). Ethnicity aside, a loving father teaches his son how to deal with conflict in an appropriate manner, in which the sons is groomed to be less aggressive in nature, and knows how to treat a woman with delicacy and tenderness. An involved father should never find it difficult to affirm (his son) and encourage him while correcting him, assuring his son that “I’m not just dad; I’m also an ear. You can come to me and tell me absolutely anything. I’m here for you.” A father who truly cares teaches his son to respect all authority, without question-grooms his son to be decent and manly. Knowing that child-rearing is really meant for teaching his kids to obey God. A great dad teaches his son morals and values; to avoid recklessness, violence, wrong companionship and rebellion against authority, knowing more often than not it leads to death. What better counter narrative could there be than a strong foundation rooted in family, in which a respectable father has the God-given potential to combat any of the aforementioned negative behavior resulting from a well-hidden conspiracy to create a fatherless society. As the text states, “The goal of this conspiracy is to rip the family apart. And if you believe in the biblical family, the father is the head (1 Corinthians 11:3). So he becomes the main target. Yet the conspiracy goes much deeper than that” (Leap, 2005).
Academic Heresy
Taking a closer look at why the teaching of evolution destroys fatherhood, Genesis 1:27 is where God first records the creation of both genders, male and female-not after the animal kind but after the God kind.
Humans are now in the likeness (shape and form) of God. As the text states, “but we are to be made in the image (or character) of God” (Leap, 2005). Thinking they know more than their creator, the combination of higher education and science have exercised their academic freedom to acknowledge creation, but without its true Creator. Together, they have engaged in the activity of knowledge production with the total rejection of any possibility of the miraculous, the supernatural, the existence of the Living God, or anything outside the realm of the natural. Instead, science and higher education contemptuously and arrogantly include the world evolution as to how humanity has descended through
time.
“Satan is the god of this world (II Corinthians 4:4). That means he rules the real world. He has deceived the whole world (Revelations 12:9). That includes education, science and religion” (Leap, 2005). Most educators and scientist have no clue as to when the institution of marriage began or the true purpose of the human family, yet they close their eyes to God’s view. The Living God instructs a young man and woman to leave their parent’s house to start a family on their own, becoming one flesh-physically and spiritually, with the man (father) as the head of the family. The family of man pictures (or resembles) the family of God. God created the human family to get us into His family. The teaching of evolution is a vile insult to our awesome origin and potential, yet mankind refuses to see our magnificent future because mankind does not want to be corrected.
The Legal Judicial System
FOC OVERVIEW: “The mission of the Wayne County Friend of Court is to serve and educate families and assist the court in domestic relations matters to promote the best interest of children” (Gerald, 2008). However, it appears the Wayne County F.O.C downplays the important role of fatherhood. It is a common stereotype (that needs to be dispelled) that too often, the F.O.C assumes that low-income, urban dads who do not live with their children is uninvolved, let alone unconcerned about his children. This type of thinking can push a dad away from being hands-on with his children, especially since the courts are biased against dads from the jump, thinking most or all want to avoid paying child support.
Fathers who receive little or no confirmation of their roles as “fathers” by the mother (of their children) are more than likely to become disengaged in their children’s lives. We have a legal system that has allowed (and encouraged) mothers to diminish the role of a father in a child’s life. Because of entities like the F.O.C. mothers (today) have the perception of the kids being “hers”, as if she is the only legitimate parent. The legal system has empowered mothers to limit or outright cease a father’s contact and involvement with his children, extending an olive branch to the mother’s family to influence her in breaking all ties with the father. Knowing a child’s welfare is at the heart of the matter, mothers can easily claim that a father, in pursuing quality time with his children, is causing damage (to his child), making the father out to be a disruptive influence in the child’s life. If the mother is perfectly content with the father being all but invisible, except when it comes to finances, so is the legal system. “Fathers have been judicially, culturally, and legislatively disadvantaged on the basis of gender…the bias of the legal system toward sole maternal custody must be changed” (Gerald, 2008). The adversarial approach of the legal system has not supported fathers who have been strongly and intimately attached to their children. Lawyers (on behalf of the mother) assume fathers do not genuinely want the burden (as they label it) of full or shared custody, claiming the father has ulterior motives in posing such a threat or bluff. The legal system never considers the pain of a father seeing his children intermittently, the inability to see his children, or the fact that an avuncular “visiting” relationship does not resemble “real fatherhood,” let alone the harmful effects it has on the child. “Government promotes active fatherhood by insisting fathers are named on birth certificates and given longer paternity leave, family courts could hardly send a louder message that fatherhood is a second class, even faintly suspect, form of parenthood” (Gerald, 2008).
Fathers have spoken on the slowness and constant delays of the legal machinery, as well as the high legal costs as largely unnecessary. Many men have labeled the system barbaric, in which the F.O.C is not in the least interested in the child’s welfare, never considering a child’s plea (claiming a child’s testimony on behalf of their father is often coached) to equally bond with their father. Instead of investigating a family’s circumstances for the benefit of the child, the legal system assumes a father does not need regular and frequent physical contact with his children, in which he is left with woefully insufficient legal custody and access arrangements. Fathers who previously enjoyed a relatively high level of involvement, attachment, and influence are basically left at the mother’s disposal to see their children, in which some subsequently lose contact because of the mother’s anger.
Why does the legal system turn a blind eye when the child yearns for increased contact his/her father? Why don’t the courts give men the benefit and the possibility of being good parents? The legal system stereotypes dads as if they done something wrong, as if they are guilty for wanting to honor their role in their children’s lives. As the text states, “Judges and lawyers are the mainstay of the problems that men and children have, when it comes to men and children not having the right to maintain their relationship” (Gerald, 2008). They choose to side with a mother’s anger and bitterness, promoting the reduced and outright destruction of the father and child relationship. Most fathers, seeing how full of lies the whole legal system is when it comes to the welfare of children, have no confidence in the system whatsoever, in which they walk away from their God-given responsibility. They see the legal system for how they view fatherhood; secondary importance except in an economic sense. “The “motherhood” and “Fatherhood” mandates are clear: the father remains responsible for the child’s economic support, the mother for their care” (Tichenor, McQuillan, Greil, Contreras, & Shreffler, 2011).
Spiritual Perspective
“People who fight and war against fatherhood are little more than puppets of the devil, and they use Satan’s tactics in their warfare. He is behind the conspiracy to destroy fatherhood.” (Leap, 2005). It had always been Satan’s plan to pervert even the meaning of the word father, for the vicious and subtle attack on fatherhood is really aimed at God Almighty. The devil had deceived the world so much, human cannot grasp the truth about God’s divine purpose for mankind, thus cannot believe we are destined to literally become born sons of our Heavenly Father-just like Him-as our children are like us. The Living God is going to give us the whole universe if we build His character (in our hearts and minds), so we don’t destroy the earth as Satan did. Humanity forgets that Satan (once upon a time) had a society just the way he wanted it-Sodom and Gomorrah. That is why Satan’s aim is to warp people to the point where they cannot have a right relationship with their Heavenly Father. “God Almighty reveals Himself as a Father, even in the Old Testament” (Leap, 2005). When Jesus Christ came to the world, He plainly revealed the fatherhood of God, yet the Jews refused to believe Jesus’ word and accused Him of Blasphemy. As Christ came to the earth to declare the Father, the human father must do the same, that is declare our Heavenly Father to his family, as oppose to looking down at dumb, instinctive animals as our origin. Evolution is a clue that Satan hates God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ. The devil hates the God family and is conspiring to destroy us physically and spiritually. Lucifer never had an opportunity to be in God’s family, and that knowledge only intensifies his hatred.
Counter Perspective (needs a for case against fatherhood) “A man, on the other hand, need not even be present when his child comes into the world” (Gerald, 2008). Along with the Friends of the Court, Child Protective Services have also made claims that the father’s rights movement seeks to destroy the legal protections of women and children, primarily custodial mothers. In those claims they say a large number of these groups are lead and supported by the second wives, girlfriends, grandparents and former in-laws of the men who are taking their ex-wives back to court. It appears these services care more about protecting the mother’s interest as opposed to assuring a child has balanced parenting. Basically, these institutions that claim to have your children’s best interest at heart can care less if the father is involved with a child’s life, as long as they get a child support check from the biological dad. They do not demand parenting time, as oppose to the father having to pay a fee to have the courts consider establishing parent time or even joint custody, which is a shame to the alleged overview of the Friend of the Court. Conspiracy anyone? Knowing the judicial system makes maternal custody the default in divorce cases and pretty much in general, fathers’ rights groups have sought to remedy the courts’ senseless handling of child custody. To ensure equal time for both parents, legislations have been introduced and advocated to change the standard custody arrangement, following a divorce or otherwise. Fathers’ rights groups feel as if neither parent should be faced with a greater share of a child’s living expenses, no matter whom the child resides with. In contrast, feminist groups counter with “the best interest of the child” is the standard feminists embrace, in which they have routinely used self-serving bigotry against men, as well as writing that is a dishonest representation of fatherhood. According to the text, “50% of mothers (after divorce) see no value in the father’s continued contact with his children outside of expenses…40% have purposely interfered with the non-custodial father’s visitation…90% of violence and kidnapping has resulted from mothers who have possessively blocked the visitation of fathers” (Tichenor, McQuillan, Greil, Contreras, & Shreffler, 2011). The judicial system makes a father prove himself to be a fit parent, while the mother does not face expectations unless custody is contested in court. That is ridiculous…that society has the social attitude that an impoverished mother is considered a victim of abandonment and financial neglect, in which the government extends services and programs to assist the mother with raising children. Under the same set of circumstances, a father is considered a deadbeat who will not do the right thing and take care of his responsibilities. The father is the only one held responsible for obtaining and maintaining employment, yet at best he is left with a maternal custody/ paternal visitation situation, which gives him some say in decision making on behalf of the child. As the text states, “ As a society, we have seen the negative effects of cutting either parent out of a child’s life. Wouldn’t it be most beneficial to the child to ensure that he or she receive the benefit of both parents whenever possible?” (Henderson, 2014).
CONCLUSION
Overall, fathers have a powerful and positive impact upon the development and health of their children, and should be seen as valuable allies creating permanent and safe environments for their children. Society must overcome the biased misconception fatherhood is a second class, even faintly suspect, form of parenthood. A culture of secrecy pervades the legal judicial system, in which the mother and child are deemed inseparable, while a father can be denied custody or access for no substantial reason, causing emotional scars (to the father and the child) that may never heal. On the edge of insanity or beyond…this is really about destroying faith in God. It is time we wake up to what is happening to fatherhood, the family and our society.
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Axelrod, R.B., Cooper, C.R., & Warriner, A.M. (2011). Reading Critically Writing Well: A
Reader and Guide-Ninth Edition. Bedford/ St. Martin’s. 75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA
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Gerald, J. (2008). Is The State Against Fatherhood? Public Policy Research, 15(1), 53-55. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) database.
Henderson, S. (2014, June). Real Men Do Parent. Ebony, 69(8), pp. 112-115.
Leap, D (2005). The Ten Commandments. Philadelphia Church of God. Printed in the United
States of America.
Tichenor, V., McQuillan, J., Greil, A.L., Contreras, R., & Shreffler, K.M. (2011) The Importance Of Fatherhood to U.S. Married and Cohabitating Men. Fathering: A Journal Of Theory, Research, & Practice About Men as Fathers. 9(3), 232-251.doi:10.3149/fth.0903.232. retrieved from Retrieved from Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) database.
Arthur L. Johnson
ENG 325
Julie Pal-Agrawal
July 24, 2014
INTRODUCTION Now is the time for all good fathers to come to the aid of the family, for the greatest and most damaging conspiracy facing humanity today is the well-conspired one against fatherhood. Very few people understand it, as well as the deadly consequences this conspiracy already has on society. The fallacy of the so-called absent father continues to persist, because his impact is belittled culturally, judicially and legislatively-a direct insult to our Heavenly Father, and society is a generation or two away from becoming truly fatherless. The researcher will break down the role of the father, explain the conspiracy from the concept of academic heresy, evaluate the conspiracy within the judicial legal system, present an oral argument on the spiritual aspect of why this conspiracy even exists, as well as a counter narrative. This eye-opening report will alert you to the war against the core constitution of our society.
BODY …show more content…
A Father’s Impact Great fathers bring many positive benefits to their children that no other person is as likely to bring-not uncles, cousins, neighbors, big brothers, teachers or mentors. A father builds (even in discipline), never destroys; embodies the creation and life. Being traditionally unappreciated compared to mothers, fathers prepare their kids for the rough realities of life, teaching them to be accountable, respectable, thus to be firm but fair in all judgment. As the article states, “Good citizens and leaders don 't automatically appear without good models and mentors. The first of these are parents – fathers and mothers” (Tichenor, McQuillan, Greil, Contreras, & Shreffler, 2011). Therefore, belittling the role of the father risks what is good for the whole of society, male or female.
The God-intended purpose of the familial unit is for the father to be the head of the family and protector, as well as provider. To secure his legacy, a father must make himself honorable, thus his children must follow the concept of the 5th Commandment…honor thy father and mother. Cementing his unconditional reverence, a father explains to his children why fatherhood is more important than his career. As much as a dad appreciates his occupation by explaining that his career does provide for his family, on any given day his career can change-he will always be their father no matter where he was employed, or God forbid, if he was unemployed. Even though he may not be in the home, a protective father makes his children understand the purpose of his hands-on presence is necessary to keep so-called thugs from trying to attempt to recruit his son with the allure of “street-life”. A dedicated father educates his daughter that his constant presence keeps her from being pimped by society’s (or peer pressure’s) view of what beauty is, let alone young men from trying to pressure her into any type of sexual conduct. Most definitely, a father’s presence is valuable to ward off any attempt of molestation, which usually happens within the family. A great father knows it is important that his daughter has a positive relationship with him. A dad teaches his daughter that she’s valuable and deserving of love, thus makes sure he models the same behavior towards her. A protective father talks about the skills girls need to refuse sex, in order protect themselves when young men attempt to negotiate a sexual encounter. Girls with involved, respectful fathers learn (through their quality time with dad) how a potential mate is supposed to treat them, and are less likely to find themselves involved in a violent or unhealthy relationship. If girls find themselves in said situation, they know to leave, thus if their mate refuses to let them go, they could always get the assistance of their dad. However, as the text states, “Society does not respect the importance of a male figure in a girl’s life…the issue of safety is one of them, dads play a role in a girl’s sense of self, her ability to discern what makes a potentially good partner and as a romantic gatekeeper” (Henderson, 2014). “Fatherless young men have astronomical incarceration rates, high dropout stats or the school-to-prison pipeline, the travails of Black males are garnering much-needed attention” (Henderson, 2014). Ethnicity aside, a loving father teaches his son how to deal with conflict in an appropriate manner, in which the sons is groomed to be less aggressive in nature, and knows how to treat a woman with delicacy and tenderness. An involved father should never find it difficult to affirm (his son) and encourage him while correcting him, assuring his son that “I’m not just dad; I’m also an ear. You can come to me and tell me absolutely anything. I’m here for you.” A father who truly cares teaches his son to respect all authority, without question-grooms his son to be decent and manly. Knowing that child-rearing is really meant for teaching his kids to obey God. A great dad teaches his son morals and values; to avoid recklessness, violence, wrong companionship and rebellion against authority, knowing more often than not it leads to death. What better counter narrative could there be than a strong foundation rooted in family, in which a respectable father has the God-given potential to combat any of the aforementioned negative behavior resulting from a well-hidden conspiracy to create a fatherless society. As the text states, “The goal of this conspiracy is to rip the family apart. And if you believe in the biblical family, the father is the head (1 Corinthians 11:3). So he becomes the main target. Yet the conspiracy goes much deeper than that” (Leap, 2005).
Academic Heresy
Taking a closer look at why the teaching of evolution destroys fatherhood, Genesis 1:27 is where God first records the creation of both genders, male and female-not after the animal kind but after the God kind.
Humans are now in the likeness (shape and form) of God. As the text states, “but we are to be made in the image (or character) of God” (Leap, 2005). Thinking they know more than their creator, the combination of higher education and science have exercised their academic freedom to acknowledge creation, but without its true Creator. Together, they have engaged in the activity of knowledge production with the total rejection of any possibility of the miraculous, the supernatural, the existence of the Living God, or anything outside the realm of the natural. Instead, science and higher education contemptuously and arrogantly include the world evolution as to how humanity has descended through
time.
“Satan is the god of this world (II Corinthians 4:4). That means he rules the real world. He has deceived the whole world (Revelations 12:9). That includes education, science and religion” (Leap, 2005). Most educators and scientist have no clue as to when the institution of marriage began or the true purpose of the human family, yet they close their eyes to God’s view. The Living God instructs a young man and woman to leave their parent’s house to start a family on their own, becoming one flesh-physically and spiritually, with the man (father) as the head of the family. The family of man pictures (or resembles) the family of God. God created the human family to get us into His family. The teaching of evolution is a vile insult to our awesome origin and potential, yet mankind refuses to see our magnificent future because mankind does not want to be corrected.
The Legal Judicial System
FOC OVERVIEW: “The mission of the Wayne County Friend of Court is to serve and educate families and assist the court in domestic relations matters to promote the best interest of children” (Gerald, 2008). However, it appears the Wayne County F.O.C downplays the important role of fatherhood. It is a common stereotype (that needs to be dispelled) that too often, the F.O.C assumes that low-income, urban dads who do not live with their children is uninvolved, let alone unconcerned about his children. This type of thinking can push a dad away from being hands-on with his children, especially since the courts are biased against dads from the jump, thinking most or all want to avoid paying child support.
Fathers who receive little or no confirmation of their roles as “fathers” by the mother (of their children) are more than likely to become disengaged in their children’s lives. We have a legal system that has allowed (and encouraged) mothers to diminish the role of a father in a child’s life. Because of entities like the F.O.C. mothers (today) have the perception of the kids being “hers”, as if she is the only legitimate parent. The legal system has empowered mothers to limit or outright cease a father’s contact and involvement with his children, extending an olive branch to the mother’s family to influence her in breaking all ties with the father. Knowing a child’s welfare is at the heart of the matter, mothers can easily claim that a father, in pursuing quality time with his children, is causing damage (to his child), making the father out to be a disruptive influence in the child’s life. If the mother is perfectly content with the father being all but invisible, except when it comes to finances, so is the legal system. “Fathers have been judicially, culturally, and legislatively disadvantaged on the basis of gender…the bias of the legal system toward sole maternal custody must be changed” (Gerald, 2008). The adversarial approach of the legal system has not supported fathers who have been strongly and intimately attached to their children. Lawyers (on behalf of the mother) assume fathers do not genuinely want the burden (as they label it) of full or shared custody, claiming the father has ulterior motives in posing such a threat or bluff. The legal system never considers the pain of a father seeing his children intermittently, the inability to see his children, or the fact that an avuncular “visiting” relationship does not resemble “real fatherhood,” let alone the harmful effects it has on the child. “Government promotes active fatherhood by insisting fathers are named on birth certificates and given longer paternity leave, family courts could hardly send a louder message that fatherhood is a second class, even faintly suspect, form of parenthood” (Gerald, 2008).
Fathers have spoken on the slowness and constant delays of the legal machinery, as well as the high legal costs as largely unnecessary. Many men have labeled the system barbaric, in which the F.O.C is not in the least interested in the child’s welfare, never considering a child’s plea (claiming a child’s testimony on behalf of their father is often coached) to equally bond with their father. Instead of investigating a family’s circumstances for the benefit of the child, the legal system assumes a father does not need regular and frequent physical contact with his children, in which he is left with woefully insufficient legal custody and access arrangements. Fathers who previously enjoyed a relatively high level of involvement, attachment, and influence are basically left at the mother’s disposal to see their children, in which some subsequently lose contact because of the mother’s anger.
Why does the legal system turn a blind eye when the child yearns for increased contact his/her father? Why don’t the courts give men the benefit and the possibility of being good parents? The legal system stereotypes dads as if they done something wrong, as if they are guilty for wanting to honor their role in their children’s lives. As the text states, “Judges and lawyers are the mainstay of the problems that men and children have, when it comes to men and children not having the right to maintain their relationship” (Gerald, 2008). They choose to side with a mother’s anger and bitterness, promoting the reduced and outright destruction of the father and child relationship. Most fathers, seeing how full of lies the whole legal system is when it comes to the welfare of children, have no confidence in the system whatsoever, in which they walk away from their God-given responsibility. They see the legal system for how they view fatherhood; secondary importance except in an economic sense. “The “motherhood” and “Fatherhood” mandates are clear: the father remains responsible for the child’s economic support, the mother for their care” (Tichenor, McQuillan, Greil, Contreras, & Shreffler, 2011).
Spiritual Perspective
“People who fight and war against fatherhood are little more than puppets of the devil, and they use Satan’s tactics in their warfare. He is behind the conspiracy to destroy fatherhood.” (Leap, 2005). It had always been Satan’s plan to pervert even the meaning of the word father, for the vicious and subtle attack on fatherhood is really aimed at God Almighty. The devil had deceived the world so much, human cannot grasp the truth about God’s divine purpose for mankind, thus cannot believe we are destined to literally become born sons of our Heavenly Father-just like Him-as our children are like us. The Living God is going to give us the whole universe if we build His character (in our hearts and minds), so we don’t destroy the earth as Satan did. Humanity forgets that Satan (once upon a time) had a society just the way he wanted it-Sodom and Gomorrah. That is why Satan’s aim is to warp people to the point where they cannot have a right relationship with their Heavenly Father. “God Almighty reveals Himself as a Father, even in the Old Testament” (Leap, 2005). When Jesus Christ came to the world, He plainly revealed the fatherhood of God, yet the Jews refused to believe Jesus’ word and accused Him of Blasphemy. As Christ came to the earth to declare the Father, the human father must do the same, that is declare our Heavenly Father to his family, as oppose to looking down at dumb, instinctive animals as our origin. Evolution is a clue that Satan hates God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ. The devil hates the God family and is conspiring to destroy us physically and spiritually. Lucifer never had an opportunity to be in God’s family, and that knowledge only intensifies his hatred.
Counter Perspective (needs a for case against fatherhood) “A man, on the other hand, need not even be present when his child comes into the world” (Gerald, 2008). Along with the Friends of the Court, Child Protective Services have also made claims that the father’s rights movement seeks to destroy the legal protections of women and children, primarily custodial mothers. In those claims they say a large number of these groups are lead and supported by the second wives, girlfriends, grandparents and former in-laws of the men who are taking their ex-wives back to court. It appears these services care more about protecting the mother’s interest as opposed to assuring a child has balanced parenting. Basically, these institutions that claim to have your children’s best interest at heart can care less if the father is involved with a child’s life, as long as they get a child support check from the biological dad. They do not demand parenting time, as oppose to the father having to pay a fee to have the courts consider establishing parent time or even joint custody, which is a shame to the alleged overview of the Friend of the Court. Conspiracy anyone? Knowing the judicial system makes maternal custody the default in divorce cases and pretty much in general, fathers’ rights groups have sought to remedy the courts’ senseless handling of child custody. To ensure equal time for both parents, legislations have been introduced and advocated to change the standard custody arrangement, following a divorce or otherwise. Fathers’ rights groups feel as if neither parent should be faced with a greater share of a child’s living expenses, no matter whom the child resides with. In contrast, feminist groups counter with “the best interest of the child” is the standard feminists embrace, in which they have routinely used self-serving bigotry against men, as well as writing that is a dishonest representation of fatherhood. According to the text, “50% of mothers (after divorce) see no value in the father’s continued contact with his children outside of expenses…40% have purposely interfered with the non-custodial father’s visitation…90% of violence and kidnapping has resulted from mothers who have possessively blocked the visitation of fathers” (Tichenor, McQuillan, Greil, Contreras, & Shreffler, 2011). The judicial system makes a father prove himself to be a fit parent, while the mother does not face expectations unless custody is contested in court. That is ridiculous…that society has the social attitude that an impoverished mother is considered a victim of abandonment and financial neglect, in which the government extends services and programs to assist the mother with raising children. Under the same set of circumstances, a father is considered a deadbeat who will not do the right thing and take care of his responsibilities. The father is the only one held responsible for obtaining and maintaining employment, yet at best he is left with a maternal custody/ paternal visitation situation, which gives him some say in decision making on behalf of the child. As the text states, “ As a society, we have seen the negative effects of cutting either parent out of a child’s life. Wouldn’t it be most beneficial to the child to ensure that he or she receive the benefit of both parents whenever possible?” (Henderson, 2014).
CONCLUSION
Overall, fathers have a powerful and positive impact upon the development and health of their children, and should be seen as valuable allies creating permanent and safe environments for their children. Society must overcome the biased misconception fatherhood is a second class, even faintly suspect, form of parenthood. A culture of secrecy pervades the legal judicial system, in which the mother and child are deemed inseparable, while a father can be denied custody or access for no substantial reason, causing emotional scars (to the father and the child) that may never heal. On the edge of insanity or beyond…this is really about destroying faith in God. It is time we wake up to what is happening to fatherhood, the family and our society.
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