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"Natural" Family
Father, Mother, Children

For the children are not obligated to store up for the parents, but the parents for the children.  2  Corinthians 12:14b (PNT)
 

"When home ties are loosened; when men and women cease to regard a worthy family life, with all its duties fully performed, and all its responsibilities lived up to, as the life best worth living; then evil days for the commonwealth are at hand." Theodore Roosevelt

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD. Proverbs 19:13-14

The National Health Service in Scotland now forbids doctors and nurses to use the words "father" or "mother" when dealing with patients. They are also forbidden to use the words "husband" or "wife" because a homosexual might be in the room and these words could offend them. Only neutral words such as "parents" or "guardians" can be used. Don't think this deliberate assault on the family will stop at our borders. The goal of homosexual activists and their liberal counterparts is to eliminate the family and create a "gender free" society. Billionaire George Soros has several organizations, some of which receive federal funds, working to eliminate "gender" from use in our society. Senator Hillary Clinton is updating her book, "It Takes a Village" for her presidential campaign. The thesis of the book is simple: Families are outmoded and it takes the village (government) to raise children. (Click here for Human Events story) Religious Freedom Coalition December 23, 2006

• Marriage - Between one man and one woman, the foundation of civil society.

• Children - Parents and children - Scriptures and more.

• Resources - Parenting and children helpful resources, assistance, protection, safety, etc.

• Below: Creating "Special" Rights (Calling evil good.)

• Below: Mothers and Fathers (Insight and Resources)

"The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. . . . How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers?" John Adams (Diary, 2 June 1778) Reference: The Works of John Adams, C.F. Adams, ed., vol. 3 (171)

Family & Marriage (From Heritage Foundation)
Excerpts:

• Today, nearly one-third of all American children are born outside marriage. That translates to one out-of-wedlock birth every 35 seconds. Of those born within marriage, a great many will experience their parents’ divorce before they reach age 18. More than half of the nation's chil­dren will spend all or part of their childhood in never-formed or broken families.
• In 1960, just 5.3 percent of children were born outside marriage, compared with 33.2 percent in 2000. (See charts at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Features/Marriage/decline.cfm.)
• “Countless studies have shown that children raised in a two-parent family are less likely to be raised in poverty, less likely to do drugs, less likely to be criminals later in life, and more likely to graduate from and do well in school. Married people tend to take care of themselves better and live longer. They typically eat better, have more settled lives with less stress and fewer risky habits, monitor each other’s health, and are quicker to seek medical attention for problems that arise. Married people, particularly those with children, seem to be motivated to save and invest more for the future and to live longer to enjoy their savings and their children’s future. Out-of-wedlock births increase the national incidence of: lowered health for newborns; retarded cognitive, and especially verbal, development of young children; lowered educational achievement; lowered job attainment as young adults; increased behavioral problems; lowered impulse control (aggression and sexual behavior); and increased anti-social development. It’s been said you need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty: finish high school, marry before having a child and marry after the age of 20. Among those who follow such advice, only 8% are poor, while 79% of those who do not are poor. The consequences of this trend are crime rates higher than they should be, graduation rates lower than they should be and a treasury depleted in the name of trying to solve both problems by throwing more money at them. No culture can remain healthy with illegitimacy rates like these. And it is simply impossible to understate the socially catastrophic consequences of America’s crisis of illegitimacy. The family is still the best department of health, education and welfare ever invented.” Investor’s Business Daily

 

Creating "Special" Rights
 "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil" (Isaiah 5:20).

If Congress passes "special" Rights, they will amend Title 1 of the United States Code, to eliminate any Federal policy on the definition of marriage. (Sponsored by Homosexual Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who once ran a homosexual prostitution ring out of his home.) and also amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act giving "Special Rights" to homosexuals, by forcing every organization is America, Churches, Day Care Centers, Nursing Homes, Schools, etc. to hire gays and lesbians as teachers, coaches, doctors, etc. Ted Kennedy's S.1284 promotes, endorses, and advocates the very life style that killed Jeffrey Curley!   (YouTube Video)

Nothing Like a Mother's Love...

You can't put a price tag on the priceless contributions mothers make to the lives and development of their children. Motherhood has often been trivialized by those who suggest that women who choose to stay home with their children are somehow settling for less. They wrongly believe a mother's care is replaceable. Those with this view are not in step with the views of the majority of Americans. A 1998 poll found that the majority of Americans rate care by a child's mother as the single most desirable form of care for pre-school children. In a 2000 poll, 71 percent of parents surveyed believed they should rely on day care only if they had no other option. The public is on to something. Childcare, and the government's role in providing it, will soon be at the forefront of the debate over welfare reform. We would all do well to remember the old saying, "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation." FRC May, 10, 2002

A study by Brown University has found that children who come home to an empty house often get into a lot of trouble -- and while that information may not surprise many people, some may find the depth of the problem quite startling. About a third of the 10- to 14-year-olds studied were into anything from drug abuse to stealing when coming home to an empty house. Dr. Allan Josephson, professor of child psychiatry at the University of Louisville, tells Family News In Focus that family finances often dictate the "home alone" situation -- but sometimes it is by choice. "There's a cost to being a parent," he says, "and a lot of families might be trying to buy a nicer car and their kids are running the risk of becoming delinquent. That's something that parents have trouble hearing, that kids don't raise themselves." Moms in the workforce were just 1 in 3 in 1950. Now, by necessity or by choice, that number is approaching 80%. AgapePress.org NEWS BRIEFS. 

Proverbs 31:
1. The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
2  What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
3  Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroys kings.
4  It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
5  Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
6  Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
7  Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
8  Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
9  Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
10  Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
11  The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
12  She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
13  She seeks wool, and flax, and works willingly with her hands.
14  She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar.
15  She rises also while it is yet night, and gives meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
16  She considers a field, and buys it: with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
17  She girds her loins with strength, and strengthens her arms.
18  She perceives that her merchandise is good: her candle goes not out by night.
19  She lays her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
20  She stretches out her hand to the poor; yea, she reaches forth her hands to the needy.
21  She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
22  She makes herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
23  Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.
24  She makes fine linen, and sells it; and delivers girdles unto the merchant.
25  Strength and honor are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
26  She opens her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
27  She looks well to the ways of her household, and eats not the bread of idleness.
28  Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.
29  Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excels them all.
30  Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fears the LORD, she shall be praised.
31  Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

Homemakers for America Founder Kimberly Fletcher says: "And I realized that the problem is that so many women are so busy with their families and their children, and we see all the things that are going on in the country, and we don't like what we see, and we want to make a difference -- but we're just trying to make dinner."

World Congress of Families Many national, ethnic, cultural, social and religious communities assembled to affirm that the natural human family is established by the Creator and essential to good society.

"One father is worth more than a hundred schoolmasters."
George Herbert

On Father's Day, 1988, President Ronald Reagan stated: "Children, vulnerable and dependent, desperately need security, and it has ever been a duty and a joy of fatherhood to offer it. Being a father requires strength in many ways...and more than a little courage...to persevere, to fight discouragement, and to keep working for the family. In that strength, and with God's grace, fathers find the patience to teach, the fortitude to provide, the compassion to comfort, and the mercy to forgive. All of this is to say that they find the strength to love their wives and children selflessly...Let us each take this occasion to express our thanks and affection to our fathers, whether we can do so in person or in prayer."

One-page Bible study on fatherhood (BibleTruths.net)

Patriot Post 06-25 - In our essay, "Fathers linked to healthy families"... we wrote about how important fathers are in the lives of their children, in part, by providing statistics on the woes of children who live apart from their fathers. Inevitably we evoke the ire of a few divorced men whose efforts to be good fathers is undermined at every turn by vindictive x-wives. To that end, we included the following notice in the essay: "Memo to divorced dads and assorted victims of feminist rage and unfair family courts: Please hold your mail—we know that women file almost 70 percent of divorces, most without any claim of abandonment, infidelity or abuse."

Needless to say, a few or our readers who fall in the latter category of divorced men, insisted on chastising us. Augusta, Georgia writes, "Regardless of your instruction that victims of unfair family law remain silent, I find your focus on father 'abandonment' on Father's Day abhorrent. The vast majority of fathers do not abandon their children after divorce. Rather, they are forced away from them by a cabal of politicians, lawyers, judges, and vengeful ex-wives who collaborate to deny the children access to their fathers on a routine basis. Fathers who do not pay child support are labeled 'deadbeats' —despite the fact that most arrearages are the result of involuntary unemployment, disability, or similar circumstances. But mothers who deny visitation, relocate to sever contact, or deliberately poison the children against their own fathers are rarely, if ever, even sanctioned, much less punished."