I could ramble on for hours about this topic, but it all boils down to a very simple answer: if you want to see "men" in the world, you have to raise them. ....QUOTE]
I agree with you, raise them! You don't need another woman or women don't another man to raise a child when the child is already there...right values, right morals, integrity -- it is a better to raise a child alone than a child be raised in a dysfunctional home whose parents are always fighting and none have any integrity nor even respect for one another. At least you can instill your values on each of the child you are raising. At least teach him/her right from wrong. And to boot, how to be a leader of men.
Someone said to me today (must be an Aussie friend of mine...) If the global crisis continues at the present rate, by the end of this year only two banks will be left operational ..... the Blood Bank and the Sperm Bank! Before you know it, these two will merge, and the whole place will be full of bloody wankers.:sarcastic:
Tucker's Mom, can I first point out that it's great to see a female as a Gold Supporter of the site when a lot of people don't seem to want to support anything these days; this site, NRA, SAF, GOA, nothing!
Now, as far as what you posted, I guess I have a question for you, but first an explanation. My Dad died on Christmas Day when I was five years old. My Mother never found anyone to marry that she loved as much as my Dad and therefore raised me alone.She did the absolute best she could, but working 12-18 hours a day doesn't leave much time for being an example and spending weekends together. I had a work ethic and moral values and self-esteem, I never touched drugs or alcohol, and was overall a well-behaved teenager. However, the beginning of my freshman year in High School, we moved to a house that was right next to a couple that I will never forget. The husband had a sixth-grade education and worked at a lumber mill. He drove a pickup and owned a duece-and-a-half flatbed with a rock crusher transmission for big jobs. He raised his own chickens and goats, planted his own garden, roofed his own house, hunted, fished, chopped down and split his own wood, and for my four years of high school I was never more than 100 feet from this "uneducated" man. He used to give me a job and then step back and laugh his butt off at the ridiculous way I attempted to do it with all of my "book learnin'" before he showed me the common sense way to get it done. He taught me to drive - even that duece-and-a-half, hunt, roof a house, build a feed and tack room from scratch, raise a garden - absolutely everything I know about being a man. He was 6'7", 300 lbs and his name was "Tiny." I know God and my Father sent him from Heaven to knock some sense into my head.
I guess my question is, do you think a household without a father figure can deliver this kind of education? My Mother didn't - she thanked God for Tiny being the father figure in my life. Tiny and his wife couldn't have kids - they loved having me around and treated me as their own child. Yeah, it was a strange setup, but we all got the elements of a "whole" family. As much as a single parent can do, is it fair to deprive children of that other-parent element, be it male or female? I think either way the child grows up not understanding what that element is supposed to be and deliver to a relationship when they never see the two parents interacting with each other and the children directly.
