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Aaron, I’m not sure you got the point of the article.  Tiereny was saying that despite the fact that fathers are doing more in the home and with the children while still working more outside the home they’re still protrayed as doofuses by the media and the entertainment industry.

Tiereny’s point was that, despite the fact that fatherhood is still hard for some people, it should be taken more seriously than its being taken today.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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After reading the whole thing, I think that was a terrible article.  Fatherhood HAS become a joke in this world.  On television and in Family Courts.  Our society, largely thanks to feminists, has gotten used to the idea that dads don’t matter.  Single moms are OK.  It’s all BS.

I wouldn’t want to have to raise my kids without a mother, it doesn’t work.  Likewise, I wouldn’t want my wife to raise my kids without me.  There are way too many problems that occur.  That isn’t to say that there aren’t kids of one-parent households that don’t turn out OK, but look at the statistics.  In my opinion, it’s the primary reason there is so much crime and the like in the black community.  Something like 3/4 of black children are born out of wedlock and a huge percentage grow up without a father in their lives.  Those kids far to often grow up not knowing how to live properly.  God created a family containing a father and a mother for good reason.  Both are necessary for the healthy development of a child.

This ties right into gay marriage/adoption, I might add, because two mothers do not replace a father and two fathers do not replace a mother.  It’s just as unhealthy, if not even less so, than single parents.

Well, rant over, I feel better now…

Oh yeah, i hope the author of that article was joking around when he ended by saying “ Fatherhood has created one more happy doofus.” If he’s fine being a “doofus” but being happy, it’s just plain sad.

I thought that’s where he was heading, just didn’t seem to make the point abundantly clear… at least not to me.

The attitude that hollywood has with fathers drives me up the wall! (although, I have to admit- Jimmy Neutron is one of my favorite shows. I’m such a geek.) What is up with all the shows where the woman is this pretty, slim woman and the guy is this belching, hairy, dirty weirdo?

Trying to remember back to when the trend started… Married With Children and The Simpsons are all I can think of.