FATHERS URGENTLY NEEDED II

"My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend." - Tiger Woods

A friend a couple of days ago tried to remind me of a song that was so popular in the 90's. That song, had as it's theme, "Being pregnant outside wedlock." A certain girl, was derided for being pregnant outside marriage, and she hung her head in shame. The point? No girl - long ago - would want to be caught dead with a pregnancy outside wedlock or living with a boyfriend. It was a mega scandal. A taboo. But today? It is the TRENDING thing, for ladies to brandish pregnancies outside wedlock. As a matter of fact, celebrities have made it fashionable, having one, two, or three children for a boyfriend. I believe they call it, "Baby Mama"

Guys impregnate ladies, and hop on to the next available lady on the queue. Without any regard for the child's upbringing. Most end up leaving the ladies with the burden of raising these children alone. Morality today, is on the floor, just before the first rung on the ladder of righteousness. It has crashed. It's not fashionable anymore. Look around, you'll find BOYS everywhere with no idea what it means to really be a MAN, because Fathers have eloped. Today sex before marriage is the "in-thing" with movies, and music encouraging and hyping it.

Children will become what they see you do. Children are so clever that they do what you do, no matter what you say. But what happens when the father isn't there? Whom will they copy? With absentee fathers today, where is the future of adulthood headed? Who will mentor our children on responsibility, or courteousness, and being hard working and obedient? Who will instill the proper ideologies in them? Teach them how to treat a lady for instance. No one. The scripture, says parents should train their child. We have a world going haywire, because parents have failed, and it will get worse if we don't begin now to retrace our steps, and fix the broken system.