Melanie Phillips: The "Left" and family breakdown

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2013-05-23 01:22

Article here. Excerpt:

'By the late Eighties, it was glaringly obvious that families were suffering a chronic crisis of identity and self-confidence.

There were more and more divorces and single parents — along with mounting evidence that family disintegration and the subsequent creation of step-families or households with no father figure at all did incalculable damage to children.

‘Too many children lack a consistent mother or father figure,’ researchers told me.

Poverty, the Left’s habitual excuse, could not be the culprit since middle-class children were also not receiving the parental attention they required.
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From their research, they concluded that children in fractured families tend to suffer more ill-health, do less well at school, are more likely to be unemployed, more prone to criminal behaviour and to repeat as adults the same cycle of unstable parenting.

But instead of welcoming this analysis as identifying a real problem, the Left turned on the authors, branding them as evil Right-wingers for being ‘against single mothers’.
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Having experienced how the absence of proper fathering could screw up a child for life, I believed I was doing no more than stating the obvious when I deplored the explosion of lone parenting, female-headed households and mass fatherlessness.

But, to my amazement, at The Guardian, I found that over this and many other issues, I was branded as reactionary, authoritarian and, of course, Right-wing.'

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The first and most important item I looked at was the daily mail's understanding of the article.
It says her father's FAILINGS,nowhere in her article has she said her father failed,in fact she praised him up
yet the d/m took the other tack.
I have been alive nearly 80 years and,like Melanie,I could count on my fingers how many men I have known who could lay down the law in their family and one of those was irish and happened to be my grandfather.Our mothers were always the bosses,they were the ones who laid down the law,patriarchy is a word thought up to ensure that
women always keep the upperhand.
We all know that education has been taken over by feminism,nearly all decisions are made by women who by far exceed men in the education system and it is they who have plumped for coursework to supercede exams,they who have changed history to herstory,they who have made
drugs like ritalin mandatory through their refusal to deal with boys problems,they who are treating boys as if they were girls and they who are making mountains out of molehills by changing the way the sexes see each other and it is they who don't want change.
Can it be realised that western education is a class,at least below that of eastern education,that the west is
getting further behind all the time.Feminists better get a grip because we expect some brilliant women to
start inventing things to save our bacon but so far
in the area of brilliance there is only a void.

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Submitted by saracen395 on Thu, 2013-05-23 16:45