I turn once again to Matt Walsh for thoughtful commentary on current events. Matt points out something I did not know:

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As you heard, a man walked into a school in Oregon on Friday and slaughtered nine people. He was another product of a broken home, just like Dylann Roof before him and Adam Lanza before him, and so many other violent young men.

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Matt does not claim that growing up fatherless is the sole cause of the Roseburg killings, or the acts of the others, but he does note,

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What I'm saying is very simple: in principle, kids are meant to have two parents. A mom and a dad. In principle, this is the ideal arrangement. In principle, the more we stray from this arrangement in our society, the worse things get. The statistics absolutely back me up here.

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And that means we should probably at some point start discussing the real solutions. Not gun control. Not policies. Not politics. Parenting. If we REALLY want to cut down on all of these bad things, we should begin by getting married before we have kids, staying married, parenting our kids together with our spouses, and guiding and teaching and raising them so that they can grow into well adjusted adults. Simple.

Maybe that should be our plan of action. Maybe we should stop pretending the family is irrelevant and start taking some responsibility:

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That is a truncated version of his argument as presented on Facebook. A larger, more developed exposition can be found here: http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/ou...y-need-fathers/

One of the things which caught my eye was a response posted by someone named Steve King on Facebook.

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Researchers measured the distance that mothers allowed their children to stray before calling them back and compared that with results from fathers.
Fathers let their children stray further.
How much further on average?
Seven times!!
Most women conclude that men are irresponsible.
Most men conclude that women are too controlling.

The child grew inside her mother, listening to her heartbeat, suckled at her breast. Of course the child needs nurturing. The mother expresses her love saying "Come closer."

The father wants to equip his child for life. Dad says "Stretch out your wings and fly. Fall down. Get up again. Explore. I love you and want to send you forth."

I ask, which type of parenting does the child need most?
The answer is simple.
Both.
The child needs a mother and a father

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