Let me quote from my published op-ed from last year, paying tribute to my father.
MY FATHER was born in 1938, in a village in Sichuan, China, to an intelligent but poor and sickly father whose death left his impoverished mother to fend for herself.
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Let’s Replace Mother’s Day And Father’s Day With Thank The Government Day!
The idea of sex and gender are toxic. Progressives, public schools, and pedophiles all think they know what is best for your kids. And if Moms and Dads are not to be held responsible as caregivers, why do we need Mother’s Day and Father’s Day? Maybe just opt out.
Meet Stephen Scaer, Candidate for NH Senate, Nashua
My name is Stephen Scaer, and I am running for the NH State Senate in District 13, which encompasses Nashua Wards 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9. I have lived in Nashua for 28 years.
Fathers’ Day – It Really Isn’t about Giving a Gift or a Dinner.
I know this is going to be published at the end of the day – we’re getting so many submissions that by the time I can start writing in the morning, almost all our slots are filled. The purpose of this post is to say that Fathers are the problem in America today. No, not that they ARE the problem but that they are LACKING in our society. Too many kids are growing up without them.
Fathers Day – I knew I forgot something
This: So if you are a Feminist, let us know how this is wrong.
Why are Fathers important?
Let me add to Mike’s “Happy Fathers Day” with this from Instapundit (reformatted, emphasis mine):
VIRGINIA ALLEN: The Importance of Dads in an Increasingly Fatherless America.
There is a “father absence crisis in America,” according to National Fatherhood Initiative, and the results are sobering. Studies have found that children raised without a father are:
- At a higher risk of having behavioral problems.
- Four times more likely to live in poverty.
- More likely to be incarcerated in their lifetime.
SJW’s Target Father’s Day
Kevin Kervick joins us to talk about the latest hateful atrocity destined to be ushered out of style by the Social Justice warriors, Father’s Day. It’s unfair to people without fathers and has to go.
Father’s Day – random thoughts
I generally don’t like these “Hallmark Holidays” type “special days” and really don’t care if anyone remembers it – but I do remember to remember that Mothers Day is important.
I didn’t grow up with a Dad – he passed away from complications from surgery after a car accident when I was 11. Before that, he and my Mom had separated and for years, I only saw him on weekends. I am thankful, though, for all of the men who donated their time in various youth activities (e.g., Cub Scout, Boy Scouts, Medical Explorer Scouts, Christian Service Brigade, various youth ministries at the church I grew up in). No, I’ll never know what it would have been to have a full time – all the time Dad, but these men did fill a gap that was there that I, at the time, did not know existed.
I wonder, too, if some of the mistake I made with the Youngest and the Oldest were because of the lack of example that I had growing up. But I look at some of the medical problems that they had growing up and I know that anything that I might have missed by not having a Dad would not have made a difference in dealing with those problems. At the time, I thought to myself “This is impossible – I don’t even know if they’ll even make it to high school graduation because of their behaviors”. All things considered, I guess I didn’t too such a bad job. Why? I’m now starting to hear them say that the reason why they are doing some of they are is because of the example I set. I thought they were totally ignoring me growing up. Yet, I see what they are trying to do today, they way they are trying to make important decisions in their lives: “But Dad, that’s not how you would handled it – you did such and such back when: I WATCHED YOU and I listened to you”.
Talk about being held accountable! That beats yet-another-Fathers-Day tie any time…