As part-Anglo-Saxon Protestant, I am witness that the degradation of the American family cannot be blamed upon communist or leftist influence in America, which really only began in the 1940"s.
My grandparents graduated Middlebury and Dartmouth Colleges in 1936. They were scions of noble New England families, names included Keeler, Bridge, Philips, Hathaway, Bowman, oh, and one Keegan.
After my dad passed away in 1974, it did not occur in the slightest to my grandfather nor to my uncle to at all be the role of advisor or guide. My Jewish uncles, in contrast, took an advisory role towards my brother and myself, despite one going through a difficult divorce and the other, dealing with health and financial difficulties.
The role differentiation between the genders in Judaism means that if a dad dies, it is considered an enormous tragedy, and "a child needs a father."
Ditto with the loss of a mother.
American Protestant Christians need to consider where they have fallen short in the importance of roles within the family coupled with their tendency towards a certain hands-off individualism, which degrades the family, isolates those experiencing loss, and weakens the social fabric of American society.
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