If you wanted to continue to the trend of children born without fathers and the rise in divorce... what would you do? What sort of education would give a daughter? Don't change anything the culture has been doing for the last 30 years. Do exactly what we have been doing. That's the advice Kevin Swanson gives on this segment of Generations.
The feminist worldview of Gloria Steinem basically rules today. Some sarcastically refer to her and others as feminazis. But the culture of the public schools, churches, conservative politics, and conservative media have imbibed deeply of this worldview.
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“ Sad News... ” Sadly, I can see much of my own life mirrored in this segment of Generations. My parents are both professing Christians and still married, so I've not experienced parental divorce. However, my mom thoroughly bought into the worldview that teaching me, her daughter, to be independent at the expense of all else was the whole of the female adult existence. Consequently, it has been a struggle to marry (although I'm not giving up!) and my parents have no grandchildren, so their line may die out. From a Biblical perspective, this is a tragedy. Teaching girls and young women to have an education and a career as a "backup plan" sends the message that men are untrustworthy, unreliable, and unnecessary. These parents may have had good intentions, but if men assume they are not needed, they often withdraw and retreat, leaving women with no one to marry. I know of no Biblical examples of women being called to remain unmarried and live indepedently of men. This contributes greatly to the "lost and lonely world" where "70 percent of young men are still not grown up by age 30" of which you so often speak.
Kevin Swanson has served as elder and pastor of Reformation Church, OPC since its inception. Kevin was raised on the mission field in Japan in the 1960's and 1970's. Together with his wife Brenda, they are bringing up five children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord....
