Friday, 30 September 2011
The Demise of the Good Father

by Rebecca Bynum (October 2011)


Until very recently, the role of father was one of great respect in our culture and the image of the good father was a source of societal integration or at least one of widespread social agreement. Mass entertainment, including movies and television, generally supported the idea that to aspire to being a good father, was something noble as well as commonplace and accessible. The father was loved, trusted and revered. The image of the good father was everywhere.  more>>>

Posted on 09/30/2011 2:36 PM by Rebecca Bynum
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8 Oct 2011
Norman Berdichevsky

The truth of Rebecca's brilliant article "The Demise of the Good Father" continues to vindicated and exalted with each new Republican Paty political debate and poll. Herman Cain strikes an immediate chord with all of us who know the best solution for our faltering nation and its errant children is to replace the hip-hop super cool teenage whiz kid razzle-dazzle smart-ass Mr. Cellophane (see-right-through-him) pretender in the White House with a STRONG, just, wise loving and STERN father.

I ache for a head-on debate between Obama and Cain. As Kyle-Ann Shiver recently wrote in Pajamas Media .....I’ve got a deep-down feeling that Obama would leave that debate stage feeling as though he had just had a very painful woodshed experience with a mature father wielding a rhetorical paddle.

The potentail beneficial influence of a President Cain would extend into every schoolyard and playground as well as in the economy.