The article gets the main point right. Children need fathers and mothers to stay together. But we’re still not there yet.
From Time Magazine:
Few things hamper a child as much as not having a father at home. “As a feminist, I didn’t want to believe it,” says Maria Kefalas, a sociologist who studies marriage and family issues and co-authored a seminal book on low-income mothers called Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage. “Women always tell me, ‘I can be a mother and a father to a child,’ but it’s not true.” Growing up without a father has a deep psychological effect on a child. “The mom may not need that man,” Kefalas says, “but her children still do.”
The article is so close. But it turns out the source of strength for a family is not in the way that parents care for their children. That is the third step in the three step dance. The first step is to make much of God in our lives. Paul says it like this in the New Testament, “whether in word or in actions, do everything to the glory of God.” In other words, live in such a way that God will be magnified in your life; that others will see His greatness in your smallness. So in your marriage, love your wife in a way that would make God proud; work in your family the way God has worked in His. And the second step in caring for your family is for the mother and the father to invest in one another; to love one another. The Bible says a man and a woman should be united into one and that no one or no thing should divide this unity. If you want a stable family then you need a stable marital relationship. Then the third step is caring together for your children. This is the three step dance of a healthy family. Do it and you will prosper.
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