For decades, popular music has served as a powerful medium for artists to grapple with personal trauma, none more resonant than the wounds inflicted by bad fathers.
A lot of what you and the musicians you cited is true. The larger story, however, includes the role of women who force fathers out of the home, out of their lives, and/or out of the role of fatherhood, and the role of society, particularly government, that incentivizes broken families in exchange for women's votes. In addition is business advertising, including entertainment, targeted at women to sell all manner of products by encouraging women's rebellion against male 'oppression.' Further, the widespread of Marxian revolution between all groups, incendiary rhetoric turning group against group, whether there is basis or not. Constant warfare provides cover for all manner of enslavement. Social cohesion is the biggest threat to tyranny.
A very big problem, especially in America and the West. In the black community, it could be argued that the federal government incentivized fatherlessness due to their welfare programs that gave poor women less money if there was a father, or father figure, in the home. Also, as a divorced father, I have to say that sometimes--and it would be interesting to have a genuine study of this)--sometimes the mothers drive the father away. Sometimes the father is given a choice: submit to random hysterical rages, or leave.
The songs you note are accompanied by a vast chorus of lament from ordinary uncelebrity folks. I taught in a black high school on Chicago’s near west side for 15 years and read many student reflections on their family lives. From many it was a heartbreaking echo of these songwriters’ laments.
A lot of what you and the musicians you cited is true. The larger story, however, includes the role of women who force fathers out of the home, out of their lives, and/or out of the role of fatherhood, and the role of society, particularly government, that incentivizes broken families in exchange for women's votes. In addition is business advertising, including entertainment, targeted at women to sell all manner of products by encouraging women's rebellion against male 'oppression.' Further, the widespread of Marxian revolution between all groups, incendiary rhetoric turning group against group, whether there is basis or not. Constant warfare provides cover for all manner of enslavement. Social cohesion is the biggest threat to tyranny.
I did not see your post when I was writing mine. Nice to know that there are other men who will speak the truth.
A very big problem, especially in America and the West. In the black community, it could be argued that the federal government incentivized fatherlessness due to their welfare programs that gave poor women less money if there was a father, or father figure, in the home. Also, as a divorced father, I have to say that sometimes--and it would be interesting to have a genuine study of this)--sometimes the mothers drive the father away. Sometimes the father is given a choice: submit to random hysterical rages, or leave.
An awful choice.
The songs you note are accompanied by a vast chorus of lament from ordinary uncelebrity folks. I taught in a black high school on Chicago’s near west side for 15 years and read many student reflections on their family lives. From many it was a heartbreaking echo of these songwriters’ laments.