Fatherless Children and Mass Murderers

We need to look at the emerging evidence that (surprise) a child needs a biological father and mother to develop normally. I think the Catholic Bishops being sued for turning down a foster parenting request have a case,

March 5, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – "Catholic Charities of Fort Worth, Texas, turned down two “married” lesbians for foster parenting because their homosexual lifestyle gave children no father. The lesbians are now suing Catholic hierarchs and the federal government for discrimination."

I was reading a post at The Federalist (because it was misquoted elsewhere) the other day and was struck by the fact that not having a father around might have something to do with mass shootings.

"On CNN’s list of the '27 Deadliest Mass Shootings In U.S. History,' seven of those shootings were committed by young (under 30) males since 2005. Of the seven, only one—Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho (who had been mentally unstable since childhood)—was raised by his biological father throughout childhood."

The author thinks that No-fault divorce was one of the more important causes for fatherless children,

"No-fault divorce moved the American father onto the fast track towards the exit—from family life.
In 1960, only 5 percent of American children were born out of wedlock. Forty years after no-fault divorce entered the United States, a shocking 41 percent of children are born to an unmarried mother. God only knows what the next 40 years will look like."

I think he should have included the Pill, the sexual revolution, and welfare rewarding unwed motherhood. Instead, he adds the re-definition of marriage as a factor,

"No-fault divorce is not the only factor pushing fathers out of the household. If no-fault divorce gave fathers a way out of their kids’ lives, redefining marriage from its traditional definition of one man and one woman has officially declared fathers optional. What’s more, if the American household retains any semblance of stability today, things are only going to get worse. As Chief Justice John Roberts pointed out in his dissent, the Supreme Court’s ruling has cleared a massive pathway for state-recognized polygamy."

It is true that children raised in a lesbian household are going to be fatherless, and children raised by two homosexual men will be motherless. The jury is still out on how those kids are going to fare, but I have read some articles by survivors of same-sex childrearing that were very troubling.

Katy Faust is one of them and blogs at "Them Before Us" where she speaks out against fatherless parenting from her own experience. She spoke with ABC Australia about how her childhood influenced her views.

"Although she loves her mother and her mother’s partner, Faust says, neither took the place of a father, and she believes no woman can.
'While my mother was a fantastic mother and most of what I do well as a mother myself I do because that’s how she parented me, she can’t be a father,' she explained. 'Her partner, an incredible woman — both of these women have my heart — cannot be a father either.'”

Faust reviewed the data that shows same-sex parenting as harmful at Them Before Us and quoted the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health which was able to pick out just 20 children of same-sex couples out of 12,000,

"The adolescents with same-sex parents experience significantly lower autonomy and higher anxiety, but also better school performance, than do adolescents with opposite-sex parents. Comparing unmarried to (self-described) married same-sex parents, above-average child depressive symptoms rises from 50% to 88%; daily fearfulness or crying rises from 5% to 32%; grade point average declines from 3.6 to 3.4; and child sex abuse by parent rises from zero to 38%. The longer a child has been with same-sex parents, the greater the harm."

Whoa,  "child sex abuse by parent rises from zero to 38%". That is scary.

One might say that the data set is too small, but the data used to support sane-sex parenting is also flawed (read report here). That report finds one major study with better data that shows the disadvantages to being so raised,

"The NFSS contains rich data on young adult children of same-sex parents and is the second largest study, after the Census, with information on these children. Screening over 15,000 young adults, the study identified 236 respondents who reported their parents having had romantic same-sex relationships. Examining 40 outcomes in areas—related to their family and romantic relationships, education, physical and psychological well-being, economic and employment status, substance use, and criminal activity and victimization—it found that, compared to children in traditional intact families, those of mothers who have had a romantic same-sex relationship fared, on average, worse on 24 out of the 40 outcomes, and young adult children of fathers who have had a same-sex relationship fared worse on 19 outcomes. Even after accounting for a number of characteristics, these differences remained."

I wonder though if we are missing the boat by focusing on biological fathers. There is another Father who is being left out of the equation and that is God the Father of us all.

If mass shooters would be in proper relationship with Jesus and their Father in heaven, I suspect they would be not be predisposed to killing innocent people.