When it comes to Christmas, it might be safe to assume children will ask Santa for an extensive list of toys, games and treats.
But a survey of their typical lists for Father Christmas has shown many have more serious concerns, requesting "a dad" instead.
... Despite their material requests, the tenth most popular Christmas wish on the list was a "Dad".
... A request for a "mum" reached number 23 on the list.
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That is what marriage is all about. Giving the gift of a mom and a dad to the children born into, or raised by, that marriage.
A good marriage is the best Christmas any child could ever have!
Showing the children of our community that adults honor and distinguish the man-woman union from other unions, whether of not that man-woman union has its own children, is comforting, strengthening and loving to our children. Not doing so is of a cruel perversity that is so breath taking and mind boggling that it is understandable that many people are left speechless and disoriented on the subject.
Our society could not be more cruel to its children; taking away from their culture any clear distinction of marriage, the man-woman union, takes the cake!
I didn't grow up with much. I went from being born into a middle class family to living in poverty after my father lost his job back in 2003. He had many jobs since then, but family problems kept him from fulfilling his obligations and we barely made it on dimes and nickles. I'm still poor, but hey, I'm going places and I want to provide a secure and stable life for my children.
Long story short, I don't think I would have cared for much in life if I didn't have my mom and dad.
Oh come on NOM...that was a perfectly clean post I made, please let it be shown. : )
This is pretty sad. I'm sure that most of these children are probably not wishing for a dad because their own father died. The breakdown of marriage plays a significant--if not the leading--role in father absence.
I saw very good TV program on homosexual couples raising children. In one telling example, a couple of women with a homosexuality problem were raising two kids, now adolescents, a boy and a girl. The boy had no male to relate to in the family, he was completely in a shell of his own. Complaining about this would be seen as an attack on homosexuals, practically viewed as a crime in liberal environments, and also as an attack on his so-called mothers, so he was forced to remain in silence. Quite unhappy, alone, lonely, and in silence.
Likewise, homosexuals with a homosexualist ideology are too uncaring and insensitive to ask or answer this question about depriving children of either a mother or a father. As regards mothers, I believe such an experience with one's mother cannot be replaced in an identical way, that is, there is no replacement available.
Who can say how much privation a baby experiences if it is never able to be held by, to be loved by, to bond with its mother - and continuing with this privation during its most important formative years and then for the rest of its life?
While it can be partially made up for in other ways, what a poor substitute we have with a person who cannot even respect the rights and needs of the child (homosexuals) and feels entitled to deprive children in any way that is convenient for them.
With so many children being born out-wed-lock, most likely a good number of those request came from children with absent fathers, as well as children of divorce. A number 10 ranking for a dad and a number 23 ranking for a mother just shows the importance of a mother AND a father in a child's life, and marriage offers the best support for that. I hope that as marriage is strengthened, and the 50+% of marriages that succeed grows continuously in the next few years, decades, and beyond, these numbers change for the sake of the children. Marriage is definitely worth it.
"and marriage offers the best support for that."
Jacqueline, I totally agree. Fundamentally this means that what society needs is to improve the relating attitudes and behaviors that form the basis for anything that may develop into a marriage or that are part of an existing marriage.