Family life is in 'meltdown'
Family breakdown is a "cancer" behind almost every evil affecting the country, a senior judge will declare today.
Mr Justice Coleridge blames youth crime, child abuse, drug addiction and binge-drinking on the "meltdown" of relations between parents and children.
He warns that the collapse of the family unit is a threat to the nation as bad as terrorism, crime, drugs or global warming.
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Of course it's in meltdown!
The UK is a country that is overwhelmed by female energy. (It's why I now live abroad.) And the people it affects the most (surprise, surprise) are men and boys.
Different males handle this differently. Some become feminised themselves (e.g. men in government or the media), while others behave in the most destructive way -- such as boys now forming a gang culture, or soccer thugs in their 30's. (Let's bear in mind though, that the feminised men in government and the media behave in far more destructive ways, because they are the ones with any power.)
But calling this a "collapse of the family unit" I think misses the mark. It puts a unisex gloss onto it, which it clearly isn't.
The problem is, that boys are lacking male mentoring. 80% of teachers are now female. Indeed, some 35% of boys now go through school without ever having had any contact with a male teacher.
Male mentoring is something boys crave, especially when they start school and are thrown into a world of dominant matriarchs. And they are being denied it.
But they are also denied it home. Often the father, having himself grown up in a female dominated environment, will be an inadequate guide for his sons. And single mothers do an appalling job in raising children, particularly their sons. (Some single mothers, of course, do try hard. But let's make no mistake: others don't.)
I believe strongly, that until we get some mature masculine structure into our society, things will continue to get worse. What we need now is some research
in universities. We need to fully grasp the male psyche. And then build an education system based on it.
Moreover, we need more men in education. Indeed, I believe that men should be available to guide and teach boys in the youngest age groups. (If this means paying more money to men to attract them to the job, then so be it.) I believe that advanced boys should be taught exclusively (or maybe almost exclusively) by men.
For any change to take place, we need policiticians sympathic to the MM. I don't yet know of any, although I appreciate that they may get destroyed by the media if they make themselves known.
We've still got some way to go.
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