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When Will We Have the Guts to Link Fatherlessness to School Shootings?
Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz poses for a mugshot photo after being arrested February 14, 2017 in Parkland, Florida. (Photo by Browards Sheriff's Office via Getty Images)
Now that the gun control advocates have had their fifteen minutes of fame, let’s start focusing on the real issues impacting the rise in school shootings since that infamous day in Columbine in 1999. Issue number one that no one in the mainstream media or government wants to acknowledge: fatherlessness. Specifically, the impact of fatherlessness on the boys who grew up to become school shooters.
Dr. Warren Farrell, author of the new book The Boy Crisis, explains:
Minimal or no father involvement, whether due to divorce, death, or imprisonment, is common to Adam Lanza, Elliott Rodgers, Dylan Roof and Stephen Paddock.
In the case of 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, he was adopted at birth. His adoptive dad died when Nikolas was much younger, and doubtless the challenges of this fatherlessness was compounded by the death of his adoptive mom three and a half months ago.
The rate of mass shootings has tripled since 2011. We blame guns, violence in the media, violence in video games, and poor family values. Each is a plausible player. But our daughters live in the same homes, with the same access to the same guns, video games, and media, and are raised with the same family values. Our daughters are not killing. Our sons are.
But boys with significant father involvement are not doing these shootings. Without dads as role models, boys’ testosterone is not well channeled. The boy experiences a sense of purposelessness, a lack of boundary enforcement, rudderlessness, and often withdraws into video games and video porn. At worst, when boys’ testosterone is not well-channeled by an involved dad, boys become among the world’s most destructive forces. When boys’ testosterone is well channeled by an involved dad, boys become among the world’s most constructive forces.
As Terry Brennan, co-founder of Leading Women for Shared Parenting, notes:
72 percent of adolescent murderers grew up without fathers; the same for 60 percent of all rapists.
70 percent of juveniles in state institutions grew up in single- or no-parent situations
The number of single-parent households is a good predictor of violent crime in a community, while poverty rate is not.
Yet, despite the growing number of experts, pundits and commentators drawing attention to the impact of fatherlessness on school and community safety, the post-attack discussion inevitably reverts back to gun control. Instead of spending so much as fifteen minutes on fatherlessness we are forced to endure the same salacious headlines, the same provocative tweets, the same tired old memes about the evils of guns as if somehow a cold piece of metal convinced yet another boy to become a mass-murderer. We ignore the lack of adequate mental health services, the failure of law enforcement to effectively intercede, and the sickening impact fatherlessness has on each one of these tragic cases. Why? Because it is easier to ban a hunk of metal than it is to right systemic cultural wrongs.
Comedian Michael Ian Black took a lot of flak for blaming the rise in school shootings on the idea that “boys are broken.” Yet, he was correct in stating that,
The last 50 years redefined womanhood: women were taught they can be anything. No commensurate movement for men who are still generally locked into the same rigid, outdated model of masculinity and it’s killing us. If you want to hurt a man, the first thing you do is attack his masculinity.
What is the primary way to attack a boy’s masculinity? Strip him of his primary male role model: his father. Over the past 50 years, we have taught women to embrace single motherhood and to cut fathers out of their children’s lives through divorce. Now, thanks to the gun control echo-chamber, it will probably take another 50 years to right the wrongs we've done to our fathers and our boys.
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/will-guts-link-fatherlessness-school-shootings/
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Of the 27 Deadliest Mass Shooters, 26 of Them Had One Thing in Common
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markmeckler/2018/02/27-deadliest-mass-shooters-26-one-thing-common/
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A Key Commonality In School Shooters The Left Refuses To Address
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27586/fatherlessness-amanda-prestigiacomo#
As noted by University of Virginia Professor Brad Wilcox in 2013, "nearly every shooting over the last year in Wikipedia’s ‘list of U.S. school attacks’ involved a young man whose parents divorced or never married in the first place.” Additionally, a study on older male shooters found similar connections to growing up fatherless.
Writing at The Federalist in 2015, Peter Hasson highlighted the fact that of all the shootings on CNN's “27 Deadliest Mass Shootings In U.S. History" list committed by young males since 2005, only one was raised by his biological father.
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Missing fathers and America's broken boys - the vast majority of mass shooters come from broken homes
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018...ity-mass-shooters-come-from-broken-homes.html
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RESUMO
Basicamente, a maioria dos "mass shootings" que rolaram possuem um ponto em comum: Um pai ausente.
É inegável que a teoria do pai ausente vai além de uma piada. Há de fato uma ligação entre os crimes (tanto lá quanto aqui) e a ausência da figura familiar na educação do indivíduo.
"Que a ausência dos pais pode comprometer a saúde emocional dos filhos não é novidade alguma. O que impinge aqueles que buscam o agigantamento do aparato estatal a usarem estas pessoas carentes como ferramentas, em busca de seu propósito máximo, é que precisa ser elucidado. Marilena Chauí nos fornece algumas pistas quando assevera que aqueles que defendem a família são “bestas”, e que os pais são “déspotas de sua prole”. Se ela assim afirma, é sinal de que a família representa um obstáculo para o arranjo social que ela gostaria que fosse implantado. Mais do que isso: a estrutura familiar é o último sustentáculo da civilização ocidental, e já não é mais possível prever por mais quanto tempo poderá resistir ao empuxo “progressista”."
https://www.institutoliberal.org.br...te-vai-muito-alem-de-uma-simples-brincadeira/
