Submitted by: P McMillan
Will all you men stand up, move out?
This article really hit home for me. I have been saying for years that we have few MEN today. A MAN means more than hair on the chest and a penis. A MAN GROWS UP early and then becomes a contributing and productive individual in our society - not a teat sucking kid expecting his parents to keep feeding him (although I blame the parents - and Dr. Spock - for a lot of this).
I pretty much left home (and I am female) the summer I was 14 - got a job - bought a bus ticket - left Boise for Seattle - got another job in Seattle and when my folks moved back to Seattle I returned home for a short time and then got married at 16 - still holding a job. Neither my husband or myself relied on or depended on our parents for anything. We raised our kids to GROW UP as well. Once they turned 18 or graduated from HS they were on their own. We did our best to teach them how to take care of themselves... as we had done.
2 Thes 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
Of course back then there wasn't the big welfare type programs or all those TOYS (tech garbage) to learn how to never grow up. Just sit for hours playing games on their phones or whatever other techie toys they had (and WHO paid for those Toys?). It is child abuse now to demand that kids have household chores or be disciplined for bad behavior - resulting in the numerous shooters who go crazy from never having been taught to GROW UP.
The only muscle these young males have today is strong THUMBS.
As it says at the end of this column - this is a SPIRITUAL PROBLEM.
Jackie Juntti
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Will all you men stand up, move out?
Friday, April 13, 2018
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More young adults are living with their parents than at any time in the last 75 years and the reason isn't just laziness or job opportunities.
The pop culture image of a 30-year-old man-boy hacking away on a laptop in his mother's basement isn't that far off according to numbers put out by the Pew Research Center.
In 2016, 33 percent of 25-29 year-olds still lived with their parents or grandparents. That same year, for the first time in well over a century, living with parents was the number one most common living arrangement for the 19-34 year-old set.
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McFarland
Christian apologist Alex McFarland, who talks to audiences of Millenials across the nation, says today's young adults just don't want to grow up.
"There's become, over the last several years, the growth of adolescent culture," he observes. "What 50 years ago was just a summer of being crazy, free teenagers, now adolescence really stretches from about a low of seven or eight years old to a high of 35 or even 40."
He says economics plays a part – it's getting more and more expensive to start a new household – but having hours and hours of entertainment available, on demand, has many young adults – especially men – in no hurry to leave the nest.
"Our mission in life – our calling, really – is not merely to have 'fun' or to be entertained," McFarland stresses, "but to do something with our lives."
At heart, as with every social ill, he says, this is in the end a spiritual problem.
"Part of this pervasive, culture-wide failure to launch," the Christian apologist warns, "is all tied to the breakdown of the family and really the diminished value that our culture has placed on marriage and family."
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Steve Jordahl (OneNewsNow.com)
More young adults are living with their parents than at any time in the last 75 years and the reason isn't just laziness or job opportunities.The pop culture image of a 30-year-old man-boy hacking away on a laptop in his mother's basement isn't that far off according to numbers put out by the Pew Research Center.
In 2016, 33 percent of 25-29 year-olds still lived with their parents or grandparents. That same year, for the first time in well over a century, living with parents was the number one most common living arrangement for the 19-34 year-old set.
McFarlandChristian apologist Alex McFarland, who talks to audiences of Millenials across the nation, says today's young adults just don't want to grow up.
"There's become, over the last several years, the growth of adolescent culture," he observes. "What 50 years ago was just a summer of being crazy, free teenagers, now adolescence really stretches from about a low of seven or eight years old to a high of 35 or even 40."
He says economics plays a part – it's getting more and more expensive to start a new household – but having hours and hours of entertainment available, on demand, has many young adults – especially men – in no hurry to leave the nest."Our mission in life – our calling, really – is not merely to have 'fun' or to be entertained," McFarland stresses, "but to do something with our lives."
At heart, as with every social ill, he says, this is in the end a spiritual problem.
"Part of this pervasive, culture-wide failure to launch," the Christian apologist warns, "is all tied to the breakdown of the family and really the diminished value that our culture has placed on marriage and family."
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