http://media.thedtc.org/index.php/media/file/life-pt-6-parenting/Listening to this sermon by Tim Rude where he discusses an upcoming parenting conference that will be primarily for fathers and single mothers. HUH? Of course it will be open to anyone interested but predominately for fathers and single mothers. He says God gives the primary child rearing job to the father and the mothers come along side to help.
1. How can someone honestly say that a father is predominately raising a child if they believe in stay at home homeschooling mothers?
2. It is offensive to suggest that a single mother is a "father". She's a mother. Not a father.
3. It is inappropriate in their highly sexualized, gender specific culture to have single mothers meeting with married fathers without the married wives present.
4. It affirms the odd take we've all perceived that single women retain autonomy and "giftedness" while married women are "downgraded" to a more servile and dependent role.
5. It is offensive to suggest that a mother would not need to be involved in discussions of "steering" the family or "family mission".
These people are genuinely clueless. I am sad for the mothers and fathers in this church. Why can't they just be normal?