I just saw an article in the Mail and Guardian, “Saint Dad” (requires login).
This article talks about how raising children should be just like breathing for fathers.
What I’m finding interesting is that we are writing and talking more and more about women in business and there are also so many more opportunities for women in business. If she is fortunate she has a new contract (check out bright young things, and if not she is still in the boxing ring (Check out Keith’s post article in the e-zine about women and the boxing ring).
So my question is as these opportunities come up for women, are more and more men also taking care of the kids, are they becoming “stayhome dads”? Is there also a new space for dads, new qualities they are bringing to bringing up kids.
Imagine this as a presentation called “The world of Dads”……well well well
Rina Stander said that if you have a stirring about something that needs to be done and you are not doing it, you are commiting a sin against humanity.
When I heard this statement it really shook me up because in the world today we are so caught up in the rat race, being successful, especially the X-generation who has been presented with so much opportunity (Entrepreneurship) everybody wants to invest in the coming bright young thing. The young person doesn’t want to leave this opportunity because it may never present itself again, but is it really a stirring within them.
And this is why I sometimes have a problem with trends, if they will make people lose their identy, people lose their innovativenes in the process, but if they can keep their identity in the trend and make it like wearing a different hat, well then go on and do humanity justice.
Lately I have been attending weddings almost every weekend. It looks and feels like the Xers are getting married and there is just wedding fever around. As you try and make conversation at these functions, you ask, “so when are you getting married?”
A few of them will tell you “as soon as prince charming comes along”, but most young people then will give you an answer, “no, marriage is not for me.”
These were some of the excuses given:
1. “My parents tried it and it didn’t work, so why am I setting myself up for another failure”. The young people have lost hope for getting married due to their parents divorce, or they experienced abuse from the Dad to the Mom, and sometimes but very rarely from Mom to Dad. They see marriage as a set up for misery or some sort of jail.
2. The other one I have heard is that, the wedding is in any way so “costly�, so they just co-habit, basically they like each other, and they just move in together since they view this as a “cost-effective� manner of doing things, but they rather skip the “I Do� event.
Have the late Xer generation lost hope in the good old traditional marriages??
This is very sad for me 
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