Lack of fathers caused London Riots...

[Flyingphil172]

A rather ridiculous opinion article in todays Daily Tabloid . Apparently the London riots were caused by children being brought up without a father figure. Plenty of other fallacies, but too many to list!

You only had to see the burning streets of London last week to see the manifestation of a fatherless society.

The collapse of family life in Britain has been laid bare, reported to have the highest proportion of single mothers in Europe and nearly half of all children suffering family breakdown by the age of 16.
Fatherless families in underprivileged boroughs of London are the norm.
People were quick to call for sanctions on the parents of feral youth looting shops and torching buildings.

Clapham shop-owner Elizabeth Pilgrim wailed to the BBC: "They're feral rats. What are those parents doing? Those children should be at home. They shouldn't be out here causing mayhem."

But the fact is the fathers of those children are probably long gone. There are no "parents" to take charge and exert control over their wayward children.

The welfare state has taken over the father's role of protector, provider, and enforcer, substituting sit-down money for love and care. And what a mess it has made: fatherless boys full of incoherent rage, fatherless girls having another generation of fatherless babies to a string of feckless men.

It is politically incorrect to say so, but the ideal situation for a child is to be brought up in an intact family with a father and a mother.
As a rule, what prevents social chaos and the underclass is an intact family. What keeps children safe is an intact family, with a father in the home.

I'm not sure whether this article is more ridiculous than previous opinion pieces from the same author which blamed the 2009 Victorian bushfires on the Greens blocking logging on private property(using what power?). Or opposing the NSW ethics classes because Australia was based on "Judo-Christian values".

[sosman]

Clapham shop-owner Elizabeth Pilgrim wailed ...

That has to be a setup for a Monty Python sketch ...

[Darwinsbulldog]

The end is nigh. The world is filled with stoopid.

[GenericBox]

I like this article. I was raised from birth in a fatherless home, at least now I have an excuse to go steal shit.

[Annie]

I must remember to tell my adult kids to go out and riot. It's something I've forgotten to teach them. I am a very bad mum. :-(


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- King Latapat.

[Annie]

Hey! My dad was asleep in his chair while I burned down a large section of our house. Unintentionally. Never. Repeat Never, leave matches and a curious feeling wax paper drawing hanging on a wooden wardrobe in the same room as an eight year old.



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- King Latapat.

[Aldaron]

Ah...isn't it nice to see Miranda Devine getting another opportunity to use anything to bash gays (Penny Wong and her partner, in this case), while taking a sideways swipe at liberalism in the same breath.

MIranda, Piers Akerman, Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones...all birds of a feather. Paranoid, blinkered, ignorant, vicious and in love with their own exhortations to hate.

[riddlemethis]

Ever wondered what a mysoginist woman sounds like - read a Miranda Devine column today!

Disgraceful Neanderthal she is.

[riddlemethis]

Originally Posted by sosman

That has to be a setup for a Monty Python sketch ...

Bwahahaha! Exactly what I thought too! All's missing is 'when I was a kid', in true 'uphill, both ways' fist shaking fashion. Hilarious were it not so serious!

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

I see. So theoretically if we were to have more families with two fathers then not only will there not be any riots in London but also everybody will be each others' friend and so it is a peaceful bliss.

I guess these same people were trying to prove that gay marriage is bad?