Foundation Father | M.A. Franklin
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Oxford anthropologist J.D. Unwin studied 86 societies and civilizations to see why some collapse and others don't. What did he find?. That sexual debauchery leads to the collapse of a civilization within 3 generations. (thread) 🧵
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"Your homeschooled kids need socialization.". "They have 5 siblings and 17 cousins they hang out with a lot.". "Not like that.". "We go to church twice a week and they talk with all sorts of people.". "Not like that.". "They do intramural sports and play with all sorts of other.
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12 things every father must say to his son, over and over:. THREAD
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“If they're homeschooled, how will they learn to socialize with other kids?”. Let’s walk through the type of “socialization” kids get at government schools. - They sit in the same room all day with kids their own age.- They are dictated to by a teacher for most of the day.- They
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Boys are knights in training. A boy who is not becoming more dangerous will be unable to protect anything. Here are 11 ways to raise dangerous sons. 1. Don’t tell your sons to be careful. Tell them to pay attention. Expect your boys to be wild and get hurt.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you homeschool, you don't need to spend 6+ hours per day doing it. Public school should not be your model.
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Reading to your kids every night has a better chance of changing the world than anything else you do. But only if you read great stuff that feeds their imagination. Don't waste this precious time with Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Here are 22 recommendations that belong on your shelf:.
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Divorce means you lay a generational curse on your family until someone with more integrity comes along to stop the cycle. Here are 10 uncomfortable truths about divorce:
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33 lessons every father must teach his son:. 1. Do not gloat in victory. Everyone already knows you have won. Gloating turns defeated opponents into lifelong enemies. Being gracious in victory creates lifelong friends. Point out something they did well, and ask how they did it.
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I'm going to need more of you to homeschool so my kids have some normal people to marry.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you homeschool, you don't need to spend 6+ hours per day doing it. Public school should not be your model.
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In the West, the sexual revolution started in the late 1960's. Three generations (~40 years each) from then would put us in the 2070s. Are we on the way to collapse? . The evidence points to "yes.".
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I'm going to need more of you to homeschool so my kids have some normal people to marry.
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Sexual debauchery leads to the collapse of a civilization within 3 generations. TLDR: The sexual revolution was a mistake. A poison. It unleashed termites into the foundation of the west. How do we know this? . Read on. / THREAD.
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As recent as 2003, this was a scene from a major Hollywood film.
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The single most influential factor in a civilization's longevity and success is prenuptial chastity. If people were expected to remain virgins until marriage, the culture was more likely to have all of the markers of human flourishing. They were more likely to be an "advanced".
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Divorce means you lay a generational curse on your family until someone with more integrity comes along to stop the cycle.
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What was the best combination, resulting in a culture that exceeds other cultures? . You probably won't be surprised. Prenuptial chastity combined with absolute monogamy. Absolute monogamy means one spouse for life.
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13 things every father must say to his daughter, over and over. THREAD
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Boys are knights in training. A boy who is not becoming more dangerous will not be able to protect anything. He will not be able to ascend to any sort of manhood. Here are 11 ways to raise dangerous sons. 🧵
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Why was prenuptial chastity the most important? . In cultures where virginity was no longer expected, within three generations, the following disappeared: . - absolute monogamy .- deism .- rational thinking.
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We homeschool not so our kids are insulated from the world. We homeschool to make sure the concrete has been hardened before we put heavy loads on it.
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"How many kids do they have?" the girl asked her mom. "Too many," the woman said as she let the door shut. I stood inside the restaurant, stunned. The woman was saying, "Some of those kids should really be dead." That sums up one of the central tenets of our culture. I only
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A girl's confidence comes from her father. Which is why we have so many broken, insecure women. Why does this happen? . How do so many girls get ruined?. Let’s walk through a common scenario that plays out day after day, time and time again, in homes across the world.
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18 truths about homeschooling. 1. It shouldn't take 6+ hours a day of your time. 2-3 hours max. 2. You don't have to know everything yourself to teach your kids. Curriculums these days lay out everything you need. You certainly don't need a PhD to teach 3rd-grade math.
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Men are easy to please. All they really want is:. - A clean(ish) house to come home to.- A warm meal on the table.- Sex whenever the need arises. A man will move mountains to protect such a home.
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Without prenuptial chastity, people usually regress into the lowest "dead" category as they become interested only in their own wants and needs. They become slaves to their appetites. Cultures that have embraced total sexual freedom collapse within three generations. They
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You cannot have both sexual freedom and progress. Unwin: "Any human society is free to choose either to display great energy or to enjoy sexual freedom; the evidence is that it cannot do both for more than one generation.".
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Women can bring eternal souls into the world. Yet somehow, we convinced them that working as a bank teller is more fulfilling.
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Likewise, porn is cultural cancer. It rots the bones. A healthy civilization, or one that wants to progress, will want to eradicate it or push it to the fringes of society. Porn leads to other debaucheries.
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Sexual freedom unleashes all sorts of demons on a society. Couple it with modern medicine, which basically baptizes sexual debauchery with antibiotics and abortion, and you have an acceleration of collapse. Slaves are too busy having orgies to be truly productive.
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It turns out that marriage is not just a private contract between two individuals. It has ramifications for the entire community and culture. How a society views and treats marriage determines whether or not it will keep things like indoor plumbing and modern dentistry. What.
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A divorce will affect your children no matter their age. And it will affect your grandchildren. And your great-grandchildren. Your life is not about you. You were born with obligations and responsibilities. So, what makes you think your marriage is about you?.
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Unwin defined four categories of cultures. Each is differentiated in its pursuit of art, engineering, literature, agriculture, etc. 1. Dead - these cultures are only focused on the day-to-day needs of life. They don't care about higher questions and so do not progress. 2.
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I homeschool because I don't *want* my kids to fit into society. I want them to rule it.
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If you're a man in your 20s and need more confidence, read this. 🧵.
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@ChefGruel Didn't taco bell have a similar value prop? Based on new prices I never go there anymore. Makes more sense to go to the sit down Mexican restaurant.
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A girl gets her habits and attitudes from her mother. But she gets her self-esteem from her father.
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Unwin's two categories of sexual ethics and restraint:. - Prenuptial - this was measured on a scale from complete sexual freedom to "remain a virgin until married." . - Postnuptial - how easy is it to get a divorce? How many wives can a man have? How faithful are the women.
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10 ways to destroy the imagination of your child. 1. Keep your children indoors as much as possible. A child weighed down by busywork (homework), endlessly distracted by flashing screens, will find the outdoors boring. And so they will find life boring.
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Children who disrespect their father learned how to do it from their mother.
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The good news: a culture can be turned around. Massive repentance can bear fruit. But based on the data, it also takes three generations for improvements to start showing up. Sexual ethics is a powerful rudder, but it is still a rudder on a huge, lumbering ship. Better start.
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How single mothers lead to broken, insecure men. The temptation of every mother is to treat their boys like defective girls. She will try to repress his strength, to smother his masculinity. Boys raised in this environment act out in two ways:
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Young men, you were lied to about how the world works. Here are 14 truths. / THREAD.
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Divorce, no matter how inevitable or necessary it feels, is always bad for the kids. Always. It will negatively affect them for the rest of their life. And the lives of their own kids. If you think otherwise, you are lying to yourself, justifying your own selfishness.
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Divorce means you lay a generational curse on your family until someone with more integrity comes along to stop the bleeding.
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I witnessed a family checking out at a store and their young girl kept begging for a small toy at the register. Her voice got louder and louder. The dad kept saying no. "Just give it to her," the mom said. "She needs to learn to take no for an answer," he said. After 5 more.
We watched a girl in her early teens pitch the most ridiculous fit today over her dad saying that a skirt she was trying on was too short (it was). Dad caved and bought the skirt after mom jumped in and told him he was being silly. I felt badly for the man, but T said I.
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"You just homeschool so you can indoctrinate your kids.". Yes. Much better than letting complete strangers indoctrinate my kids. Strangers who love my kids far less than I do and probably hate what I stand for.
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If I could tell new fathers one thing, this would be it:. Whenever your kids ask you to do something, say YES.
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Reading to your kids every night has a better chance of changing the world than anything else you do. But only if you read great stuff that feeds their imagination. Don't waste this precious time with Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Here 37 are recommendations that belong on your shelf:
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Looking at the current state of our culture, is there any hope to avoid collapse? It looks bleak. Even recently, close to a pandemic, we've even people engaging in orgies and other risky sexual behavior, despite a new disease called monkeypox. They really are slaves to their.
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@sovereignbrah I do believe there is something innate in animals that recognizes the dominion of man. This was like a knight seeking help from his liege lord.
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My son found a stick that looked just like a scythe, so he started chasing the other kids, pretending to be the Grim Reaper. I called him over. "Did you just find that lying on the ground?". "Yeah," he said, breathless. "That's a nice stick," I said. "Yeah, I know." Then he
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1. Divorce, whatever the reason, is never to be celebrated. It is always a multi-layered, multi-generational tragedy. It will affect your children no matter their age. And it will affect your grandchildren. And your great-grandchildren. It flows downhill.
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Wall-E is celebrated, or dismissed, as environmentalist propaganda. But it's doing something much more interesting. It subverts its surface-level message and glorifies Man's dominion over creation. Once you read this, you'll never look at Wall-E the same way again. THREAD
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Dolphins can detect human life better than feminists.
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A divorce will affect your children no matter their age. And it will affect your grandchildren. And your great-grandchildren. Your life is not about you. So what makes you think your marriage is about you?.
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23 truths about homeschooling. 1. It shouldn't take 6+ hours a day of your time. 2-3 hours max. 2. You don't have to know everything yourself to teach your kids. You certainly don't need a PhD to teach 3rd-grade math.
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What radicalized you?. In 4th grade, I did all four questions at the end of a chapter for homework. I got back a zero from the teacher, a whale who could barely support her own weight. I asked her why I got a zero grade, since all of my answers were correct. She said she only.
What radicalized you?. Getting paid half as much as other government employees despite doing 2-3x more work because they had worked there longer. Bla bla seniority. Realized life is not a meritocracy, despite what I had been taught by my conservative Christian community.
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How do you double the homeschooling rate from its already historical highs?. Mandate the vax for kids 5-11 to attend public school.
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A woman trying to be more like a man is only a danger to herself and those she loves. But there is a type of feminine strength that is fearsome to behold. 11 ways to raise dangerous daughters. 1. Tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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3. Your children will put on a good face, and you'll be able to pretend everything is ok, that you "made the right decision." But they're not ok. You forced them to take responsibility for your own selfishness and failure.
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If you're strict with your kids when they are young, you'll be able to give them much more freedom when they are teenagers. People get this backward. They are overly permissive, and when their teenagers start going off the rails, they lock things down in desperation. But it's.
Just finished this book - Bad Therapy by @AbigailShrier . This is one of the most eye-opening books I've ever read. It's a must read for any parent, any teacher, and should be required reading for any school administrator as well. The book dives into trying to figure out why
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2. A divorce will not lessen the fighting or strife in your life. It does nothing but bundle your pain, multiply it by 10, and strap it to the backs of your children. They'll carry it with them for the rest of their lives.
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8. Have your sons’ backs when they break stupid rules. Your sons should respect authority but properly orient their loyalties. They should be ungovernable by tyrants but respectful of their teachers and elders. Our bureaucratic society is full of petty tyrannies.
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Casual sex leaves people with thin and fractured souls. You see it in their eyes. Each time you become "one flesh" with someone and pull away, a piece of your soul breaks off and stays behind. This is why marriage is so important. This is why divorce is so devastating.
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4. A divorce is a murder. The husband and wife are "one flesh," and destroying it kills something that was alive and whole. Dismembering it. You may think you are gaining your life back, but you are really losing it. Your kids know the truth, however. They feel the death.
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5. Divorce is contagious. Be careful who your friends are. Be careful who your wife's friends are. A divorce in one group of friends can start a slow-motion chain reaction. If you think it could never happen to you, you are the most vulnerable.
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6. Warn your sons against sexual immorality. Nothing will steal a man’s strength more than sexual immorality. It enslaves him to his own appetites and destroys his gravitas and authority. Much of the book of Proverbs is a father warning his son away from the immoral woman.
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1. "I'm proud of you.". Saying this at the right moment can give a boy wings. Boys who never hear this from their father will always be seeking approval from the wrong people and the wrong places.
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@primalpoly @jerr_rrej Meanwhile, our own 25-39 age group is busy tearing down what the Founders built.
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"We divorced because the kids are better without us fighting all the time.". No, your kids are not better off because you decided to break your promises. It doesn't work like that. If they saw you *keeping* your promises, even if it was hard work, then they would be better off.
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24 lessons every father must teach his daughter. 1. You don't need to act like a man to be a strong woman. Masculine strength looks different from feminine strength. Lean into your femininity and womanhood. We don't need more third-rate men. We do need more first-rate women.
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To be an effeminate man is to be an evil man. All men have *some* effeminacy to root out. But how do you recognize it in yourself?. Look at masculine traits, then contrast. Here are 33 proverbs:. 1. The masculine man embraces responsibility. The effeminate man blames others.
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12 things every father must say to his son, over and over:. 1. "I'm proud of you.". Saying this at the right moment can give a boy wings. A boy who never hears this from his father will always be seeking approval from the wrong people and the wrong places.
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Some people think homeschooling could never work for them. And it doesn't work for everybody. But it can work for many more people than is commonly imagined.
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2. Teach your sons to delight in strength but be sympathetic to weakness. Encourage them to be physically strong. Join them in roughhouse play. Work their muscles until they are tired. Seek opportunities to use their strength to bless those weaker than themselves.
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6. A divorce will go off like a bomb in a child's life, no matter his or her age. Even if they are 30+ years old and out of the house, they will feel its ripple effects. It will weigh them down. You can't contain the damage. Wisdom and maturity offer bandages but not immunity.
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Show them how to pay attention to others and to their surroundings. Don’t undercut their zeal. Hone it. You should be more concerned if a son does *not* get himself into dangerous situations from time to time. Survival is important, but it is not the most important virtue.
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3. Train your sons in sales. Nothing builds a backbone better than rejection after rejection when trying to sell something. Nothing builds confidence more than getting up again and again. Start small. Have them go around the neighborhood and ask to rake leaves or mow lawns.
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Divorce means you lay a generational curse on your family until someone with more integrity comes along and stops the bleeding.
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Here is one ironclad law of fatherhood: let the burden fall on you. Men were made with big shoulders and so they were made to carry a heavier load. When there is something unpleasant that needs to be done, you should be the first to start the task. You are the first one to try
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Fathers are tempted to abdicate responsibility regarding the entertainment their children consume. We want shortcuts. We want well-laid-out rules so we don’t have to think. We want to stop paying attention for just one freaking second of the day so we can relax. Anything
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Divorce, whatever the reason, is never to be celebrated. It is always a multi-layered, multi-generational tragedy.
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Men, if you want people to take you more seriously, read this. You need gravitas. 🧵
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Being a father is having a bunch of tiny humans treat you like a superhero. And desiring to live up to those expectations.
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Homeschooling is not about protection and retreat. It is making sure your soldiers are equipped and trained properly before you send them to fight. It is making sure your weapons are well-forged and sharpened before testing them in battle.
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10. Most marriages that ended in divorce could have been restored with peace, harmony, and intimacy. They just didn't know how, or they took the easy way out. If divorce hadn't been an option, other solutions would have presented themselves.
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13 things every father must say to his daughter, over and over. 1. "You are beautiful.". If a girl doesn't think she is beautiful, the father is to blame. A girl craves male attention and validation. She seeks it out. She desires it most from her father. Don't starve her.
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5. Praise your sons for effort, not just success. Nothing encourages timidity like criticizing for failure and only praising when there has been a success. This is true in academics and sports. If your son makes a sincere effort, praise it. Chesterton said anything worth doing.
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25 sentences that may just change your life. 1. All healthy marriages have a man who initiates and a woman who responds. 2. Twenty years from now, you'll realize 90% of the news you watched was false and that the other 10% never mattered.
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Books that boys will love. Consider this a gift guide for the future men in your life. There used to be a whole category of boy's adventure fiction. Now, publishers assume mostly girls will be reading books. And they're not wrong. Let's start turning that around.
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8. Divorce makes literally *everything* harder for your descendants. It will haunt them. Children of divorced parents:. - have a 35-60% higher rate of divorce themselves.- are twice as likely to drop out of high school.- have a greater chance of living in poverty.
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Vetting a man for marriage. 8 questions to ask (and what to teach your daughter to ask). 1. Does he have a mission?. Does he have a plan for his life, or is he just going through the motions? A mission can change, even several times, but he should always have one.
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The best way to be a rebel today:. 1. Get married.2. Have a lot of sex.3. Have a lot of kids.4. Eat around your table often.5. Don't sacrifice your kids to the ghouls of public school.6. Say that men and women are different. This also happens to be the way to have the most fun.
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Saying "I'm proud of you, son" can give a boy wings.
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I've been informed the first picture is actually Aldous Huxley. Whoops. I was looking for a higher-res photo and trusted Google too quickly.
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11. Become dangerous yourself. Embody masculine danger yourself, and your sons will likely pick it up. Expand your comfort zone. Keep yourself sexually pure. Take risks. Have integrity. Become strong. Honor your father. Be respectful but ungovernable. Read the right stories.
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Many women want old-fashioned, traditional guys but make no effort to be old-fashioned, traditional women.
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