The feminist/sexual revolution is not a breakthrough but a throwback. Its program, highly successful thanks to the betrayal of the family by the legal system, is to undermine and destroy patriarchal social organization based on male kinship and to restore matriarchal society based on female kinship, the system of the ghetto, the Indian reservation, the Republic of Haiti, and other surviving Stone Age societies.

The areas of every city with the highest crime, highest delinquency, highest demoralization, highest drug addiction, highest teen-age suicide, lowest educational performance, are those with the greatest number of households headed by women. No exceptions.

According to sociologist David Popenoe, "Father absence is a major force lying behind many of the attention-grabbing issues that dominate the news: crime and delinquency; premature sexuality and out-of-wedlock teen births; deteriorating educational achievement; depression, substance abuse, and alienation among teenagers and the growing number of women and children in poverty. These issues all point to a profound deterioration in the well-being of children."

The problem is that women don't like patriarchy--don't like the sexual law-and-order that men must impose if they are to share as equals in reproduction. Males are biologically marginal and require society's support if they are to be real fathers: "Fatherhood," says Margaret Mead, "is a social invention."

The divorce court's incomprehension of children's need for fathers permits women to do something about their dislike of patriarchy: to expel their husbands, or to breed children without fathers. The resulting single motherhood then enables them to use their children as "Mutilated Beggars"--objects of pity requiring subsidization by ex-husbands or taxpayers. The result is the social pathology described by David Popenoe.

The solution for this pathology, according to Daniel Amneus's Garbage Generation, is to stabilize the family by returning to the nineteenth century's preference for father custody in divorce cases. There were only a few thousand divorces annually in 1869 when John Stuart Mill wrote, "They are by law his children."

Daniel Amneus, The Garbage Generation $19.95 hard cover; $12.95 paperback, plus $2.00 p/h.

Primrose Press, 2131 S. Primrose Ave., Alhambra, CA 91803.

Copyright @ 2010 by Fathers' Manifesto & Christian Party