Their God-Given Design - Don S. Otis
Helping children grow secure in their gender identity.
Under the banner of “gender equality,” culture and media have long been feminizing boys and masculinizing girls. Boys are criticized for their aggressive and adventurous nature. Their expressions of leadership and service to females are considered patronizing or demeaning. Girls are told they can and should do everything boys do — and do it even better. Young women who aspire to a supportive role for a husband and family are chided for taking a backseat.
These messages, imbedded in culture at every turn, distract from how God made us distinctly male and female. And unless we teach and model healthy gender roles, children will become vulnerable to culture’s redefinitions of marriage and family. Weak men and stressed womenToo many boys don’t know what it means to be a godly man. They see the media ridicule men as stupid or immature, and they often lack positive role models who demonstrate firm but compassionate masculinity. In the United States today, 8.3 million households with children don’t have a father. FULL STORY>>
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