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All the evidence says dads are essential

Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 8:21 pm | Randy Thomasson

All the evidence points to men being special and fathers being vastly influential, even essential.

This Father’s Day week, please do something to honor a father you know. They need your affirmation, especially when the media, culture, and bad government policies tear them down.

Below is proof on the importance of fathers. Skim it to excite you about the great good that fathers can bestow upon their children. And if you’re a feminist skeptic, who thinks a woman can do everything a man can do, get ready to think anew!

“The Significance of a Father’s Influence,” Focus on the Family, 2011
Dr. David Popenoe, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and Co-Director of the National Marriage Project, has provided us with a good summary and overview of the subject. Here’s what he has to say:

Fathers are far more than just “second adults” in the home. Involved fathers – especially biological fathers – bring positive benefits to their children that no other person is as likely to bring. They provide protection and economic support and male role models. They have a parenting style that is significantly different from that of a mother and that difference is important in healthy child development. David Popenoe, Life Without Father, (New York: The Free Press, 1996), p. 163.

One of the most vital aspects of a dad’s contribution to the lives of his kids lies precisely in what Dr. Popenoe calls his “significantly different parenting style.” Men and women are different. As a result mothers and fathers parent their children differently.

Dads, for instance, love their children “more dangerously.” That’s because they play “rougher” and are more likely to encourage risk-taking. They provide kids with a broader diversity of social experiences. They also introduce them to a wider variety of methods of dealing with life. They tend to stress rules, justice, fairness, and duty in discipline. In this way, they teach children the objectivity and consequences of right and wrong. They give kids insight into the world of men. They prepare them for the challenges of life and demonstrate by example the meaning of respect between the sexes. In connection with this last point, research indicates that a married father is substantially less likely to abuse his wife or children than men in any other category.

Fathers encourage competition, engendering independence. Mothers promote equity, creating a sense of security. Dads emphasize conceptual communication, which helps kids expand their vocabulary and intellectual capacities. Moms major in sympathy, care, and help, thus demonstrating the importance of relationships. Dads tend to see their child in relation to the rest of the world. Moms tend to see the rest of the world in relation to their child. Neither style of parenting is adequate in and of itself. Taken together, they balance each other out and equip the up-and-coming generation with a healthy, well-rounded approach to life.

More research:

The Extent of Fatherlessness
The Consequences of Fatherlessness
The Causes of Fatherlessness
The Benefits of the “Father Effect”

“Why Fathers Are Important in a Child’s Life: 16 Key Reasons,” Callen Winslow

“Why Fathers Matter,” The Fathering Project (Australia)

“The Importance of Fathers,” A Father’s Place (South Carolina)

And here’s my personal encouragement for professing Christian fathers and their wives:

When fathers are strong, practical hope for our nation increases.

If you want a good culture and good government again, strengthen your own home with fathers being the center of it.

For when a man reads the Word of God and grows in God’s purposes, he needs and deserves his wife’s support, not her distrustful opposition.

Bottom line, we need real men to love King Jesus, and real women to intrinsically respect the man as the family’s loving leader. As a result, good wives receive more security, love, purpose, and peace.

This Father’s Day, let’s intrinsically value fathers and husbands – let’s strengthen men to be the men that God designed them to be!

My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord,
Nor detest His correction;
For whom the Lord loves He corrects,
Just as a father the son in whom he delights.

Proverbs 3:11-12

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?
Hebrews 12:7

Put him into the garden – to dress it, and to keep it.Horticulture, or gardening, is the first kind of employment on record, and that in which man was engaged while in a state of perfection and innocence. Though the garden may be supposed to produce all things spontaneously, as the whole vegetable surface of the earth certainly did at the creation, yet dressing and tilling were afterwards necessary to maintain the different kinds of plants and vegetables in their perfection, and to repress luxuriance. Even in a state of innocence we cannot conceive it possible that man could have been happy if inactive. God gave him work to do, and his employment contributed to his happiness; for the structure of his body, as well as of his mind, plainly proves that he was never intended for a merely contemplative life.
Adam Clarke commentary on Genesis 2:15

Encouraging trends for children and young adults

Sunday, May 18, 2025, 7:57 am | Randy Thomasson

If you’re like me, your big cultural concern is the next generation. Because we’ve seen an explosion of foolishness and evil from the current one!

So join me in being very glad about the movement to rescue children from anti-family, low-academics, “woke,” godless, government-controlled schools!

This is where states enact a “universal” education choice policy giving parents a paid scholarship funding most or all of a private school — or even home school — for their children.

Already this year, the Republican governors and Republican legislatures in Idaho, Indiana, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming have set the children free.

Texas is now the 16th state offering a universal choice. This is huge, because 1 of 10 students in the nation lives in Texas!

And in Tennessee, which is initially providing 20,000 children with freedom scholarships, parents stampeded for relief by filing 33,000 applications in the first several hours of the program’s launch.

The number of universal educational choice states keeps growing, which will eventually make parents in “blue states” jealous as they hear how family and friends in school choice states are enjoying the difference.

And rescued children can be taught moral, family, and constitutional values if local churches start little schools to participate in rescuing kids.

I expect more states to offer more families this lifeline to rescue their children. And because the Left’s objections are without merit, within a decade from now, I would not be surprised if California voters approved it here.

Meanwhile, the Democrat Party is losing voters, even in California. The pain of Covid tyranny and Bidenflation awakened many in their twenties!

May 4: “We are seeing the base of the Democrat Party evaporate”

May 3: Former L.A. County Sheriff: “I’m leaving the party of paid protests, purple hair, and pronouns, and joining the party of faith, family, and freedom”

April 23: Democrats see plummeting support from young people

April 19: Poll shows voters are tired of the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ – even in blue California

Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.

The Bible, Proverbs 22:6

Proof your money is being wasted by Democrat Party politicians

Sunday, April 13, 2025, 5:47 pm | Randy Thomasson

As the April 15 tax return deadline approaches, be glad that DOGE is exposing waste and fraud in California! This is much-needed proof that the ruling Democrat Party politicians led by Newsom & Co. are OK with fraud.

This latest discovery about the waste and fraud within Newsom’s EDD (Employment Development Department) should convince every reasonable Californian to:

1) Never again think government needs more of your money
2) Always vote NO on tax increases, tax extensions, and bonds (all deceptive money grabs by wasteful state and local governments)

As Fox News first reported on 4/11/25:

After finding $382 million in fraudulent unemployment payments since 2020, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified California, New York and Massachusetts as the primary culprits. 

The three Democrat-led states accounted for $305 million in improper claim payments, DOGE said Thursday.

The group added that California also accounted for 68% of the benefits that were dispensed under former President Joe Biden to parolees identified by federal authorities as being on the government’s terrorist watchlist, or who had criminal records.

California, New York and Massachusetts all have a Democratic trifecta — meaning Democrats control the state House, Senate and the governor’s office. They also have a Democratic triplex, which includes party control of the Attorney General, Secretary of State and governorship.

The above new story was based on a DOGE post on X on 4/10/25

An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:

– 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits

– 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits

– 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits

In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k.

California, New York, and Massachusetts accounted for most of these improper claims, totaling $305M in unemployment benefits.

Additionally, California accounted for 68% of the unemployment benefits paid to parolees identified by CBP on the terrorist watchlist or with criminal records.

And like DOGE, SaveCalifornia.com has been working here in 2025 to expose the THEFT committed by Democrat Party politicians and their allies (union bosses, establishment bureaucrats, and RINOs).

Thank you for your support and for sharing our information with more people who need to know! Below are some of SaveCalifornia.com’s popular social media posts (click the images to see the full posts):

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
Attributed to Scottish judge/professor/historian Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813)