The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
My father was a gruff Irishman who was unable to express feelings and always insisted we be tough. Being a parent, for me, means creating what I didn't have. I want my children to feel love and be able to express it.
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.
Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.
It is indeed fitting for me to make a comment to the effect that it takes a village to raise a child because I have lived in many villages down in deep south, and everyone there who played a part in my stewardship as a young man growing up and as a professional, they have given me unstinting support.
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.