For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.
Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.
It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.
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