“And seven women shall take hold of
one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own
clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.”
Isaiah 4:1
I implore
the young women, don't fall for the feminist propaganda that you don't need a
man and that you can prioritize career over children. I implore you, don’t fall
for that path, for, such a choice can
lead you to a fate that will be too cruel for many of you to bear in your old
age. As the - INCREDIBLY – progressive
ABC notes:
"While Dr Hamilton's research showed that single women
without children had higher personal incomes than mothers, "the advantages
of not having children are overshadowed by the disadvantages of being
single".
Renting presents big challenges, too. For example, women in
Dr Hamilton's study reported that "real estate agents telling them that a
dual income applicant was a more secure option for the landlord than a person
on a single income".
Dr Hamilton's research also revealed anxiety among older
single women about what would happen when their own health and aged care needs
arose.
"Because they didn't have a spouse or children of their
own, they expressed a very strong fear about growing older and not knowing
who'd be there to support them in the future," she says.
"Many were very worried that they would be forced to
move into a residential aged care setting before they were ready."
This article
also notes that there is a “singlehood penalty” for older women and it is right
to do so. Singlehood brings with it a host of disadvantages in this life. This is
because God created man and woman to live together in marriage. Two are better
than one after all because you might, to honest you will, need someone to lean
on and to rely on from time to time. This is why when a priest takes a vow of
celibacy he is in some sense wed to the church and is supported and provided for
by the Church, because he will not be able to look after himself in old age, he
has the brotherhood of priests to rely on. This is why nuns live in convents,
not alone, so they do not have to face the lonely consequences of taking vows
of chastity, they are surrounded by an adopted family of sisters. If you live
alone it will eventually bring you to a place where you will find that life becomes too
much. Eventually we all need to lean on somebody else. So even
orders that take a vow of chastity make allowances for support.
Note also
that single older women become the responsibility of society, well at least in
our modern welfare society they do. They become a burden of care for the
community. No one likes the idea of leaving an old woman to suffer alone
without help, and therefore society will to some degree step in and try to help.
Paul told the church to look after the single older women in the church. But he
told the younger women and widows to marry and have children. Children are a
wealth beyond income. A support beyond government and charity. And a gift
beyond any promotion or career achievement. And the women who bought the second
wave feminist lie are finding this out now the hard way.
But we
should note this, that many of these women are reaping the fruit of their decisions
in life, but so too is the rest of society. The end result of feminism is
inevitably big government, because in reality all the women did with woman's
suffrage was replace their husbands with the state (this was implicit in much
of their rhetoric of the day as well). They changed who their ultimate husband
was, they replaced Bob with Bureaucracy, they replaced Steve with the State,
they replaced Joe with government jobs. Whether or not someone agrees with
universal suffrage, the end result is still the ultimate empowerment of the
state over everyone's lives in a way that the founders of the West could never
have imagined. Because it creates a vast dependency class the like of which has
probably not been seen ever before in history.
Now, like
the patriarch it is, the government is being called on to look after women in
their old age, women who refused to heed the Lord's advice to secure a man,
make a family and make this their top priority. And how can society say no to
this? Most people will feel a deep sense of pity for these women, even the radical
feminists who refused to listen and make a life with a man work.[1]
We will know that their choices led to this, but most people will still feel the need
to solve it.
I also know
there are some women who have tried to get a husband or make a marriage work and
failed, and I feel for them, and the church should seek to help them. But
this is bigger than just those women, a lot of these women made choices to
pursue the single life, not really taking into account that we all get old, and
we all need to lean on someone else eventually. Best that it is your children,
not the state and others.
It is cruel
that our society propagandizes women to pursue a career over childrearing. It
is cruel that our society uses the first 17-20 years of a young women's life to
train them to deny what God created them to be: wives and mothers once they
reach maturity. There are countless women working moderately paid government
jobs, or teaching jobs, or nursing jobs, or reception jobs, who are kicking
themselves that they put that before a family, again and again, until it was
too late. They live in regret of that decision throughout their lives, especially in old age.
Old women,
teach the younger women to keep the home and love their husbands (Titus 2:3-5).
This is Paul's advice and it is advice that will add a wealth to your life no
amount of money can achieve. If you are still young enough to find a husband
and have a children, make this choice now before it is too late. You still
have time to avoid the fate of these women.
[1] If
you are not swayed by sympathy for such women, I understand this, I would
simply note that Jesus had sympathy for repentant women who knew their mistakes,
like the woman caught in adultery, or the Canaanite woman. But leaving that aside,
even if you are not swayed in anyway, remember that all of society was ground
to a halt with the rhetoric: “Do you want my grandma to die?” in 2020. I was
blown away by how this made people fold, but it did, and it will again with
this issue.
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