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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’ve had 50+ years of feminism discouraging girls from being wives and mothers.  I think the younger generation is questioning that, and the  pendulum is finally starting to swing back in the other direction a bit. [/quote]

I agree.  I'm all for women choosing what they want to do, be it a SAHM or a career - but I do think younger women are realizing that there are different seasons to life and planning accordingly.  [/quote]

This.  We don’t object when women are told to put their children in daycare. [b] But when someone suggests there’s value in taking care of your own children, he’s public enemy number one.[/b]

There’s a lot of years between college graduation and retirement.   I don’t see what’s wrong with prioritizing one’s own children, especially when they are young.

Meanwhile, we’ve got daycare workers being arrested for drugging the children under their care.   https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/4-daycare-workers-arrested-lacing-childrens-food-melatonin/story?id=110329834[/quote]

I must have missed the part where he addressed the same message to the men in the audience.  Because, of course he told them the same, right?  Silly me, it sounded like he spoke directly to the women.[/quote]

well, since you missed it, here you go:

“ Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 2024, you are sitting at the edge of the rest of your lives. Each of you has the potential to leave a legacy that transcends yourselves and this era of human existence. In the small ways, by living out your vocation, you will ensure that God's Church continues and the world is enlightened by your example.”

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“ It is only in the past few years that I have grown encouraged to speak more boldly and directly because, as I mentioned earlier, I have leaned into my vocation as a husband and father, and as a man.”

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“ This absence of men in the home is what plays a large role in the violence we see all around the nation. Other countries do not have nearly the same absentee father rates as we find here in the U.S., and a correlation could be made in their drastically lower violence rates, as well.”

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“ You might have a talent that you don't necessarily enjoy, but if it glorifies God, maybe you should lean into that over something that you might think suits you better.”

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“ But this does make me reflect on staying in my lane and focusing on my own vocation and how I can be a better father and husband and live in the world but not be of it. Focusing on my vocation while praying and fasting for these men will do more for the Church than me complaining about her leaders.”

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About his wife:

“ She is the one who ensures I never let football or my business become a distraction from that of a husband and father.”[/quote]

And you are willfully ignoring the part where he addresses the women directly about the "diabolical lies" they've been told, and how their life only starts to have meaning once they have children.  Or the part where he rails against IVF as being the result of the pervasiveness of disorder (way to encourage procreation there, buddy).
Have you seen the statement made by the Benedictine sisters?  When you've got nuns speaking out against you, you're doing something wrong. But I guess their lives aren't meaningful, since they chose not to have children.  Such selfish career women, those nuns!
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He say natural family planning is unnatural.[/quote]

Yeah, he seems to be lumping that in with IVF.  Thats...certainly a new association I've never heard of before.[/quote]

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