Fatherhood In Brave New World

Bill McKibben writes his essay, “The Case for Single-Child Families,” in a professional, educated way using figurative language to get his point across. Throughout McKibben’s essay, he uses the appeal of pathos and logos to seek the approval of his adult readers over his vasectomy. In his essay, he uses figurative language to allow his readers to get a better understanding how strongly he feels about having a single child family. McKibben writes his essay to persuade the reader to have fewer children, to be selfish, and to enjoy their child-less time. He wants his readers to explore and not worry whether they’ll be hurt by a “stray Lego left in the tub.”

Is the push for a perfect utopia enough to siphon motherhood, family, and love? As in Brave New World, Aldous Huxley illustrates the destruction of the idea of family in this ’perfect world‘. People in the world today have the ability to express love and obtain a family. Huxley explores the futuristic outlook on a world (in many ways similar to ours) that would not allow such humanistic traits. Science is so called the ’father of progress’ and yet the development of Fordism and the evolution of artificial fertilization deteriorates the social value of science. Brave New World offers incites on an innovative world trying and, even more frightening, succeeding to create a utopia while destroying family and erasing the humanity in people.

Demographically, over 90% of the participants strongly agreed that fatherhood is crucial in our society. A little over 47% of fathers, that encouragement from the mothers of their children matters because of the obstacles they faced with finance, and their duties on the job. The final results of marital status statistics is over 80% married fathers, nine percent divorced, and six percent never married. One surprising statistic was 90% cohabitate with the mother and focal child (Glenn & Popenoe, 2006).

The introduction begins with quotes from people who mention that fathers get women pregnant and then leave the woman and the child; they mention that men need to realize their responsibilities do not end with conception. The book summarizes these quotes as unwed fatherhood is one of the leading social problems, and these men are irresponsible and “hit and run.” A CBS special report, The Vanishing Family, was an interview of McSeed, a father of six from four different women. In the interview, he says the responsibility of raising the child is on the mother, not him.

“Naked in the warm June sunshine, six or seven hundred little boys and girls were running with shrill yells over the lawns, or playing ball games, or squatting silently in two and threes among the flowering shrubs.” (Huxley 30) All the kids are naked and are engaged in sexual games. The importance of the individual is zero. “Everyone’s happy nowadays.” “We begin giving the children that at five.” (Huxley 91) In the society, they don’t believe in individuals. The society has erased individual and at the same time ceased the human growth, even while thinking they are expanding

While learning about this idea I started to take notice that my father is an involved father. It was important to me, because I have a really close relationship with my dad. Like mentioned in the lecture, my dad is a real person who laughs, cries, and gets mad like any other person. In my view he humanizes himself because he is able to really express his emotions in front of his children. I also noticed that my father has many of these viewpoints towards parenting. It also mattered because I know a lot of people who either have a more traditional father or no father at all. I get to witness first-hand how these father- child relationships affect the person in the long run. I learned so much information that I am able to take away and possibly utilize in the future. Not only was this concept meaningful but it also eye-opening. I got to learn about men and masculinity in a different way by breaking down the different social contexts to see how both their attitudes and actions change. If I learned anything from this particular idea in my personal life, it is to really value the type of relationship I have with my own

According to Ives, “…to be a father-as-carer a man has to take on a variety of social roles. The roles associated with the father-as-carer includes disciplinarian, breadwinner/provider, guardian, moral compass, sex role model, guide and friend” (Ives 78). To have a father-as-carer in an offspring’s life gives a woman no reason to disregard the male’s thought. Females that have control over her decisions in sexual acts should not only acknowledge her point of view, but also the fathers. The woman is consciously aware of the outcomes of intercourse when willingly performing in such an act. In “Rethinking Roe V. Wade” Manninen states:

Although single parenthood is on the rise in homes today, children still often have a father role in their life. It does not matter who the part is filled by: a father, uncle, older brother, grandfather, etc...; in almost all cases, those relationships between the father (figure) and child have lasting impacts on the youth the rest of their lives. In “I Wanted to Share My Father’s World,” Jimmy Carter tells the audience no matter the situation with a father, hold onto every moment.

According to the U.S. Census, one in three children, or approximately fifth teen million, are growing up without their father. This is what I would consider an epidemic because the numbers continue to rise yearly. With the numbers continuing to grow, American children continue to suffer. It is critical that a father is positively active in their child or children’s lives because father’s provide a sense of safety, mothers cannot teach a child everything that a child needs to know, and households gain balance when the father is present. I will now better explain.

Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, depicts a world in which babies are created and grown in factories, and sex is no longer needed to procreate. Set in the year of 2540, where science is at its height, people are genetically designed for a specific social rank in order for the government to control society. The government clones embryos in order to have enough people to meet the needs of the workforce. In the past few years of modern society, many people have begun to fear that the world presented in the novel will become a reality. Believing that through designer babies, or babies created through science, people will no longer have the freedom that exists today. Critics often debate whether or not the science of eugenics brought up in

In today’s ever changing world of family problems and instability, fathers are becoming a very scarce commodity. There is a major crisis brewing in the United States and the family unit is coming under siege. (According to the U.S. Census Bureau, over 24 four million children live without a father, that’s one out of every three children living in a home with one of the supporting pillars in a family.) With the father absence in these child lives, they become more prone to various problems in life later on. Everything from dropping out of school to going to prison, the chances of this happening increase dramatically.

Single mothers and absent fathers had a big part in The other Wes Moore. They had affected how they did in school, with other people, and in bad situations they had gotten into.

For various reasons, many children in the United States are living without their fathers in their homes or absent from their lives entirely. This is an issue all across the world and the children are having to deal with the disadvantages caused by the lack of support from their fathers. This issue has a significant effect on society and can be viewed and interpreted from the three sociological perspectives. As a result of many studies, it was found that children raised in father absent homes almost universally experience disadvantages such as: worse health, poorer academic achievement, and a less enjoyable educational experience. There are many variables that need to be taken into effect when considering

Growing up without a father or strong male role model in the United States is extremely difficult. Fatherless children are disadvantaged in American society and face a greater struggle to become successful in their personal, educational, and professional lives. The decline of fatherhood in one of the most unexpected and extraordinary trends of our time. Its dimensions can be captured in a single statistic: In just three decades, between 1960 and 1990, the percentage of children living apart from their

The role of the father, a male figure in a child’s life is a very crucial role that has been diminishing over the years. An absent father can be defined in two ways; the father is physically not present, or the father is physically present, but emotionally present. To an adolescent, a father is an idolized figure, someone they look up to (Feud, 1921), thus when such a figure is an absent one, it can and will negatively affect a child’s development. Many of the problems we face in society today, such as crime and delinquency, poor academic achievement, divorce, drug use, early pregnancy and sexual activity can be attributed to fathers being absent during adolescent development (Popenoe, 1996; Whitehead, 1993). The percentage of