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What is Dad’s role?

Men and women prefer to play mostly traditional roles in family life, despite the push for equality.

They are generally happy with dad as breadwinner and mum as the part-time worker and primary nurturer.

This finding comes from a major research project by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.

How easy, then, for dads to go just one step further and let mum be the family’s only nurturer! – let her take full responsibility for all that is involved in rearing and training kids.

But look at the role which our heavenly Father accepts for Himself. He says, “As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you.” Isaiah 66.13. In other words, He adopts the nurturing role of a mother towards Israel!

Thus, right here in the Bible, God himself establishes the pattern of what the ideal father is meant to be, namely, that of a nurturer. How should this work out – on a day to day basis – in our homes?

It simply means this: a father’s responsibility is to mold, strengthen, encourage and guide his children – it isn’t something he just leaves for mum to do!

But a Christian father doesn’t face this task on his own. God provides special help – written instructions especially for fathers – in the Bible.

GOOD NEWS IN BRIEF

According to the Bible, the male parent was created as the human counterpart of God himself.

Ken Packer

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