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There is a growing trend for men to be stay-at-home caregivers, and the responsibilities for
nurturing the children are increasingly being shared among parents. What is being patterned in
the child’s mind when the father is holding the child and feeding it formula through a bottle?
Such behavior was unknown in the Bible. A child received milk from the woman’s breast. If a
mother had problems providing milk, or the mother died or was absent for some reason, another
lactating woman would be sought out to nurse the child. This is what occurred when Pharaoh’s
daughter found the baby Moses. She sought out a Hebrew woman to nurse the child, not knowing
that the woman selected was Moses’ own mother.

A study conducted in 2011 by Statistics Canada reported that men now account for 12 percent of
stay at home parents. The change has been swift. The same report stated that in the 1970s one in
a hundred stay at home parents were men. Today that number is one in eight. (Source below.)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/daily-mix/number-o
f-stay-at-home-dads-on-the-rise/article2065381/

To their own hurt, the church has failed to contemplate the consequences of departing from the
divinely established order while conforming themselves to the ways of a world that lies in
spiritual darkness. The role of being a keeper at home was assigned by God to the woman.

Titus 2:3-5
Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips, nor enslaved to
much wine, teaching what is good, that they may encourage the young women to love their
husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home...

Without a doubt there are many factors that have contributed to the gender confusion present in
society today. Christians, however, are not without responsibility. When the church conforms
itself to the ways of the world, they are opening the door for a world of ills to enter. It is needful
for those who fear the Lord to stop what they are doing, and to begin examining all of their life
decisions carefully. All things need to be tested, even those decisions that seem totally
insignificant.

As I look back upon my years of being a young father, and I consider the decisions and actions I
made, there are many things I regret. I wish I would have been more aware of the consequences
of every life decision. I regret that I did not seek the counsel of Yahweh in every decision, both
large and small. As a minister whom Christ has appointed as a teacher to His body, I desire to
spare others from similarly having the experience of looking back on their past with regret.

I had no teachers in the church to tell me that I should seek God about the method of childbirth I
should recommend to my wife. I had no one to explain to us the ill effects of institutionalized
childbirth, or the benefits of natural childbirth. There was no influence exerted by the body of