Father Knows Best

(Copyright) by Mike Ford (Oxford, Georgia)   Remember the 1950s television sitcom Father Knows Best? Robert Young starred as the mythical father of the Anderson family. His wife was a homemaker and mother to their three children. Each week an opportunity arose for “Dad” to solve a problem. What happened to those wonderfully innocent and uplifting days? But what kind of fathers are portrayed on television today? Homer Simpson, simple-minded buffoon, or the jovial Dr. Cliff Huxtable, dominated by his wife and manipulated by his children. Or worst of all, the male-chauvinist, crude, and perverse Al Bundy. What has happened to fathers […]