The Rise & Fall & Rise of Motherhood, Part 2 of 4 parts

   The War on Motherhood

But this birthright would be exchanged during the last century for a mess of pottage.  Perhaps the greatest legacy of the 20th century has been the war on motherhood and biblical patriarchy.  Feminists, Marxists, and liberal theologians have made it their aim to target the institution of the family and divest it from its biblical structure and priorities.  The results are androgyny, a radical decline in birthrate, abortion, fatherless families, and social confusion.  Incredibly, the biggest story of the 20th century never made headine news.  Somehow we missed it.  It was the mass exodus of women from the home, and the consequent decline of motherhood.  For the first time in recorded history of theWest, more mothers left their homes than stayed in them.  By leaving the home, the experience and reality of childhood, family life and femininity were fundamentally redefined, and the results have been so bad that if this one trend is not reversed, our grandchildren may live in a world where the both the true culture of Christian family life and the historic definition of marriage are the stuff of fairy tales.

Many "isms" have influenced these trends  -  evolutionism, feminism, statism, eugenicism, Marxism, and more.  But in the end, the philosophical gap between the presuppositions of the Atheists, eugenicists, and Marxistsof the early 20th century, and the presuppositions of the professing Church in the 21st century, have narrowed dramatically.  The goals of the state and the goals of the mainstream church have so merged, that the biblical family with its emphasis on male headship, generational succession, and prolific motherhood are a threat to the social order of both institutions.

Less than one hundred years ago, the architects of the atheistic communist Soviet state anticipated the death of the Christian family.  They explained the need for destroying the Christian family with its emphasis on motherhood, and replacing it with a vision for a "new family."  Lenin wrote: We must now say proudly and without any exaggeration that apart from Soviet Russia, there is not a country in the world where women enjoy full equality and where women are not placed in the humiliating position felt particularly in day-to-day family life.  This is one of our first and most important tasks.....Housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do.  It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.... The building of socialism will begin only when we have achieved the complete equality of women and when we undertake the new work together with women who have been emancipated from that petty stulifying, unproductive work....We are setting up model institutions, dining-rooms and nurseries, that will emancipate women from housework....These institutions that liberate women from their position as household slaves are springing up where it is in any way possible....Our task is to make politics available to every working woman. 

In his 1920 International Working Women's Day Speech, Lenin emphasized:  The chief thing is to get women to take part in socially productive labor, to liberate them from "domestic slavery," to free them from their stupefying [idiotic] and humiliating subjugation to the eternal drudgery of the kitchen and the nursery.  This struggle will be a long one, and it demands a radical reconstruction, both of social technique and of morale. but it will end in the complete triumph of Communism.
  (by Douglas Phillips,Vision Forum Ministries,  May 10, 2013, www.visionforum.com)