Self-governed men energetically train their wives and children in the Faith, with the church supporting and assisting them. When men refuse to govern themselves, they implicitly invite others to govern them. Lack of self-discipline leads to external discipline. We discipline our minor children in order to lead them to self-discipline. A man who lacks self-government demonstrates an embarrassing immaturity.
Christians complain bitterly about ecclesiastical and civil tyranny.
Yet they often have only themselves to blame for inviting that tyranny. Overzealous church nannies who justify their salaries by meddling in the details of every member's family are forced to return to their real job of preaching, prayer, and pastoring when strong husbands and fathers govern their own lives and their own families. The udders of a maternalistic state dry up when self-governing families refuse the warm, addictive, statist milk and earn and consume and save their own bread and meat by which they are sustained. Steel-backboned men are an anathema to the Nanny State. This is why the modern state colludes with feminism in assaulting godly manhood.