When abortion is marketed to the general public its advocates emphasize the autonomous right of the woman to make this decision. Society has so bought into that notion that in 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the father of the child has virtually no say about a woman's decision to kill that child through abortion. Regardless of the law or even the cultural practices in society, we seek here to understand the Lord's expectations of fathers. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Fatherhood first begins with a dramatic change in relationships.
Whereas for a period of time his primary relationship was that of being a son, his new primary relationship is that of being a husband. From that husband and wife relationship comes the bearing of children and the status of fatherhood. When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.