The local Sunday paper published an long editorial written by Bill McCartney, founder of the Promise Keepers. Men are more likely than women to break their marriage vows through adultery, violence or abandonment. Men are impregnating young women in record numbers and leaving them to deal with the consequences - a stint on welfare, an education cut short, or a trip to an abortion clinic. Men are also more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol, and then engage in a wide range of criminal behavior.
Social problems are moral problems which ultimately have a spiritual cause.
For those of us involved in Christian outreach programs, the connection is inescapable. The absence of responsible men from the home is now widely regarded as the most important cause of America's social decline. To me, this illustrates some of the problems with feminist analyses that limit themselves to blame men for everything that is wrong in capitalist society. I have criticized what I called a men vs women problematic in my published work on feminism because it assumes that all the social patterns that have negative effects on women are somewhat the product of male intentional behavior. But men, like women, are social beings and they do what they do in circumstances not of their own choosing.