The Heritage Foundation’s Patrick Fagan pens a Valentine’s Day piece that tackles the “scripting” of America’s youth:

But fewer and fewer of our young men are capable of this long haul. Consider how teenage boys are being scripted. How many pick up the message that it is best to have as many women as possible, versus those who pick up the message to find “their one and only true love”? How many get the predator/hunter message instead of the message to become the “protector of their love”?

It is easy for men to take to the predator message; it may even seem to be hardwired. By contrast it takes a massive cultural effort to make the protector lesson take hold among men. Most cultures (not ours anymore, alas) have put enormous energy into the protector message because the children of each generation need their fathers at home with them. Almost a quarter of our children are aborted today, 80 percent outside of marriage, while 60 percent of those who do manage to make it alive through the birth canal eventually end up with their parents rejecting each other. We, the United States, have become one huge culture of rejection.

Fagan’s article suggests a better Valentine’s Day gift that combats this culture of rejection, and it might not be what you think…

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