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Christopher W. Cowan
April 25, 2008
Cultural commentators have buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription repeatedly observed in recent years that many of today's young men lack motivation and buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription direction. It is not out of the ordinary for even thirty-something year-old males still to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription be living with (and supported by) their parents and buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription lacking any real plan to pursue a vocation and provide for buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription a family. For many men who do marry, it buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription is more and more common to find that their wives are buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription the primary bread-winners. While she is establishing herself in the workplace, he is buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription often content in his low-demand, low-income job—with his video game appetite and buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription other toys fully funded by her. He has no work ethic, no buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription career, no future, no clue. The role of provider was once seen as an buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription essential and noble aspect of manhood. But for too many of today's young men, being responsible to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription provide for a family is neither necessary nor desired.
Unfortunately, things seem to be getting worse rather than better. The Wall Street Journal recently ran a story entitled, "Men Receiving Alimony Want A Little Respect." The article reports that buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription gender discrimination in alimony was ended by the Supreme Court nearly 30 years ago. However, in that buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription time, "few male beneficiaries have stepped forward to talk about it." "But today's men," writes Anita Raghavan, "are shaking off the stigma of being supported by their ex-wives." Raghavan interviewed several of these men, and the article's subtitle says it all: "Modern males say living off the ex-wife is no cause for shame."
Apparently, we've come a long way, baby.
Alimony is buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription the money that a court orders a higher-earning spouse to give to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription their husband or wife following a divorce. While divorce itself is buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription a travesty that has ripped apart and scarred countless families, my focus here is buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription on how modern men respond to yet another opportunity to abdicate their role as provider-even as provider for buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription themselves.
One of those interviewed in the WSJ article is buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription John David Castellanos, a Hollywood actor who receives alimony from buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription his ex-wife—to the tune of $9,000 per month. According to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription Castellanos and a growing number of men, they sacrificed their careers for buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription the sake of their wives' careers. Now they want some "payback" to maintain their marital standard of living. Others seek alimony—not due to marital sacrifices—but so they may continue to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription have their toys fully funded. After his divorce, Phillip Upton, a buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription shop foreman, "couldn't have afforded the $20,000-a-year cost of maintaining his 1960s-vintage collection of cars with outsized motors." According to the divorce settlement, he receives about $40,000 a year from his marketing executive ex-wife. "Had I not gotten that," Upton contends, "I would have lived a different lifestyle."
Surely, our culture is buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription rejoicing over this advance in gender equality, right? The fact that buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription the relatives of one woman call her alimony-receiving ex-husband a buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription "deadbeat" would seem to indicate otherwise. The woman herself says, "In some instances, alimony has buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription their ex-husbands." After the buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription court ordered her to make sizeable alimony payments, another ex-wife was even more blunt: "Why the courts don't tell a buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription husband, who has been living off of his wife, to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription go out and get a job is beyond my comprehension." Indeed.
How should Christians respond? As R. Albert Mohler Jr. has written, "We understand that men were made for work, and that a man's responsibility is to care and provide for his wife and family." It is buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription not merely that men seeking to live off of their wives (ex- or otherwise) are "deadbeats"—more seriously, they are buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription abdicating their God-given responsibility to work and be providers. Contrary to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription the men interviewed, this is undeniably a cause for shame. Men were not made to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription live off of the income of others; they were made to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription labor. Even if a man has no wife or children, his responsibility to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription work remains—not only to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription provide for himself but so that he might provide for others who buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription are in need (note especially the biblical concern for widows and orphans).
Scripture attests from buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription the beginning that man was created for work (Gen 2:15), and it consistently chastises the lazy (e.g., Prov 18:9; 19:15; 21:25). "If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat" (2 Thess 3:10). Beyond this buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription general biblical expectation that men are to labor, Scripture assigns men the buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription primary responsibility to be providers for others—especially a buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription wife and family. After the Fall, it is Adam who undergoes pain and buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription toil in working the ground (Gen 3:17-19)—understood as his primary area of responsibility. Paul commands husbands to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription love their wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription her (Eph 5:25). While this buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription involves more than provision, it can hardly include less. Concerning the buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription care of widows, Paul writes, "But if anyone does not provide for buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription denied the faith and is worse then an unbeliever" (1 Tim 5:8). While one may argue that the "anyone" includes both men and buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription women, surely the husband bears the primary responsibility. Paul expected wives and mothers primarily to care for the home and nurture children (1 Tim 5:10; Titus 2:5). Thus, the apostle considers a man's role as provider to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription be so significant that he equates abdication with denying the faith.
This phenomenon reported by WSJ is buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription simply a further symptom of a culture filled with men who buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription have no idea what it means to be a man. And, unfortunately, the buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription church has not remained unaffected. Christians must respond to this crisis of manhood by exhorting our young men to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription be men. We must be intentional in raising our boys to be providers—to accept primary responsibility to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription support a wife and family. I do not need to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription know (now) what buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription specific vocation my six-year old son will follow when he grows up. What I do need to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription know (now) is that I'm raising a buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription future provider, so that he may nourish and care for others who buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription will depend on him.
May the buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription church not merely decry the manhood crisis; may we confront it buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription by bringing up godly, noble men. As we do, let us continually point our young men to buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription the one whom they are to model, Jesus Christ: a divine Husband who buy xenical from a usa pharmacy without a prescription sacrificially provides for his bride (Eph 5:25-27). And let us be eternally thankful that he expects no "payback" from her.
