Slobodan Milosevic Shall Rise Again

I note, reading the obituary for the recently deceased Slobodan Milosevic, that he grew up without a father: his parents separated, and his mother was given custody. Soon after, his father committed suicide.

I’m afraid I have seen this as a common pattern among serial killers and mass murderers: an absent dad.

It is not always true. Hitler, for example, was raised with two parents, albeit, according to his older half-brother, “spoiled by his indulgent mother.” And many children seem to survive the absence of a father to become good citizens. However, the apparent pattern should concern us.

After all, over the past forty or fifty years, thanks to feminism, we have systematically created a society in which an absent father is the norm: more children are now raised in broken families or by single moms than by intact families. And, thanks to the family courts, if one parent is absent, it is invariably the father.

We have every reason to expect to reap a whirlwind. As time goes on, if my casual observation is correct, we will see a lot more Milosevics.