Much of the contemporary youth discomfort is due to to the eclipse of the father figure. Jean-Pierre Winter is convinced of this, French psychoanalyst who has been at the forefront of the study of relapses for decades, unfortunately disastrous, of the absence of the father in boys. Expert in child psychopathology and founder and current president of Freudian Cost Movement, Winter, in a work entirely dedicated to the topic – The future of the father (The father's future), highlights how the father figure is fundamental and therefore necessary take with a grain of salt all those studies according to which even with "two mothers" children can grow well.
The reason why we need to be cautious is made clear by Winter himself when he highlights that «these studies never indicate the age of the children studied». Why age matters? But why, the French scholar always specifies, «in a child it may seem that everything is fine until the age of 5-6 years, even up to 12-13 years, but suddenly there is an upheaval. Why? Because leaving childhood behind, elements of their previous life that have been repressed emerge, censored or inhibited. As, this child "who was fine" is starting to not do well anymore, in fact he fares worse than other children of a similar age».
Effectively, the findings regarding the effects of paternal absence are very clear. Suffice it to say that children from fatherless families include 63% of youth suicides (US Dept. of Health & Human Services, Bureau of the Census), il 71% of pregnant teenagers (US Dept. of Health & Human Services), 85% of subjects show behavioral disorders (Center for Disease Control), il 75% of adolescent patients at drug abuse centers (Rainbows for all God`s Children) and 85% of youth locked up in prison (Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations Texas Dept. of Corrections).
The data emerging from the crime news of recent years also makes us reflect. For example, the fact as many as six of the seven deadliest US school shootings between 2005 and the 2015 were carried out by grown-up young people in homes where the father was not there. a case? Obviously not. Therefore the importance of the father must be rediscovered and the laws on adoptions for couples composed of two women must be fought because they act - Winter always warns - «even directly on a symbolic level» given that in the mentality that these rules convey «all those who could have occupied that place are disqualified in advance, resi superfluous e, with them, all those who have occupied this place in the past. In other words, his father died prematurely».
Hence the need for a cultural rediscovery, a 360 degrees, of that father who is now dangerously set aside by the dominant culture. Pope Francis also noticed this, in an audience held in the Paul VI Hall in February 2015, he had to state:«Father is a word known to all, a universal word. It indicates a fundamental relationship whose reality is as old as the history of man. Today, However, we have come to say that ours is a 'society without fathers'. In other words, particularly in Western culture, the father figure would be symbolically absent, vanished, removed». Exactly what Winter and other specialists reported, and which must be countered. Because it's not just about a parental role, but rather an educational cornerstone and, evidently, of the same idea of ​​family.
Giuliano Guzzo
source – https://www.notizieprovita.it/senza-categoria/le-disastrose-conseguenze-dellassenza-del-padre/