Feminism: Single parent- home, surrogate mothers, and latchkey children, day –care centers, equal rights amendments—these terms are common in society. What do they signify? They review a very dramatic change in the home .Underlining this change in a movement known as feminist movement.

The feminist movement gained momentum through the past century. During this era, feminists challenged the responsibility of women. The traditional role of women as a dutiful wife and mother, dependent upon her husband for her physical needs, began to seem outdated and oppressive .According to the feminist propaganda, modern women need to assert themselves to reflect the new social realities in everyday life. One of these realities was that liberated women could now free themselves from the dominance of men. One right they claimed was to exercise their independence in seeking employment out side the home.

To accommodate the demands of the feminist movement, the government passed laws ending discrimination in the workplace .Equal rights amendments further guaranteed women equal pay and opportunity as men. Encouraged by these new concepts, multitudes women vacated their role as wife and mother, to seek fulfillments in education and careers. As a result, women increasingly fill positions usually reserved for men. Today it is not uncommon for women to hold positions as diverse as construction worker, airline pilot, or band president. Women now pastor churches, mange businesses, and lead large nations. Margaret Thatcher of Britain, Corazion Aquino of the Philippines, and Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan have all been leaders of their respective nations.

Once considered as women’s authority, men are now considered equal to women. Women expect men, as their equals, to share domestic duties. Many husbands care for children and make meals, to allow their wives to pursue a job or career.

Family: what effect have the feministic agents of equal rights and their rejection of traditional roles had on the homes of our nations?  In many homes, feminism has left a legacy of sorrow and sadness. Day-care centers springing up in cities and towns have become a substitute home for throngs of children. During their most formative years, the care and nurture of infant children is left to a substitute mother. As a result, countless numbers of lonely frustrated children wile away long hours in the care of a stranger.

The older siblings returning from classes find an empty house with no one at home. The warmth of a mother is substituted for the cold companionship of a computer or TV. Not surprisingly, great numbers of neglected, unguarded children turn to crime and delinquency to find fulfillment and purpose in life.

Also, feminist values have contributed to the skyrocketing rate of divorce and remarriage. In the workplace men and women, away from their partners, work day after day, shoulder to shoulder, with those of the opposite sex. Shattered homes, broken marriages, and unwed mothers are the wreckage of the emotional attachments developed between men and women working too close.

The feminist principle of equal status and responsibility for men and women has destroyed the marital happiness in many homes. The lack of any clear authority figure to lead out causes tensions to mount when decisions must be made or disagreements arise.

Adding to their stress, modern women are left trying to juggle a demanding career with the cares of home and family. Without doubt, feminists have fallen victims to their own misguided logic promising freedom, the feminist’s agenda has placed them in greater bondage than ever before. Yet there is hope. This hope is found in returning to the god given order.

Fathers: Without god’s order, all social relationships break down into disorder. Fathers are the center of this order within the home. Men have abdicated their roles as leaders, fathers, and providers. In doing so, they have allowed women to usurp their place as leaders in their homes.

Let us notice the place of man and woman in God’s order:

1. Man is the head of the women as it reflect in many religions

2. Women is to submit to her authority which is man

3. Man is to exercise his authority in love

Since man is the head of the house, does this give him the right to be a   lord over his wife and relate to her in a demanding, selfish way?  No. Husbands should love his wife. This love in not an ordinary love, but a divinely inspired love that caused a man to love his wife as he does love his own body. True submission is easy and beings order and joy to a woman when man exercise his responsibility as father and leader in a loving way.

Man as head over the women is to have primary responsibility in spiritual matters.

The practice, in many Mosques, of ordaining women as spiritual leaders and Imam is contrary to Quran. Nor is it scriptural for men to submit to women’s leadership.

Woman under the authority and spiritual leadership of man is not inferior to him.

Contrary to feminist thought, a woman who submits to a man is not inferior to him, nor is he superior to her. Men and women are equal value, for God .Woman is equal in intelligence, in opportunity, and usefulness to God and man. God has also endowed women with unique capabilities that men do not share.

The women are to exercise the gifts and virtues of gentleness and kindness within the home.

She is to bear children, guide the house, and be a keeper at home. Some paint the role of wife and mother and dull, drab, and pointless. However, the Muslim women finds true fulfillment in the ream of daily, domestic duties, giving loving care to her husband and children.

Man is to provide the material needs of his wife and family.

Men who don’t lake their responsibility seriously often force women to do things that God did not intend them to do. Only as men courageously lead, direct, provide, can women fulfill their place and potential in God’s plan.

Dear readers, do not trade the disorder of the feminist movement for the order God provides.

Only a return to God’s order can restore lasting peace and happiness to the troubled lives of our homes and nation.