Nick Lachey’s thoughts on fatherhood
Lachey has volunteered with Big Brothers Big Sisters since 2004. He said his time as a mentor for the organization has helped prepare him for fatherhood.
“I’m assuming fatherhood is going to be a hundred times more intense than being a Big Brother, but watching a life develop in front of you is a bit of a parallel,” he said. “I’m certainly looking forward to it.”
~ Singer and actor Nick Lachey as quoted by US Magazine, June 10
Jun.13, 2011 8:28 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Perhaps “intense” doesn’t quite embody the dimensionality of fatherhood.
Fatherhood is a radical transformation of one’s life and character. As with marriage, it is no longer in a category of “What I do,” and becomes “Who and what I am.”
I think the transformation is even greater than marriage. I will only be Regina’s husband till death. Beyond that, the relationship changes. But, I will be my children’s father forever.
I will only be Regina’s husband till death. Beyond that, the relationship changes. But, I will be my children’s father forever.
You caught me by surprise with this comment about marriage. Obviously, our wedding vows usually end with the words, “until death do us part”. Could you elaborate? Is this Catholic teaching?
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Gotta love Lachay’s dedication to mentoring. It seems to me that children are often impressed as much or even more with adults who take a real interest in them than they are with their own parents. Good to see he’s spreading the love around in a positive way!
Hi Janet,
The reason why Christians take the vows “Until death do us part,” is because of Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 22:
Marriage at the Resurrection
23 That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 24 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. 27 Finally, the woman died. 28 Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”
29 Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 31But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’[b]? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
33 When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
So, the Catholic Church teaches that we are only married until death, which is why widows and widowers are free to remarry. My son asked me two years ago about this when he overheard me discussing it with someone. He wanted to know why we are not married in heaven.
My eight-year-old daughter piped up:
“That’s easy, Joseph. Because in heaven we live as ONE family.”
I have a Question for anyone that best wishes to answer:
the current Law that support abortion, only lives the absolute power over the person in the mother womb to the mother. If she decides to go through birth of her child, why a man is obligated to support that child in which he never have right nor power over he/she? can any law be contradictory to it self?