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The Family Teams Podcast

Ep. 254 | What About Stay At Home Dads During This Crisis?

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Religion & Spirituality, Kids & Family, Christianity, Parenting

4.9729 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy and Jeff discuss dads being at home.

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0:00.0

Before 100 years ago, there was just no such thing as Breadwinner.

0:04.0

Like, there was this kind of this context of like, I leave, I make the money.

0:06.8

Like, that didn't exist.

0:12.4

What's the guys?

0:13.2

Jeff and Jeremy here.

0:14.4

Another good question today.

0:15.4

Now, this one, I don't, the relevancy of it is, is different in this moment than I think in normal, but I still think it's

0:23.4

a helpful question regardless that'll be evergreen. And the question is, what about stay-at-home

0:27.3

dads? Is that okay? Is that appropriate? Brandon asked this. So this is a question we're trying

0:31.4

to answer from our community. Could I still fulfill my God-given role as a father, staying at home

0:36.3

to nurture and raise our kids while my wife takes up the role of the breadwinner. Would I be giving up my responsibilities as the leader in my household? I have heard many different takes on this, and I can't figure out exactly what the Bible really says about it. That's a good question, hard question. I know a lot of people wrestle with it. I'll say one thing, and I'll let Jeremy then talk about kind of the vision I think we see in scriptures, but I'll talk about the more, what would this be,

0:57.6

sociological or historical perspective. And that's the fact that before 100 years ago, there was

1:03.2

just no such thing as breadwinner. Like there's this kind of this context of like, I leave, I make the

1:07.9

money. Like that didn't exist. The, the, the world of the scriptures,

1:12.9

the home was an economic and a familial kind of orbiting force that was all wrapped up into one,

1:20.5

meaning like it was just its own entity. It was its own unit. There was no one that was a breadwinner.

1:24.7

There was no one that was not a breadwinner. It was just a team that works and serves each other. Now there was, of course, I do think there was

1:31.0

structure, organization, deference, et cetera. But I really like, this is only a 21st century

1:38.3

question to a 21st century problem. And so I just think it's kind of useless and pointless

1:43.2

at some layer.

1:44.4

Now, you know, of just like we, and where, or here's another way to put it. I think it becomes

1:49.0

really problematic when you then try to go into the first century text and have an answer

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