Within this chapter, we gain an understanding of God’s view and the worldly view of traditional roles as they apply to our families. We explore both views and how they cascade into all other aspects of life as we now know it. St. Paul explains to us God’s view in his letter to the Ephesians (5:21-25):  “Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body. Therefore as the Church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered himself up for it.” In the sacramental union of marriage, man and woman become one. Do we see this truth shared, accepted, and reflected in married life today? When we look around us do we see men worthy of this responsibility – men who truly know their place in the families they are supposed to be nurturing? Do we see men who know their place in their own lives? Husbands and fathers not understanding their God-given place within their families has led to women taking on the role of head of the family. This has now became a cyclical pattern that has perpetuated throughout past generations. Our socially accepted view has now pushed down and emasculated the hearts of many boys and young men. Confusion and doubt found in this accepted view challenges the heart and will needed of a young man to take his rightful place in the masculine journey. This is the result and the reality we are all faced with accepting as our new norm today. Can we grow with intent from this point of view…