When Sam Rayburn's father died, someone commented that it was too bad he hadn't left him much of an inheritance. Sam instantly reproved the man, saying that his father had left him an unrivaled inheritance ? an untarnished name. No one knows for sure about Columbus' origins. He could be linked to a number of noble families in Italy. That made no difference to his son Hernando. Defying the class conscious values of his society, he claimed that his father expressed a personal nobility that excelled any honor derived from an inherited title. Pierre Beaumarchais, who played such a strategic role in providing French help for the American Revolution, had lowly parentage. But he never undervalued it. "I can only reply that I never saw the man with whom I would exchange fathers."
God's Word has established the dominance of male leadership in the home. Children need fathers who consider familiarity with God superior to handling a bat or fixing a doll house; who freely talk to their children about God and to God about their children; and who zealously strive for the Christ-likeness that assures the willing submission of all family members to their leadership. God wisely provided complementary roles for fathers and mothers, choosing to trust primary responsibility to fathers.

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