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Godfather mouse fix6/13/2023 Amis himself might appreciate: get it a new set of teeth. The time has come to reimagine the doddering goddad and the charming-yet-distracted godmom. While fewer and fewer parents may want their friends to serve as spiritual guarantors for their children, surely the idea of getting your friends intimately involved in your children’s lives still has merit, and appeal. In a manner straight out of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” most godparents these days are neither godly nor parental. And the children who do the receiving don’t know what they’re receiving. The friends who do the accepting don’t know what they’re accepting. The parents who do the asking don’t know what they’re asking for. It’s what one might call the Godparent Trap: Like a horror B-movie, legions of zombie godparents are walking mindlessly among us. The fracas hints at a deeper social anxiety that a once clearly defined social institution has obviously lost its way. “I promised the priest I would train him in the ways of Jesus instead I’ve ignored him for a decade.” Tatler even posed the question on its cover, “Are you a better godparent than Martin Amis?” ![]() “My godson wouldn’t recognize me on a bus,” another wrote. ![]() “Like Martin Amis, I’m a rotten godparent,” one columnist trumpeted. The row produced a spate of breathless confessions.
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