Amy Tuteur, MD – Another Woman Who Gets the Importance of Fathers
A child is owed a father, and any woman who is unable or unwilling to provide one is making a self indulgent, selfish choice to conceive a child.
It's nice to read a piece that makes sense. Facts, logic and principled judgment are always so much easier on the faculties than the usual anti-father claptrap that's so prevalent.
Here's a doctor who says what should be said relentlessly until our society and culture get the message (OpenSalon, 2/23/09). Fathers aren't optional, they're necessary. Children do better with involved fathers than without them. Father absence may be partly due to their own apathy or irresponsibility, but mothers are responsible too via their "self-indulgent, selfish choice to conceive a child."
A legal system that doggedly separates fathers from their children is at fault too. So is a culture that misses no opportunity to denigrate fathers and their importance to children.
In the 20-24 age brackets, 58% of all births are now to unmarried women. In the early 60s, that figure was under 10%. It is impossible to pretend that the ensuing decades of anti-male, anti-father propaganda in popular culture played no role in that change.
And it is likewise impossible to pretend that this massive father absence is an acceptable development, or that it is anything but bad for children, bad for men, bad for women and bad for society generally. Essentially all the reputable social science says precisely that, and it is past time that public policy begins to reverse its misandric, anti-father bias.
Articles like this one help. We need far more like it.
Thanks to David for the heads-up.
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