We’ve been fighting about gay marriage for what, 15-20 years now. Is there any evidence that fighting gay marriage is contributing to a greater appre…

- David Blankenhorn

Commenting on paternity establishment programs: What these millions of children want and need is not a name on a form or a promise that the sheriff w…

- David Blankenhorn

Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does any …

- David Blankenhorn

Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing,…

- David Blankenhorn

Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.

- David Blankenhorn

The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for me…

- David Blankenhorn

When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable, rega…

- David Blankenhorn

A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.

- David Blankenhorn

Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connect…

- David Blankenhorn