Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.
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
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
The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her fathe… - David Blankenhorn
The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her fathe…
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
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…
To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis superfluous. The … - David Blankenhorn
To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis superfluous. The …
A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance. - David Blankenhorn
A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.
We would be more American on the day we permitted same-sex marriage than we were on the day before. - David Blankenhorn
We would be more American on the day we permitted same-sex marriage than we were on the day before.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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