[dakine]

Folks here will be happy that ‘google’ and ‘yahoo’ have acknowledged Pa’s Day in their banners....

[don-o]

Great post.

Especially, concerning the generational nature of substandard fathering. But, that pattern can be broken. And it must be.

[familyop]

"It has always seemed fitting to me that we honor mothers, but odd that we honor fathers,..."

I saw comments like that in several father-bashing articles yesterday.

Wives have been filing for divorce at about twice the rate (more, in some places) of husbands. See the study report, “These Boots are Made for Walking: Why Wives File for Divorce” (Margaret F. Brinig and Douglas W. Allen, 2000, The American Law and Economics Association) in which an enormous number of divorce certificates from four U.S. states were analyzed.

According to the Brinig and Allen report, no-fault divorce and “who gets the children” are the predominant motivations—not “cruelty” (“6%,” with all forms of cruelty, including adultery). We have allowed the saturation of our media and government with subjective feminist propaganda, full of exaggerations, to divert our attention from the prevalent causes of divorce.

Two more references are “Who Divorced Whom: Methodological and Theoretical Issues” [Sanford L. Braver, Marnie Whitley and Christine Ng. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage Vol 20(1/2) 1993, p.1.] and the May 21, 1991 National Center for Health Statistics, Monthly Vital Statistics Report [Vol. 38, No. 12 (S) 2].

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, men were identified by social workers, psychologists, preachers and lawyers as being the root cause of divorce, fatherlessness and most other societal ills. Our nation has put monstrous efforts into solving the problem ("males," as we're more often called).

While implementing their solutions (the divorce industry, separating fathers from children, and various other punishments against "males"), the "experts" also stupidly recorded research reports showing that divorce and abuse rates went up drastically--that their accusations were generally false.

All the while, romanticism and feminism are untouchables, and we maintain a large number of family breaking, socialist social programs.

[familyop]

The articles behind the following are written from honesty and conservatism. Bernard has also received many complements from Freepers on his witty and humorous writing style.

The Presumption Against Marriage
by Bernard Chapin
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/chapin/chapin3.html

The Presumption Against Marriage, Part II
by Bernard Chapin
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/chapin/chapin4.html

[R.W.Ratikal]

Thanks to the feminist movement that freed fathers of any responsibility for fatherhood, millions of kids have no father to say “Happy Father’s Day” to.

Happy fatherless day.