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Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
In a Stage II world, in communities in which survival is mastered enough to create a balance with self-fulfillment, we have the option of “relationship language” that nourishes the soul.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
In a democracy, a government’s policies are rarely questioned until the underlying assumptions that create them are questioned.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
In brief, she is the partner to what primarily he creates; he is the visitor to what primarily she creates. To me, this wasn’t equality.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another’s needs creates empathy.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt -- species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
Technology is dad-at-home friendly. It allows the family to be more creative and role flexible than it ever has in the past without being poor in the process.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
I soon saw that feminists who supported the “Primary Parent Theory” were not in favor of equality of opportunity, but of unequal opportunism.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
The more our children see men being paid to take responsibility for children, the more respectable it will be for men to do work compatible with their role as dads.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
My first conflict with NOW erupted in the mid-’70s when NOW chapters increasingly rejected father involvement by rejecting shared parent time as the preferred arrangement after divorce.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
If Women Have An Equal EMPLOYMENT Opportunity Commission, Why Don’t Men Have An Equal FAMILY Opportunity Commission?
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
When we add the devaluation of male values to the demonizing of male sexuality, many boys feel like a pervert before they know who they are.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
The less our sons our trusted, the less women are able to really love them, and the more women feel entitled to use them as wallets.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
A woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man’s life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman’s life.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
When our binoculars are focused on the dad as “deadbeat,” it often even leads us to missing concrete cues a dad gives to show his desire to be involved.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)