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Category Archives: Fatherhood

Male Authority Revisited

Monday, August 22, 2011

 
SUSAN writes:
I’ve enjoyed going through your archives, and in some ways I agree with you. I would like to ask about one of the issues you frequently address.
A couple of notes about my situation: I’m married, and my husband is a man by any standard. He’s not a firefighter, police officer, or in the military [...]

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The Matriarchal Society

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

 
AS PART of the ongoing series of entries here on the decline of marriage and fatherlessness, Jesse Powell reports below on the final 2007 figures for out-of-wedlock births. These numbers are stark evidence of the ongoing shift to a matriarchal society. Three years ago, illegitimacy rates were close to 30 percent for whites, 50 percent for Hispanics and 70 percent for blacks. These rates are higher now.
Jesse [...]

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A Man in the Cold

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

 
The Rev. James Jackson writes:
I’ve many favorite poems about manhood, but I particularly like the attached. Robert Hayden was a student of Auden (he sounds like Auden), though he has his own style. The discussion on your blog touches many things which Hayden expresses well, so I thought you might want to share it with your [...]

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Married to a Wimp

Saturday, December 12, 2009

 
Dear Thinking Housewife,
Men are not taught how to be men nowadays. What can I do about the fact that my husband is such a girl?
Regards,                                                                                  
Anonymous (in an unspecified location)
 
Dear Anonymous,
I’m sorry, Anonymous, this question makes me mad. Not mad at you, but mad at this. In many ways, the debate over marriage is over, isn’t it? Women are [...]

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Fatherhood and Democracy

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

 
The ideal citizen in any high-functioning democracy is the father. He is more important politically than the mother;  more important than the young man without children or the single woman; more important as a type than even the property owner. If I were to build an infant republic, I would limit the franchise to fathers, possibly making ownership of property an additional qualification.
There may [...]

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What do Fathers Want? II

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

 
Bill writes the following in response to earlier entry on fathers and daughters:
I think (decent) fathers want for their daughters what they have always wanted: a home and a life which give them the greatest chance of rightly-ordered flourishing.  For a long time, back to say Greek antiquity, giving her the best chance at this [...]

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What do Fathers Want?

Friday, June 19, 2009

 
I recently talked to a man who was disappointed that his daughter, in her early twenties, was not eager to go to law school. She had an entry level job at a major food conglomerate.  He wanted her to get a law degree, too.
I suggested she may be worried about later. He said, “Oh, I [...]

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