Glenn and Jennifer discussed the special contributions which fathers make and how three decades of vilification has made some men afraid to be the fathers their children need them to be. Jennifer noted that society has "turned fathers into assistant moms" and Glenn said "we've made a lot of fathers into wimps--not only have many fathers been driven out of their kids lives by the family courts, not only do we have many women deciding to have kids on their own, but the fathers who are in the home have become a lot weaker because we've made the idea of a strong father into a bad thing."

Other topics included: Morse's explanation of the destructive and intractable attachment disorders which parentless children face; the way "no fault divorce" has really become "unilateral divorce"; and the costs which unilateral divorce impose on children, the involuntarily divorced parent, and society as a whole.

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To learn more about how fatherlessness leads to crime and other social pathologies, see Morse's "Parents or Prisons" as well as the National Fatherhood Initiative's Father Facts. To learn more about the ways in which traditional fathers and fatherhood have been vilified and their virtues ignored, see Glenn's columns "Hate My Father? No Ma'am!" (World Net Daily, 4/8/02) and "Dr. Helen Caldicott Spits on My Grandfather" (Cybercast News Service, 3/28/03). To learn more about the ways decent fathers are being driven out of their children's lives, see Glenn's columns "Many Divorced Dads Struggle to Remain in Their Children's Lives" (Long Beach Times, 6/5/03) and "Can Abolishing Sole Custody Curb Divorce?" (New York Sun, 10/2/02) (co-authored by Dianna Thompson, Executive Director of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children).
 

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