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Dad's new role: "Dads are not only providers, but also nurturers"

Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2006-11-24 19:45.

Story here. Excerpt:

"Dads are doing a lot more nurturing," said Kevin Krippner, a licensed clinical psychologist with Twin Cities Behavioral Health in Normal. "You never used to see changing tables in the men's room."

"When dads are involved, the payoffs are big, with research showing it can boost kids' grades, improve behavior and increase the chances they'll be involved in extracurricular activities. And the role modeling benefits the next generation."

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Perhaps most significant quote is...

Submitted by mcc99 on Fri, 2006-11-24 20:26.

this:

"Meet the new breed of father, the fully involved dad who doles out medicine as easily as dads in the '60s handed down discipline. In 1965, 60 percent of all children lived in families with a breadwinner father and stay-at-home mom. Now only 30 percent do."

The Fatherless Initiative spearheaded by feminists is almost now complete. One needn't kill off an entire species to have it be doomed; just enough of it so that it can't propagate itself successfully over time. The same thing with social roles happens-- reduce them to a low enough frequency and they will eventually the role dies out. That is what feminists have been shooting for and it is what they are getting. Dads as nurturers? Dads as providers? Dads as caretakers? Dads as disciplinarians? The details don't really matter, folks. Don't let them distract you with this kind of reporting. The goal is to eliminate *entirely* the role of fathers from their childrens' lives, making men as progenitors simply a biological necessity (for now anyway), and rendering men politically and socially marginalized, a role only to serve and be used. That is what feminists want, and they are getting it, perhaps faster than even they suspected. What will stop it? Only men. Men have to stop it. Some individual women may join in on the this side of things, but don't expect the winning team as a whole to throw the game in the fourth quarter out of some sense of justice or more unthinkably, consideration of even their own long-term interests! When has that happened when dealing with masses of people??

Men have to start adopting collective-strategy thinking. We need to get together. Are we going to do that? So far, we really haven't, not to the degree we need to succeed. But there's some hope, I feel. Shared parenting initiatives have seen some headway gained and there's growing awareness of this problem in our society seeping into MSM outlets. Still, it's an uphill battle, no time to rest on laurels. And, as they say, "FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION!"

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Wait a second

Submitted by n.j. on Sun, 2006-11-26 07:14.

Exactly the "breadwinner father" is NOT part of his children's lives, he's a labor slave who might see his children for an hour before they go to bed after coming home dead tired from his workplace where he spent his day for the benefit (profit) of someone else.
Men should sweep this away just like women swept away the "stay-at-home-mom" cliche.

I remember a verdict by a German family court deciding about child support telling a father they couldn't take into account that he stayed at home with the kids because they could "not support an alternative lifestyle". Instead they used a 'fictional income' to slap CS on him, the mother got custody of course. This was in the 1990s and we still have enough 60s style around in this regard, thank you very much.

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