National Ass'n of Scholars: "Gone, Daddy, Gone"

Article here. Excerpt:

'Traditional family structure may not come under open assault but contemporary higher education tends to relish its role in fostering the student’s distance from older norms. The family is not faring well against modernity, and the university has in many ways chosen sides—against fatherhood in particular. The ideal of a genderless free-for-all called parenthood can do only so much to deconstruct mothering, but fathering is another story.
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College is full of clues that fathers are dispensable. ... A first brush with anthropology may also register ... that “gender” itself is a product of mere custom. The student who gets caught in the undertow of Women’s Studies course or a feminist professor will get a much fuller expansion of the idea that gender is whatever you choose it to be.
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Of course, it is not the university’s purpose to promote or save the institution of marriage or the family. But neither is it the mission of higher education to deconstruct the family. That task grows out of an ideological agenda that aims to institute profound changes in the name of “social justice.” The advocates of this agenda should have their hearing, but they shouldn’t be the only voice on campus.'