Wetzstein: Fatherhood issues remain

Article here. Excerpt:

'This month marks the 100th anniversary of Father's Day, and a big celebration is planned for June 20 at the Lincoln Memorial. I figured it was a good time to ask a local lawyer who is active in family court, child support and gender issues about what he sees facing boys and men at this milestone.
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"We ought to be looking at why boys are disengaged in primary and secondary education such that they never get to college. What is it about our school system that turns off the boys so that by the time college comes around, they're not in the equation? What is it that is causing boys to have lower academic aspirations than girls?" Mr. Henry asked.

Other topics:

• Domestic violence, which is a national issue with an office of its own when it's against women, but an invisible issue when men are the victims.

• The gender gap in health-insurance coverage, in which men are more likely to be uninsured than women. (The current gender breakdown among uninsured, nonelderly adults is 54 percent male and 46 percent female, the Kaiser Family Foundation says.)'