Divorce Support Forums: Father Knows Best

[quote]True, frazzled fathers don't always measure up to the iconic images of Father Knows Best.[quote]

I want to point out that the image of "frazzled fathers" is interesting, as it's assumed that they are not iconic... or noble. And yet whenever you see the "frazzled mothers" after divorce, you hear someone talking about how darned noble they are for juggling everything and not ending up on an insane asylum. The mother who is so frazzled that she considers drowning her kids is given sympathy, even... while the man who keeps his own sadness away from the kids and kills himself instead is pointed at as a pathetic soul who had emotional problems so thank GOD we kept him away from the kids and he didn't have the chance to infect them with his obvious suicidal thoughts!

I always find it interesting when a descriptive term applied to a man is seen as a negative when, applied to a woman, it would be seen as sympathetic.

Oh... thanks for this article Stoltz... I like the references/resources... and also do you notice... in a LEGITIMATE resource meant to be persuasive to people, just just crow among like-minded people, they actually SPELL OUT things like VAWA.... and one other thing about that.., maybe did you notice: if you've spelled out things like VAWA, you can use words like "draconian" in describing child support enforcement and it dosn't look quite as biased to do so?

I mean, a militant feminist would not like the word, but then she's also be offended at the whole article... but those who are in the "undecided" column of the joint parenting contraversy have a better chance of being persuaded by this article, because of it's complete report without too many perjorative or arcane language or acronyms.

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