More on fathers

I came across this today from Judith Herman's book Father-Daughter Incest.  Read it and weep:

As long as fathers retain their authoritarian role, they cannot take part in the tasks or the rewards of parenthood.  They can never know what it means to share a work of love on the basis of equality, or what it means to nurture the life of a new generation.  When men no longer rule their families, they may learn for the first time what it means to belong to one.

Booyah.

Comments

[MominCT]

Men don't nuture the way women do. They don't nurse babies, for instance. Each parent has a role. The father's role is not the same as the mother's. They are equal intellectually, but not physically. Infants know the difference. What's wrong with this author? They compliment each other. Children don't need two mothers.