Cathy Young of Reason writes:
?married fathers, especially in households where both parents work, have become involved in hands-on child-rearing to an extent that would have seemed unthinkable 50 years ago. It is no longer unusual to see fathers changing diapers, bottle-feeding infants, or shopping with toddlers. Stay-at-home dads are a small but growing population.
Yet the trend toward more engaged fatherhood is being canceled out by the growing number of children with no father in the home. This redefinition of families as women and their children is a modern-day version of the old-fashioned, very non-feminist notion of family and child-rearing as a female domain in which men are only visitors. Sending men the signal that they are disposable is hardly a way to encourage them to be better fathers.
Concerns about the drop in two-parent families are often couched in sexist nostalgia for the days when men were the breadwinners and women stayed home. The 1950s-style family is certainly not the only environment in which children can thrive. But glorifying single motherhood is no better and, in the end, no less sexist.
Categories: Fatherhood, Motherhood
Trackback Trackback
Civility Statement
Bloggers and commenters: be rigorous, be powerful, be funny, but don?t be mean. Inappropriate and off topic comments will be deleted. Please limit your comments to 3 per post to help foster conversation among all readers. Repeat offenders of the policy will be banned from comments.
Source: http://familyscholars.org/2012/02/24/downside-of-rising-single-motherhood/
rising stars challenge tyler clementi jeb bush star trek 2 kathy ireland dharun ravi agoraphobia
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.