Warren Farrell on Family

"When a veteran internalizes that he’s failed to take personal responsibility, he is a step closer to suicide."

"Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do."

"Children express intense dissatisfaction with the traditional arrangement of every other weekend."

"Father involvement is an underused resource in the family in the same way that female involvement has been an underused resource in the workplace."

"By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97."

"Industrialization created the “Father’s Catch-22”: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children."

"Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting: They’re brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter."

"To date, our prison debate has focused on rehabilitation versus incarceration, rather than prevention versus imprisonment."

"Empathy is a virtue which, when it only goes from parent to child, and is not required of the child, becomes a vice."

"If Women Have An Equal EMPLOYMENT Opportunity Commission, Why Don’t Men Have An Equal FAMILY Opportunity Commission?"

"The challenge for your son’s grandpa was grandpa’s job going nowhere; the challenge for your son is his job going elsewhere."

"Had John attended to his first son, Julian, the way he attended to Sean, we would never have heard of John Lennon."

"Not one daughter who had a good relationship with her biological father had a baby before the age of nineteen."

"The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life."

"Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate."

"The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be-- homemaker, mother, secretary, executive."

"There is little life where no one will listen. These are fathers, sons and families who are needlessly lost."

"Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads."

"When a parent denies a child its “parent time,” that parent is denying the child its child support -- its psychological child support."

"The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males...."

"Both parents’ cumulative health creates your son’s health; your son’s health begins before his beginning."

"But a happy marriage is less about money, children, or lack of sex than about how we communicate about money, children, or lack of sex."

"Nick was experiencing the father’s catch-22: loving his family by being away from the love of his family."

"A father’s traditional role prepared him to love his family by being away from the love of his family."

"Our children are better served by speaking not of “visitation” versus “custody,” but of “parent time."

"Women will risk their lives to protect children, but rarely risk their lives to protect an adult man."

"Sexual Harassment Legislation often creates a hostile environment, an environment of female-as-child."

"Both parents’ rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents."

"The discipline of postponing gratification is the single most important discipline your son needs."

"When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision."