> The Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds) reports on a strange new respect
> for fathers.

>    PAYING MORE ATTENTION to fathers. “Fathers tend
>    to do things differently, Dr. Kyle Pruett said, but not in ways
>    that are worse for the children. Fathers do not mother,
>    they father.”

>    Posted at by Glenn Reynolds at 5:25 pm
>    <http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/87809/>

> There's a link to a _New York Times_ article in the Instapundit's
> blurb that could not be reproduced here.  That article contains
> shocking revelations (shocking, coming from the Sulzberger
> feminist rag of record that is) that,

>    Yet a mother's support of the father turns out to be a critical
>    factor in his involvement with their children, experts say -
>    even when a couple is divorced.

> Wow, who'd a thunk it?  Oh wait, we here in this happy little
> Usenet news group have been saying that for years and years.
> Some folks here even pointed out such things as:

>   * Only about one mother in four thought that fathers
>     should play a fifty-fifty role in raising the children.

>   * Mothers want fathers to help more with the children,
>     but not to overshadow their role as primary parent.

>   * Two out of three mothers seemed threatened by the idea
>     of a father's equal participation in child rearing.

>   * Mothers themselves may be subtly putting a damper
>     on men's involvement with their children because they
>     are so possessive of their role as primary nurturer.

>     from _The Motherhood Report_ by Louis Geneive
>     and Eva Margolies, 1987.

>     as cited in _Good Will Toward Men_ by Jack Kammer,
>     New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994;
>     page 200.
>     <http://www.lulu.com/content/955619>

> Wow, the information was available since 1987 and the
> _New York Times_ is only now getting around to noticing
> it (and declaring it to be news!).  That rag can't go bankrupt
> soon enough to suit me.

> --
>    Phil Donahue was on the TV in the waiting room
>    of an auto shop where I was getting an oil change.
>    The topic was "Men who stay home with their kids."
>    When the mechanic came to tell me my car was ready,
>    he stopped to watch the show. "What do you think
>    of that?" I asked.... "I'd love to do that,"
>    he answered, "but my wife took that job. She didn't
>    even ask. She just took it."

>    from _If Men Have All the Power How Come Women
>    Make the Rules_ by Jack Kammer,
>    www.rulymob.com- publishers. (1999) page 88.
>    <http://www.lulu.com/content/940568>