"Among our close animal relatives, only humans have involved and empathic fathers. Why did evolution favour the devoted dad?"
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I think the majority of us have experienced "the system" as one that ranges from outright hostility to fathers, to indifference. I have seen fathers here blame everybody and everything, including quite the vitriol against women in general and rather unfairly, feminism (If you think feminism is an insult or a bad thing, you have the wrong definition, possibly given to you by someone calling themselves a feminist)
But - what have we done to actually stop and look at why this attitude is so prevalent, across courts, society, families? The article really points out that until very, very recently - this is really what everyone thought - that fathers were practically tertiary in the support needed for children.
This isn't to say anything will change fast, it won't, but gay rights came around in pretty much a generation, women rights, starting much earlier, over 100 or so years. We can hope that as society becomes more and more used to moving fast, and that's something we can see all around us all the time, the importance of fathers, our recognition as equally important to a child, even though we didn't give birth to them or breast feed them, will come to the fore.
This is a generational change. We are all working to make these changes happen for the betterment of our children lives and our own
The devotion of the human dad separates us from other apes | Aeon Essays
Among our close animal relatives, only humans have involved and empathic fathers. Why did evolution favour the devoted dad?
aeon.co
I think the majority of us have experienced "the system" as one that ranges from outright hostility to fathers, to indifference. I have seen fathers here blame everybody and everything, including quite the vitriol against women in general and rather unfairly, feminism (If you think feminism is an insult or a bad thing, you have the wrong definition, possibly given to you by someone calling themselves a feminist)
But - what have we done to actually stop and look at why this attitude is so prevalent, across courts, society, families? The article really points out that until very, very recently - this is really what everyone thought - that fathers were practically tertiary in the support needed for children.
This isn't to say anything will change fast, it won't, but gay rights came around in pretty much a generation, women rights, starting much earlier, over 100 or so years. We can hope that as society becomes more and more used to moving fast, and that's something we can see all around us all the time, the importance of fathers, our recognition as equally important to a child, even though we didn't give birth to them or breast feed them, will come to the fore.
This is a generational change. We are all working to make these changes happen for the betterment of our children lives and our own