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...surprise is that Powell's approach to decision making, not Cheney's, turns out to be the rule rather than the exception. In a recent study for the Yale Department of Economics, Prof. Ebony Washington found that, when it comes to making law, having a daughter makes a real difference...
...judges at least, it is possible that daughters don't know best. But perhaps even lawmakers should think twice about letting personal circumstances inform their making of public policy. California's three-strikes law, for instance, didn't emerge from a reasoned debate over the wisdom of condemning three-time offenders to life in prison but from the impassioned pleas of a father whose daughter, Kimber Reynolds, was murdered by career criminals. Megan's Law (requiring released sex-offenders to publicly disclose their offense), Katie's Law (providing money to track sex offenders) and a host of similar measures share...
...other hand, there's something different, even comforting and refreshingly human, about letting the gender of your child affect your decisions. It's not as if daughters were a narrow interest group to be served for political advantage. They make up fully half the nation's population, and their good, I might add, has seldom been served for most of the past two centuries. That congressmen from across the political spectrum feel compelled to take their daughters' interests into account indicates an honest effort to do right by the nation, as well as someone they love. If Powell...
...time Dad ignores the smell of a No. 2 diaper, he confirms his wife's fear that he's not reliable. Unwittingly, men are hinting to their spouses that she's ultimately responsible, while he's along for the ride. The social culture constantly reinforces this idea. When their daughter shows up at school with tangled hair, the other moms don't blame Dad, who failed to comb it out - they blame Mom, for assigning a chore to Dad he couldn't handle...
...Allen suggests that the key to unlocking gatekeeping may therefore be for a father to demonstrate his interest as a constant commitment. "He can't be a token Dad," she warns. Rather than offering to dress his daughter one morning, he should say, "I'll not only dress her today, I'll dress her every day." When he acknowledges how important this reliability is, he'll gain her trust...