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Fortunately, much of the help they're getting is coming from other men. I caught up with Robert Frank, one of the estimated 1.9 million stay-at-home fathers and the author of The Involved Father, at the third annual National Summit on Fatherhood, sponsored by the Fatherhood Initiative (whew!). Frank says new fathers "tend to think parenting comes naturally to women. Then when they see how hard it can be, they tell themselves that they'll never catch on, so they give up." A good way to avoid this crisis of confidence, he says, is for dads...
Americans have grown stupid and confused about the meaning of fatherhood. That stupidity is the reason, in this case, that mere politics has been allowed so casually to override what should be a reflexive respect for the father's place in the picture. Such respect has vanished in the incomplete American transition out of, er, patriarchy. Americans operate as if fathers were secondary and essentially dispensable. The destruction wrought by that premise is strewn about the landscape--in the form of crime, drugs, suicide, family misery...
Adventures in Fatherhood...
...Premise In Big Daddy, Sandler plays Sonny Koufax, a toll collector who has never relaly grown up (sound familiar?) That becomes a major problem when he decides to adopt a kid in a misguided attempt to woo his ex-girlfriend back. The first thing Sonny learns about fatherhood is that children do not come with a money-back guarantee. After accepting that, he learns a lot more--about raising a child and about himself...
When Armin Brott's first child, Tirzah, was very young, someone asked her what her father did. She answered without hesitation: "He washes the dishes." Brott, 40, an athletic ex-Marine and the Berkeley, Calif., author of a series of hugely popular books on fatherhood, didn't set out to be the superdad's superdad. When Tirzah was born eight years ago, he was working as a contract negotiator for a shipping company and thought business was his calling. But he found himself taking more time off and, over his employer's objections, bringing his little girl to work...