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Megan thinks her father is in the Navy now. "One day when I get older, I'm gonna go back to Alabama and try to find...
Corporate America, for a start, may praise family life but does virtually nothing to ease it. Managers still take male workers aside and warn them not to take a paternity leave if they want to be taken seriously. On TV and in movies and magazine ads, the image of fathers over the past generation evolved from the stern, sturdy father who knew best to a helpless Homer Simpson, or some ham-handed galoot confounded by the prospect of changing a diaper. Teachers call parent conferences but only talk to the mothers. When father arrives at the doctor's office with...
Most troubling of all to some social scientists is the message men get that being a good father means learning how to mother. Among child-rearing experts, the debate rages over whether men and women parent differently, whether there is some unique contribution that each makes to the emotional health of their children. "Society sends men two messages," says psychologist Jerrold Lee Shapiro, father of two and the author of A Measure of the Man, his third book on fatherhood. "The first is, We want you to be involved, but you'll be an inadequate mother. The second...
...America finds its stereotypes crushed in the collision between private needs and public pressures. While some commend the nurturing nature of the idealized New Father, others cringe at the idea of genderless parenting and defend the importance of men being more than pale imitations of mothers. "If you become Mr. Mom," says Shapiro, "the family has a mother and an assistant mother. That isn't what good fathers are doing today." And fathers themselves wrestle with memories of their own fathers, vowing to do it differently, and struggling to figure...
...Center left us with indelible images of mass destruction, but the victims of 9/11 were essentially anonymous. Even today we don't know much about most of them. About Pearl, however, we quickly came to know a great deal: a principled and hard-driving journalist, loving husband, happily expectant father. He was, by all accounts, a good man. Perhaps too good for his own good, in that he innocently failed to take minimal precautions when he set forth to interview a terrorist he thought might have new information about Richard Reid, the infamous "shoe bomber...