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The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal

The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb.

Warren Farrell
Children, Men, Hands
"Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men's powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us - which is really just love for ourselves.

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Children, Confused, Men
"Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).

Warren Farrell
Children, Divorce, Men
"Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.

Warren Farrell
Children, Dad, Father
"Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.

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Children, College, Men
"Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate even when she or he is also wrong. It encourages children to make suggestions and, therefore, to discover their creativity because they have a chance of making a contribution.

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Children, Dad, Creativity
"Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent and lead to their extinction. But when it comes to our own species, we have difficulty seeing the connection between short-term kindness and long-term cruelty; we give women money to have more children, making them more dependent with each child and discouraging them from developing the tools to fend for themselves. The real discrimination against women, then, is 'free feeding'.

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Children, Kindness, Real
Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.

Warren Farrell
Children, Dad, Exclusion

Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.

Warren Farrell
Children, Growing Up, Rights
"Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

Here's the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn more money, therefore men have less power (earning more money as an obligation, not an option). The opposite is true for women: Women earn less money, therefore women have less power; and women earn less money, therefore women have more power (the option to raise children, or to not take a hazardous job).

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Jobs, Children, Men
Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.24, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say.

Warren Farrell
Mom, Children, Father

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