Well look you all over here in the serious section.[smile]

As well as being a parent to our own two (nearly grown) children, my husband has so far wiped the noses, dried the tears and taught 110 little souls how to laugh at falling over, bounce on a trampoline, give another child a cuddle when hurt and how to applaud when another wins the game. He has been a temporary father to these small children and in many cases maybe the only one they ever knew.

So to a wonderful man, an amazing father and my best friend.

Happy Fathers Day Honey.

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What I'm curious to know is why certain groups from both genders are so eager to demonise the other sex and claim that they are worse parents. Surely such generalisations can not add much to the debate. Perhaps the answer is that some parents are wonderful people, others are terrible scum who should never have had children.

Obviously we find some men and women who are brilliant and some men and women who are truly terrible... This has to do with individuals...

Jason Thompson,

Mate I don't know all your circumstances but I know and understand the guts you've got to take on two youngsters by yourself.

I've shared your story and understand the statistics you've supplied.

Mine are now both off my hands and reasonably successful.

The worst moments I can recall were when well-meaning mothers interrogated my daughter in an attempt to see if I was molesting her. It's a discrimination I never really came to understand or accept, and one I've never spoken about. I hope, if you have a daughter, both she and you never experience such disgracefulness.

Well done and keep up the good work, the rewards you'll see in the future and will make the effort worth more than you probably yet realise.

My youngsters today gave me two tickets to see Fleetwood Mac in December ... they know I've loved Stevie Nix ... all these years.

Firstly, Happy Fathers Day to all you Dads!
I don't need to spout statistics and philosophies to state that a happy home is one in which the husband loves his wife and has an active, loving role in the life of his kids.
Where the governing principle is not "give & take" but "give & receive".
I can say the above without fear of contradiction because I live in that happy home.
Here’s to all the Dads that give of their time, their love, their experience and wisdom - not just of their salary - KEEP THE LOVE REVOLUTION GOING!

My whole life I've never liked to hear everything from a man's point of view. Who is man to boast? Who has all the answers? What matters most is what the Almighty Creator has to say and he makes no mistakes. I came from a broken home when I was 3yrs old I was fortunate to have a great mum to raise us as kids to get by, then I had a great Stepfather when I was 12 years old. I am now married with three children and my firstborn son I remember looking him in the eyes as a baby and prayed I never want to see you come from a broken home thru divorce like I did. I want you to be proud to call your dad, Dad. I wanted to be proud to call my son, Son. It's sad to see society views have so far strayed to being so selfish and think about their own wants/needs and not the best for the children. Children I believe have a right to have proper parents Father and Mother as how it was always from the beginning.People need to stop and think that even nature has it as it always was.It's disappointing to hear the views of some people that show hatred to Warwick and what he believes in making this world a better place for children and to help parents become greater parents, fathers become greater fathers, mothers become greater mothers giving people a much better chance of having great children. I believe it was the Almighty Creator that intervened and changed your destiny. An amazing story I was touched reading it. This Fathers day I wish all the dads a great fathers day.

ninaf:"What I'm curious to know is why certain groups from both genders are so eager to demonise the other sex and claim that they are worse parents."

That's a bit disingenuous, Nina. As you well know, there is a strong organised movement of "single" mothers that has arisen out of the Feminist movement, not to mention the massively organised Feminist movement itself. The "mainstream" feminist movement has won massive gains over the past 40 years or so, largely by focussing on the worst of male behaviour and comparing it to the "feminine ideal", which not coincidentally includes the nurturing role, especially motherhood.

That focus on male misbehaviour has lead to vilification of men becoming the norm. As a secondary consideration, there has long been a "secret women's business" denigrating men. The endless "mere male" stories that my Mum and nan used to cackle over with their friends existed lomg before Feminism and made it much easier for those who seek to vilify men to suit an agenda.

A woman in a poor marriage, a mother going through a conflictive marriage break-up and a radical feminist who wants to see "an end to patriarchy" have an obvious confluence of interests, which organised feminism has exploited ruthlessly.

Part of that exploitation has been the development of a simple anti-male dialectic (based largely on the "mere male", but considerably darker) that is easily adapted to almost any situation in which men and women are in conflict and in which the man is always cast as violent, sexually depraved, controlling, a poor parent, selfish, while the woman is either essentially pure, or so downtrodden as to have no meaningful capacity for self-determination. It's a corruption of the Marxist Labour/Capital dichotomy.

As a result of all of that, some men like myself have responded by pointing out that not all women are paragons and that for every bad male example there is a countervailing female one.

It's a shame that the subject has become so commercialised.