I had a lovely Father's Day yesterday. My kids all live hundreds of kilometers away, but my day started with phone calls from them and opening the gifts that my youngest two sent me. I'll see them next week when I go to Brisbane and stay with them at my ex's while she is overseas for a couple of weeks.

I had to open the business for a few hours, after which I attended a Father's Day barbecue organised by the local fishing club - kids everywhere, mums, dads, grandads and even single blokes. Much beer and burgers consumed, babies cuddled and sprogs and rugrats running everywhere. Amazingly, there wasn't a mention of the "love revolution" or the "Almighty Creator" - but much discussion of fishing, which is what I went and did afterwards.

dane, I didn't say that the rash of new users who've shown up here in support of the blessed Warwick were insidious, rather it's their godbothering, homophobic agenda that is. However, they might well be insidious and hateful personally as well - so let's find out:

So, Late30sMum, cmpmal, Wally32, Jason Thompson, felix_fortunatus, PaulG, Rebekah, Adrian Adair, MartinsS, Mike T - how did you all happen upon this article at OLO, and decide to register and comment in support of it, given that none of you have ever posted anything here before?

Be honest please - no bearing false witness...

Dear CJ,
So by registering at OLO recently, agreeing that fathers need to love their families and by wishing all the Dads out there a happy Fathers Day I have a "godbothering, homophobic agenda"... that’s really sad. And patently untrue.
Perhaps CJ you need to look at what your agenda is and why you look to pull down rather than build up.
I’m glad that you enjoyed your Fathers Day. Let others enjoy theirs without your insinuations of "they might well be insidious and hateful personally as well".
LONG LIVE THE (LOVE) REVOLUTION!

WTF? I'm not a God type either I found this article through a search on fathers. Theres some kind of subtext or personality thing going on here that I just dont get, maybe an anti Christian thing? To be honest I couldn't give a rats.

Happy fathers day for yesterday - even for paranoid CJ. Glad you had a great day with the rugrats etc.

Excellent article! There will always be bad examples of fathers, mothers,marriages....but it doesn't change the fact that the father and mother and children model has worked for centuries and is the way we should live. The answer is not to change the model by introducing same sex marriage an the like but to ensure that we are the best fathers and mothers and children we can be. To that end we need more education about how to be a good a good father, a good mother, a good child...Unfortunately it doesn't always come naturally - particularly if our role models growing up weren't exemplary. I challenge those who write the curricula for our schools to build these life skills in. Teach them what a good father looks like, what a good mother looks like, what a good child looks like...Well done Warwick! You have been honest about what you went through. That takes guts!

Yeah the Godbothering honophobic agenda is one out of the hat. Half the people CJ is accusing of same never said a word about either topic. Maybe CJ has an anti christian, pro-gay and anti W. Marsh agenda, hmmm

I agree with the general thrust of the article in that no matter how big a loser you are, don't commit suicide if you have children, it's messy.

I also did not realise there were so many people that apparently do online searches about fathers and are so passionate about it that they feel the need to register and comment on every article that they see on the subject.