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A Father's Lament

A Father's Lament

They always love Mom more, and they're right...

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Alexander Riley
Jul 06, 2022
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I don’t think it can be reasonably denied that this is a culture that values fathers considerably less than it once did, and considerably less than many other societies around the globe today. I have long used work from the sociologist David Popenoe on the growth and consequences of fatherlessness in a course on American society I have taught from time…

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