Killing fathers
Fatherlessness, fatherhunger and other diseases
Bill Muehlenberg’s article ‘The perils of fatherlessness’ published in Quadrant Online has got it right. He tells us that ‘the real problem is the boys lack fathers’ not ‘malerolemodels’ (this phrase has been so overused it has morphed into an Australian slang that can only roll off the tongue as one word). But why? – why do an entire generation of children lack fathers?
The statistics are in, so are the studies – children do not travel well without their fathers, and the levels of unfathered children is at least ten times greater than it was at the beginning of the 1970’s. The family Law Act of Australia sealed the fate of millions of Australian men and their children. Fathers were reduced to 20 percent access or every second weekend. Many wandered off in despair. Probably less than ten percent were truly irresponsible or violent, dangerous men. The state enacted a law which effectively ‘stole’ children from their fathers (without…
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