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Children Quotes by Warren Farrell

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When a dad admits he is wrong, he shows the child that mistakes are okay. The quotes say that a father's involvement makes kids more open, trusting, and ready to meet new people. They also argue that talking about parent time instead of custody helps children feel safer.

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Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what…

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I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to…

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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has…

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

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When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child…

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Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.

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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its…

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When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we…

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Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation…

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When a government requires a man to support a child he was tricked into creating, that government subsidizes fraud. No. It is…

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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…

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[With respect to child custody] a woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man's life…

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Is a man's body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his…

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Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have…

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It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I…

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When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate…

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The most unacknowledged spending expectation among women is the amount of time spent by single mothers caring for children, not only physically,…

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Here's the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn…

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The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the…

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We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent…

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At this moment in history, millions of 'working dads' are desiring to do what they do not feel they have the right…

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In a sense, in the area of child care, children's relationships with parents' working has come full circle. We have gone from…

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Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny…

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The money men make from their willingness to work the least desirable hours is not a sign of discrimination against women, but…

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Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs…

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

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Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).

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If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children…

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Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take…

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The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has…

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One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

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Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

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

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

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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.

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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative…

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One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought…

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Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help…

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Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of…

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When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being 'given up for a younger man.' Being forced into early…

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Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward…

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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.

The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

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In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of…

If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go…

Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.

In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's [sexual] affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could…

Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.

We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent and lead…

Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.

A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what…