Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis superfluous. The… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does any religious conviction justify denying lesbians and gays a basic legal promise of non-discrimination in hiring, public accommodations, and housing? Surely the answer to this question is no. Correcting that inequity would begin the process of recognizing that… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share
The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
More broadly across time andcultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children.… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along. — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Commenting on paternity establishment programs: What these millions of children want and need is not a name on a form or a promise that… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
We’ve been fighting about gay marriage for what, 15-20 years now. Is there any evidence that fighting gay marriage is contributing to a greater… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing,… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
