Heart of Fatherhood
By Terry Sweetman

‘…[fathers] were largely neither seen nor heard in the councils of families, insulated from the tiresome domestic details, and relieved of many of our responsibilities by wives or partners.

Now, “Dad, you wouldn’t know, you weren’t there” is the rod with which we are regularly whipped by children, new-age parents, social engineers, feminists, headshrinkers and guiltmongers.

It is idle to deny this self-evident fact of family life gone by, but it is nothing but maudlin masochism to wallow in the presumed guilt over opportunities not grasped.’

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The Courier-Mail

This Father’s Day (Australia), Terry Sweetman considers the changing face of fatherhood, and the bond between a father and his children.

Be sure not to miss this perfect description of fathers from psychologist Louise Kaplan:

‘Fathers embody a delicious mixture of familiarity and novelty. They are novel without being strange or frightening.’