USA TODAY: …This generation of dads — many of them Baby Boomers — married young and had children very young by today’s standards. They did what was expected: worked hard and built careers. Divorce may have followed, then remarriage to a younger partner who wanted kids…
The opportunity to have these “sequential families” marks an enormous change for men. Thanks to longer life spans, healthier lifestyles and changing attitudes about divorce and aging, these fathers have a chance, a second chance, to alter their thinking or their actions when it comes to child-rearing. In some cases, they get a do-over.
“There is some sense of wanting to experience a child and a family in a very different way than they did the first time around, and, in their mind, they hope they can get it right this time,” says Marsiglio, 53, who studies fatherhood… (more)
EDITOR: As a father of three in his thirties and of two more in his fifties and early sixties, the difference the Watchdog notes is his relationship is as much like a grandfather as a father, which has its good and bad aspects. For the latter children, it is better than the alternative! Young or old— Happy Fathers Day!
Incredible, Here comes fathers day and the bashing begins.
“A second chance, to alter their thinking and actions”. We now know ALL these men were “wrongful” and needed a chance to “get it right this time”
More likely their first children were stolen by rotten moms – how bout that story next mother’s day? Did these fathers (every father in America) possibly do anything right when they raised their first family? How about mom – obviously from all the Mothers Day stories in the press we know they are angels.
As rick Gray once told me (that is the Rick that helped start Mid Penn anti-fathers group and is a feminist for certain): In custody court all moms are Sister Teresa and all dads are Saddam Hussain (dated).
America makes and has always produced the best dads in the world. I was fortunate to have one and it is sad if you did not.
Dads are on the endangered specials list in US for sure.