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Father And Child Reunion:
How To Bring The Dads We Need To The Children We Love
by Warren Farrell, Ph.D.
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PART I.
WHAT'S MISSING WHEN DAD'S MISSING?
Chapter 1.Why Dad is Crucial
The Impact of Dad
The Impact of Shared Parent Time (or Joint Physical Custody).
If Shared Parent Time Isn't in the Cards, Are Children Better
Off With Their Mom, Or With Their Dad?.
If Shared Parent Time Isn't in the Cards, Are Children Better
Off With Their Mom, Or With Their Dad?.
Do Boys Do Better with Dads and Girls with Moms?.
The Impact of a Stepparent
The Impact of Moving the Child Away from the Non-Resident Parent
Chapter 2. Is there a Mothering Instinct?...A Fathering Instinct?...And
What Does it all Mean for our Kids?
Exactly What Do Fathers Do With Children That's Different From
What Mothers Do?
Chapter 3. Are Dads More Likely to Abuse?
Are Fathers Often Being Falsely Accused of Sexual Abuse?
Is Our Belief In The Superiority Of Mothers Related To Our Adopting
The Female Definitions of Sexual Abuse?
Chapter 4. What Prevents Dads From Being Involved?
The Dads Themselves
Next Time You See a Full-Time Dad in a Movie, Notice This Formula....
How Our Discrimination Against Men's Style of Nurturing Keeps
Men from Children
The Badmouthing Barrier
Chapter 5. Toward the Best Interests of Everyone....
Is the "Best Interests of the Child" Theory in the
Best Interests of the Child?
Paying Men To Stay, Not To Go Away....
What Every Dad Can Do (and Mom, Too)
PART II. THE POLITICS OF BRINGING DAD HOME AGAIN
The Feminism That Was
Chapter 6. Men's ABC Rights
Men's ABC Rights and Responsibilities: Abortion, Birth, Caring
A Man Can Just Have Sex and Disappear, But A Woman Has to Live
with the Consequences, Right?
The Fallacy of "It's a Woman's Right to Choose Because
It's a Woman's Body"
The "Petri Generation": Questions Frozen Embryos Will
Soon Be Asking ...
How Women's Rights Are Creating Men's Rights
The "Trick and Sue" Law: Female-as-Kryptonite
Is A Men's Birth Control Pill A Viable Solution?
If A Man Wants To Love A Child, Does The Woman Have The Right
To Abort It?
Chapter 7. Does Divorce Make Women Poorer And Men Richer?
How Men Lost Their Children Because They Were Not The Primary
Parent, And Lost Their Money Because They Were The Primary Breadwinner
Chapter 8. Is Child Support Helping or Hurting the Family?
Are We Giving Women Incentives To Break Up The Family?
Why We Think Of Dads More As Deadbeats Than As Dead Broke, Deadened,
Dead-Ended, Or Dead
Chapter 9. "Visitation" is for Criminals
The Child's Social Immune System: The Case For Denial Of Parent
Time As Child Abuse
Why Mothers Deprive Fathers Of "Dad Time"
The Men's EEOC (Equal Emotional Opportunity Commission)
Chapter 10. Playing the "Abuse" Card
How a Charge of Child Abuse Creates Twelve Guarantees of Child
Abuse
Daughter Denies Abuse, So Why Is Dad In Prison?
Women Who Sexually Assault, and the Teachers They Become
Is The False Charge Of Sex Abuse The "Nuclear Weapon Of
Domestic Relations"?
When Should The Law Reach Into Our Homes?
Chapter 11. The Political Consequences Of Ignoring Fathers
What the Pro-Choice Woman and the Right-to-Life Woman Have in
Common
Chapter 12. Conclusion:Toward a Father and Child Reunion
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