Wut? I strongly recommend watching Dr Warren Farrell's Ted talk. I could only use a small section of it, but the talk in full is really, really great. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nSGW9hpDO8 Happy Father's day, mom videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn-F-Jwe2Xs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxwEbsAlZ4Q Helpful links: Parents website: https://www.parents.com/ Father of three suicide: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6702471/Father-three-devastated-marriage-breakdown-commits-suicide.html Special person's day: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/wtf/activist-pushes-politically-correct-plan-to-rename-fathers-day-special-persons-day/news-story/354e0c4f6309ef0452b14936a14391e4 1999 paper: http://www.canadiancrc.com/PDFs/American_Psychologist_silver99.pdf Other links about paternal leave: American perspective: https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2604&context=key_workplace The effect of father involvement: http://www.ecdip.org/docs/pdf/IF%20Father%20Res%20Summary%20(KD).pdf Norway: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6238666.pdf Sweden: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13668800701785346?src=recsys&journalCode=ccwf20 There is so much data out there for both sides of the argument as to the usefulness of fathers in a child's life. As always, simple searches on Google Scholar will pull up this data and you can suss it out yourself :) A lot of arguments circulate the idea that children will grow up perfectly fine as long as they have SOME male influence - but that doesn't need to be from a father, which is an interesting concept, because a lot of people grow up with uncles and grandfathers etc and turn into very well-rounded adults. Find me: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sydneywatson Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sydneywatsonofficial Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/sydneylwatson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sydneywatson__ Check out more articles and videos on my website: https://www.sydneywatson.today