Warren Farrell Father Quotations

The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.

Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family; parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parents loses, so lose the children.

By giving women training to sue a company for a 'hostile environment' if someone tells a dirty joke, we are training women to run to the Government as Substitute Husband (or Father). This gets companies to fear women, but not to respect women. The best preparation we can give women to succeed in the workplace is the preparation to overcome barriers rather than to sue: successful people don't sue, they succeed.

Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22:;: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say.

I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers,