In case you missed this touching piece by Mona Charen, do read it all.
"We've pretty thoroughly devalued the traits that have traditionally
been considered manly virtues -- protectiveness, responsibility,
courage. In what we like to think of as our highly civilized culture,
such traits are regarded as primitive and/or obsolete."
"But as studies on family structure demonstrate, men aren't just
useful to have around in an emergency. Stopping bullets is not the only
thing they are for."
"When men cease to perform their roles as husbands
and fathers (because they've been invited not to by the feminist
movement), the result is social decline. Children are clearly worse off
when they grow up without a dad at home. Every social pathology is more
pronounced in the children of single mothers than in two-parent homes.
But women, too, have paid a steep price."
"Women are not as happy as they
used to be."
