I write about gender a little and think about gender a lot. Today my timeline is full of tributes to dads. There are dads of today’s parents and grandparents, some living and some passed on. My father was a complicated person and tried hard to be a good dad. The places where he fell short had more to do with him trying to live according to the rules of twentieth century manhood than anything else. Those rules cut him off emotionally from his children, a loss of all of us.
Today, I see more and more people around me of all genders who embrace parenting with their whole selves, and that is a beautiful thing.
Today, I see more and more people around me of all genders who embrace parenting with their whole selves, and that is a beautiful thing.
