Did anyone see any of the 3 programs in the
Century of Fatherhood series?
I'm not sure if episodes 1 and 2 are still available.
A couple of things struck me:
- stereotypes: there was some nice illustration of stereotypes in books and literature of how fathers were portrayed and some nice testamonials rebutting these stereotypes
-men crying: we don't see enough of it on TV - there were some very moving stories of fathers form WW1 and WW2
The most recent episode really raised my hackles and I was itching for you ladies to be viewing it with me.
Unfortunuately the tone was very much - women started to go out to work/marriages broke down - poor fathers not getting access to their children.
I felt that most of the men portrayed who had split up with partners came across very agressively and the men who set up Fathers 4 Justice and Families Need Fathers did not come across at all well.
Dittany - I seem to recall that you have some stong feelings on these groups? Can you enlighten me as to why my feminist antennae was quivering?