[AnotherUnixGeek]

Yet while I was enjoying the essay I kept wondering, where is the father?

Good point - boys learn how to be men from their fathers. Some fine men have been raised by great mothers without the benefit of a father, but more often than not they end up with a child in the body of a man, like the foolish woman who wrote this article.

[miss marmelstein]

The father probably ran away with his gay “lover.”