I'm not sure I agree with this point of view. It is my experience that most the kids in the schools have very little, if any, parental guidance. Most have two divorced parents, fighting for equal attention and devotion from a mixed up and confused child who is continually caught in the middle.
Society has devalued the role a Father plays in a childs life and they have redefined it only as monetary support, rather than emotional or physical safety.
I don't have the reference available right now, but it is proven that girls who have a full-time Father, who is involved in her life, will tend to value herself more than those who have part-time dads.
So, I am not discounting your point of view, rather I believe the majority do not fall into that catergory.
About 26% of freshmen in 1997 came from divorced families. In 1997, 32% of all children lived with only one parent.
(Essential Demographics of Today's College Students From AAHE Bulletin, Vol 51, No. 3, November 1998.)
"Society has devalued the role a Father plays in a childs life and they have redefined it only as monetary support, rather than emotional or physical safety."
I think you're being overly optimistic and pulling your punches on this issue.
The reality circa 2007 is that a father is a father to his children only so long as the mother decides she wants to stick around. Other than that, he's simply the person who donates the chromosomes and scratches out the checks.
Marriage in our country is dying out. In another generation, the only people that you're going to see getting married are those who look upon it as a way of acheiving some sort of societal legitimacy (e.g. homosexuals), or those who are profoundly religious.
The practical benefits of marriage from a male perspective are almost nonexistent. While women may view men as being somewhat unintelligent, we aren't. Men can see that marriage in the pragmatic sense is a bad deal for them and they're simply not going to consent to marriage absent a compelling religious reason for doing so. You can see this happening already in the increasing level of illegitimate births and the number of men surveyed who are saying that they simply will not marry. That's an absolute disaster for women, because marriage is for the protection of women and children.
The coup de grace, of course, will be when a male birth control pill is developed. Probably within the next 10 years.
At that point, we will all be able to stand back and reflect on the irony of of 50 years of radical feminism. There has been a sexual revolution in the west, and when all is said and done, women will have completely and utterly lost.