“ The roles that a mother plays in the lives of her children are so integral that to refer to her using language that suggests an occasional, casual participant in the child’s rearing would be, at best, dismissive, and, at worst, offensive. So why isn’t the same true for fathers? Our lexicon for describing what fathers actually do is limited at best: “mothering” is the standard description of what we need when we want to be comforted; “fathering” is a word, just not one I’ve ever heard anyone actually use.
Literary Hack
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
