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Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

Warren Farrell

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.
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Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.
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The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.
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A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.
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Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace. The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.
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If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy.
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It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
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For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.
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Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.
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I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.
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No movement calls [migrant workers] oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.
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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
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We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
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Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
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Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs or 'death professions.
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