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[With respect to child custody] a woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man's life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman's life.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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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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Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.
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After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).
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Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
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Both sexes allow men dentists inside our mouths, but, well, have you ever let a man who is a dental hygienist inside your mouth? The man must earn his way to our private places in a way not required of a woman--he must become the doctor or the dentist, or forget it.
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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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