Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a n… - Frank Pittman

But after the intimacy-inducing rituals of puberty, boys who would be men are told we must go it alone, we must achieve our heroism as the Lone Ranger, we must see the other men as threats to our masculine mastery, as objects of competition.

In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can't compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents' lives.

If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.