My mom warns and warns; it's like she 'cries wolf.' My dad gives us one warning, and then he becomes the wolf. - Warren Farrell

[This is] the basis of the Innocent Woman Defense —the Innocent Woman Principle : Women are believed when they say they are innocent of violence and most easily doubted when they say they are guilty of violence.

The more a man is trained to “be a man,” the more he is trained to protect women and children, not hurt women and children. He is trained to volunteer to die before even a stranger is hurt – especially a woman or child.

Father absence is not just correlated with negative outcomes but actually causes negative outcomes.