Divorce laws have given women economic support after divorce; no laws have given men emotional support after divorce. Men are required to continue th… - Warren Farrell

The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)

Empathy for women is an attribute of masculinity. When men play the protector role they are trying to save a woman from grief or pain. If they had no glimpse of her grief or pain, they wouldn’t know when to protect.

The Industrial Revolution, then, took men’s occasional absence from home -- previously needed only in wartime and for hunting -- and made it the norm. This increasing division of labor magnified the division of men’s and women’s interests. It magnified the belief in the maternal instinct and the reality of the distant father. Prior to industrialization, divorces usually led to children living with dads. Not after.