. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.

Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and double standards in the face of a natural drift towards monogamous bonding. Young men have been called upon to prove their masculinity by their willingness to die in warfare, and young women have been called upon to prove their femininity by their willingness to die for their man. Women have been asked to appear small, dumb, and helpless so men would feel big and strong, brave, and clever. It's been a trick.

The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.