ABSTRACT
The importance of reclaiming fatherhood goes beyond men with children fulfilling the potential of their role. Physical and emotional intimacies with children have been the prerogative of women and largely continue to be so. And while the Equal Opportunities Commission exists to support women's rights in the workplace, there is no equivalent to encourage a man's rightful place at home with his children. The negative image of men has sprung from surrendering the public debate to those who are pissed off with people: women. If high-status jobs were created for men to work with children, it would help men themselves and give boys their missing role models. The men's movement is thus often inhabited by angry, inarticulate men who lack an intellectual framework for understanding their dilemmas. A fair wind was behind women's liberation: they gained control of their own fertility, while the economy demanded a vast expansion in the labour force.
