Unlike alleged perpetrators of other crimes, a father accused of child abuse is guilty until he proves himself innocent. It's pretty hard to exercise your options when you don't know what they are. Until that happens, the movements are doomed to the kind of fragmentation that has thus far kept them powerless. Hope exists for the throwaway dad. Those who are not throwaway dads learn how tight a rope fatherhood can be.
Fatherhood needs a strong masculine foundation, respect, freedom, and the law for it to flourish.
Fathers matter, as Parke and Brott keep telling us. This is something we used to know. This is something we need to continually reiterate. This something, that with hard work and equal love, will become self-evident to the populace and government. Let's get busy.