Women will not accept an absent partner, men will not accept a passive role in their child's upbringing. The fans and the media machos can go to hell. Family still matters. Children are there for life, and more than 90 per cent of men are there for them from the birth. Men are fuming over the injustice of being made second-class parents by both custom and Family Court assumptions about custody and the natural parent.
Parenthood is a serious business.
That applies as much to fathers in the public eye as to the ordinary suburban dad. We need more models such as Bradshaw, who show by their actions where life's priorities lie. He is the real man, not the wimps who bow to an outmoded work ethos and a phony appeal to team loyalty. Don Edgar is a social policy writer and consultant. All rights reserved.