Reader Response

June, 1995

FatherhoodTed Fishman's piece on fatherhood ("Redefining Fatherhood." The Playboy Forum, March) is spectacular. While we must be concerned about runaway mothers and fathers, Fishman demonstrates that our legal system creates fathers who are driven--and thrown--away. Children are born with (and they want and need) two parents. Regardless of the social pathology under consideration, be it teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency or any of our other social ills, research consis...