Scientific fact: No one has ever smiled while saying the word father. Bowed their head in respect or fear? For sure. Followed it with the word figure? You know it. Included it in the title of their "brave and unsparing" memoir? You betcha. Magazines (this one included!) love nothing more than to furrow their brow and devote pages upon pages to the state of American fatherhood. It's no wonder, with a word—a figure—so looming, that every man, on some level, fears turning into his father. Becoming a father is serious business. Unless you work at the White House or are a surgeon of some kind, raising a kid is likely the most important thing you'll ever do. The stakes are high enough to make a guy wonder whether he should be a father at all. Our radical suggestion? Don't do it. Don't become a father. Become a dad instead. |
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