Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Quietest Revolution
• PART I. WHAT’S MISSING WHEN DAD’S MISSING?
• Chapter 1. Why Dad is Crucial
• The Impact of Dad
• The Impact of Shared Parent Time (or Joint Physical Custody)
• If Shared Parent Time Isn’t in the Cards, Are Children Better Off With Their Mom, Or With Their Dad?
• Do Boys Do Better with Dads and Girls with Moms?
• The Impact of a Stepparent
• The Impact of Moving the Child Away from the Non-Resident Parent
• Chapter 2. Is there a Mothering Instinct?...A Fathering Instinct?...And What Does it all Mean for our Kids?
• Exactly What Do Fathers Do With Children That's Different From What Mothers Do?
• Chapter 3. Are Dads More Likely to Abuse?
• Are Fathers Often Being Falsely Accused of Sexual Abuse?
• Is Our Belief In The Superiority Of Mothers Related To Our Adopting The Female Definitions of Sexual Abuse?
• Chapter 4. What Prevents Dads From Being Involved?
• The Dads Themselves
• Next Time You See a Full-Time Dad in a Movie, Notice This Formula....
• How Our Discrimination Against Men’s Style of Nurturing Keeps Men from Children
• The Badmouthing Barrier
• Chapter 5. Toward the Best Interests of Everyone....
• Is the “Best Interests of the Child” Theory in the Best Interests of the Child?
• Paying Men To Stay, Not To Go Away What Every Dad Can Do (and Mom, Too)
• PART II. THE POLITICS OF BRINGING DAD HOME AGAIN
• The Feminism That Was
• Chapter 6. Men’s ABC Rights
• Men’s ABC Rights and Responsibilities: Abortion, Birth, Caring
• A Man Can Just Have Sex and Disappear, But A Woman Has to Live with the Consequences, Right?
• The Fallacy of “It’s a Woman’s Right to Choose Because It’s a Woman’s Body”
• The “Petri Generation”: Questions Frozen Embryos Will Soon Be Asking
• How Women’s Rights Are Creating Men’s Rights
• The “Trick and Sue” Law: Female-as-Kryptonite
• Is A Men’s Birth Control Pill A Viable Solution?
• If A Man Wants To Love A Child, Does The Woman Have The Right To Abort It?
• Chapter 7. Does Divorce Make Women Poorer And Men Richer?
• How Men Lost Their Children Because They Were Not The Primary Parent, And Lost Their Money Because They Were The Primary Breadwinner
• Chapter 8. Is Child Support Helping or Hurting the Family?
• Are We Giving Women Incentives To Break Up The Family?
• Why We Think Of Dads More As Deadbeats Than As Dead Broke, Deadened, Dead-Ended, Or Dead
• Chapter 9. “Visitation” is for Criminals
• The Child’s Social Immune System: The Case For Denial Of Parent Time As Child Abuse
• Why Mothers Deprive Fathers Of “Dad Time”
• The Men’s EEOC (Equal Emotional Opportunity Commission)
• Chapter 10. Playing the “Abuse” Card
• How a Charge of Child Abuse Creates Twelve Guarantees of Child Abuse
• Daughter Denies Abuse, So Why Is Dad In Prison?
• Women Who Sexually Assault, and the Teachers They Become
• Is The False Charge Of Sex Abuse The “Nuclear Weapon Of Domestic Relations”?
• When Should The Law Reach Into Our Homes?
• Chapter 11. The Political Consequences Of Ignoring Fathers
• What the Pro-Choice Woman and the Right-to-Life Woman Have in Common
• Chapter 12. Conclusion: Toward a Father and Child Reunion
• Appendix. What a Man Needs to Do If Divorce Cannot Be Avoided

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