Here's author Jennifer Roback Morse with a slightly different take on Father's Day:
Father’s Day is a day for honoring fathers. But I would like to take a step back and honor men as husbands. In our enlightened, liberated era, we have a tendency to overlook men as husbands, since the father is so often not the husband of the mother. But without some kind of connection between the man and the woman, there is quite literally, no child.I’d like to make the case that the most important thing fathers can do for their children is to love their mother. And likewise, among the many things mothers do for their children, one of the most important is that mothers love their children’s father.
Indeed. And that thought explains why She and I enjoy the years when Father's Day coincides with our anniversary (28th this time). Thanks again, dear.
Posted by Alan at June 18, 2006 01:38 PM