Reinstating fatherhood

Reinstating fatherhood
by Jason Thompson

The modern father who dares to heed the call and seek the children with whom it is our whole destiny to be atoned, cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding.
"Live," Nietzsche says, "as though the day were here."
It is not society that is to guide and save the modern father, but precisely the reverse. And so, every one of us shares the supreme ordeal -- carries the cross of the redeemer -- not in the bright moments of his culture's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the fathers of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known.
We have only to follow the thread of the father-path,
and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god;
where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves;
where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of own existence;
where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the fathers of the world.

For the little boys, who's fathers are made criminals by unfair laws, and institutional prejudice, below. Mr Daniel Beatty, at the Apollo Theater.
The Men's Rights and Fathers' Rights movement is a civil rights movement. It is a human rights movement. It opposes inequality before the law. Every man who is accused by his ex partner of abuse is not a pedophile, a pornographer, a child pornographer.
The woman who places false allegations against this man is the abuser. The wrong people are losing their civil rights, human rights, and are being sent to jail, dispossessed.



Why Daniel Beaty's father went to jail, we will never know.
But there are thousands of fathers in Australia who may share his fate for no other reason than they oppose the injustice and illegality of facing a prejudiced system, much as Daniel's father did.