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introduction > editorials  The Feminist Anti-Kid Crusade March
1, 2006 by Carey Roberts    Countless studies point to the same
conclusion: kids with hands-on dads do better in school, in the
community, and in life. I could almost write a book about it -
and fortunately, someone already has:
www.fatherhood.org/fatherfacts.asp.  But there's a somber side
to this story. Kids who lose their father are two to three times
more likely to get in trouble with the law and are more likely
to suffer from a broad array of social pathologies.  The saga
can be traced back to the mid-1960s when marriage was portrayed
as an oppressive institution and no-fault divorce laws arrived
on the scene. Within 10 years, the U.S. divorce rate almost
doubled.  And what happened to the million-or-so kids whose
parents divorced each year? Operating under the "tender years
doctrine," family courts almost always awarded custody of the
youngsters to mothers.  But the tender years app