The Fatherhood Manifesto: A Defense of Fatherhood - and 50 Practical Tips to be a Better, More Involved Dad by Alex Berenson

In THE FATHERHOOD MANIFESTO, Alex Berenson, author of the best-selling and groundbreaking "Unreported Truths" series on Covid - and father of three - offers a unique, punchy, and long-overdue take on why fathers matter - and how to be a better dad. This easy-to-read booklet offers advice that is provocative and practical, funny and thoughtful. It stands as a necessary corrective to a culture that has devalued fatherhood and the masculine parenting virtues of stoicism and independence. For far too long, mainstream parenting guides have pretended that "gentle parenting" is the secret to child-rearing - and that fathers are simply less empathetic moms. This lie - and it is a lie - has done huge damage to fathers, their sons and daughters, families, and society. As THE FATHERHOOD MANIFESTO explains: A mother makes a house a home with warmth and emotional support. But a father ensures that house and the children in it are strong enough to face the world and its cruelties. He does so not by sugarcoating life’s realities but by acknowledging them, while helping his children face them. He wins respect from his children without demanding it. They defer to him not from fear or mindless obedience but because they Read more