The Demise of Fatherhood?

This is an extraordinarily insightful article on First Things into the ever-sorrier state of fatherhood in our country (and the rest of the world, for that matter). As a new father, this whole article spoke to me -- disturbing, hopeful and challenging all at the same time while speaking to the Catholic understanding of true freedom. Those of you with fatherhood under your belt already, you'll be nodding right along with it. It's marginally long, but worth every word you read,

"I would like to propose that the demise of fatherhood is largely the result of a relatively recent and thoroughly unjustifiable faith in rational self-determination. Indeed, nearly all of the culprits that cultural observers have previously identified—contraceptives, abortion, women’s liberation, increased secularity, the usurpation of the functions of the father by the state—can probably best be understood as instances of this more general tendency... " READ MORE.