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What If Fathers Spent as Much Time With Their Kids as Mothers?

America has a parental alienation crisis. Dads might be able to solve it.

Jill Filipovic
Feb 04, 2026
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There is an epidemic of child-parent estrangement in the United States — but it’s almost entirely adult children who are estranged from their fathers.

I was struck reading this article in the Atlantic about the father-daughter divide, and how that particular parent-child relationship is the most fragile and most frau…

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