["The committee on women's rights will now come to order."]
The Real Culprits
The real culprit in all this, of course, is the inflexibility of men. It comes back to that over and over again. Men are inflexible as fathers when they either do not assume more responsibility for care or do not provide support that they are committed to and put women in the position of starving or working outside the home. Then there are men in policy-making positions who are very inflexible and define child care as a woman's problem. Part and parcel of any childcare initiative needs to be a major initiative in male re-socialization. Otherwise, it's women and children
who pay the price.
Dr. James Garbarino, President
Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development