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Two movements not parallel

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Rebecaa Nappi’s posing of parallels between the women’s rights movement and the pro-fatherhood movement (June 21) falls victim to an innate inconsistency.

The fatherhood movement is about parenting, much-needed, effective and involved fathering.

On the contrary, the women’s rights movement at its best is about un-parenting, about making women feel inadequate if they are not striving for careers in the realms of business and commerce, in academic pursuits, or in medicine or law – anything but homemaking and child-rearing. And at its radical worst the women’s rights movement portrays the child as the enemy of woman, as a hindrance to her realizing and expressing her proper societal role as redefined according to the tenets of radical feminism, an inconvenience to be eliminated by abortion.

It is not without cause that the birth rates among certain significant demographic groups in the U.S. are at less than replacement levels.

Leonard C. Johnson

Moscow, Idaho

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