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It helped that India’s founding fathers, from Mahatma Gandhi on, were convinced democrats.
We live in a pushy society with turbo-charged
fathers
and “tiger” mothers, constantly goading themselves and their children to “get ahead.”
For a glimpse of what that might look like, consider Norway, where affordable childcare and parental-leave schemes have proven successful in enabling both mothers and
fathers
to work.
Moreover, programs that help women keep working also change the role of
fathers.
In Norway and other countries with similar policies,
fathers
now share equally in parental leave and child-rearing.
The founding
fathers
of Latin America’s republics talked about it two centuries ago.
Fathers, brothers, boyfriends, and husbands feel entitled to a detailed explanation of their everyday activities--but refuse to be questioned about their own.
The philosophers who were the intellectual
fathers
of the 1789 revolution longed not for democracy, but for enlightened despotism, which is what many French still look for when they elect a president.
But to insist that protesters, old and young,
fathers
and mothers, numbering as many as 150,000, were willing to risk their lives sitting under a scorching Tropical sun for two months only for money strains credulity.
But even stronger than this economic common-sense-argument is the political imperative: if we maintain a divided Europe, we will never reach the Europe of liberty and peace that was the original vision of the founding
fathers
that wrote The Treaty of Rome.
But with the onset of the Cold War and the emergence of the non-aligned movement, the intentions of the UN's founding
fathers
were progressively thwarted.
Husbands, fathers, and teachers pressured women and girls to end their own lives after Russian soldiers raped them because their “honor” was their major concern.
As sons must revere fathers, so subjects must revere their rulers.
In the brave new world of postrevolutionary Russia, Anatoli Lunacharski looked forward to freedom from the mutual relations of husbands, wives, fathers, children, so you could not tell who was related to whom and how closely.
The intellectual leadership provided by Frenchmen like Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman as founding
fathers
of the European project is a fading memory, because Germany has yet to generate a comparably robust strategy for reviving the EU’s prospects and popularity.
As Stevenson helpfully clarifies, “it turns out that
fathers
can be pretty good at dealing with diapers.”
But Barak skipped a cruelly candid paragraph in Dayan’s speech that evoked the imposing magnitude of the Palestinian plight: “Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today….For eight years, they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages where they and their
fathers
dwelt into our estate.
Indian
fathers
still sometimes repay debts by committing their children to bonded labor.
But the motive of preventing the formation of a political bloc was never absent, and ran counter to the European founding fathers’ dream of a political union.
Likewise, Altiero Spinelli, another of the EU’s founding fathers, wrote late in life that without visionary Europeans there would be no Europe, but without pragmatic statesmen, the visionaries would have gotten nowhere.
The
fathers
knew that the temptation of such consecration is a delusion and a trap.
According to this principle, Konrad Adenauer, Robert Schuman, and Alcide de Gasperi – three of the EU’s founding
fathers
– would not measure up.
If India’s founding fathers, like the passionate democrat Jawaharlal Nehru, had not been cremated, they would be turning over in their graves.
Children of educated mothers consistently out-perform children with educated
fathers
and illiterate mothers.
To begin, the presumed causes of homosexuality are shrouded in pseudo-scientific theories and psycho-babble: homosexuals supposedly suffer from hormonal imbalances, or were sexually abused as children, or constitute an indeterminate "third sex" that is neither male nor female, or had absent
fathers
and over-protective mothers.
Indeed, were it not for the 400
fathers
who petitioned for the rescue of their kidnapped children who had been sold into slavery, Hongdong County would still remain a tourism hot spot for Chinese people seeking their roots.
The 400
fathers
of the enslaved children, of course, are left to wonder where, precisely, respect for life is in President Hu Jintao’s so-called “harmonious society.”
These men simply want their children back, but all the government is doing is watching these anxious
fathers
with suspicion.
Moreover, these
fathers
are allowed to demand only their children, not compensation.
As Jean Monnet, one of the “founding fathers” European integration, presciently observed in his memoirs 35 years ago, “the European construction is moving ahead during crisis, and it will be the sum of the solutions brought about in order to overcome them.”
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