The Best Dad to Have is a Trad Dad
Not all fathers are created equal.
Note: I started writing this post before Father’s Day, but my life became overwhelmed with the blessings of a large family home for the summer and all that that entails (and it mostly entails cooking, cleaning, laundry, and packing and unpacking people as they come and go), so everything ground to a halt, writing-wise. My apologies. But we carry on! And anyway, this topic is evergreen and eternal, and we need to talk about it.
What kind of men make the best dads? Is it, as the Father’s Day column in the New York Times this year told us, your mom who grew a mustache and pretends to be your dad?
We need fewer “trans dad.”
Ideally zero of them.
Instead, we need more Trad Dads.
What Kind of Dad Do Babies Want?
Is the best man for the job whoever your single mom is shacking up with this week?
Is it the dad in your mom’s polycule who is “cool” and “chill” and wants you to “be free” to explore the pleasures of sex, drugs, communism and whatever else they’re teaching kids at the local public elementary school?
There’s two things modern progressive male feminists can agree on: 1) They’re With Her, and 2) strict dads who oppress their kids and indoctrinate them by forcing religion, morality, and rigid lifestyle rules down their throat are the WORST.
They probably don’t even believe in talking to their teenagers about how to have safe underage sex!
My argument is that there is a lot of attention paid to “trad wives,” but not enough is paid to men who, for lack of a better phrase, I will call “trad dads.”
If you were an inchoate soul in heaven, not yet embodied into living flesh, and you were observing the Earth and its inhabitants and the type of fathers running around, and God allowed you to choose the kind of dad you wished to be born to, what kind would you choose?
Would you choose the man who walks out on his baby mama and will never witness your birth nor watch you grow up?
Would you choose to have “two dads,” despite the traumatic lack of access to your own biological mother, zero female nurturing, and a preponderance of horrific news stories filled with shocking reports of child sexual torture inflicted by sets of “two dads”?
