A woman’s right to abortion had been well established in our culture, although given the vagaries of politics within our socio-political system, the permanence of this right is chronically at peril. But a man’s right to prevent an abortion has never even been thought about by most people, much less advanced as a social agenda worthy of public consideration, political debate, and fair legislation.

There also is the fact that abortion, abandonment, and putting a child up for adoption all allow a woman the option of walking away from motherhood. But a man has no legal right to walk away from fatherhood. He can be held responsible for child support, and if he tries to avoid this responsibility (just as a mother choosing abortion is avoiding parental responsibility), then he is labeled a deadbeat dad at best, and may lose his assets or even go to jail.

This folio, consisting of three articles by two authors, reveals that there are men who do oppose the abortion of their children, and exposes some startling statistics about the American citizen’s views on fathers’ rights and abortion.

(Commentary by Angela Froesner): "I suppose I have been insensitive and naive all my adult life not to have considered that men might have personal, and not just ideological, feelings about the abortion of a child they have conceived. But now, after reading these three articles, I realize that every time an abortion happens it affects a father. Maybe the father doesn’t know, or maybe sometimes he doesn’t care, but it is a father’s child being aborted and he at the very least should have a right to be involved. Maybe, even, he has the right to say no and have the law enforce his decision. We can’t blame a man for not being a responsible parent after his child is born, when we tell him he has no right to even act like a parent before his child is born. Shame on me–shame on all of us–for having ignored fathers’ feelings on the abortion issue!"

Here is the apex of Daniel Amnéus' thinking on issues surrounding the family, divorce, and parenting. Amnéus argues convincingly that divorce not only weds the mother to the state, but also ostracizes the father while demanding his paycheck and creating an anarchy of optional lifestyles which leave people adrift without any firm sense of values. Endorsed by Warren Farrell, Richard Doyle, Victor Smith, and others, this book sets forth the traditional, nuclear family as the necessary matrix for a stable society and as the only crucible within which a civilization's workable values can receive proper nourishment.

This fiery, but cogent, exchange of commentary about the rights of gays to be gays will, unfortunately, be as pertinent to our society one thousand years from now as it is today. This folio contains a total of eleven writings, the last and longest being a piece by Francis Baumli, Ph.D., analyzing the many hidden difficulties which plague gay marriage. While pointing to these difficulties, Doctor Baumli nevertheless endorses gay marriage, and shows how straight people can garner many lessons about straight marriage from gay marriage.