Patriarchy in some cultures can be excessive. Parents can have too much control over their children’s lives. Men can have too much power over women. The present can have too much deference for the past.
None of this is true in America today, though. One in four children is raised without a father or stepfather present. Fewer and fewer men are getting married every year, and fewer and fewer men are becoming fathers every year.
The number of childless men who do not want children has doubled over the past decade, and one study of young men found decreasing interest in heading a family.
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A commentator would have to be blind or delusional to suggest that the United States has too much patriarchy. We quite clearly
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