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In fact, some of these fathers may need permission to separate their relationship with the child from that with the mother, to grasp that they can have an ongoing commitment to one without the other. A child-commitment ceremony might be more useful than a wedding ceremony.

It is also interesting to note that this group, routinely blamed for failing to accept financial responsibility for their children, is systematically discouraged from being responsible for them in other ways.

 
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