Fathers

Are We in the Death Throes of Generational White American Male Trauma?

I didn’t really know any Ward Cleavers while I was growing up. I can’t think of a single household in my world that was run by an Atticus Finch. Hell, I didn’t even know any Marlins (the clownfish in Finding Nemo). Nah, in my world fathers were terrifying and step-fathers were mine fields triggered by children’s laughter and the inability of teenagers t…