Throwaway Dads

Kirkus called it 'a wide-ranging, cool-headed response' to the cultural habit of dismissing fathers, and Parke's three decades of research give the argument genuine empirical backbone. The advocacy tone tips adversarial in places — Publishers Weekly noticed it — and correlational studies don't always support the causal claims made, but the core challenge to media bias about fatherhood is well-grounded and still timely in 2026.