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The son unborn mars beauty; born he brings pain, divides attention, increases care… [H]is growth is his father's decline, his youth his father's envy.
JAMES JOYCE, Ulysses… and I shall visit the iniquities of the father unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate me.
EXODUS, 20
IN THE LAST DECADE, RESEARCH PEDIATRICIANS, PSYCHOLogists, and psychoanalysts have become attuned to the developmental importance of fathers and to the evolving psychology of fatherhood itself (Abelin, 1971), (1975), (1977); (J. M. Ross, 1975), (1977), (1979a), (1979b), (1979c), (1982a), (1982b); (Lamb, 1976); (Herzog, 1980), (1982a), (1982b); (Gunsberg, 1982); (Yogman, 1982). So often exempted in theory and practice from the responsibilities and pleasures of parenthood, nonetheless men reveal