You and your Child When I was a girl I rather thought that the Fathers duty was to be entirely absent from home, more of a kind of invisible force that kept the wheels of the household oiled and the larders full. Recently there has been a lot of emphasis on what the man about the place should and should not do for his newly acquired family, which is of course absurd! A man knows his place better than any woman or child, if it were not so he simply would not be there at all. Take heed the fact that a caring father figure must never bee seen to care. A father is a Man at all times and although he is capable of tenderness, only rarely will he show it. You must support your man in every way you can, he understands that the child comes first as he has indicated by his continuing to be around. Sincerly Meryl Stodgewort