The Fatherhood Movement, Professionalism and Progress By Glenn Sacks

"One of the many problems the fatherhood movement has is its fairly widespread distaste for professionalism. Somehow it's seen as dirty if a fathers' or shared parenting group tries to raise money for its activism. Some groups even (gasp) charge a membership fee. God forbid fathers should contribute and help finance the people and groups who fight for them.
Somehow we're supposed to take on the very well-funded women's groups which oppose shared parenting and fatherhood with a rag tag, under-funded force. What many in this movement don't seem to understand is that to win we need to do the same things the feminist groups do. We need lobbyists, we need media people, we need a presence in Washington DC and in every state capitol, and the only way you get that is by raising money. And until we have it, don't count on us winning very often."

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