The Daily Telegraph used to be the bastion of freedom loving Conservatives and also a bastion of the family - supporting both mothers and fathers.
However, it has recently started to publish a columnist called Gill Hornby who produces some of the most spiteful anti-male copy ever seen in a national newspaper.
In June this year, she said in The Telegraph (link) that Father's Day was the worst thing Richard Nixon ever did. To quote her "But the most worrying thing is that there is a new generation of impressionable young minds who might somehow get the Days of Fathers and Mothers confused. They may even, given the strength of the commercial message, judge them as equal."
This week, she ranted (link) that we "shouldn't attack the 'problem' of single mothers and start considering that of absent fathers. Because they have chosen to have no sense of obligation towards their offspring, we as a society seem to have no expectations of them. We don't even call them "single parents" - though they may be single, and are definitely parents - because they chose to do no parenting whatsoever. They are simply called 'men'".
Of course, there will be some men who abandon their children, as there are many mothers who do the same. However, there are hundreds of thousands of men, who if divorced/split from the mother of their children pay maintenance. In addition, of course, there are thousands who are denied access/contact to their children (despite paying maintenance) because the mothers use the Family Court system to stop them.
To say these men have "no sense of obligation towards their offspring "shows Ms Hornby just wants to use her column to, in a juvenile fashion, attack men. She has no idea what she is on about.
It is astounding that the Daily Telegraph is publishing such nonsense.
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