Overnight News: Not everyone is lucky enough to have a good father, but each one us is father to the person we would become.

Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie has a new story for Father’s Day, and this of course is a theme Willie pounds on, anyway. Today’s story is particularly horrifying, but the peroration, summarized in the headline above, is what Willie offers up by way of redemption.

And he’s right, of course – and who better to agree with than me? 😉 To have been well-fathered is the ‘privilege’ that is actually being bitched about – and the bitching is not all wrong: Children raised by their biological fathers tend to eclipse those who weren’t by every measure of human thriving. To deny children their fathers is to rob them of much of the richness of their own lives, perchance to set even poorer examples going forward.

And that, alas, is as may be: Scowl at your cards all day, they’re what you were dealt by circumstance and they are what you’re playing with. If you lack good role models at home, they abound in human history – and the facts of their existence have not yet been glittered over by the drag queens down at the library.

Your responsibility to your self is to make the most of what you started with, whatever that might be. And here’s the redemption behind the redemption: If you father the man you would wish to be, you will be a better father – and a better example to other people – than the one you had.

Brother Willie for Father’s Day:

William F.X. O’Connell: An infinity of souls.

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The Federalist: What My Dad Taught Me, His Daughter, About Manhood — And Why It Matters.