I think there are two things going on here - "a child being treated in X manner" and "how we view parent X (mother or father) treating their child". Fathers cu

I think there are two things going on here - "a child being treated in X manner" and "how we view parent X (mother or father) treating their child". Fathers culturally often get the dad pass for why something happened while society still frowns on the thing that happened to the kids the same. I (as a father) am just as afraid of getting in trouble for leaving my kids in the car for a few minutes as my wife - because the legal issues of how society responds to that happening to kids even if there is less cultural mud-slinging at me because I am male. All this to say that I am much more interested in the direct topic of this article - which is the fear I and my wife operate under of our getting in trouble for not raising our kids "right" - rather than have the discussion get derailed into a gender rabbit hole.