according to not only widespread public opinion but also expert opinion, were rampant at every level of society. The hysteria died down after a while, partly because very few cases produced convincing evidence and partly because psychiatrists eventually challenged the whole notion of "repressed memories." But families had been destroyed and laws had been changed to facilitate convictions against accused fathers and the bureaucratic removal of children from their homes.

Another phenomenon has contributed to the decline of fatherhood: the increasing number of single mothers.

Some began to justify their situation or choice by saying that fathers were assistant mothers at best, burdens to women in any case, and potential molesters at worst. With the development of single motherhood by choice, supported by sperm banks, women could now do ityears of IT experience to HP and has an extensive background in both technical and business leadership, along with in-depth experience in next generation open source technologies. Prior to joining HP, Aker was a Distinguished Engineer for Sun Microsystems where his team was responsible for the next generation of MySQL and Drizzle. He also led efforts to improve Memcached at Sun. He was co-author for the O’Reilly book on Slashcode, and currently authors and maintains a number of open source projects including Drizzle, Libmemcached and Gearman. Aker has chaired a number of conferences, including the MySQL conference, and is a frequent public speaker.

Robert Hodges

Senior Staff Engineer, VMware

Biography:

Robert Hodges is the former CEO of Continuent, which was acquired by VMWare in late 2014. He works on cloud data management