Thanks for this article.  Wente points out, correctly, that the usual fare for Father's Day is a menu of attacks on dad's laziness and incompetence.  I also like the reasoned defense of dad, using evidence.  So, this is an approving comment, and I've put this up front, but I do have a complaint, to wit: you can stop after the first five paragraphs and leave, saying, "I don't need to read more of the usual trashing that I get."  Readers do that sort of thing.

Still, Margaret Wente is doing me a kindness.  I appreciate it.  I'm going to tell my friends.