Elle Driver
Veteran
"The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place."
Robert Briffault, The Mothers, Vol. I, p. 191
But I guess we're going to continue pretending that women don't control pretty much every aspect of (consensual) sexual relationships
It's true, to the extent that mothers can shut fathers out of their childrens lives, and thereby turning the father into an absentee. Women are the primary caregivers, they hold a closer bond to their children (it's psychological and physiological), but like I said before it takes two to tango.