Letter: Fatherly status
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: I can empathise with G M Jones's letter (24 April) and his views on society's unfair attitudes to the relative worth of mothers and fathers. But losing the immediate and continuous presence of a child neither relieves the father of his responsibilities nor, thankfully, of the benefits and pleasures associated with his status.
Tom Russell
Sleaford, Lincolnshire
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