Father’s Day is fast approaching.  I’ve been thinking about the fathers of today – what fatherhood was like in the past and how dads have changed over the years.  While thinking, my brain landed on the Showtime show Masters of Sex.  It’s the story of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, and, of course, the study of sex.

Renowned gynecologist, William Masters, brilliantly portrayed by Michael Sheen, was so far removed from his child he couldn’t even change his diaper, pick up his crying child, or be there for his son in any way that provided emotional support, love or affection.

Now, this may be a dramatization (and a gross generalization), but there’s a part of me that thinks there’s some truth in this show as to how dads parented back in the late 1950s. Not all dads, but probably a large percentage of fathers.  Parenting was for the wife and/or nanny (if you lived in an affluent home). […]