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Unit1 PA无名英雄：职业父亲意味着什么？ 在我们的孪生女儿出生后的第一次约会”时，我和丈夫一起去看了一部名为《玩具故事》的电影。我们很喜欢这部片子，但随后我丈夫问道：父亲在哪儿呢？”起初我还认为因为一个小小的失误而批评一部很吸引人的家庭影片似乎是太偏狭了。可后来越想越觉得这一疏忽太严重了。父亲不仅没有出现，他甚至没有被提到—— 尽管家中有婴儿，说明他不可能离开太长时间。影片给人的感觉是，父亲出现与否似乎是个极次要的细节，甚至不需要做任何解释。 On our first date after our twin daughters were born, my husband and I went to see the movie HYPERLINK javascript://Toy Story. We enjoyed it, but afterward my husband asked, Where was the dad? At first, it seemed HYPERLINK javascript:openwords(wordsaopen.html#1)pettyto criticize an entertaining family movie because of one small point. The more I thought about it, however, the more HYPERLINK javascript:openwords(wordsaopen.html#2)glaringan omission it seemed. Not only was dad not around, he wasnt even mentioned — despite the fact that there was a baby in the family, so dad couldnt have been that long gone. It was as if the presence— or absence — of a father is a minor detail, not even requiring an explanation. 　　新闻媒体倾向于把父亲的边缘化，这只是一个例子，它反映了在美国发生的巨大的社会变化。大卫?布兰肯霍恩在《无父之国》一书中将这种倾向称之为无需父亲”观念。 This is only one example of the media trend toward HYPERLINK javascript:openwords(wordsaopen.html#6)marginalizingfathers, which mirrors enormous social changes in the United States. HYPERLINK javascript://David Blankenhorn, in his book HYPERLINK javascript://Fatherless America, refers to this trend as the unnecessary father concept.　　职业母亲（我想这应是与无职业母亲相对而言的）奋斗的故事从媒体上无尽无休地轰击着我们。与此同时，媒体上绝大多数有关父亲的故事又集中表现暴力的丈夫或没出息的父亲。看起来似乎父亲惟一值得人们提及的时候是因为他们做家务太少而受到指责的时候（我怀疑这一说法的可靠性，因为家务”的定义中很少包括打扫屋顶的雨水沟、给汽车换机油或其它一些典型地由男人们做的事），或者是在他们去世的时候。当布兰肯霍恩先生就顾家的好男人”一词的词义对父亲们进行调查时，许多父亲都回答这一词语只有在葬礼上听到。 We are HYPERLINK javascript:openwords(wordsaopen.html#8)bombardedby stories about the struggles of working mothers (as opposed to non-working mothers, I suppose). Meanwhile, a high proportion of media stories about fathers focus on abusive husbands or HYPERLINK javascript:openwords(wordsaopen.html#12)deadbeat dads. It seems that the only time fathers meri