The thread would have been much more accessible and interesting if the title included fathers in this and posed a more specific question of "to what extent do you defend your children". As is, it really just seems like bait and/or (pardon the perceived insult/lack of grace) ignorance.
I'm more interested now in what spurred the thread and if it is in fact just a massive jack off or if WildRanger really thinks that women defend their children more than men and if that has to do with women being women or if there's a specific circumstance behind the thread's creation.
Because I'll be damned if I haven't seen some fathers defend some seriously deplorable actions by their sons. On the opposite end of the spectrum, dads like mine have supported me getting better through my alcoholism and kept me alive while a lot of other people threw me by the wayside and said I was useless trash that should be forgotten. All the while, my mother was in blissful drunkenness throughout it all (and still is) with not a care in the world towards either myself or anyone else. Case in point, what the fuck is with this thread?
Everyone has their own circumstance, situation and can probably both define and defy the status-quo in one way or another. Again, way too broad of a question with an apparently biased and awkward preamble.
I defer to my egg-throwing hypothesis.
Also, in reference to Stadler's usual great post, I can see Hitler's dad sitting in a rocking chair, cigar in one hand, cup of scotch in the other.... "Eh...the kid had a bad few years".