Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

When I come home my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

And I come here as a daughter raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

We take our kids for physical vaccinations dental exams eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

As the mother of two daughters I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor I'm just gonna tell her 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you they can't really fire you and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'

My daughters your daughters our daughters deserve safety protection and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

I'm privileged because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.