The combination of feminism  and the welfare state will reduce the status of fathers to that of household pets - a prediction  attributed to Bertrand Russell in the 1930s. For so many fathers in our society, who have  experienced parental breakdown and separation, this is a prediction that has  become all too true. About half of all children now born in the UK are to unmarried mothers. A report published in 2013 by the Centre for Social Justice < >said that…