Zachary Scott for TIME An excerpt from HERE There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we’re lifetime baby-making machines. Women’s reproductive abilities start to wane when they’re as…
Author: Clayton Craddock
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Single fathers head a record number of American households with children
If single fathers spend more time now with our children and make more money than single mothers, why should mothers get custody at all? Being a single parent is difficult. It doesn’t matter if you are male or female. I…
Deadbeat Parents? State-Mandated Child Support Hurts The Ones It’s Supposed To Help
An excerpt from this article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-kellner/deadbeat-parents-stateman_b_2839817.html By Ellen Kellner – Mindful thinker and author of ‘The Pro Child Way®: Parenting with an Ex’ Divorce attorneys are familiar with the child-support focus of their clients. “It’s the elephant in the room”, says one Palm Springs attorney who is…
U.S. Women on the Rise as Family Breadwinner
An excerpt from a New York Times article by CATHERINE RAMPELL Women are not only more likely to be the primary caregivers in a family. Increasingly, they are primary breadwinners, too. Four in 10 American households with children under age 18…
What If Men Stopped Chasing Much-Younger Women?
What if this article were titled: What If Women Stopped Chasing Much Wealthier, Higher Status Men? I have a strong feeling this is not going to happen anytime soon simply because that’s the way it’s been for almost all of human…
Surge in ADHD diagnoses gets a red flag
Children play in a corridor in Barcelona, Spain on November 21, 2012Children play in a corridor in Barcelona, Spain on November 21, 2012 An excerpt from an article from http://www.france24.com Doctors sounded a warning Tuesday over a rise in ADHD diagnoses,…
Why can’t I be a dad?
Top judge pledges to end culture of secrety at family courts
From The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10442315/Top-judge-pledges-to-end-culture-of-secrety-at-family-courts.html One of England’s most senior judges has pledged to expose family courts to the “glare of publicity” to avoid miscarriages of justice and restore public confidence. Sir James Munby, president of the Family Division of the High…
The best interests of the child from the perspective of the child
An excerpt from : The Voices of Children of Divorce Listening to the real experts on the “best interests of the child” Published on November 12, 2013 by Edward Kruk, Ph.D. in Co-Parenting After Divorce My simple but constant plea to divorce practitioners and…
Mixed Messages
REAL Women support shared parenting
This is a LADIES only petition, why? Because we need to show not only Governor Rick Scott but the world that this is NOT just a Father’s rights issue. Studies indicate that just as much or even more women support shared parenting than…
The realities of many non-custodial parents
Legally Obscene: Rape, Statutory Rape, and Child Support
One day we will all see child support for what it really is…a transfer of money from fathers to mothers. It has nothing to do with supporting children. I have been saying this over and over and over again. Here…
The Power Of Dad
Yeah, It’s an Oral-B commercial. I hate these kinds of things, but I posted this because of the message it sends about the importance fathers and the role we play. In this blog, I choose to be the total opposite…
Not Lovin’ It: Dad Accused of ‘Unfit Parenting’ for Refusing to Take His Son to McDonalds
This is just another day in the life of fathers all across the country who are involved in silly custody disputes. If this does not expose the nonsense that goes on in family court, nothing will. One day, we will…
Child Support Laws Are In Need Of Reform
An opionion piece by Brenda Manghane-Washington from the Chattanoogan.com Excerpt: …I still believe there’s a need of reform in child support laws. As they stand, there is no distinction between a parent who can’t pay and a parent who refuses…
Broken homes, broken boys
There will be a certain point where the bullsh*t they tell people on cable news will finally end. Everything I have been saying is true, real and is starting to rear it’s ugly head…especially in places like CHICAGO. The nuclear-family…
Make fatherhood a man’s choice!
(Credit: Kasia Bialasiewicz/Shutterstock) The burden of pregnancy will never be fair. Child support can be — but men need to have a chance to opt out BY ANNA MARCH, THE WEEKLINGS salon.com An excerpt from THIS article Over the past…
‘I was ambushed by the Twitterati feminists who in actual fact hate women’
An excerpt from THIS article: Rather than campaigning to help women, feminists today are more likely to be picking fights on Twitter, or dressing up petty grievances as proof of rampant ‘sexism’. And, needless to say, these devotees of ‘equality’…
Are Men Really the Bad Guys Holding Women Back?
A quote from THIS article. By Kathryn Sollmann- The Huffington Post ‘After investing as much as $250,000 in tuition, why would fathers watch proudly as their daughters graduate from college, and then expect them only to work for a year…
