By Vicki Turetsky Center for Law and Social Policy Over the last decade, an unregulated industry related to the alternative financial services industry has grown rapidly, primarily around the internet, to aggressively and sometimes deceptively market child support collection services…
Category: Family
Moynihan of the Moynihan Report
This was written in 1966. What has changed since? Have things improved in the black community with the government’s assistance? Moreover, the Moynihan Report noted that first-graders without fathers in the home have I.Q.’s 7.5 per cent lower than those…
TV Star Jon Cryer Must Pay Child Support for Son in His Custody
If more people knew this could happen to them, do you really think they would get married and have kids? Child support laws are outdated and need to be updated to reflect modern life in America. Fathers do not need…
The End of Marriage?
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The War Against Women?
Listen to what she is saying. It might change the way you think. She is brilliant: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqOTj9NDv80&w=420&h=315]
Christina Hoff Sommers on “The Tyranny of Niceness”
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Winners and LOSERS
If this is true, what are you going to do about it?
Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School
More news that points out the obvious. by Jessica Lahey – The Atlantic Magazine Something is rotten in the state of boys’ education, and I can’t help but suspect that the pattern I have seen in my classroom may have…
Myths Surrounding Children And Divorce
Myths About the Effects of Divorce on Children: By Cathy Meyer, About.com Guide In the early 1970’s, Judith Wallerstein, began to study the effects of divorce on children. She studied a group of 131 children and their families who were…
Permanent Alimony Hurts Women
Permanent Alimony. Truly a thing of the past, or soon to be. Here are some quotes from a great article I saw online and some videos that drive home the point. Alimony needs reform – no doubt about that. Why?…
Marriage Is For Broke Men Only!
Why should a man with money, power, status and confidence get married? What is in it for men like this? Why should men commit to a woman at all? I mean, really?! We can get sex from women on a…
“If boys are in trouble, it’s a women’s issue – we’re all in trouble.”
Christina Sommers talks about the effects of a philosophy that can be somewhat hostile to young men: Women’s Rights. Advocating for recognition of gender differences while maintaining equality, Sommers discusses the implications, risks, and consequences of consistently supporting and encouraging…
Goodbye darling, you’re just too dull
I’d be perfectly happy with women divorcing their husbands because they are bored only if those women who wanted out of that marriage got NOTHING, except what she came into it with. No child support, no children, no alimony and…
Hooking Up
I’d love to get the same group of women together at age 35 to see how they feel about “hooking up” then. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJemckBlP64&w=560&h=315]
Family Law – from the child’s perspective
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Wimpy Kids
Here is a fascinating article that everyone should read. A Nation Of Wimps By Hara Estroff Marano excerpts: ……No one doubts that there are significant economic forces pushing parents to invest so heavily in their children’s outcome from an…
The Value Of A Father
It’s crazy that we have to have articles written like this in 2013. It is sad that women don’t understand the value of a father. It’s also apparent that fathers don’t know their worth either. I have always known the…
No One Can “Have It All”
I found a great article in the latest issue of Esquire Magazine called WHY MEN STILL CAN’T HAVE IT ALL written by Richard Dorment. “Lately, the raging debate about issues of “work-life balance” has focused on whether or not women can “have…
Women have to pay alimony too
The De-Gendering of Divorce: Wives Pay Ex-Husbands Alimony Too By Liza Mundy Not long ago, after giving a talk about the growing number of women who are breadwinners in their marriages, I was approached by an audience member who identified herself…
Dr. Murray Strauss
Dr. Murray Straus [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHxQTTg_wLE] Murray Straus University of New Hampshire Women hitting men In 1968-69 and 1970-71. I found something that I just ignored. I was so focused on the issue of wife beating, and the feminist perspective of…
