Category: Fatherhood

WHY FATHERHOOD MATTERS

Fatherhood is also classically aspirational. It’s a marker of class, pure and simple. Fatherlessness is a real crisis even as fatherhood gains this wild significance. In 2008, 41 percent of births involved unmarried women compared with 28 percent in 1990.…

Stop Insulting Fathers!

Watch this video. Yeah, you have to get through the advertisement, but it might just make you think a little differently: [cnnvideo url=’http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2012/06/14/dads-fight-stereotypes.cnn’ inline=’true’]   Amid fury, Clorox pulls post insulting new dads Clorox pulled what was intended to be…

Why The Mommy Wars Rage On

Let’s be clear: It is a privileged group of women and men who ever confront this decision. Many don’t have anything approaching a financial choice when it comes to working. Others have children whose health problems dictate that someone be…

Parenting is a Team Sport

An excerpt from: Parenting is a Team Sport, Thy Black Men are Not Storks, and We Need a Fatherhood Bailout –  found on ThyBlackMan.com When I consider these lessons of manhood that I’ve been able to take for granted, I feel…

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…

Family court lawyers and blood sucking barristers reap the benefits like flesh eating vultures hovering over a freshly slaughtered carcas of a once happy relationship picking the bones and filling their bank balances.

“Family court lawyers and blood sucking barristers reap the benefits, like flesh eating vultures hovering over a freshly slaughtered carcus of a once happy relationship and picking the bones and filling their bank balances with blood stained bank notes”

Fatherhood 101

Marquette Williams kept his promise. Just like a responsible father should. For the past year, the Los Angeles filmmaker has been in and out of Cleveland working on a documentary, “Fatherhood 101,” that celebrates fatherhood and informs men about programs…