Here are some common side effects of being in an abusive relationship, whether the abusive individual has a personality disorder or not: 1) Censoring your thoughts and feelings. You edit it yourself because you’re afraid of her reactions. Swallowing the…
Category: Marriage
The truth hurts
Why Liberals Are Wrong on Teen Pregnancy by Keli Goff- posted on The Root March 12, 2013 There’s a scene in the wildly popular TV show Downton Abbey in which a single mother working as a prostitute to support her…
Boys Are At The Back Of The Class
Boys are lagging behind girls in school; on average, they get worse grades, take fewer advanced classes and are less likely to graduate. To find out why boys are taking a back seat in education, host Michel Martin speaks with…
Joint Custody As The Rule, Not The Exception
Espousing joint custody as a favourable solution to bitter tug-of-wars in child custody battles, retired chief justice of Delhi high court AP Shah and justice RS Dalvi from the Bombay high court said that it could do wonders for the…
Divorcing Parents Costing Billions
“Children growing up in lone-parent households, despite all the investment that the Government has made, still face the highest poverty levels in the country.” It’s the same in every county. This idea of being single, choosing single parenthood and discouraging…
Children should inherit the FATHER’S last name and not the mother’s
I ran across an interesting essay called “Why Children Must Inherit Their Last Names from Their Father, Not Their Mother” by SATOSHI KANAZAWA. It had some interesting points that many of us never even think about. I’d love to hear your thoughts:…
Men not marrying? How deep does “the problem” go
From Girl Writes What [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlvMAS_20K4&w=420&h=315] Men used to be able to derive a positive male identity from marriage. That is, through the respected and uniquely male role of husband and father. When that identity is increasingly characterized by…
That Loving Feeling Takes a Lot of Work
In an article called “That Loving Feeling Takes A Lot Of Work, Jane E. Brody writes: When people fall in love and decide to marry, the expectation is nearly always that love and marriage and the happiness they bring will…
Why Young Men Are Giving Up On Marriage
Suzanne Venker’s article, “The War on Men,” which appeared on the website of Fox News in late November, has become a lodestone for feminist writers who have attacked her position that the institution of marriage is threatened, not enhanced, by…
Why Men Are the Way They Are – Oprah -1987
I found these videos while doing some research on Dr. Warren Farrell. He was on The Oprah Winfrey show back in 1987. It’s great to look back at Oprah from this time period. She was just getting started and on…
Permanent Maintenance?
This sums up everything. Permanent maintenance makes absolutely NO sense in our modern society. NONE! Nathan Webb I don’t live in NJ, but I know the terror of “spousal maintenance” and how it can destroy lives. My ex wife became…
When is a sperm donor a father?
After putting an ad on Craigslit, an agreement was made between Jennifer Schreiner, Angela Bauer and William Marotta. William was to be the sperm donor but to not have any parental rights. The couple chooses to have the child with William.…
The Cost of Delaying Marriage
by Danielle Crittenden From What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman by Danielle Crittenden. © 1999 by Danielle Crittenden. Published by Simon and Schuster. Our grandmothers, we are told, took husbands the way we might choose our first…
Michelle’s dad & America’s real crisis
“The parental characteristics that employers value and are willing to pay for, such as skills, diligence, honesty, good health, and reliability, also improve children’s life chances, independent of their effect on parents’ income,” Susan Mayer writes in her book “What…
Titles have meaning
Be careful what you wish for…’cause you just might get it…and not like it. Was there a massive protest in French society to come up with this legislation? Were there millions of mothers and fathers crying out for massive change?…
The Contempt for Dads
I don’t take this stuff that seriously. Guys With Kids is yet another stupid sitcom. I watched the pilot a few minutes ago on Hulu and read a review on the show in Esquire. I’ll never watch the show ever again. Steven…
Parental Alienation
The same rule applies for fathers who use their kids as pawns. It is NEVER a good idea to use your children to hurt your ex.
What fathers need to know BEFORE they get divorced
Fathers love their children just as much as mothers do. We want to see our kids grow up to be healthy vibrant, productive members of society. We also want to be around them as much as possible and watch them…
To Live In Peace
If to live in peace means to shut my mouth, And speak naught against evil and hate; If to live in peace means to close my eyes, to the bigotry and trees that prevail; if to live in peace means…
The Moynihan Report
“From the wild Irish slums of the 19th-century Eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows large numbers of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated…
