Sarah Berry Life & Style reporter-Sydney Morning Herald Sadly, not enough dads realise the impact they have on their daughters’ lives. One study found only 30 per cent of fathers believed that active involvement in their daughter’s life was vital…
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The Casualties Of Lifetime Alimony Payments
Ari Schochet has grown so accustomed to being sent to jail for missing alimony payments that he goes into a routine. Before his family-court hearing, Schochet, 41, sticks on a nicotine patch to cope with jailhouse smoking bans, sends an…
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…
The Best “Financial” Interests Of The Child…or State
Senator Rick Jones….”People should be more responsible… shouldn’t father children outside of marriage.” Blaming the victim is fine in our society, provided the victim is a man. It does not matter who the biological father is, only what’s in the…
Happy Father’s Day, MOM!
Originally posted on June 12, 2013 on A Voice for Men Father’s Day cards for mothers. Yes you read this correctly. At first I thought it was a joke, but I learned that it was all too real. This line of cards…
The End of Marriage?
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The Stigma of the Stay At Home Dad
Listen to the NPR broadcast of “the Changing Lives Of Women” HERE: Well, well, well. Now we have a discussion about what life is like for stay at home dads. I find it very interesting how the discussion is focused…
Christina Hoff Sommers on “The Tyranny of Niceness”
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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.…
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…
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]
Men and the New Jim Crow
Some people might not want to hear it but, take a look around and see what is going on. Look at the laws that are in place and how it is affecting certain menber of our society. The New Jim…
I Don’t Need A Man
Yes you do….. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juR74OYiegY&w=420&h=315]
Don’t Be THAT guy
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Killer Mike on Being A Father
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Family Law – from the child’s perspective
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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…
Big Shoes
I absolutely LOVE my kids….and yeah, those are big shoes to fill. Happy Father’s Day to fathers everywhere!
Black Men Want Committed Relationships?
I found this at NPR: So Single Black Men Want Commitment. Really? by GENE DEMBY June 08, 2013 We recently found that single black men were much more likely to say they were looking for a long-term relationship (43 percent)…
