Tag: mothers

What Makes a Woman?

The “I was born in the wrong body” rhetoric favored by other trans people doesn’t work any better and is just as offensive, reducing us to our collective breasts and vaginas. Imagine the reaction if a young white man suddenly…

Instant Custody

If you knew that you would automatically get custody and not have to pay child support and/or alimony, would you be more likely to file for divorce if you were really unhappy in your marriage or relationship? Let me guess…

Female Predators

Interesting article: Don’t excuse female predators of children BY LAUREN BOOK LAUREN@LAURENSKIDS.ORG http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/02/3539486/dont-excuse-female-predators-of.html Any parent can relate to the fear of a sexual predator lurking in the shadows near a playground, looking for the next victim. And while bad-intentioned strangers…

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…

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…

Hero

[wpvideo 8golu2HG] Khaaliq Thomas is a professional photographer, custodial father of 3 children and is recently divorced. For the past year he has been working on a photo documentary concentrating on single/custodial father households. Purpose of The Project After fighting for…

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…

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…