Take some time to read the article below and also watch THIS video. There are some truly disturbing things happening on our college campuses: U.S. rule makes every student a sex harasser MAY 11, 2013 BY JOANNE John asks Mary…
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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]
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…
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.…
Divorce Civil Rights
by Joseph E. Cordell Divorce lawyer and founder of DadsDivorce.com As a society, we find profiling — painting a group of people with such a broad brush — to be wholly unacceptable. Except when it applies to men in family…
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…
How to pay child support and STILL face prison time
I really don’t know when everyone will finally understand the reality of the game of child support. When will people see that this has very little to do with actually supporting children and much more with punitive measures against men…
National Mentoring Camp 2013 : Steve Harvey Mentoring Program
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEBHQ1FYkik&w=560&h=315]
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]
Marriage and The Single Black Woman
Removing so many men from the marriage market has profound consequences. As incarceration rates exploded between 1970 and 2007, the proportion of US-born black women aged 30-44 who were married plunged from 62% to 33%. Why this happened is complex…
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…
Louis C.K. On What It Takes To Be A Real Father
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJI8wLao1yY&w=420&h=315]
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…
Do you have FWS? Fatherless Woman Syndrome?
I ran across an amazing post online and needed to share some of it. You must read the entire post because the author breaks down so many of our culture’s issues rather nicely. I feel this is a problem…
Responsibility
Looking back at how my parents raised me, I realize how important the lessons of responsibility are to children. I remember my father always reminding me to clean my room. He would make me take out the garbage, mow the…