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 “best interest” of the child. Really? REALLY? What they are saying in code is; which…
Read moreHappy 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 was inducted into the Greeting Card Hall-of-Shame by Hallmark in 2011. Their target audience is…
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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 on how this change in culture affects women. The NPR series I posted above is…
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Listen to what she is saying. It might change the way you think. She is brilliant:
Read moreChristina Hoff Sommers on “The Tyranny of Niceness”
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. Fatherlessness as a condition has been linked with virtually every social ill you can name…
Read moreMyths Surrounding Children And Divorce
Myths About the Effects of Divorce on Children: By Cathy Meyer, About.com Guide In the early 1970’s, Judith Wallerstein, began to study the effects of divorce on children. She studied a group of 131 children and their families who were going through the divorce process over a period of 25 years. In her book, The…
Read moreDivorce 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 courts. Quite frankly, men’s rights has become a civil rights issue. When you think of…
Read morePermanent 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? I feel the truth of the injustice of permanent alimony is starting to be revealed….
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