In this candid documentary series, celebrity dads including Kevin Bacon, Bryan Cranston, and Mike Myers open up to Hank Azaria as he quizzes them about fatherhood. It’s not often you’ll see Hollywood personalities speaking so openly and honestly about such an intimate subject, but Hank’s direct questioning encourages his friends to speak from the heart….
Read moreDestination Unknown: From No Dad to Girl Dad
This podcast is a must-hear. It’s a compelling story about two strangers. It’s a podcast series about a father and his unknown daughter and his fight to do the right thing while battling everything wrong with the family court system. Listen HERE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/destination-unknown-from-no-dad-to-girl-dad/id1561786885 Clayton Craddock is a father, independent thinker, and the founder and publisher of…
Read moreWhat Does ‘Man Up’ Really Mean? See also: “Grow a pair,” “Be a man,” and “Stop acting like a girl.”
Has the phrase ‘man up’ outlived its usefulness? To many, these two words may seem harmless. People often say ‘man up’ when suggesting a man be strong or show less emotion, but maybe the phrase implies one can be more or less of a man based on behavior. What does it mean? Does ‘man-up’ suggest…
Read moreUnilateral Divorce – Why isn’t a marriage contract as enforceable as any other contract?
In response to frustration among legal practitioners regarding fabricated legal marital controversies and divorce difficulties, California Governor Ronald Reagan signed the Family Law Act of 1969, resulting in the country’s first no-fault divorce law. No-fault divorce became available to spouses who filed either a unilateral divorce (without the spouse’s consent) or a consensual divorce (with…
Read more8 Reasons Why Fathers Matter
A few years ago, I asked one of my closest friends an interesting question. Why would anyone think I wasn’t essential for the proper rearing of my children? Many often assume that after a divorce, the mother gets the children, and the father leaves and pays child support. The dad visits his kids every other…
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A Tribute To Eddie Van Halen by his son Wolfgang- “Distance”
People die from more types of diseases than COVID. It’s a fact we all seem to be forgetting. Life is short. Take advantage of the time we have right now and never let an opportunity go to waste to reach out to friends and family. Wolfgang Van Halen has released “Distance,” his first solo single…
Read moreTeam Crad
My little man and I played ball in the park today for a while by ourselves. I was showing him how to keep moving on the court, how to cut to the basket and a few more basketball fundamentals. I’m not a coach and never played past the 8th grade but I’ve played a few…
Read moreThe 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 by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of…
Read moreSingle Fatherhood in New York City
In 2012, I was contacted by a graduate student who was looking for stories about single fathers. I think she found me from an old blog I used to have. It’s so interesting to listen to this recording eight years later. Very little has changed with my relationship to my kids as well as my…
Read moreMonday’s
Monday’s are special to me. It has been my only day off from work since I left the day-job era of my life and became a full-time professional musician. Monday’s are the only time I have my kids overnight. My parenting time is from 7:15AM-6PM during the weekdays and I also have them during the…
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