A Feminist Mother’s Perspective On Why Father’s Matter

There is great stuff on the site Good Men Project. I like to hear things from a woman’s perspective. Sometimes it is best for people to hear things from women because they might find it easier to hear. What she is saying is pretty obvious to me. It is apparently not obvious to two generations…

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Why Young Men Are Giving Up On Marriage

Suzanne Venker’s article, “The War on Men,” which appeared on the website of Fox News in late November, has become a lodestone for feminist writers who have attacked her position that the institution of marriage is threatened, not enhanced, by the supposed gains of the feminist movement over the last 50 years. “Where have all…

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Gwen Stephani on how motherhood is ‘not what you think it’s going to be’

From her new Vogue interview: “Getting to the studio and not being able to make it happen, but missing out on being at home, missing out on putting the kids down. What’s more important? I felt so guilty,” she tells the magazine. “‘I am letting everyone down in the studio right now; I’m letting down…

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Michelle’s dad & America’s real crisis

“The parental characteristics that employers value and are willing to pay for, such as skills, diligence, honesty, good health, and reliability, also improve children’s life chances, independent of their effect on parents’ income,” Susan Mayer writes in her book “What Money Can’t Buy.” “Children of parents with these attributes do well even when their parents…

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How the ‘Having It All’ Debate Has Changed Over the Last 30 Years – Deborah Fallows

from the Atlantic: I recently cleared my calendar for nearly a month, deleting it all: work, meetings, appointments, dinners, movies, and even workouts at the gym. It felt at once liberating and luxurious, and a little bit scary. I had done this a few times before, twice for much longer times when our sons were…

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