Oh, the double standards. Imagine a male boss who praised a woman for writing a good report in a way that makes it clear that he didn’t expect her to do it so well. Since it was a routine part of her job that was always held by a man, he was caught off guard by…
Read moreSkip Child Support. Go to Jail. Lose Job. Repeat.
An excerpt from HERE: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/us/skip-child-support-go-to-jail-lose-job-repeat.html?smid=fb-share There is no national count of how many parents are incarcerated for failure to pay child support, and enforcement tactics vary from state to state, as do policies such as whether parents facing jail are given court-appointed lawyers. But in 2009, a survey in South Carolina found that one in eight…
Read moreVictimizing The Accused? Obama’s Campus Sexual Assault Guidelines Raise Concerns
An excerpt from this article: http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2014/05/05/due-process-and-sexual-assault-wendy-kaminer “Not Alone,” the White House entitled its task force report on campus sexual assaults. “Believe the Victim,” the report might as well have been called. It reflects a presumption of guilt in sexual assault cases that practically obliterates the due process rights of the accused. Students leveling accusations of…
Read moreGuilty Until Proven Innocent: The Skewed White House Crusade on Sexual Assault
An excerpt from THIS article by Cathy Young: Last year, a University of North Carolina student who remained anonymous for safety reasons spoke to the campus newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, about feeling victimized by the school’s response to a sexual assault report—the handling of which is now the target of a federal civil rights…
Read moreHow apprenticeships can empower fathers and strengthen marriages
This is an excerpt from the fourth article in a four-part series, written in partnership with TheAtlantic.com, examining the role of fathers in American families. Young men are more likely to drop out of high school and are less likely to aspire to college than their female peers. Young men who are poor, live in a city and are…
Read moreInstant 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 your answer…yes. Of course you would. This is the way many people feel when they…
Read moreWhy the Challenge to “Violence-Against-Women” Programs is Essential
An Essay by Ron Collins For over a year now I have been researching the US federal government’s programs under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). I have made a number of significant findings, which I introduce below, but the first thing I discovered going in was the sense of taboo and political terror guarding…
Read moreGovernment To The Rescue!!!
In his remarks Thursday, the president made several telling points. First, the big-government approach won’t work: “Government can’t play the only — or even primary — role,” he said. “We can’t replace the role of the parent.” Second, the First Dad also spoke candidly about the negative impact of not having a father around had…
Read moreNo, Women Don’t Make Less Money Than Men
Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty The myth won’t die. Christina exposes the President’s false claim of discrimination at the Daily Beast. It’s the bogus statistic that won’t die—and president deployed it during the State of the Union—but women do not make 77 cents to every dollar a man earns. President Obama repeated the spurious gender…
Read moreNo One Can “Have It All”
I found a great article in the latest issue of Esquire Magazine called WHY MEN STILL CAN’T HAVE IT ALL written by Richard Dorment. “Lately, the raging debate about issues of “work-life balance” has focused on whether or not women can “have it all.” Entirely lost in this debate is the growing strain of work-life balance on…
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