From the Wall Street Journal article “At-Home Dads Make Parenting More of a ‘Guy’ Thing” Mr. Mom is dead. At least, the pop-culture image of the inept dad who wouldn’t know a diaper genie from a garbage disposal has begun to fade. In his place, research shows, is emerging a new model of at-home fatherhood…
Read moreA 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…
Read moreMarry Him!
Lori Gottlieb explains why women should stop holding out for Mr. Right From The Atlantic: “Ah, this is the dream,” I said, and we nodded in silence for a minute, then burst out laughing. In some ways, I meant it: we’d both dreamed of motherhood, and here we were, picnicking in the park with our…
Read moreMen not marrying? How deep does “the problem” go
From Girl Writes What Men used to be able to derive a positive male identity from marriage. That is, through the respected and uniquely male role of husband and father. When that identity is increasingly characterized by society as superfluous, obsolete, or in the words of Harriet Harman, unnecessary to social cohesion, it is…
Read moreManhood & Anger – What Dads Can Teach
In a recent post in Psychology Today , Mark Banschick, M.D wrote a great explanation of the connection between fathers and sons and why fathers are needed. Single parenthood is not easy for fathers or mothers. The notion of choosing single parenthood is foolish. There are clear reasons why it is a bad idea. Here are a…
Read moreLegacy
My grandmother was born in 1918. Yes, the end of World War I. That is a long time ago. She is still alive and kicking and has lots of stories to tell. I am getting as many of them as I can because she has lived for almost 95 years. She is one hard working…
Read moreStay at Home Dad: Sacked : A Physical Education
I have been checking out the other videos of this guy on Youtube for a while. I think this is one of the funniest. When Brandon has a meeting with his son’s PE coach, he soon discovers that they don’t see eye to eye on how to discipline a child. ‘Non-aggressive behavior is always the…
Read moreI got this
The unmarried father. We hear all the time about heroic single mothers. We hear very little about the other half of the population. Yeah, fathers can be just as heroic and can raise children without mothers. I feel it is NEVER good to raise children as a single parent, but if it is forced upon…
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THIS happened ten years ago at 10:10AM Jan 21st, 2003. I remember it like it was…10 years ago. Time really flies. I have spent just about every single day with my daughter. That evil place called family court could not stop me from being the father I wanted to be. Now she is 10. She…
Read moreWhy 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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