Ben Affleck on Fatherhood

“They’re most important in my life,” the 40-year-old Argo filmmaker said. “Family is a wonderful thing, but it doesn’t mean you can’t do other stuff in your life. In fact, having a family makes whatever other thing you have that much richer. If it was just me, I’d be home alone and think, ‘Well, something good happened…

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Why Men Are the Way They Are – Oprah -1987

I found these videos while doing some research on Dr. Warren Farrell. He was on The Oprah Winfrey show back in 1987. It’s great to look back at Oprah from this time period. She was just getting started and on her way to ruling the daytime TV world. These videos feature Dr. WarrenFarrell. He came…

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Why Does TV Love To Portray Dads As Idiots?

“Originally appeared on Role/Reboot. Republished here with permission,” By Emily Heist Moss What are we telling young boys if the examples of fatherhood they see everyday are parodies of incompetence? Every time I see a promo for the new Scott Baio sitcom, See Dad Run, I gag a little. I can hardly believe that a) Scott…

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Daughters, Too, Benefit From Influence of Good Dads

Dads model so-called masculine traits for daughters and sons. My daughter worked six days a week as an intern in her father’s company before she departed for her freshman year in college. She assembled press packets and gift bags; coordinated publicity events and sent celebrity photos to stores three days a week; and on the…

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Women Earn More Than Men?

By Belinda Luscombe – Tmie Magazine Wednesday, Sept. 01, 2010 The fact that the average American working woman earns only about 8o% of what the average American working man earns has been something of a festering sore for at least half the population for several decades. And despite many programs and analyses and hand-wringing and…

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