I found this on a site recently and had to re-post. A great commentary on the reality we live in. Why do we allow 1960’s laws to exist in 2013? Paternity Law. Does One Size Fit the Best Interest of Children? Posted by: Jason Brown on the Star Tribune – http://www.startribune.com/local/yourvoices/204388701.html Jason Brown is the founding…
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“True Dads” featuring Joe Jones & CFUF from Center For Urban Families on Vimeo. Joseph T. Jones, Jr. Mr. Joseph T. Jones, Jr. is president and founder of the Center For Urban Families. Prior to founding CFUF, Mr. Jones developed and directed the Men’s Services program for the federally funded Baltimore Healthy Start initiative and…
Read moreEquality? Not with sentencing to prisons
If you’re a convicted criminal, the best thing you can have going for you might be your gender. A new study by Sonja Starr, an assistant law professor at the University of Michigan, found that men are given much higher sentences than women convicted of the same crimes in federal court. The study found…
Read moreSave your marriage by cheating?
More than 18 million people in 26 countries frequent AshleyMadison.com, a dating site for married people looking to have affairs. But while unsatisfied marrieds browse the site looking to hookup, the man behind the site — creator Noel Biderman — has been happily married for nearly 10 years. HuffPost Divorce spoke to Noel and his…
Read moreSuzy Lee Weiss
I feel that someone should have warned her before she hit SEND on her computer keyboard. To put yourself out there like this brings much more negative energy than positive to her name and image. Does she want to be remembered for this for the rest of her life? If so, hey, knock yourself out….
Read moreWhat feminism has come to
‘Princeton mom’ is more progressive than many critics in the media by S.E. CUPP – New York Daily News When Susan Patton wrote a letter to The Daily Princetonian last week, she probably had no concept of the controversy it would create. What she later described as merely “some good advice from a Jewish mother” has…
Read moreBlindsided: The exoneration of Brian Banks
Has Brian Banks’ dream of an NFL career been delayed or even destroyed by a false charge of rape and 5 years in prison? James Brown reports. A little more than a decade ago, Brian Banks was a star linebacker at Poly Tech High School in Long Beach, California. A well-known football powerhouse that’s sent…
Read moreRape Culture?
I found an interesting article on Slate the other day. I’m curious to hear your thoughts My bad sex wasn’t rape The outcry over a recent “Girls” episode startled me. What happened to a woman’s sexual agency? BY ANNA MARCH Defining regret over a consensual experience as rape conveys the message that women who experiment with…
Read moreBoys Are At The Back Of The Class
Boys are lagging behind girls in school; on average, they get worse grades, take fewer advanced classes and are less likely to graduate. To find out why boys are taking a back seat in education, host Michel Martin speaks with Christina Hoff Sommers, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of ‘The War…
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