This was written in 1966. What has changed since? Have things improved in the black community with the government’s assistance? Moreover, the Moynihan Report noted that first-graders without fathers in the home have I.Q.’s 7.5 per cent lower than those with fathers and that, in central Harlem, where a majority of the children are fatherless,…
Read moreHappy Father’s Day, MOM!
Originally posted on June 12, 2013 on A Voice for Men Father’s Day cards for mothers. Yes you read this correctly. At first I thought it was a joke, but I learned that it was all too real. This line of cards was inducted into the Greeting Card Hall-of-Shame by Hallmark in 2011. Their target audience is…
Read moreThe Stigma of the Stay At Home Dad
Listen to the NPR broadcast of “the Changing Lives Of Women” HERE: Well, well, well. Now we have a discussion about what life is like for stay at home dads. I find it very interesting how the discussion is focused on how this change in culture affects women. The NPR series I posted above is…
Read moreHarassing Free Speech
Take some time to read the article below and also watch THIS video. There are some truly disturbing things happening on our college campuses: U.S. rule makes every student a sex harasser MAY 11, 2013 BY JOANNE John asks Mary for a date. She says no. The request was unwelcome, so he’s a sexual harasser….
Read moreThe War Against Women?
Listen to what she is saying. It might change the way you think. She is brilliant:
Read moreChristina Hoff Sommers on “The Tyranny of Niceness”
Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School
More news that points out the obvious. by Jessica Lahey – The Atlantic Magazine Something is rotten in the state of boys’ education, and I can’t help but suspect that the pattern I have seen in my classroom may have something to do with a collective failure to adequately educate boys. The statistics are grim….
Read moreWHY FATHERHOOD MATTERS
Fatherhood is also classically aspirational. It’s a marker of class, pure and simple. Fatherlessness is a real crisis even as fatherhood gains this wild significance. In 2008, 41 percent of births involved unmarried women compared with 28 percent in 1990. Fatherlessness as a condition has been linked with virtually every social ill you can name…
Read moreDivorce Civil Rights
by Joseph E. Cordell Divorce lawyer and founder of DadsDivorce.com As a society, we find profiling — painting a group of people with such a broad brush — to be wholly unacceptable. Except when it applies to men in family courts. Quite frankly, men’s rights has become a civil rights issue. When you think of…
Read morePermanent Alimony Hurts Women
Permanent Alimony. Truly a thing of the past, or soon to be. Here are some quotes from a great article I saw online and some videos that drive home the point. Alimony needs reform – no doubt about that. Why? I feel the truth of the injustice of permanent alimony is starting to be revealed….
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