Let’s be clear: It is a privileged group of women and men who ever confront this decision. Many don’t have anything approaching a financial choice when it comes to working. Others have children whose health problems dictate that someone be there to manage their care. The issue is further distorted by socioeconomic class: One mother…
Read moreLouis C.K. On What It Takes To Be A Real Father
Big Shoes
I absolutely LOVE my kids….and yeah, those are big shoes to fill. Happy Father’s Day to fathers everywhere!
Read moreThe Value Of A Father
It’s crazy that we have to have articles written like this in 2013. It is sad that women don’t understand the value of a father. It’s also apparent that fathers don’t know their worth either. I have always known the truth since I grew up with both a strong father and a nurturing and supportive…
Read moreFathers disappear from households across America
In every state, the portion of families where children have two parents, rather than one, has dropped significantly over the past decade. Even as the country added 160,000 families with children, the number of two-parent households decreased by 1.2 million. Fifteen million U.S. children, or 1 in 3, live without a father, and nearly 5…
Read moreBlack Men Want Committed Relationships?
I found this at NPR: So Single Black Men Want Commitment. Really? by GENE DEMBY June 08, 2013 We recently found that single black men were much more likely to say they were looking for a long-term relationship (43 percent) compared to single black women (25 percent). Those numbers come from our big poll of African-Americans‘…
Read moreFatherhood 101
Marquette Williams kept his promise. Just like a responsible father should. For the past year, the Los Angeles filmmaker has been in and out of Cleveland working on a documentary, “Fatherhood 101,” that celebrates fatherhood and informs men about programs that can help them. Several programs offered by the Cuyahoga County Fatherhood Initiative are highlighted…
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…
Read moreDr. Murray Strauss
Dr. Murray Straus Murray Straus University of New Hampshire Women hitting men In 1968-69 and 1970-71. I found something that I just ignored. I was so focused on the issue of wife beating, and the feminist perspective of this, which is the way I approached it, that at first I didn’t hardly recognize that I’d…
Read moreThe Biological Kidnapper
Welcome to 2013. We live in an era where everything is suspicious, even the father of his own children is a suspect. Remember, if you see something…. A Prince William County man says he was suspected by Walmart security of possibly kidnapping his three young daughters — all because they aren’t the same race. Joseph,…
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