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 moreMyths Surrounding Children And Divorce
Myths About the Effects of Divorce on Children: By Cathy Meyer, About.com Guide In the early 1970’s, Judith Wallerstein, began to study the effects of divorce on children. She studied a group of 131 children and their families who were going through the divorce process over a period of 25 years. In her book, The…
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….
Read moreMarriage Is For Broke Men Only!
Why should a man with money, power, status and confidence get married? What is in it for men like this? Why should men commit to a woman at all? I mean, really?! We can get sex from women on a regular basis because women are giving it up like it is Halloween. Many women feel…
Read moreHow to pay child support and STILL face prison time
I really don’t know when everyone will finally understand the reality of the game of child support. When will people see that this has very little to do with actually supporting children and much more with punitive measures against men and fathers. When will people get it? The National Parents Organization stated in one of…
Read moreGoodbye darling, you’re just too dull
I’d be perfectly happy with women divorcing their husbands because they are bored only if those women who wanted out of that marriage got NOTHING, except what she came into it with. No child support, no children, no alimony and no house. That sounds like a good deal to me. Go ahead and find yourself!…
Read moreMen and the New Jim Crow
Some people might not want to hear it but, take a look around and see what is going on. Look at the laws that are in place and how it is affecting certain menber of our society. The New Jim Crow? Does that phrase apply here? Are men/fathers second class citizens? Are there laws in…
Read moreI Don’t Need A Man
Yes you do…..
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