The best interests of the child from the perspective of the child
An excerpt from : The Voices of Children of Divorce Listening to the real experts on the “best interests of the child” Published on November 12, 2013 by Edward Kruk, Ph.D. in Co-Parenting After Divorce My simple but constant plea to divorce practitioners and policymakers, a mantra, is that we adopt a new standard in the legal determination of…
Read moreMixed Messages
The realities of many non-custodial parents
The Power Of Dad
Yeah, It’s an Oral-B commercial. I hate these kinds of things, but I posted this because of the message it sends about the importance fathers and the role we play. In this blog, I choose to be the total opposite of most of our media. What you tend to see on TV, print media and…
Read moreA real man does what?
Um. no…A real man won’t not allow himself to get sucked into a system that takes advantage of his gender. A real man will not allow a woman to just up and leave with the children he helped create. Remember, the kids you created with that woman are yours too. A real man will fight…
Read moreWhy get married at all?
I have just a few questions….why should any man get married? What is in it for men to get married? As soon as those questions are answered, you might find out why the trend in shacking up is happening. There is a new article in The Atlantic that shows the steady decline in marriage. How…
Read moreThe Importance of Dads
Sarah Berry Life & Style reporter-Sydney Morning Herald Sadly, not enough dads realise the impact they have on their daughters’ lives. One study found only 30 per cent of fathers believed that active involvement in their daughter’s life was vital to her health and well being. This is despite recent findings that the dad’s influence…
Read moreThe Casualties Of Lifetime Alimony Payments
Ari Schochet has grown so accustomed to being sent to jail for missing alimony payments that he goes into a routine. Before his family-court hearing, Schochet, 41, sticks on a nicotine patch to cope with jailhouse smoking bans, sends an “Ari Off the Grid” e-mail to friends and family, and scrawls key phone numbers in…
Read moreMoynihan of the Moynihan Report
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,…
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