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…
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The realities of many non-custodial parents
Happy 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…
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The 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…
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WHY 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 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…
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Yes you do…..
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