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 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 moreHooking Up
I’d love to get the same group of women together at age 35 to see how they feel about “hooking up” then.
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 moreThe Female Child Molester
Wow! Imagine if this were a male teacher. The New York Daily News reported: A California high school teacher has been busted for underage sex – just days after giving birth to a baby allegedly fathered by her student lover. Laura Elizabeth Whitehurst, 28, was detained by cops in her Redlands home on Monday evening….
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 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 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 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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