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ifeminists August 10, 2005 Tony Zizza |
A Decade Later, Fatherless America Remains Problematic There are some uncomfortable truths most people are afraid to admit. That is, the primary reason why stepfamilies end and stepfathers "disengage" from their stepchildren is because sometimes stepchildren make the the poor choice to not accept the stepfather as a parent. |
Salon.com August 9, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
The myth of the deadbeat dad A researcher who interviewed black fathers who don't live with their kids talks about their surprising views on parenting... |
ifeminists June 14, 2006 Leving & Sacks |
New Report: Foster Care System Disregards Fathers America's child welfare policies are seriously misguided. When a mother is deemed unfit to care for her children, dad shouldn't be just one option out of many. He should be first in line. |
ifeminists June 15, 2005 Carey Roberts |
A Government Program Is No Substitute For a Bear-Hug Why does the US taxpayer continue to subsidize government programs, to the tune of billions of dollars a year, that end up separating fathers from their families? |
ifeminists June 16, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
The Birth of Father's Day If the holiday took longer to receive the public acknowledgement it deserved, perhaps this can be a reminder of how easy it is, even for those with good intentions, to overlook the importance of fatherhood. |
ifeminists February 9, 2005 Jennifer Roback Morse |
What Dads Do The secret of what dads do is hidden in plain sight, in the open secret that men and women are different. The parent of each gender contributes something unique. The two parents complement one another. |
ifeminists October 5, 2005 Tony Zizza |
I Don't Want What You Want A television show relationship shows how biological mothers don't always make the best choices in regard to moving forward with creating a step-family. |
ifeminists June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce. |
ifeminists October 16, 2008 Tony Zizza |
Teen Motherhood a "Right"? Why is teen motherhood viewed as an absolute "right" while teen fatherhood is just a financial "responsibility."? |
ifeminists December 7, 2006 Carey Roberts |
The GOP's Betrayal of the Pro-Family Agenda When we survey the current state of the family, we see that Americans are half as likely to wed compared to a generation ago, mostly due to a growing shortage of marriage-minded men. How did all this happen? |
AskMen.com Julian Marcus |
12 Traits Of A Great Father A good father makes all the difference in a child's life. He's a pillar of strength, support and discipline. |
Salon.com October 4, 2000 Jennifer Foote Sweeney |
Pluck and circumstance Judith Wallerstein makes a case for marriage, and on rare occasions, a healthy divorce... |
AskMen.com June 5, 2001 Vatche Bartekian |
Learn To Be A Better Father Don't worry guys; it's not all that bad. Follow these simple rules and you'll be on your way to discovering a whole new side to life with children.... |
Fast Company June 2010 David Lidsky |
Numerology: Origins of Father's Day Statistics about Father's Day. |
ifeminists June 16, 2004 Carey Roberts |
Yes, Fathers Are Essential Despite what the American Psychological Association might say, most persons agree that dads are worth keeping around. |
ifeminists November 23, 2005 Carey Roberts |
Requiem for the Leftist Welfare Utopia Leftists have devised a simple yet amazingly effective formula to engender social discord: break up the family, marginalize fathers, and then blame the whole mess on men. But now people are catching on to the game plan and dads are staging a comeback. |
ifeminists February 25, 2004 Carey Roberts |
Dissing Dads According to the Father Facts report from the National Fatherhood Initiative, children with involved dads get better grades in school, have fewer emotional problems, enjoy better physical health, and are less likely to live in poverty. |
ifeminists October 18, 2006 McCormick & Sacks |
America's Father Hunger Russert's new book Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons goes beyond that of a sentimental journey. It's success is a testament to the hunger so many Americans feel for what recent generations have lost -- their fathers. |
ifeminists January 3, 2007 Leving & Sacks |
Dads Finally Get Fair Shake in the Media While the ''Father Knows Best'' depiction of dads was always a distortion, the ''Father Knows Nothing'' media theme of the past couple of decades has been a far greater one. Dads deserve a media rehabilitation -- hopefully 2006 was its beginning. |
ifeminists July 8, 2007 Michael J. McManus |
Taken Into Custody Father's Day was not joyful for millions of fathers who had a divorce forced upon them, whose children were "taken into custody" by the mother who filed for the divorce. |
ifeminists September 23, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
Do Poor Fathers Deserve Debtors' Prison? What does throwing a "deadbeat dad" in jail accomplish? |
ifeminists May 8, 2007 McCormick & Sacks |
Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls Tells an Important Truth About African-American Fathers While no judge or lawmaker can turn a disinterested parent into a caring one, much can and should be done to break down the many barriers which separate loving fathers from their children. |
ifeminists June 9, 2004 Carey Roberts |
Air-Brushing Dads Out Of The Picture The rise of fatherlessness in America did not occur because dads decided one day to get up and leave. It happened because they were pushed out. |
Salon.com June 12, 2000 Jonathan Kronstadt |
The New Dad Who are my role models? Hugh Beaumont? Robert Young? Neil Young? |
ifeminists March 5, 2007 Teri Stoddard |
Can't Find a Husband? Men who embrace fatherhood are shown their time and influence aren't important. Our government does this by enforcing child support orders while not enforcing visitation orders. |
Salon.com July 6, 2000 Cathy Young |
Team players or tools of the patriarchy? Women often are supplying the muscle behind the fathers' rights movement. |
Investment Advisor April 2007 Olivia Mellan |
Child Is Father to the Man Few money messages are as enduring as the ones a son learns from his dad. Here's what financial planners need to understand about this special relationship. |
ifeminists October 4, 2006 Leving & Sacks |
Are Single Mothers the 'New American Family?' Those who view the traditional family as disadvantageous to women are firing back, defending women who choose single motherhood and depicting fathers as superfluous. |
ifeminists June 14, 2006 Carey Roberts |
Playing Politics with the Federal Fatherhood Initiative The Fatherhood Initiative has become an orphan program that the Sisterhood would happily kill off, but the higher-ups know that would be politically embarrassing. So the Initiative now floats in bureaucratic cyberspace with no defined mandate, leadership, operating structure, or budget. |
ifeminists August 23, 2006 Tony Zizza |
Rethinking Elian Gonzalez The real issue at hand was, and is this: Does Elian deserve a chance to live in freedom or do fathers' rights and immigration law as constructed in America, mean he must live in a totalitarian regime? |
Fast Company April 2000 Tony Schwartz |
Life/Work "Full-time dads often struggle with respect -- getting it from others and having it for themselves." |
Salon.com June 13, 2000 Steffan Chirazi |
Hip papa Now that it's cool to be a dad, all you need is love and a Land Rover stroller. And maybe a pint. |
AskMen.com June 17, 2003 William Glass |
Signs You're Ready To Be A Father You might begin to realize, perhaps for the first time, that fatherhood is a rewarding and fulfilling venture. Are you ready to be a father? |
Reason December 2003 Cathy Young |
Divorcees and Social Engineers Most people acknowledge that children are better off when they have fathers and when their fathers are actively involved in their lives. But where do we go from there? Fathers face off against the marriage movement. |
ifeminists March 23, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Military Dads Denied Father's Rights A military father pays child support yet is denied access to his son. Other active military fathers face repercussions under The Bradley Amendment. |
ifeminists June 30, 2004 Carey Roberts |
Divorced Dads' White-Hot Sense of Injustice Noncustodial dads find it incomprehensible that their basic human right to be a parent is being curtailed by a legal system that they perceive to be expensive, cloaked in secrecy, and unfair, spurring their suicide rate to 10 times that of divorced women. |
The Motley Fool June 21, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Net of Gratitude Father's Day is now behind us, and retailers are tallying up just how much Americans love their dads. |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
Fatherhood Guide: Discipline This article addresses the fine line of disciplining your child. Discipline relates to children of all ages, but the following article will be most helpful to fathers of children under the age of 10. |
Salon.com June 15, 2000 Annie Auguste |
A wiggy shrink in yellow bell-bottoms Once I stopped expecting my father to be ordinary it got easier to accept his polymorphously perverse personality. |
Salon.com June 14, 2000 Yona Zeldis McDonough |
My father loved me as a child But when I became an adult, he decided that he never wanted to see me again. And he didn't. |
AskMen.com Michael Estrin |
Paying Child Support 101 Though the laws vary from state to state and each case is different, it's important to know a few things about the general process so you can protect yourself. |
ifeminists February 11, 2003 Thompson & Sacks |
Undermining the American Family The American Law Institute, which exercises great influence on American jurisprudence, has just released a series of family law recommendations that would exacerbate our problems by trivializing the importance of marriage, encouraging divorce and accelerating fatherlessness. |
The Motley Fool June 13, 2008 Colleen Paulson |
6 Cash Cows That Show Dad the Money Make your father proud by picking stocks with no debt and lots of cash. |
ifeminists January 5, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
What to Do About Daddy? How can courts help to prevent heart-wrenching father-child reunions? They should acknowledge at the very beginning of an adoption proceeding that both responsible parents have an equal voice. |
ifeminists October 19, 2005 Carey Roberts |
PBS' "Breaking the Silence" Not Ready For Prime Time America's rad-fems want to keep the lid tightly sealed on Parental Alienation Syndrome, since it is one of their most effective ploys for excluding fathers. And gaining child custody is a mother's meal ticket to many years of tax-free child support. |
ifeminists August 2, 2006 McCormick & Sacks |
NOW at 40: Group's Opposition to Shared Parenting Contradicts Its Goal of Gender Equality It's time for the National Organization for Women to re-examine its misguided stand against shared parenting, and to bring its policies into line with its stated ideals. |
ifeminists August 4, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
In Defense of 'Deadbeat' Dads It is time for the prison release of impoverished deadbeat dads to become official policy in every corner of North America. |
Entrepreneur October 2004 Nichole L. Torres |
Paternal Instincts Have a feeling that marketing to dads is a smart move? You're right on the money. |
Reason November 2002 Cathy Young |
Dad Blood If DNA tests prove that you're not your children's father, do you still owe child support? |
ifeminists February 10, 2004 K.C. Wilson |
Paternity Fraud: Female Violence Against Men Any fraud a man commits is called a crime. In forty-six states, the one exclusive to women is protected. |