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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 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 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 June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts	Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce.
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 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.
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.
ifeminists December 4, 2006 Carey Roberts	The Silence of the Wedding Bells The family is the very building block of a civilized and prosperous society. But there's one fact that's hard to dispute: our country faces an acute shortage of marriage-minded men.
ifeminists June 3, 2009 Wendy McElroy	End the gay marriage debate! Privatize marriage Almost half of the adults in America are unmarried and single-person households outnumber married families with children. A glut of books and articles is suddenly declaring marriage to be either obsolete or rediscovered.
ifeminists June 2, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Father's Rights Groups Must Avoid Violent Protest Appearances have a tendency to become reality and, at the first act of violence by a father's rights advocate, all fathers will suffer.
ifeminists March 1, 2006 Carey Roberts	The Feminist Anti-Kid Crusade Despite the fact that kids with involved dads do better, regardless of all the joint custody laws, and in spite of the laughable antics of the M.O.M. brigade, mothers continue to be favored in custody decisions by a 7 to 1 margin.
ifeminists August 31, 2005 Carey Roberts	Marriage Movement at the Crossroads There is one voice that is conspicuously absent in the campaign to save fatherhood -- the Marriage Movement, which, sadly and inexplicably, has largely turned its back on men.
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?
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.
ifeminists February 9, 2005 Carey Roberts	Misandrist Marriage Movement The marriage movement faces many challenges, not the least of which is that many men have come to believe that marriage is a raw deal. And we're not talking about just a few malcontents.
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.
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...
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.
ifeminists June 9, 2004 Sacks & Brass	National Fatherhood Initiative's Ad Campaign Insults African-American Fathers While the NFI's goal is laudable, research shows that a major factor in black fatherlessness, which the NFI campaign completely ignores, is the obstruction of fathers' visitation rights by custodial mothers.
ifeminists September 1, 2004 Carey Roberts	Will the NASCAR Dads Tilt the Election? White males likely will continue to vote overwhelmingly in Bush's favor. Or perhaps, they will sit this one out.
ifeminists February 18, 2003 Glenn Sacks	Valentine's Day & the Gender Wars Part of the division between men and women is due to women's legitimate grievances. But much of it is also caused by men's resentment that the very real problems and disadvantages they face as husbands, partners and fathers have been ignored by the media, our lawmakers and by society as a whole.
ifeminists March 30, 2005 Carey Roberts	The Rise of Big Sister-ism Deadbeat Dad myths have become so ingrained in American thinking that basic Constitutional protections are being casually tossed aside.
ifeminists May 16, 2007 Leving & Sacks	Equal Rights Amendment Yes, 'Women's Equality Amendment' No Unfortunately, the bill's sponsors have changed the ERA's name to the Women's Equality Amendment. There's a major problem with that, because when considering injustices based on gender, today men and fathers can lay claim to many of them.
ifeminists March 24, 2004 Carey Roberts	Women Lose When Feminists Bash Women believed that when they entered the workplace, it would become a kinder, more compassionate place. They were wrong.
ifeminists June 14, 2006 Tony Zizza	I Used To Be A Stepfather If stepfathers can one day take a crack at being in a family again, even a new one, perhaps there's no reason why on Father's Day we can't look at fatherhood for the appropriate honor it deserves.
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 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 July 14, 2004 Carey Roberts	The Marriage No-Shows When almost one-quarter of single American men in their prime courting years - that's two million potential husbands - declare a Marriage Strike, we're facing an unprecedented social crisis.
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.
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 November 10, 2004 Carey Roberts	NASCAR Dads and Soccer Moms Join Forces, But at What Cost? The 2004 Democratic platform flatly ignored the issues of men, while kow-towing to such feminist demands as protecting abortion rights and remedying the so-called gender "wage gap."
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 2, 2005 Carey Roberts	Jim Crow Days For Men Currently the U.S. Congress is mulling the fate of a five-year extension to the Violence Against Women Act, a law that has caused the basic civil liberties of hundreds of thousands of fathers and men to be casually disregarded.
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 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 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 July 8, 2007 Stephen Baskerville	Welfare and the "Road to Serfdom" As conservatives congratulate themselves on ten years of welfare reform, they need to start looking at the larger picture and all that was left undone.
ifeminists November 2, 2005 Leving & Sacks	PBS Declares War on Dads Breaking the Silence is a direct assault on American fathers, and the minimal, hard won gains they have made in protecting their children's right to have their fathers in their lives.
ifeminists April 12, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	'Roe v. Wade for Men' Case Illustrates Family Law System's Inequities The "woman good/man bad" modus operandi of the American family law system has wounded children and the fathers they love and need. The problem cannot be resolved until we acknowledge and address the fundamental inequities of the system.
ifeminists August 26, 2003 Wendy McElroy	Going to Extremes The issue of fathers' rights in the U.K. may be entering a more violent phase. If so, this should act as a cautionary tale for North America.
ifeminists August 15, 2007 Carey Roberts	Newark Triple-Murder Reveals Need for Fathers Statistics show that 60 percent of city kids grow up without fathers and 70 percent of long-term prisoners grew up without fathers. What does this say about the future of the city kids?
ifeminists February 13, 2007 Don Mathis	How VAWA Separates Children From Fathers The result of the VAWA is rampant false claims of abuse. This means that children are removed from decent, loving fathers. The Violence Against Women Act must be radically altered or else it will continue to destroy the father/child bond.
ifeminists November 8, 2006 Carey Roberts	Bush Needs to Rein in Feminist Operatives One of these days, the G.O.P. will come to its senses and realize that you can never appease the Gender Guerillas. Kow-towing to the rad-fem agenda is a losing political strategy. Mr. President, it's time to do some housecleaning.
ifeminists May 18, 2005 Carey Roberts	VAWA Law Polarizes the Sexes, Weakens the Family The Violence Against Women Act represents a frontal assault on both fatherhood and on the integrity of the traditional family.
ifeminists September 17, 2002 Sacks & Thompson	High-Profile 'Deadbeat Dad' Raids Won't Fix Child Support System Badly in Need of Reform Reforms are needed that will make the system more rational and workable, and which will benefit both the children owed support and the fathers who owe it.
AskMen.com May 19, 2008 Ross Bonander	Fatherhood Guide: Affection Showing affection is a challenging area of parenting, but this is not uncommon; for many loving and caring fathers, showing their affection represents the most challenging aspect of parenting.
ifeminists June 10, 2009 Emma Goldman	On love and marriage A view on love and marriage from 1911 in Anarchism and Other Essays: they have nothing in common; they are as far apart as the poles; are, in fact, antagonistic to each other.
ifeminists September 23, 2003 Glenn Sacks	Convicted Murderess Can Get Custody but Decent Fathers Can't Clara Harris, a Texas woman who was convicted of murdering her husband in March, was just granted joint custody of her twin five year-old boys. The ruling validates what fathers' and children's advocates have been saying for years -- when it comes to children, many courts believe that mothers can do no wrong.
ifeminists November 14, 2006 Carey Roberts	Fathers No Longer Cost-Effective? There is a small yet influential group in America that views fatherhood as an anachronism and a stubborn obstacle to their utopian vision of the social welfare state. And they see divorce and award of child custody to mothers as a highly-effective ploy to achieve their goal.
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?