The National Organization for Women has issued a statement criticizing Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. NOW slams Palin, particularly for her pro-life position, and counterposes Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden as “the VP candidate who appeals to women, with his authorship and championing...
By Jeffery M. Leving and Glenn Sacks  The image of fathers and fatherhood has taken a beating over the past several decades, and the media has been part of the problem. While there has been some improvement in the past few years, fathers are still frequently unfairly stereotyped. For example, in April the...
Sadly, Tim Russert died of a heart attack today at age 58. Many are rightly honoring Russert for his role in American politics and media, but fathers have a different reason to honor Russert–the respect he paid us in his books. In 2004, Russert published Big Russ and Me about his father, and says...
Dr. Ned Holstein, president of Fathers & Families writes: Stephanie Hernandez gave birth to a baby girl in Nashville’s Baptist Hospital on August 31, 2007. She was not married at the time. No father’s name was listed on the birth certificate, meaning that the father had no legal paternity rights or obligations. Deadbeat Dad?  Nope. Her...
Recently Jennifer Butler Murray, actor Bill Murray’s wife, filed for divorce, accusing him of “drug abuse, sex addiction and physical violence towards her during their 11-year marriage.” I have no idea as to the veracity of these claims, but it certainly appears that Jennifer has some problems of her own. According to this recent...
Fatherhood activists Jolly Stainesby and Mark Harris launched a highly-publicized protest on the roof of Labor deputy leader Harriet Harman’s house. Harman is Secretary of State for Equalities and Minister for Women and has helped block family law reform. According to the BBC: A fathers’ rights campaigner is maintaining his rooftop protest at the...
This case seems to be a classic Parental Alienation case, with the genders reversed. All the hallmark features–the child’s unreasonable hatred of the targeted parent, the alienating parent’s social world completely revolving around the child, etc. The Canadian courts seem to be taking a tough stand against the alienating father here, and I applaud...
I'm not sure if anything any public figure has ever said has surprised me less than the following. In a recent blog post, www.feministing.com editor Vanessa Valenti blogs live from the Women, Action & the Media conference at MIT. Vanessa writes: "Amanda Marcotte (pictured) talks about how a reproductive justice framework 'makes it easier to...
From Ned Holstein, MD, MS, Executive Director of Fathers & Families: Ned Holstein: Major Progress Towards Shared Parenting Boston, MA-Fathers & Families has made major progress towards passage of shared parenting legislation in Massachusetts, and these gains can be exported to other states. Here are our major accomplishments: We demonstrated that ordinary people overwhelmingly support shared parenting...
Background: The historic, one-of-a-kind conference "From Ideology to Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Intervention in Domestic Violence" was held in Sacramento, California February 15-16 and was a major success. The conference was sponsored by the California Alliance for Families and Children and featured leading domestic violence authorities from around the world. Many of these researchers...
Background: California Lawyer magazine covered the Fathers' Rights Movement in the #2 story in its March issue--The Dad-Vocates by Bill Blum. The article quotes family law attorney David C. Stone, men's advocate Warren Farrell, Craig Candelore of the Men's Legal Center, myself, and others. In the article, Helen Grieco, executive director of the California chapter...
Background: I discussed the recent controversy over the feminist "1 in 4 college women are raped" myth in my recent blog post 'It’s a lonely job, working the phones at a college rape crisis center...you wait for the casualties to show up but no one calls'. I noted that "the ladies at www.Feministing.com have responded with...
Background: Two Fathers 4 Justice activists breached security and climbed onto the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on August 17, 2007. Fatherhood activist Bob Norton was present and said: "Four security guards tackled protester Bob Dickerson to the floor and sat on him. They forced his head into the stone floor. The security people overreacted for...
"...one of the ways that we can stop harassment of women in public places is to not allow men to have access to alcohol...women in India organized to shut down two liquor stores that they found was responsible for eve-teasing in their community...The women folk in Akurdi had a reason to rejoice on Sunday...
"Or how can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out...
Several people have told me in the past few days that they're having a hard time posting comments here. In each case, I saw that their comments were being caught in the spam blocker. I have no idea why, and I'm interested in knowing how widespread the problem is. If you've had the same problem,...
"Outrage was mounting at the 1999 hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building, where congressmen were learning about human trafficking. "A woman from Nepal testified that September that she had been drugged, abducted and forced to work at a brothel in Bombay. A Christian activist recounted tales of women overseas being beaten with electrical cords...
"Outrage was mounting at the 1999 hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building, where congressmen were learning about human trafficking. "A woman from Nepal testified that September that she had been drugged, abducted and forced to work at a brothel in Bombay. A Christian activist recounted tales of women overseas being beaten with electrical cords...
"Being a divorced dad doesn't necessarily make David C. Stone an effective advocate for fathers. But it certainly doesn't hurt. 'I understand what they're going through,' says the 57-year-old sole practitioner, whose family law practice caters almost exclusively to men. 'I've been married three times; I've given away houses. I also had visitation rights...
"Being a divorced dad doesn't necessarily make David C. Stone an effective advocate for fathers. But it certainly doesn't hurt. 'I understand what they're going through,' says the 57-year-old sole practitioner, whose family law practice caters almost exclusively to men. 'I've been married three times; I've given away houses. I also had visitation rights...
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