Below are some recent articles and items of interest from Fathers & Families' latest News Digest. Ex-tended clans: Divorce often leaves some family ties intact (USA Today, 10/1/07) DHS program helps noncustodial parents (Tulsa World, 10/1/07) Helping hand for single dads (Rocky Mountain News, 10/1/07) Child Support Payments More Accessible (North County Gazette, 10/1/07) Divorced from Reality (New York...

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The article below details how three heroic fathers sacrificed their lives to save their children over the summer. The fathers are Yves Pilotte, Scott Davis, and Benjie Correos (pictured right with his family, including nine-year-old son Miles). From Canada's Globe and Mail article "Three fathers who answered the call": "Yves Pilotte...a 44-year-old firefighter from the...

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Jan Brown of the Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men and Women has some interesting thoughts below about Representative Mark Olson (pictured)  and his recent domestic violence trial. Representative Mark Olson and 'Battered Husband Syndrome' Representative Mark Olson (R-MN) was arrested in November of last year on domestic assault charges. According to the news reports, the charges stemmed...

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“I'll beat up Blake when I'm drunk...If he says one thing I don't like then I'll chin him.”--U.K. singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse, speaking about her relationship with her new husband I've noted on many occasions that research shows that domestic violence by women against men is a significant problem, and the "woman as victim/man as perp"...

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As annoying as the many Father's Day week father-bashing articles were, there were also some positive stories about dads, and those bear mentioning, too. We've put together five of them below--if you saw other ones, feel free to send me them and perhaps we'll do a "Father Positive Articles for Father's Day Part II"...

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