Fathers Are Mere Tenants The manhood brand is dead, kaput, and that is no accident. Men, who built the legal and physical infrastructure of this country from scratch, have, over the past 36 years, chosen to allow women to marginalize and overshadow them. It’s as though the entire history of men was written on...
Chicago, IL – The death of Duncan and Jack Connolly, two Illinois children allegedly murdered by their father Michael Connolly, touched many people’s hearts. I lament this terrible tragedy. However, as a fathers’ rights advocate and attorney, I regret that this case is now reinforcing the malicious stereotype of the brutal father, potentially sabotaging...
“Men have no clearly defined enemy who is oppressing them.” -Susan Faludi (Stiffed, 1999) I was raised by my grandmother who was born in the late 1800s. I have three daughters and two sons. I am especially grateful that my daughters were born into a world vastly better for them than it was for...
As a fathers’ advocate, I had hope when President Obama was elected. Some expressed disappointment that the author of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) had become Vice President. They feared more gender-based discrimination. Being a liberal egalitarian, I was optimistic. My president had said he respects our civil rights. I believed all we...
She’ll Hit Again Oprah Winfrey is increasing domestic violence in America. By being Harpo — remaining silent — on the truth about violent women, she unwittingly perpetuates the problem.? Repeatedly excusing women’s culpability and unfairly blaming men only serves to foment this pernicious societal scourge. On March 19, 2009, Oprah aired an anti-male show...
"Everyone knows that it is just wrong for men to hit women." Yes we do! But apparently there are still far too man educators, researchers and interveners who still do not know that it is wrong for one person to hit another regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation or severity.
Watching the Sean Goldman parental child abduction case unfold in the media has been bittersweet for parents of children still missing. All American parents with children abducted to foreign countries experience the same emotions and frustrations as Sean’s father David Goldman. He’s fortunate to have the help of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Foreign...
Obsession with Carats Nothing speaks subjugation like a man on bended knee, sliding a diamond engagement ring on the finger of his new fiancée. Yet, countless men engage in this emasculating, enslaving ritual every day. When asked why he felt compelled to prostrate himself while pledging to his “better half” a life of devotion,...
Anyone wondering why marriage is passé and illegitimacy is at record levels can find the answer in the recent case of the unmarried California mother with six test-tube children who just launched octuplets with the help of an unethical feminist fertility clinic. Why would she do this? Because she gets about eight times more...
“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.” –John Kenneth Galbraith It seems almost impossible to make up a story like this one. An AP story in the Chicago Tribune claims that the state of Michigan is giving a...
Culture-Splitting Battle Quick … name one person, in all of world history, born as the result of a homosexual union. You can’t. It’s biologically impossible. Yet, we are seeing a neverending, culture-splitting battle to equate homosexual unions with those between men and women. No matter how you slice it, they’re not equivalent, and that’s...
“The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and its faithful observance, constitutes true education.” — Joseph F. Smith We believe that the January 6, 2009 ABC World News report by Charlie Gibson, Protecting Teens From Dating Violence was well intentioned as are all dating violence interventions and programs. However, the...
On December 23, President Bush signed into law a bill that enhances measures to combat human trafficking. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Assistant Secretary John Torres were among 16 federal agency and private organizational leaders in the Oval Office who witnessed the signing of H.R. 7311,...
The Definition of Manhood Mention the word feminine; most people understand it instantly. Jessica Alba, Beyoncé, and Scarlett Johansson come to mind. Now, try masculine. Puzzled? Stymied? That’s because the definition of manhood is in constant flux and dilution, as men have allowed misandrists — male and female — to marginalize them. There’s no...
Rubber Screwdriver The nonstop TV commercials touting cures for erectile dysfunction paint a dismal picture of widespread male inadequacy. It’s as though every handyman in America is trying to fix his wife’s pipes with a rubber screwdriver. Nonsense. According to the National Institutes for Health (NIH), only about 5 percent of 40-year-old men and...
Ulf Andersson, a father’s rights activist in Sweden, the founder and spokesman for PappaRättsGruppen, discovered something very interesting about the Dallas DART advertising campaign  J.P. Morgan Chase is a leading grant provider to “The Family Place”, the radical feminist advocacy outfit that bought the DART advertising. J.P. Morgan Chase’s money is being misused by...
The State of Florida has a very interesting Constitutional provision, one that should be expanded to include the federal level: Lawyers are not permitted to run for non-judicial offices. The Separation of Powers Doctrine forms a delicate balance. The Judicial, Executive, and Administrative branches should operate independently of each other, with nothing invisibly orchestrating...
True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all. – Lord Mansfield The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) ignores male intimate partner victimization (IPV). In its mission statement the OVW makes it clear that it is only concerned with the victimization of women and not men. If you search for...
Compassion is the basis of all morality. –Arthur Schopenhauer Many years ago as a law enforcement officer I became very much interested in the issue of domestic violence. It was obvious then that victims of violent and injurious domestic violence incidents were not being extended proper compassion, support and intervention by the criminal justice...
Just what presidential team is more likely to support fathers? The current field is not promising. SARAH PALIN: The recent finding by an Alaskan bi-partisan panel that Palin unlawfully abused her power by pursuing her family’s grudge against her ex-step brother (Trooper Mike Wooten) following his ugly divorce from her sister demonstrates that Palin...
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