Why are men reflexively treated as the fall-guy in the abortion debate? Recently National Review Online convened a group to opine what would happen in a post-Roe v. Wade world to women who might obtain an illegal abortion. The panelists reveal that before 1973, women who sought an abortion were not subject to criminal...
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In a review published in Commentary, Jonathan Kay states that, “Liberals embrace daycare for its liberating potential†while “conservatives oppose its spread.†However, through workfare, conservatives have sent impoverished mothers to work and thus expanded the market for daycare. If as Mary Eberstadt, author of Home-Alone America believes, “children are happiest and safest when...
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The California Alliance for Families and Children (CAFC) is the nation’s only organization employing a full-time lobbyist that promotes substantial parenting time for both parents. Despite operating on a shoestring budget ($30k), the CAFC has accomplished in just three years what no other like-minded organization has ever done (read more), passing legislation beneficial to...
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By Rinaldo Del Gallo, III, Esq. Click HERE to contact Attorney Del Gallo. BerkshireFatherhood.com 413-445-6789 July 22, 2007 This is the third part of a series of stories I am writing on how current child support laws violate basic biblical principles. Today we examine the biblical principle that states one must be fair to...
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Pratibha Patil has just been “elected†President of India by votes cast by national lawmakers and state legislators. Patil, was hand-picked by Congressional Parliamentary leader Sonia Ghandi, a powerful feminist who rode into power on the back of Nehru-Ghandi family, and who has been the woman jiggling knobs behind the curtain of the Prime...
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The movement for shared parenting faces a major obstacle: the federal government. The conventional piety is that family law is a matter for the states, and federal officials claim they have no authority to become involved. This is piffle. The federal government is up to its ears in family law by its funding for...
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Maury is often said to be trash TV and there is much that is worthy of criticism on the show. However, there are also good things about the program. My favorite Maury episodes are the paternity test shows. These are some of his most dramatic programs. They are also shows in which Maury displays...
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Like nearly every other 2008 presidential prospect (Republicans included), Barack Obama failed the marriage test today. Speaking to a church congregation, he bemoaned the trend of violent young men “sickening the soul of this nation.” Barack pointed out that thirty students have been killed in Chicago this year — more than the number of...
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Milwaukee Brewers star first baseman Prince Fielder, 23, will start in the All-Star game tonight, and is leading the National League in homeruns. There are inevitable comparisons between Prince Fielder and his father Cecil (both pictured), who led the majors in RBI three seasons in a row for the Detroit Tigers during the 1990s....
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Yesterday, my 4-year-old son and I were at the supermarket. There was a large and colorful display for Jelly Belly jelly beans, with all sorts of varieties and flavors. He asked for “the red one,” and I put up a bag to the container and pulled the lever. Several jelly beans fell into the...
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Today marks the founding moment for America – a moment which, despite its original imperfection and course corrections, remains a model of hope. Unfortunately, in my lifetime America has gone from being a model for the world to a phony caricature of itself. No amount of saber rattling or glib oratory can prevent world...
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Sunday, July 01, 2007 A TALE OF TWO BIKE RIDES: A PRIME EXAMPLE OF MEDIA BIAS Tip O’Neil once famously said, “All politics is local.†News stories on the local level, collectively, can form an often-greater impact on an issue than a few national stories. Never underestimate the effect you can have by a...
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While researching the case of the Columbus Stocking Strangler for Court TV’s Crime Library, I was struck by a number of peculiarities about the case. The man who was convicted of the rape-murders and is on Georgia’s Death Row for them is an African-American named Carlton Gary. I mention his ethnic and racial background...
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While researching the case of the Columbus Stocking Strangler for Court TV’s Crime Library, I was struck by a number of peculiarities about the case. The man who was convicted of the rape-murders and is on Georgia’s Death Row for them is an African-American named Carlton Gary. I mention his ethnic and racial background...
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Those of us who have been around for a while know that feminists used false child abuse allegations for many years during the 1970’s and 1980’s to loosen up federal entitlements — which were largely misused for political payola and false advertising pretending that husbands are the most dangerous illegal aliens in the universe....
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By Rinaldo Del Gallo, III Click HERE to read the San Gabriel Valley Tribune Story (West Covina,CA,USA) to which this article refers. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune posed the question, “Are video game additions real?†The answer to the question is obvious. There are two types of addiction, physical addiction (characterized by symptoms of...
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John R. Lott’s Wall Street Journal article, titled “It’s Not Enough to Be ‘Wanted’, imperfectly points out the essential dynamics underlying how Roe v. Wade led to rampant illegitimacy. But, this is only a rest stop half-way to Peoria. Briefly, Lott explains how Roe may have led to lax attitudes towards premarital sex by...
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When I was growing up in the 1970s, feminists complained of a wage gap between men and women. The fulltime woman worker’s wage was said to be 51 cents to the fulltime man worker’s dollar. In not too many years, the operative figure became 59 cents. A few years later it went up again...
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BATON ROUGE – Two family scholars have studied the role of religion as a motivational influence in the lives of fathers and have written about their research in a chapter for a recently published book. Loren Marks, an assistant professor at LSU, and David Dollahite, a professor of family life at Brigham Young University,...
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