The right to food is, first of all, a basic human right enshrined in international law. It establishes principles that govern decisionmaking and implementation processes, namely participation, non-discrimination, transparency and empowerment. It also provides a legal framework – based on the concepts of rights and obligations – and mechanisms for increased accountability and the rule... »
Periodically feminists seem to feel a need to justify the radical gender inequality of our colleges and universities. This article seems to take the recent claim that the gender imbalance in undergraduate admissions has "leveled off" at 43% male/57% female as, if not cause for rejoicing, then at least perfectly acceptable (Salon.com, 1/26/10). If author... »
As bad as so much feminist writing is, it's been a while since I've seen anything that bears so little resemblance to reality as this piece (Toronto Star, 2/3/10). It's so incoherent and at odds with known facts that it's actually hard to describe. It reminds me of the stuff you used to read... »
Back in August I reported here on the case of Cody O'Dea. He and his girlfriend Ashley lived in Wyoming. When she announced that she was pregnant, Cody immediately told her that he wanted to keep and raise the child. A short time later, Ashley told Cody that she had miscarried and eventually the couple split... »
It was only last week that I reported on a Canadian judge who, when confronted with a domestic violence case in which a woman got drunk, hit her boyfriend with frying pan and then stabbed him multiple times with a kitchen knife, decided her behavior didn't merit jail time. And in passing his wrist-tap sentence,... »
This is a good article about new programs that try to adopt teenaged children out of foster care (New York Times, 1/31/10). The programs attempt to locate relatives or even parents to adopt these young people. It's a truism that the older a child is, the harder it will be for him/her to find adoptive... »
Here's an interview with Gerald Amirault done shortly before the recent Massachusetts senatorial election between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley (WEEI, 1/14/10). It's remarkable for a number of reasons, but for me the most striking one is the implicit comparison between the behavior of the prosecutors, including Martha Coakley and various people in Gerald Amirault's community... »
Click here to read this article about the latest efforts to deliver food to the people of Haiti (CNN, 1/31/10). Right at the top there's a big color photograph of people standing in line waiting to receive their allotment of rice. Do you see anything remarkable about the photo? That's right, the entire line... »
I was a guest on The Rick Barber show last Tuesday (January 26th) on KOA - 850 AM in Denver. We talked for an hour about a wide variety of fathers & family court topics, and I'm glad to say that Rick is very sympathetic. The basis of the interview was the Baby Gabriel case... »
It looks like the State of Utah is taking a small, tentative step toward dealing with custodial parents who interfere with non-custodial parents' visitation orders. There's a bill, HB 197, that's expected to pass the House committee and be voted on by the full house. Essentially, it makes it a crime (Class A misdemeanor)... »
In 2006, Australia enacted changes to its Family Law that established the presumption of shared parenting. They also encouraged couples in danger of divorcing to try alternative means of settling their grievances. Well, a little over two years of those dangerous notions were enough. With the anti-dad crowd making the patently false claim that... »
Fathers & Families is sending the protest letter below to Psychology Today via regular US mail and email. To add your signature to the letter and send it to Psychology Today, simply click here and fill out the fields. Letter from Fathers & Families to Psychology Today: Kaja Perina Editor-in-Chief Psychology Today 115 E. 23rd St., 9th Floor New York,... »
The government of Scotland recently published its latest "Scottish Crime and Justice Survey" on Partner Abuse, and it looks like pretty good news. The survey was of about 16,000 adults, conducted in 2008-09, who had had some sort of intimate relationship since the age of 16. They were asked questions about physical abuse and psychological abuse;... »
This is a case out of Georgia that has a few surprises (Leagle, 1/26/10). Clinton and Cynthia Williamson married in 1996 and had their first child in January of 2004. Twenty-two months later, in November of 2005, they separated and Cynthia filed for divorce in May, 2006. For the first time, she claimed that the child... »
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said the proposals would help millions balance their work and family life. "As both parents work in most modern families, it's right that mums and dads should decide who looks after their baby, rather than the state deciding for them by only paying the mother for parental leave," he... »
Of course we've all been waiting breathlessly for NOW's take on President Obama's first State of the Union Address to Congress Wednesday night. And here it is. Lo and behold, it includes numerous outright objective falsehoods and some unsupportable opinions as well. Who'd have guessed? But here's Exhibit A: The president acknowledged the alarming state of... »
Mothers should not have the option to put down "unknown father" on a birth certificate since children have the right to know who their father is, the parliamentary Social Affairs Committee has suggested. Hmm. There's a concept for you. Read the article here (Times of Malta, 12/19/09). Back in 2000, I contacted the Bureaus of... »
Tonning said domestic violence is a big problem that cannot be tolerated. Except, that is, in the case he was adjudicating here (Telegraph Journal, 1/27/10). Then domestic violence can be tolerated just fine. On the night of November 15, 2009, Mary Lisa Joyce Carrier was mad. She had been taking prescription medication and drinking alcohol which... »
Here's an odd piece (Salon.com, 1/18/10). It's an interview with Susan Clancy who, the article tells us is A former Harvard psychologist and the current research director at the Harvard-affiliated Center for Women’s Advancement, Development and Leadership in Nicaragua. She's discussing her research into child sexual abuse and what she calls the "trauma myth." According to... »
You have to be willing to fight your way past a good bit of blatant misandry in this article to actually get anything worthwhile out of it (The Daily Beast, 9/2/09). But if you can stand the "men are selfish louts" attitude that pervades every quotation and that of the author herself, there is... »
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