With the inauguration of Barack Obama as 44th President, we usher in a brand new Era of Responsibility. We're all glad to know that. And who could doubt it since we've had it confirmed to us by the new Prez himself and a multitude of news and opinion outlets? I, for one, have great expectations... »
The judge, sitting with Lord Justice Aikens and Mr. Justice Bennett, said: 'This whole case can be categorised as a misfortune to all those engaged in it. I would not wish to be the one to extend their misfortunes further.' With those words a British judge declined to allow a man who had been the victim... »
What's one of the first rules you learn in Journalism School? Get both sides of the story, right? Now of course you can't always do that. Sometimes there aren't two sides. Sometimes one side can't be contacted or won't talk to you. When that happens you say "Jane Doe didn't return reporter' calls and emails,"... »
"This is the first real evidence that mothers, through their behavior, act as gatekeepers by either fostering or curtailing how much fathers take part in caring for their baby." I view this as a small but important study - one that should be known to everyone with the slightest interest in fathers, mothers, children, families and the... »
"The best way to describe my life would be the life of a nanny." From MLB.com's Ben Grieve: Former A's top prospect now enjoying time with his kids (9/26/08): In his Major League debut against the cross-bay rival Giants 11 years ago, Ben Grieve turned heads, cracked bats and woke up a dismal A's crowd while... »
Now we know. When parents get divorced, the distance between the children and the mother lessens while the distance between the children and the father increases. Now why would that be? Because she got primary custody? Because courts don't enforce his visitation rights? Because she alienates the kids from him? Because she moved to a different state? To be fair,... »
We'll have to add this gentleman to our long list of heroes. To get an idea of what he faced, click here and take a look at that shark's mouth and teeth. From Cousin saves girl, 13, in shark attack (The Age , 1/12/09): THE older cousin of a teenage girl attacked by a shark in... »
I guess it's appropriate that this piece appeared in the Fashion Section (The New York Times, 1/11/09). The people in it are nothing if not fashionable. It's about how people cope when dad loses his job and mom isn't earning. Of course by "people" I mean Wall Street toilers who've seen their salaries slashed from $800,000... »
Here's a lovely little piece about a man who fought for several years to get custody of his son (Argus Leader, 1/8/09). The mother was given custody during the course of court proceedings, but the trial court ended up giving custody to the father. Why? Because the mother had tried so hard to alienate... »
Her viewers might want to know “the rest of the story.” Oprah’s guest on this show was Brenda Slaby, an Assistant Principal in the West Clermont (Ohio) School system who, in 2007, left her 2-year-old daughter in the car alone for eight hours. It was August, the car was closed and the little girl died of hyperthermia. Of... »
I discussed the Single Motherhood/Fatherhood by Choice movement on the nationally-syndicated Dennis Prager Show yesterday. Guest host Mark Taylor and I covered many aspects of the problem during our hour-long discussion, but the exchange below where we both remembered our breadwinner fathers' roles in our lives when we were kids was something we don't... »
What an incredible story. From Nunavut justice minister demoted over domestic violence remark (CBC, 1/27/09): Nunavut's premier has stripped the territory's justice minister of his duties over a remark that suggests women are partly to blame when they are assaulted during domestic disputes. Eva Aariak said she has taken over the department from Louis Tapardjuk, who... »
Several dozen readers sent me this story concerning a parental alienation case in Canada. Fathers are seeing it as a victory, and I suppose it is, but I wonder why this alienating mother was allowed to spend "more than a decade trying to alienate from their father." Justice Faye McWatt of the Superior... »
"The Duluth Model was developed by people who didn't understand anything about therapy," said Donald Dutton, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia who has studied abusive personalities and insists gender doesn't play a role. "Feminists don't like psychological explanations, but they're necessary if we ever want to stop domestic violence." This remarkably... »
Here's a first-person account of Parental Alienation. It's a British man writing to an advice columnist about how to re-connect with his now-adult daughters after years of Parental Alienation by his ex-wife. Her advice to him seems generally pretty sound except for her first sentence. At the risk of getting whiplash, read it. It indicates... »
If so, why? Here's a piece, by one Jessica Halloran, from down under about the reputed rise in female violence (The Sydney Morning Herald, 1/16/09). It's mostly anecdotal, but does site a forensic psychologist who believes that women are more prone to violence than before. In the United States, crime by women is certainly on the rise... »
The only problem seems to be that no one told the women they were trapped. In fact, they seem rather content with their lives. Apparently a sect that encourages polygamy has gotten the attention of the government of British Columbia whose officials have rushed to proclaim the women "exploited" and "trapped." But as this article makes clear, the only ones trapped... »
Background: The Holly Collins custody/parental abduction case is perhaps the most prominent custody case in the media at this moment. Holly Collins and her supporters among domestic violence and feminist advocates assert that the case demonstrates that family courts are biased against battered women and favor abusive men. Holly and Jennifer Collins, her now... »
The Holly Collins custody/parental abduction case is perhaps the most prominent custody case in the media at this moment. Holly Collins and her supporters among domestic violence and feminist advocates assert that the case demonstrates that family courts are biased against battered women and favor abusive men. Below I take a look at the... »
It's hard to believe, but the head of child support collections for Idaho says that unemployment is the "'unexpected' silver lining to Idaho's economic malaise." Why? Because it's easy to garnish dads' unemployment checks! This is the typical attitude of child support enforcement officials--their job is to collect as much money as possible, regardless of... »
I discussed the Reese Hopkins rape case on Talking with Chuck & Phil on WBNW AM 1120 Boston and other stations Friday. To refresh your memories, Hopkins is a 39-year-old former Boston radio host who was arrested in October on charges of forcible and statutory rape of a 12-year-old girl. I've looked into the... »
Guy Garcia's book The Decline of Men has been getting a lot of press attention, some of it positive, some of it from the "men have everything how dare they complain?" school. My own view is that both genders have advantages and disadvantages, but while we're all very much aware of the disadvantages and problems... »
This piece in The New York Times gives us the breathless news - internet solicitation of children for sex is not much of a problem after all (The New York Times, 1/13/09). For years we've been fed the line that sexual predators stalked the internet abusing innocent children. Television series like NBC's "To Catch a Predator"... »
Two incidents. Same state. Same city. Same crimes. Perpetrators aged the same. Victims aged the same. No prior serious offenses for either perp. Pretty similar cases, right? In each, a 17-year-old had sex multiple times with a 14-year-old. But in one case the perpetrator faces felony charges and up to 25 years in prison, while the other charge is a... »
So three juvenile girls allegedly took photos of themselves either partially or totally naked and texted them to the phones of three male classmates. That's a crime because it constitutes child pornography and it was sent via their cell phones. So it's no surprise that the girls got popped. You might be surprised to learn that... »
Those were the words of one Lee Corley who had a restraining order issued against him by Philadelphia Judge James A. DeLeon (pictured) based on nothing but the say-so of the judge's friend. Read about it here. And what was it that Corley had done that was so outrageous it required restraining his liberty? He talked... »
It's the only form of protest they're allowed I've seen their silent faces scream so loud If they were to speak these words they'd go missing too Another woman on a torture table what else can they do They're dancing with the missing They're dancing with the dead They dance with the invisible ones Their anguish is unsaid They're dancing with their... »
Check it out here (KING, 1/2/09). What gets me is how cheerful the ex-wife is about allegedly hiring a hit man to kill her ex-husband and his parents. »
It's a hard world out there, particularly if you're Tiffany Shepherd (pictured). I mean, what have we come to when a teacher can't cut class 30 times a year and threaten another woman with battery? It's such a shame. Not only that, but apparently she can't even pose naked for Playboy and keep her teaching... »
...it isn't domestic violence. »
Many years ago I remember being shocked by a Kathleen Parker column about the sexual harassment case against U.S. Air Force Col. David Rauhecker. I just stumbled upon a clipping of it which I had saved--time flies, it's from August 27, 1997. After a difficult search I found an abbreviated version of the column in... »
And it seems the adoptive parents neglected to mention the fact to authorities or indeed to anyone. Hey, a child goes missing for ten years; it's the type of thing anyone could overlook, right? But check this out: The boy's biological father, Irvin Groeninger II, also expressed regret. The Indiana trucker was divorced when authorities took... »
There's not much to say about this that the New York Post article doesn't already say (New York Post, 1/4/09). A father's grief at the death of his son, 10, allegedly killed by his mother's violence and neglect, is all that's left. The boy died the day after Christmas. Read about it here. And... »
Here’s a shocker. Divorce harms kids. The latest evidence is reported here (The Australian, 12/8/08). It reports on an international study detailed in the Journal Comparative Sociology. The study looked at educational outcomes for over 30,000 Australians and found that children lose up to a year of school incident to divorce. The study concludes, "Divorce's impact on... »
"'Get out your TurboTax, and get out your child-support guidelines, and run the numbers. You'll see that in most cases the guidelines were a windfall , and now they're a bigger windfall,' he says. "In middle-class families in which the earnings of both parents are about the same, 'you create two households... »
Here's a good (with one exception) story about a good outreach program that tries to get fathers more involved in their kids' schooling. The exception is that the story refers to "a small but growing body of controversial research" that shows kids do better in school with active father involvement. That body of research of... »
This CNN video tells us a lot (CNN, 1/12/09). It seems there's a 29-year-old female teacher, Christine McCallum, in the Boston area who had sex with a 13-year-old boy. Well, actually their "affair" started when he was 13. It went on for 2 years. They had sex some 300 times. She got him drunk to have... »
Todd Wasserman, the editor of Brandweek Magazine, one of the largest in the advertising trade publications, has covered some of our protest campaigns against anti-male advertising sympathetically. He discussed the problem of 'Dad as Idiot' advertising in his column The Surviving Dads Of Ads (11/12/07), and after the article came out Wasserman told the Washington... »
According to The New York Times, it's to make the country safe for girls to go to school (The New York Times, 1/17/09). OK, I admit that's not the only reason. We're also there to battle Al Qaeda, but protecting schoolgirls is equally important, or so the editors of The Times suggest. Do I have... »
Arkansas is considering eliminating the statute of limitations for rape, reports the Arkansas Democrat Gazette (“Limits on rape charges targeted,” Jan. 18, 2009.) This proposed change in the law is unnecessary and would expose countless innocent men to greater risk of being falsely accused, and even wrongly convicted, of rape. While the goal of... »
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