Kelly, a reader, sent me this story and writes: I think we are missing something very important in the modern world. The ability to take the time to work things out and the ability to meet in the middle. From 81st Wedding Anniversary: A British husband and wife who say a little arguing and a "happy outlook"... »
I don't know if I can yell any louder How many time I've kicked you outta here? Or said something insulting? I can be so mean when I wanna be I am capable of really anything I can cut you into pieces But my heart is broken Please don't leave me Please don't leave me I always say how I don't need you But... »
Check out this woman's sense of entitlement-- $3 million a month in spousal support and another $150,000 in child support. Beyond simply denying that Keanu Reeves is the father, Reeves' camp, to their credit, also point out "there's clearly something wrong with someone who claims child support after all the kids have grown." From Keanu Reeves... »
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"This one was for Dad. "Just a day after the emotional funeral for his father, Jordan Wiener threw a no-hitter Thursday in a playoff game for Robert F. Kennedy High School." From Assistant principal Wiener's son throws no-hitter to honor dad (New York Daily News, 5/22/09): This one was for Dad. Just a day after the... »
An 18-year-old boy was dating a 16-year-old girl. She had texted him a naked photo of herself. After they had a fight, he got angry and "sexted" her photo to the people on her contact list. The result? He's a "sex offender," was kicked out of college, and can't get a job. I think he... »
On May 6th, of this year, a student at Wesleyan University in Connecticut was gunned down at her place of work. The killer apparently was a young man who had stalked her previously. Stephen Morgan has been described as a troubled loner who had few, if any, friends. What his victim, Johanna Justin-Jinich had... »
Warren Throckmorton, PhD, a psychology professor at Grove City College, a top-ranked Christian college, sent me an interesting letter the other day. Dr. Throckmorton had followed my conflict in April with anti-gay activist, Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans For Truth about Homosexuality. Dr. Throckmorton writes: Glenn--Have you ever covered the damage to father-son relationships done... »
Not too long ago I wrote about a London man who was falsely charged with raping his former girlfriend 40 times. The video recordings of their encounters forced her to recant her false claims and he was saved from prison. At the time I said he should sue her, but the courts ruled (astonishingly)... »
It's a good thing Goya's not in school in the U.S. today. He'd be in big trouble. It seems that when boys draw pictures, they'd better be the right kind of pictures or they'll face every kind of punishment from supension to criminal charges. For two hundred years, many have thought his painting (above) to be a... »
Not long ago, "Octomom" Nadya Suleman was much in the news. She had six children and then, for reasons I have yet to figure out, got herself artificially inseminated and gave birth to octuplets. So she's now the single mother of 14 children under the age of six. Needless to say, everyone within shouting distance... »
Dawn Hardie and Rachel Allen have started the Next Step Housing Association that provides safe havens for male victims of domestic violence. So far they've established 35 houses in the county of Northamptonshire comprising 100 residential units. They also provide employment and counselling services for residents. Hardie said, Statistically, men are more likely to be... »
It had to happen. There is soon to be a bill before the Malaysian Parliament that would amend the Domestic Violence Act in that country to criminalize emotional harm to women. As one supporter of that bill described it here, "It could be a case in which a husband tells his wife she is ugly or humiliates her... »
“I lost eight months of my life,” he said. “That’s eight months away from my kids. We missed a lot of holidays and functions we will never get back.” That's Glen Johnson of Kirksville, Missouri talking about the time he spent in jail falsely accused of raping Earlene Rogers. Johnson and the other man Rogers falsely... »
In the UK, it seems there's something called the Advertising Standards Authority with the power to ban advertising it deems to be, well, something that should be banned. What the "standards" are, I can only guess. But if you thought there's a misandric cast to ASA rulings, you'd be right. As with so much else that... »
Sacks, a veteran of helping single dads, believes otherwise, "Your daughter loves you and needs you and you are good at raising her - don't ever let anyone tell you you're of secondary importance, because you're not." Elizabeth Donovan, M.A., writes for Parenting magazine and founded www.ParentingPink.com, a site geared to helping parents raise daughters.... »
The Empress isn't wearing any clothes, and she's been that way for a long time. You'd think someone would notice and indeed someone has, here (National Post, 5/20/09). The article is about the threadbare claims of academic feminism. It's about the laughably low standards set by some feminist "scholarship." It's about how institutions of higher learning,... »
According to the New York Times, some of Obama's new Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's "most notable decisions came in child custody cases." I'd be interested to learn more about how she ruled in these cases and whether she in general worked to protect the bonds children share with both of their parents after a... »
"If children without fathers fare worse than children in two-parent families, say defenders of single mothers, the answer is better pay for women and better social programs. Yet even in Sweden with its generous welfare state, a major 2003 study found that children raised in single-parent homes were at significantly higher risk for addictions... »
Last year we conducted a protest campaign against Fox over its anti-father reality show Bad Dads, and Fox decided to drop the show. Lifetime TV decided to pick it up, and renamed the show Deadbeat Dads. We launched a protest campaign against the Show, and Lifetime has received over 5,000 calls, letters, and faxes... »
Facts be damned! Such must surely be the motto of Frances Crook, author of this piece on women in British prisons (Guardian, 5/13/09). According to it, prison is just like "pay, pensions, politics and promotions." How so? Well, somehow there's a "gender gap" in all that and it's just disgraceful. The prison system "fails" women, according to... »
And in the process, it debunks the "glass ceiling" myth too. It's not like we need another study to tell us what we already know - that the wage gap and the "glass ceiling" result not from anti-woman discrimination, but from women's perfectly legitimate choices about how to allocate their time between work and... »
That's right, you're not from Texas, That's right, you're not from Texas, That's right, you're not from Texas, But Texas wants you anyway. - Lyle Lovett If you're male, Texas does want you. After all, there might be some child support you could pay. And if you're Attorney General Gregg Abbott, it really makes no difference that you're not the child's... »
An unnamed Cleveland man grew concerned about the welfare of his 2-year-old daughter and, despite being forbidden from doing so by a temporary order of protection, entered the house in which she lived. The toddler, who is disabled, was alone and unresponsive. The feeding tube she requires was empty and she was living in filthy... »
Hard on the heels of a study of University of Chicago MBAs and one of attorneys in Michigan, comes another study done for the BBC in connection with its upcoming series "The Trouble with Working Women." And its findings corroborate those two U.S. studies. Among other things, the British Equality and Human Rights Commission has criticized... »
Researchers at the University of Alberta have reported on a long-term study that finds that children of divorced parents are more likely to drop out of school before completing high school than are children of intact families. And the more times children experience divorce, the less likely they are to graduate. So a child who... »
In this BBC radio program, Tim Horford dismantles claims about DV that have been widely disseminated in the UK for many years (BBC, 5/15/09). (His spiel is the first 11 minutes of the program.) Governmental agencies and news sources are among the prime culprits purveying the nonsense. Principally, the claim has been repeatedly made that... »
It's time to play one of our favorite games "Guess that Gender." In today's game you have to correctly guess the gender of the multiple felon in the case described below. Failure to do so will conclusively prove that you've failed to read GlennSacks.com enough and you'll be appropriately disciplined. Ready? Here are the facts of... »
The above is a still shot from a video taken by Edmonton, Alberta cabdriver Soner Yasa. According to this article, back in April 2006, Yasa picked up four young women in his cab (CBC, 5/15/09). They were drunk and one lit a cigarette. When Yasa told her smoking in the cab was against the... »
In this article, President of NOW of California, Patricia Bellasalma asks the burning question "why do women pay extra for maternity coverage? (San Francisco Chronicle, 5/15/09)" To which we answer "Uh, Patricia, because it's additional coverage." It's like buying two pounds of beans instead of one; you pay more for the two than for... »
"The couple first met when Fualaau was in the second grade. Their relationship became sexual when he was 12 and she was a 34-year-old married mother of four." From the Associated Press: Mary Kay Letourneau and her former sixth-grade student - the father of her two youngest children - are hosting a "Hot for Teacher" night... »
If you have a teen or tween daughter and/or a wife (I have both), you're probably familiar with the Twilight book series by Stephanie Meyer and the recent movie Twilight. It's a dark, teen romance-type movie centering on Bella (played by Kristen Stewart, pictured) and a teen boy who turns out to be a... »
I've written a fair amount about maternal gatekeeping - the habit some mothers have of excluding their children's father from childcare. I've written about the studies that have reported on the behavior, and examples of maternal gatekeeping as simple as denigrating Dad's efforts at childcare, as extreme as mothers kidnapping children, and as violent as... »
According to this article, women in central Florida recently staged an event entitled "Break the Silence on Domestic Violence." Mary Kay cosmetics donated money to its own non-profit as part of the event (WESH, 5/16/09). Silence? Silence on domestic violence? Since when? It's like these people were dredged up from a Florida swamp preserved intact from... »
From A baby at 66 for desperate divorcee set to become Britain's oldest mother (UK Daily Mail, 5/15/09): With her sizeable bump on show, this is Elizabeth Adeney - Britain's oldest mother-to-be. At 66, she is four years older than the previous record holder. Mrs Adeney, who is around eight months pregnant, is believed to have undergone... »
"They have a very active life style and school. Am I expected to drive them from school and back (two different schools) every morning and night?..." On the Ottawa Divorce blog a lame Canadian father identified as "double twins father" writes: an I be forced (in Quebec) to share equal custody of my children? I will be... »
Here's a good article (The New York Times, 4/29/09) on an even better study. Entitled "Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the financial and Corporate Sectors," and dated September 30, 2008, it reports the findings of a study done on MBA graduates of the University of Chicago. In a nutshell, it finds that,... »
The news from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families is mostly good, at least by comparison to previous years. Each year the ACF compiles and publishes data gathered from all 50 states on maltreatment of children in the United States. In 2007, 794,000 children were victims of abuse or... »
We're looking for people to be interviewed for either of two major media opportunities: Opportunity #1) You're a dad who feels you have become a more involved, hands-on father after your divorce. If this is you, please click here. A reporter for a major publication is writing on this topic. Opportunity #2) You're a dad who is... »
An interesting perspective on domestic violence arrest polices from columnist Scott Herhold. In Bail bonds offices draw neighbors' ire in San Jose (San Jose Mercury News, 5/19/09) he writes: As the bail bond fight in San Jose erupted over the last week, I was intrigued by one fact: In the mile-long First Street corridor between... »
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