I recently attended the excellent Los Angeles domestic violence conference "From Ideology to Inclusion 2009: New Directions in Domestic Violence Research and Intervention." The conference featured many domestic violence dissidents--researchers and clinicians who do not believe that the mainstream domestic violence establishment and its "men as perpetrators/women as victims" conceptual framework is properly serving those... »
I recently attended the excellent Los Angeles domestic violence conference "From Ideology to Inclusion 2009: New Directions in Domestic Violence Research and Intervention." The conference featured many domestic violence dissidents--researchers and clinicians who do not believe that the mainstream domestic violence establishment and its "men as perpetrators/women as victims" conceptual framework is properly serving those... »
I recently attended the excellent Los Angeles domestic violence conference "From Ideology to Inclusion 2009: New Directions in Domestic Violence Research and Intervention." The conference featured many domestic violence dissidents--researchers and clinicians who do not believe that the mainstream domestic violence establishment and its "men as perpetrators/women as victims" conceptual framework is properly serving those... »
I recently attended the excellent Los Angeles domestic violence conference "From Ideology to Inclusion 2009: New Directions in Domestic Violence Research and Intervention." The conference featured many domestic violence dissidents--researchers and clinicians who do not believe that the mainstream domestic violence establishment and its "men as perpetrators/women as victims" conceptual framework is properly serving those... »
I recently attended the excellent Los Angeles domestic violence conference "From Ideology to Inclusion 2009: New Directions in Domestic Violence Research and Intervention." The conference featured many domestic violence dissidents--researchers and clinicians who do not believe that the mainstream domestic violence establishment and its "men as perpetrators/women as victims" conceptual framework is properly serving those... »
I recently attended the excellent Los Angeles domestic violence conference "From Ideology to Inclusion 2009: New Directions in Domestic Violence Research and Intervention." The conference featured many domestic violence dissidents--researchers and clinicians who do not believe that the mainstream domestic violence establishment and its "men as perpetrators/women as victims" conceptual framework is properly serving those... »
I recently attended the excellent Los Angeles domestic violence conference "From Ideology to Inclusion 2009: New Directions in Domestic Violence Research and Intervention." The conference featured many domestic violence dissidents--researchers and clinicians who do not believe that the mainstream domestic violence establishment and its "men as perpetrators/women as victims" conceptual framework is properly serving those... »
"But after that day, my mother and grandmother didn't make it easy for my dad to see me. I remember asking myself all these questions: Where is he? Why doesn't he come pick me up? Doesn't he know where we are?" A powerful story from Jordan Monroe on NPR about Parental Alienation. Another example... »
Well, that didn't take long. With the unfortunately predictable political sex scandals continuing to grab headlines in the MSM, and the astonishing amount of commentary on them, I'm only surprised that a blog like this one from former Bush Press Secretary Dana Perino in the National Review didn't come out earlier (National Review, 6/25/09). From Clinton and Spitzer to... »
On June 20th, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a press release describing a new "public service campaign...promoting fatherhood." The press release directs readers to the website www.fatherhood.gov, and breathlessly promises a public service announcement by none other than President Obama himself. Needless to say, that was an offer I couldn't... »
To the rapidly expanding file marked "Female Sentencing Discount," add this case (Honolulu Advertiser, 2/18/09). Sarah Whitford drank enough alcohol to give herself a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit. Then she got in her car, drove between 56 and 77 mph in a 25 mph zone, and plowed into Vailaile Fuaiva, Jr. killing him. ... »
This article by University of Virginia sociologist, W. Bradford Wilcox is one of the best in a long time (National Review, 6/19/09). In clear, concise language, he skewers five myths about fathers, mothers, children, divorce and parenting. He's right on the money on all points. Wilcox is anticipating mainstream media articles on Father's Day. First, he... »
CareerBuilder.com has come out with a new study on fathers and the work/family balance. Although this article on the study is deceptively headlined, it's still worth a read (CNN, 6/22/09). The title of the piece reads, "Poll: Fewer Fathers Want to be Stay-at-Home Dads." That's technically true, but misleading. In fact, all it reveals is... »
The following comes to us courtesy of our 'resident historian,' Richard Stephens. Oakland, Cal. – Carroll Huntey, a prominent resident of Louisville, Ky., was killed in a train wreck while travelling in Missouri recently. When his will was opened it was found that he had left all his property, valued at many thousands of dollars, to... »
Not long ago I posted a piece about a Pennsylvania organization, the Pennsylvania Families Association, that's lobbying to get a bill passed in that state's legislature that would establish a presumption of equally shared parenting. It's called 'joint custody' in the bill, which is House Bill 463. Now here's an article that puts a little flesh... »
Here's Christina Hoff Sommers on the dogged and successful opposition of NOW and other feminist groups to Obama's "shovel-ready" stimulus plan that would have rehabilitated the nation's transportation and communications infrastructures while creating jobs (The Weekly Standard, 6/29/09). What was the problem? Why would anyone oppose a plan that did two things that unquestionably need... »
A Mississauga, Ontario woman has been given early release from her 10-year sentence for murdering her mother. The announced reason is so that she can attend college online. She will be released to a half-way house after serving a little over four years in prison. Read about it here (CBC, 6/22/09). The woman and her... »
It's articles like this one that will eventually result in change (ABC, 6/22/09). Despite the author's shaky math, it reports that charges of DV against women have shot up over a recent eight-year period in New South Wales. Reported incidents increased from 800 in 1999 to 2,336 in 2007, which the article calls an increase... »
Here's The New York Times editorializing on the need for federal legislation to combat the "wage gap."(The New York Times, 6/23/09) The belief that women earn less due to discrimination is like a vampire; no matter how many stakes you drive into its heart, it just won't die. Now admittedly, The Times carefully parses its words so... »
Here's an excellent video on PAS (TVO, 6/12/09). It's a Canadian public affairs TV show called The Agenda with Steve Paikin. The guests are psychologists Dr. Amy Baker and Barbara Fidler, Toronto Family Court Justice Harvey Brownstone and Toronto Family Attorney, Jeffery Wilson. The discussion is excellent and informative. There are several main points worth... »
Here's a delightful Father's Day piece by British writer, Phillip Norman (Daily Mail, 6/20/09). It's so good as it is, I just want to say two things. The first is this: after you've read the final two lines, remember the schools in Scotland last year that forbade children from making Father's Day cards. The second is... »
There are several studies that have found that, when men and women with equal criminal histories are charged with the same crime, men get the more severe sentence. One such study found that sex played the greatest role in sentencing disparities - even greater than race. That's the female sentencing discount. Certainly you can get... »
Not too long ago I reported on a 12-year-old Canadian girl whose father had grounded her because she had disobeyed him by spending too much time on the Internet. Her being grounded meant that he refused permission for her to go on a class trip. She sued him and won. The Canadian court ruled that his punishment was too severe. At the... »
Here's Lisa Belkin at her Motherlode site again (The New York Times, 6/13/09). Her guest columnist it Paul Hankes Drielsma whose topic is language and how it's used in popular culture to describe fathers and circumscribe fatherhood. Drielsma, it seems, is a new father and is therefore learning some lessons about how fatherhood is... »
Here are a few thoughts on fathers and daughters courtesy of psychotherapist and author, Dr. Mary Jo Rapini with a comment by Dr. Venus Nicolino thrown in for good measure (Toronto Sun, 6/16/09). We know that children do better with involved fathers than without. That goes for both boys and girls. We also know that... »
Join me this weekend at the domestic violence conference of the decade here in Los Angeles--"From Ideology to Inclusion 2009: New Directions in Domestic Violence Research and Intervention" If you mention "Glenn Sacks" or "Fathers & Families" at the door, you get a $100 discount and pay only $295. This includes a catered brunch, two... »
From TV Ontario's The Changing Role of Father: Involved Dads and Their Positive Impact on Education (TVO.org, 6/21/09): In the 21st century, the role of ‘father’ has changed. It’s safe to say that most people do not expect fathers to take on the role of sole breadwinner, primary disciplinarian or take a backseat to mothers... »
Sadly, Professor Nathan Alexander, a longtime Fathers & Families supporter who endorsed many of our protest campaigns, has died of leukemia at age 41. Rachel Alexander, his sister, has written an obituary for Nathan here. According to Rachel: Nathan was a larger-than-life one-of-a-kind; the epitome of what a fun, charismatic, witty older brother should be. He... »
Last week Fathers & Families asked you to call Esquire magazine over their anti-father Father's Day week piece The Bad Dads Hall of Fame. In it, author Sean Cunningham writes "This is beyond dead-beat status. These ten terrible fathers have murdered, neglected, and abused their offspring. Needless to say, they won't be getting... »
Dr. Ned Holstein & I co-authored the new column Layoffs, courts put some dads in jail (Atlanta Journal Constitution, 6/21/09) on the problems faced by child support obligors in the recession. To write a Letter to the Editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, a top 20 newspaper with over half a million subscribers, regarding Layoffs,... »
Fathers & Families’ founder Dr. Ned Holstein appeared on the Samantha Clemens Show on Sporting News Radio AM 1510 The Zone in Boston on June 20. Holstein asserted that equal treatment for fathers in family court is the most important solution to the problem of fatherlessness. It doesn't cure the problem if the dad is... »
I appeared on the Jay Severin Show on WTKK FM 96.9 in Boston on Friday, June 19. Severin was sympathetic, and repeatedly commented that he's shocked that exes and family courts would so often separate children from one of their parents, usually the father. Jay devoted the whole hour to the topic, and we took... »
Robert Franklin & I co-authored the new column Our fatherhood crisis: Obama just doesn’t grasp the real problem (Washington Times, 6/21/09) on Obama's fatherhood policies and public statements. To write a Letter to the Editor of the Washington Times, regarding Our fatherhood crisis: Obama just doesn’t grasp the real problem (6/21/09), click here. To comment on... »
Most sperm banks will not accept donations from men who stand under 5' 11" in height. From there, Barbara Kay is off and running. It is, as she says, a fascinating tidbit of information and one I certainly didn't know. And, is so often the case, Kay's take on it is spot on. She pegs... »
The following is by our "resident historian," Richard Stephens. In 1927, in an effort to pick up some extra business, Nevada reduced its residency requirements for divorce from six months to three. The strategy worked beautifully; divorce cases in Nevada rapidly increased by a healthy 250%. It was a brisk business. One reporter noted that... »
To all the dads out there, this is your day. I hope you enjoy it to the fullest. Dad, I know that the culture is not kind to you. I know that we overlook many of the valuable things you do for your children and all your loved ones. I know you often turn on... »
It had to happen. Women commuters in Tokyo complained about being groped on trains. So the company operating the commuter lines started providing women-only cars so women could ride without fear of being groped. But now men want their own men only cars. Why? To avoid false allegations of groping. Apparently false groping allegations were... »
I wrote recently about a hospital in Canada that debated the question of whether to tell a man and his daughter when its lab discovered that he was not the biological father of the girl. In other words, should the hospital reveal the mother's paternity fraud? That hospital told the pair, but apparently many... »
Here's an interesting little personal essay (Salon.com, 6/9/09). In it Aaron Traister describes how he became a stay-at-home dad, learned to like it, rebelled against it and then embraced it. It's a worthwhile read because, once you get past the self-satisfied tone, he actually deals with some important aspects of being a SAHD. Traister calls... »
We don't yet know what really happened in this case, and in a way, that's a story in itself. From what I can gather, New Zealand MP Richard Worth has committed two mortal sins recently - he had sex with a Korean woman who's not his wife, and he sent suggestive email and text messages... »
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