In a move that will change the course of the family court reform movement, Fathers & Families has just hired two experienced, accomplished legislative representatives. Soon we will be launching campaigns in support of our family court reform legislation---to get involved, please click here. California Readers of www.GlennSacks.com are familiar with Michael Robinson's work in Sacramento... »
"I am often astounded at the parenting arrangements I see that are anything but shared." Longtime Fathers & Families supporter Lisa S. Ebert, JD, Director of Sponsored Programs and Research at the City University of New York, is a mother who shares parenting. Below, she tells her story. Shared Parenting – It Should be the Norm By... »
Patience Gbedema, an immigrant girl from Ghana, learned an important lesson from her father when students made fun of her and her accent. She recounts her story in The Courage of Boston's Children, as part of the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum's "Courage in My Life" sixth grade language arts and character development curriculum used... »
Young New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain was raised by a single father, Harlan Chamberlain, who was partially crippled with polio as a child and grew up in foster homes. Harlan also raised Joba's sister. The Yankees recently beat the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series, and there were several special father-child moments... »
Domestic violence and the DV policies of family courts and law enforcement is a multi-faceted issue that has an enormous impact on American families. Fathers & Families is hosting a debate between two of North America's leading domestic violence authorities, feminist DV expert Professor Evan Stark, Ph.D, MSW, and dissident DV expert Dr. Donald... »
"We see this all the time where the ex-wife lives with a crazy, harmful boyfriend who can't see his own kids because the court has prohibited him because he may have been convicted of drugs or abuse. Yet he can live with another father's kid," says Glenn Sacks, the executive director of Fathers &... »
Two major online publications--Salon.com and Slate.com--recently did articles criticizing the men's and fathers movement. Whenever the fatherhood movement and its opponents clash directly, there is an opportunity for all on both sides to listen and learn, so I'm writing several posts on these two articles. My first two posts dealt largely with a misleading... »
Two major online publications--Salon.com and Slate.com--recently did articles criticizing the men's and fathers movement. Whenever the fatherhood movement and its opponents clash directly, there is an opportunity for all on both sides to listen and learn, so I'm writing several posts on these two articles. My first two posts dealt largely with a misleading quote... »
Two major online publications--Salon.com and Slate.com--recently did articles criticizing the men's and fathers movement. Whenever the fatherhood movement and its opponents clash directly, there is an opportunity for all on both sides to listen and learn, so I'm writing several posts on these two articles. My first two posts dealt largely with a misleading quote... »
Two major online publications--Salon.com and Slate.com--recently did articles criticizing the men's and fathers movement. My first two posts dealt largely with a misleading quote attributed to me in both pieces, and the two publications' commendable agreement to clarify it. In this post and others, we'll deal more with the arguments made by Kathryn Joyce of... »
Two major online publications--Salon.com and Slate.com--recently did articles about the men's and fathers movement. Kathryn Joyce's DoubleX/ Slate.com article appeared to attribute the views of another activist to me, and Salon.com's Judy Berman picked up on it and publicized the misattribution. I wrote to both Slate.com and Salon.com asking for a correction and, to their... »
Two major online publications--Salon.com and Slate.com--recently did articles about the men's and fathers movement. The articles discuss various aspects and actors in the movement, and also quote and misquote me. This series of posts will comment on the articles and also straighten out certain misrepresentations. Kathryn Joyce of Slate.com is a feminist writer who has... »
Now 23, divorced, and a parent herself, Anne has recognized only recently that she was manipulated, that her long-held view of her father isn't accurate. They live 2,000 miles apart but now try to speak daily. "I've missed out on a great friendship with my dad," she says. "It hurts." A group of 50 mental... »
Singer/songwriter Don Henley was a founding member of the Eagles and a seven time Grammy Award-winner in his solo career. In 2008, he was ranked one of the 100 greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. In my humble opinion, he wrote one of the greatest songs about divorce ever, "Heart of the... »
Maria Shriver, California's First Lady, has issued the new report "A Woman's Nation Changes Everything." The Shriver Report, which was written for the think-tank the Center for American Progress, begins: This report describes how a woman’s nation changes everything about how we live and work today. Now for the first time in our nation’s history,... »
Domestic violence and the DV policies of family courts and law enforcement is a multi-faceted issue that has an enormous impact on American families. Fathers & Families is hosting a debate between two of North America's leading domestic violence authorities, feminist DV expert Professor Evan Stark, Ph.D, MSW, and dissident DV expert Dr. Donald... »
Terri, a reader, sent me a letter concerning my recent co-authored column With Gay Marriage Comes Gay Divorce: The Rise of Lesbian Custody Battles (MSN.com, 10/15/09). In the column, we asserted that regardless of whether one supports or opposes gay marriage, lesbian custody battles are enormously illustrative of the dynamics behind heterosexual family court... »
Jon, a Fathers & Families supporter in Maine, is featured in Tanya Mitchell 's Republican Journal article Domestic abuse: One man's story (10/14/09). I often give supporters who write us my advice for how to gain publicity for their cases at http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=1880, and what Jon did here is an excellent example of what to... »
Ned Holstein, MD and I co-authored a new piece for MSN.com on lesbian child custody battles. Regardless of whether one supports or opposes gay marriage, lesbian custody battles are enormously illustrative of the dynamics behind heterosexual family court battles. Mothers are often able to convince courts to allow them to drive decent, loving fathers out... »
Domestic violence and the DV policies of family courts and law enforcement is a multi-faceted issue that has an enormous impact on American families. Fathers & Families is hosting a debate between two of North America's leading domestic violence authorities, feminist DV expert Professor Evan Stark, Ph.D, MSW, and dissident DV expert Dr. Donald... »
Domestic violence and the DV policies of family courts and law enforcement is a multi-faceted issue that has an enormous impact on American families. Fathers & Families is hosting a debate between two of North America's leading domestic violence authorities, feminist DV expert Professor Evan Stark, Ph.D, MSW, and dissident DV expert Dr. Donald... »
Today daytime talk show host Tyra Banks is doing a special on male victims of domestic violence. Fathers & Families worked with the producers on the show over the summer. I haven't seen the show and don't know how much of what we provided made it into the final product. The show airs today,... »
"Juan Sr... had no knowledge of golf and never saw his son play...The year Juan Sr. died, he finally asked his son to hit a ball in a field next to the Rodriguez house. “'He wanted to see what a golf shot looked like,' says Chi Chi. 'I teed up a... »
"Juan Sr... had no knowledge of golf and never saw his son play...The year Juan Sr. died, he finally asked his son to hit a ball in a field next to the Rodriguez house. “'He wanted to see what a golf shot looked like,' says Chi Chi. 'I teed up a... »
We're all accustomed to "dad's an idiot and a fat, lazy slob" in editorials cartoons, sitcoms, and TV ads. However, even by the anti-male standards of the day, the above cartoon from Pat Oliphant, who is apparently the most widely syndicated political cartoonist in the world, is pretty over-the-top. »
"Some things are just not allowed when soldiers are standing in formation. One of them is 4-year-old girls. However, there was no soldier stern enough to pry Paige Bennethum of Laureldale, Pa. from her father as he prepared to leave last July for a year-long deployment in Iraq." From Tom Henderson's Little Girl Can't Let... »
Domestic violence and the DV policies of family courts and law enforcement is a multi-faceted issue that has an enormous impact on American families. Fathers & Families is hosting a debate between two of North America's leading domestic violence authorities, feminist DV expert Professor Evan Stark, Ph.D, MSW, and dissident DV expert Dr. Donald... »
Domestic violence and the DV policies of family courts and law enforcement is a multi-faceted issue that has an enormous impact on American families. Fathers & Families is hosting a debate between two of North America's leading domestic violence authorities, feminist DV expert Professor Evan Stark, Ph.D, MSW, and dissident DV expert Dr. Donald... »
I just found out that my niece's baby is going to be a boy. The mother is the girl with me in the photo. If you say she looks too young to have a kid, you'd be right. If you say I look too young to be (gulp) a granduncle, you wouldn't be right,... »
From Sioux Falls mom who threatened kids gets probation (Associated Press, 9/9/09): A 23-year-old Sioux Falls woman was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation for threatening to kill 3 of her children. But the judge also gave Amber Hansen a suspended 8-year prison sentence, which could be imposed if she doesn't abide by her sentence. Hansen... »
Domestic violence and the DV policies of family courts and law enforcement is a multi-faceted issue that has an enormous impact on American families. Fathers & Families is hosting a debate between two of North America's leading domestic violence authorities, feminist DV expert Professor Evan Stark, Ph.D, MSW, and dissident DV expert Dr. Donald... »
From cartoonist Signe Wilkinson. To her credit, she does prominently include "Dadless" as one of the major problems. Going strictly by the research, "Dadless" would have taken up the whole front row of seats. The "No Discipline" seat in the second row is also a direct consequence of fatherlessness. »
Domestic violence and the DV policies of family courts and law enforcement is a multi-faceted issue that has an enormous impact on American families. Fathers & Families is hosting a debate between two of North America's leading domestic violence authorities, feminist DV expert Professor Evan Stark, Ph.D, MSW, and dissident DV expert Dr. Donald... »
I'm generally suspicious of some of the figures we hear about the cost of raising children. They seem too high, often way too high. Moreover, these studies are sometimes used as a way to drum up support for driving up child support guidelines, which has driven many fathers to ruin or to be falsely... »
"We both knew we had to put our children’s needs before our own disagreements...we could never put our children in the middle of our adult situations. I continue to be unclear as to why some parents are able to put their children’s needs first and others are not but I have seen the effects... »
Domestic violence and the DV policies of family courts and law enforcement is a multi-faceted issue that has an enormous impact on American families. During the 1970s, feminist organizations fought hard to make domestic violence a public issue, as opposed to a private one, and to gain governmental and societal support for policies aimed at... »
In this recent blog post we discussed Long Beach Press-Telegram columnist Tom Hennessy's recent impassioned column seeking the release of Richard Keech, an 89-year-old WWII veteran imprisoned for murdering Nick Candy, his former son-in-law. Hennessy writes: "My father is in prison because he killed my abusive husband to protect my son, my mother, and me,"... »
Reese Hopkins (pictured) 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. As some of you may recall, I looked into the case and did some media on it, and pointed out that there are many problems with the prosecution's... »
Long Beach Press-Telegram columnist Tom Hennessy recently wrote an impassioned column seeking the release of Richard Keech, an 89-year-old WWII veteran imprisoned for murdering Nick Candy, his former son-in-law. Hennessy writes: "My father is in prison because he killed my abusive husband to protect my son, my mother, and me," his daughter Nancy said in... »
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