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ifeminists March 30, 2005 Carey Roberts |
The Rise of Big Sister-ism Deadbeat Dad myths have become so ingrained in American thinking that basic Constitutional protections are being casually tossed aside.  |
ifeminists March 5, 2007 Teri Stoddard |
Can't Find a Husband? Men who embrace fatherhood are shown their time and influence aren't important. Our government does this by enforcing child support orders while not enforcing visitation orders.  |
ifeminists February 25, 2004 Carey Roberts |
Dissing Dads According to the Father Facts report from the National Fatherhood Initiative, children with involved dads get better grades in school, have fewer emotional problems, enjoy better physical health, and are less likely to live in poverty.  |
ifeminists June 15, 2005 Carey Roberts |
A Government Program Is No Substitute For a Bear-Hug Why does the US taxpayer continue to subsidize government programs, to the tune of billions of dollars a year, that end up separating fathers from their families?  |
ifeminists June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce.  |
ifeminists June 14, 2006 Leving & Sacks |
New Report: Foster Care System Disregards Fathers America's child welfare policies are seriously misguided. When a mother is deemed unfit to care for her children, dad shouldn't be just one option out of many. He should be first in line.  |
ifeminists December 7, 2006 Carey Roberts |
The GOP's Betrayal of the Pro-Family Agenda When we survey the current state of the family, we see that Americans are half as likely to wed compared to a generation ago, mostly due to a growing shortage of marriage-minded men. How did all this happen?  |
ifeminists June 14, 2006 Carey Roberts |
Playing Politics with the Federal Fatherhood Initiative The Fatherhood Initiative has become an orphan program that the Sisterhood would happily kill off, but the higher-ups know that would be politically embarrassing. So the Initiative now floats in bureaucratic cyberspace with no defined mandate, leadership, operating structure, or budget.  |
ifeminists November 23, 2005 Carey Roberts |
Requiem for the Leftist Welfare Utopia Leftists have devised a simple yet amazingly effective formula to engender social discord: break up the family, marginalize fathers, and then blame the whole mess on men. But now people are catching on to the game plan and dads are staging a comeback.  |
ifeminists June 16, 2004 Carey Roberts |
Yes, Fathers Are Essential Despite what the American Psychological Association might say, most persons agree that dads are worth keeping around.  |
Reason December 2003 Cathy Young |
Divorcees and Social Engineers Most people acknowledge that children are better off when they have fathers and when their fathers are actively involved in their lives. But where do we go from there? Fathers face off against the marriage movement.  |
ifeminists October 4, 2006 Leving & Sacks |
Are Single Mothers the 'New American Family?' Those who view the traditional family as disadvantageous to women are firing back, defending women who choose single motherhood and depicting fathers as superfluous.  |
ifeminists February 18, 2003 Glenn Sacks |
Valentine's Day & the Gender Wars Part of the division between men and women is due to women's legitimate grievances. But much of it is also caused by men's resentment that the very real problems and disadvantages they face as husbands, partners and fathers have been ignored by the media, our lawmakers and by society as a whole.  |
ifeminists September 1, 2004 Carey Roberts |
Will the NASCAR Dads Tilt the Election? White males likely will continue to vote overwhelmingly in Bush's favor. Or perhaps, they will sit this one out.  |
ifeminists May 8, 2007 McCormick & Sacks |
Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls Tells an Important Truth About African-American Fathers While no judge or lawmaker can turn a disinterested parent into a caring one, much can and should be done to break down the many barriers which separate loving fathers from their children.  |
ifeminists August 15, 2007 Carey Roberts |
Newark Triple-Murder Reveals Need for Fathers Statistics show that 60 percent of city kids grow up without fathers and 70 percent of long-term prisoners grew up without fathers. What does this say about the future of the city kids?  |
ifeminists October 16, 2008 Tony Zizza |
Teen Motherhood a "Right"? Why is teen motherhood viewed as an absolute "right" while teen fatherhood is just a financial "responsibility."?  |
ifeminists January 13, 2004 Carey Roberts |
When Family Dissolution Becomes the Law of the Land So what happens when the radical feminist agenda becomes the law of the land? That is not a mere hypothetical question. It can be answered by turning the pages of history back to the tragic early days of Soviet Russia.  |
Fast Company June 2010 David Lidsky |
Numerology: Origins of Father's Day Statistics about Father's Day.  |
ifeminists July 8, 2007 Michael J. McManus |
Taken Into Custody Father's Day was not joyful for millions of fathers who had a divorce forced upon them, whose children were "taken into custody" by the mother who filed for the divorce.  |
ifeminists June 14, 2006 Tony Zizza |
I Used To Be A Stepfather If stepfathers can one day take a crack at being in a family again, even a new one, perhaps there's no reason why on Father's Day we can't look at fatherhood for the appropriate honor it deserves.  |
ifeminists May 18, 2005 Carey Roberts |
VAWA Law Polarizes the Sexes, Weakens the Family The Violence Against Women Act represents a frontal assault on both fatherhood and on the integrity of the traditional family.  |
ifeminists December 15, 2004 Carey Roberts |
Long Live the Matriarchy! Until the essential role of fathers is recognized and antiquated laws are changed, millions of American children will be deprived of the steady hand of a loving father.  |
ifeminists June 30, 2004 Carey Roberts |
Divorced Dads' White-Hot Sense of Injustice Noncustodial dads find it incomprehensible that their basic human right to be a parent is being curtailed by a legal system that they perceive to be expensive, cloaked in secrecy, and unfair, spurring their suicide rate to 10 times that of divorced women.  |
Salon.com July 6, 2000 Cathy Young |
Team players or tools of the patriarchy? Women often are supplying the muscle behind the fathers' rights movement.  |
ifeminists August 2, 2006 McCormick & Sacks |
NOW at 40: Group's Opposition to Shared Parenting Contradicts Its Goal of Gender Equality It's time for the National Organization for Women to re-examine its misguided stand against shared parenting, and to bring its policies into line with its stated ideals.  |
ifeminists June 9, 2004 Sacks & Brass |
National Fatherhood Initiative's Ad Campaign Insults African-American Fathers While the NFI's goal is laudable, research shows that a major factor in black fatherlessness, which the NFI campaign completely ignores, is the obstruction of fathers' visitation rights by custodial mothers.  |
ifeminists December 14, 2005 Carey Roberts |
PBS Propaganda Piece The film Breaking the Silence is a bogus documentary that smears fathers as child abusers, with the aim of keeping dads out of their children's lives after divorce.  |
ifeminists June 21, 2006 Leving & Sacks |
Illinois Fatherhood Council Recommends New Reforms in Family Law, Child Support Policies based on blaming and punishing dads may make good political sound bites, but they are counterproductive for society, and hurtful to children and the fathers they love and need.  |
Salon.com August 9, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
The myth of the deadbeat dad A researcher who interviewed black fathers who don't live with their kids talks about their surprising views on parenting...  |
ifeminists September 23, 2003 Glenn Sacks |
Convicted Murderess Can Get Custody but Decent Fathers Can't Clara Harris, a Texas woman who was convicted of murdering her husband in March, was just granted joint custody of her twin five year-old boys. The ruling validates what fathers' and children's advocates have been saying for years -- when it comes to children, many courts believe that mothers can do no wrong.  |
ifeminists November 10, 2004 Carey Roberts |
NASCAR Dads and Soccer Moms Join Forces, But at What Cost? The 2004 Democratic platform flatly ignored the issues of men, while kow-towing to such feminist demands as protecting abortion rights and remedying the so-called gender "wage gap."  |
ifeminists May 2, 2009 Carey Roberts |
White House Council on Men and Boys: The Right Thing to Do One of the greatest failings of the Great Society programs of the 1960s was the devastating blow they dealt to low-income African-American families.  |
ifeminists August 31, 2005 Carey Roberts |
Marriage Movement at the Crossroads There is one voice that is conspicuously absent in the campaign to save fatherhood -- the Marriage Movement, which, sadly and inexplicably, has largely turned its back on men.  |
ifeminists January 3, 2007 Leving & Sacks |
Dads Finally Get Fair Shake in the Media While the ''Father Knows Best'' depiction of dads was always a distortion, the ''Father Knows Nothing'' media theme of the past couple of decades has been a far greater one. Dads deserve a media rehabilitation -- hopefully 2006 was its beginning.  |
ifeminists July 8, 2007 Stephen Baskerville |
Welfare and the "Road to Serfdom" As conservatives congratulate themselves on ten years of welfare reform, they need to start looking at the larger picture and all that was left undone.  |
ifeminists October 8, 2002 Sacks & Thompson |
Can Abolishing Sole Custody Curb Divorce? Research from American Law and Economics Review indicates the presumption of joint physical custody may serve to keep some marriages together.  |
ifeminists April 12, 2006 McCormick & Sacks |
'Roe v. Wade for Men' Case Illustrates Family Law System's Inequities The "woman good/man bad" modus operandi of the American family law system has wounded children and the fathers they love and need. The problem cannot be resolved until we acknowledge and address the fundamental inequities of the system.  |
ifeminists February 11, 2003 Thompson & Sacks |
Undermining the American Family The American Law Institute, which exercises great influence on American jurisprudence, has just released a series of family law recommendations that would exacerbate our problems by trivializing the importance of marriage, encouraging divorce and accelerating fatherlessness.  |
AskMen.com May 19, 2008 Ross Bonander |
Fatherhood Guide: Affection Showing affection is a challenging area of parenting, but this is not uncommon; for many loving and caring fathers, showing their affection represents the most challenging aspect of parenting.  |
ifeminists March 1, 2006 Carey Roberts |
The Feminist Anti-Kid Crusade Despite the fact that kids with involved dads do better, regardless of all the joint custody laws, and in spite of the laughable antics of the M.O.M. brigade, mothers continue to be favored in custody decisions by a 7 to 1 margin.  |
ifeminists March 9, 2005 Trudy W. Schuett |
Everybody Deserves Better Allowing prejudicial, deeply biased and regressive domestic violence programs to continue unchecked will only serve to add to the numbers on the welfare rolls, in the jails and under the care of government-sponsored child protective agencies.  |
ifeminists September 14, 2005 Glenn Sacks |
Are Boys Really Better off Without Fathers? While Peggy Drexler's Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms Are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men may seem like a harmless, feel-good affirmation for these mothers, it could have a damaging impact on children by affecting both the choices women make and family law.  |
Investment Advisor April 2007 Olivia Mellan |
Child Is Father to the Man Few money messages are as enduring as the ones a son learns from his dad. Here's what financial planners need to understand about this special relationship.  |
AskMen.com June 10, 2003 Douglas Cooney |
Why Do Divorce Laws Marginalize Men? It seems that no matter who you talk to these days, someone knows of a man who came out of a divorce robbed and humiliated. And there is no end to how harrowing such stories get.  |
ifeminists September 30, 2003 Carey Roberts |
Domestic Violence Campaign Not About Helping Women Domestic Violence Awareness Month is an excuse for radical feminists to perpetrate their myths that domestic violence has reached epidemic proportions in this country, that men are always the brutal perpetrators, and women the inevitable victims.  |
ifeminists March 24, 2004 Carey Roberts |
Women Lose When Feminists Bash Women believed that when they entered the workplace, it would become a kinder, more compassionate place. They were wrong.  |
ifeminists August 21, 2007 David Heleniak |
PC Feminism and the DV Courts Studies of domestic violence have consistently revealed that women are at least as likely as men to commit domestic violence, but PC feminists have pushed the idea that women don't commit domestic violence so far that they've influenced the courts.  |
ifeminists June 14, 2007 Leving & Sacks |
In this Turf War, Kids Are the Prize Parental Alienation is child abuse. Courts need to do more to protect children from alienation, not dismiss it.  |
ifeminists June 30, 2004 Jon W. |
Letter: Civil Disobedience & Fundamental Liberty Rights of Parents There is no sign that the Federal Courts are going to recognize the serious legal mess of the family court system.  |