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Monday 31 March 2008

Archive for the 'Fathers' Category

More Floridians becoming single mothers by choice

Monday 31 March 2008 @ 12:18 pm

Lisa Bell spent years looking for Mr. Right. At 36, she stopped pining, and soon found the love of her life: Her daughter, Emily.

Comments (0) | Posted in Fathers, Marriage

Children of the State

Wednesday 5 March 2008 @ 3:42 pm

“There is no such thing as other people’s children.” — Hillary Clinton

Comments (0) | Posted in Fathers, Feminista, government, sex politics, society

Children who have an active father figure have fewer psychological and behavioral problems

Saturday 16 February 2008 @ 11:04 pm

Active father figures have a key role to play in reducing behavior problems in boys and psychological problems in young women.

Comments (0) | Posted in Fathers, psychology

Raising kids harder than KOing foes for Alexander

Wednesday 7 November 2007 @ 1:46 pm

Taking care of six children between the ages of 5 and 16 is a big enough job for a small squadron of adults. For a guy who has emerged as one of the world’s elite light heavyweights, with all the training and business demands that entails, to also be able to cook and clean around the house each day is super hero kind of stuff.

Comments (0) | Posted in Fathers, sex and metropolis

What men talk about

Monday 29 October 2007 @ 10:42 am

The biggest complaint I hear from wives these days is that their husbands don’t speak to them. They don’t share their emotions, they don’t let them into their hearts. Marriages that suffer from a lack of intimate communication, focusing on the practical at the expense of the emotional, are destined to corrode. Even if they survive, they will leave both partners lonely. Here then, are the 10 reasons why husbands don’t open up to their wives.

Comments (0) | Posted in Fathers, human nature, interesting, men + women, sex and metropolis

How To Be A Good Dad - 10 Things My Father Taught Me

Wednesday 17 October 2007 @ 6:20 pm

It seems like these days it’s hard to find someone saying good things about their father. I don’t know if the overall quality of fathering is going down, if people don’t appreciate their father as much, or if people just talk about it more these days, but almost every time you hear about someone’s father, it’s in a negative light.

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Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Family-Unfriendly Policies

Monday 15 October 2007 @ 10:56 am

You will hear a lot about the American family in the election campaign. For most of us, that calls up an image of a man and wife and two or three children. Forget it. Predominant as the social pattern for several hundred years, that American family has lost its place. Households of unmarried couples and households without children outnumber “American family” households. And only about 20 percent of families fit into the traditional structure with father as the only breadwinner.

Comments (0) | Posted in 2008, Fathers, Marriage, government, health, men + women, sex and metropolis, sex politics, society

Picketers Support Father Fighting For Custody

Saturday 6 October 2007 @ 2:53 pm

(KDKA) WASHINGTON, Pa. One local father is fighting to get custody of his 16-month-old daughter.

Comments (0) | Posted in Fathers, counterPULSE, human nature

‘Fast Food Dads’ stereotype a myth according to new research

Saturday 22 September 2007 @ 11:27 am

Single dads apparently don’t get enough respect when it comes to providing for their kids’ nutrition according to a study led by an Iowa State University sociologist that dispels the myth of “fast food dads.” It’s the first to show that kids who spend time with their non-resident fathers actually eat slightly healthier than those who don’t.

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Helping flawed fathers measure up

Wednesday 12 September 2007 @ 9:07 pm

Rocky Mountain News columnist Tina Griego concludes her Aug. 30 effort on the irresponsibilities of Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry and the stellar determination of Oshanette Neal — single mother of six — with a quote from Sidney Poitier’s book, The Measure of a Man.

Comments (0) | Posted in Fathers, sex and metropolis, sex politics