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When Willie Wet the Bed
Fathering poetry about a classic problem.

Discipline
When adult control fails, the resulting power vacuum is filled by gangs and bullies. By Clyde Verner.

Teaching Children the Importance of Winning
Encouraging in our children the drive to win can be just as important as teaching them to lose gracefully. By Chris Call.

Suggestions for the New Single Father
Russel Wayne provides some immensely practical childcare tips for the man who has to go it alone.

Promoting Your Child's Balanced Development
Giving your children the opportunity to develop a special talent can provide them with a sense of their uniqueness and be a healthy enhancement to their self esteem. By Gerald Alpern.

Classical Fathering versus the Judeo-Christian Model
We interview historian Frederick Hodges about raising children with classical Western values by avoiding the methods imposed on the West by Middle-Eastern religions.

What Fathers Do
by Jack Kammer.

The Fathering Advisor
Selected Reader Mail Gets Our Response

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The Fertile Monk
Becoming a dad is a bit like becoming a monk. It requires devotion.

Survival
means protecting our freedom from ever more powerful government agents.

The Bad Touch

Afraid of Intimacy

I am 18 and unable to experience any pleasure from another person touching me.

When I was about seven a woman came to our school and told us about "the bad touch." She said that it felt "yucky" to have someone touch you intimately. That never happened to me, but I was always afraid someone might do that and the fear has never gone away.

After growing up with this fear, how can I make it go away? Did that woman ever stop to think what she was doing to me?

What am I supposed to do now?

-- Mashed in Massachusetts

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Dear Mashed,

You need to find a therapist, but be certain from the start that the therapist is willing to accept the validity of your experience.

Some young adults whose sexual feelings are directed at children have reported such programs as being the origin of their aversion to intimate contact with adults. If this is true, it would be particularly ironic to find that the long-term effect of such programs is the opposite of what was intended.

The Fathering Advisor

Joint "Mutual" Custody?

Afraid of Intimacy

Mother Accuses Father of Child Abuse

Mother Refuses to Acknowledge Father on Birth Certificate

Six Year Old Boy's Foreskin Doesn't Retract

Mother Restricts Father's Time Alone With Kids

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Puberty
Must parents accept early puberty as normal? How early puberty wrecks your child's health.

Intersex
Is the new baby a boy, or a girl? One out of every two thousand births presents parents with a sudden gender dilemma.

Health
Fertility, Circumcision, Prostate Cancer

Protect Your Son
How a father discovered, too late, that circumcision is not a good thing. By Rio Cruz.

Children in Single-Mom Households "at Risk"
The fact that children raised by single mothers are at increased risk is found over and over again. Trev Martin asks, "What do we do about it?"

In Search of a History
"The Preamble, the Declaration of Independence, and the Gettysburg Address are the sacred scriptures of this nation." By Richard Hiatt.

Day Care - A Dangerous Experiment in Child-Rearing?
"Social science confirms that children raised in day-care centers and similar institutions are often emotionally maladjusted and mentally impaired." - The Wall Street Journal

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