Mutual” Custody? I am a weeee bit confused on the issue of mutual custody. The Family Courts in New Rochelle, NY sanctioned a mutual custody decision, with certain stipulations presented by my wife’s attorney. Now a month after my acceptance of same, none if any of these so called agreements has been honored. My visitation … Read more
by Archie Wortham “The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer said. Margaret Mead said, “The highest measure of a civilization lies in how it cares for its children.” Kids are the fabric upon which our society will be built, and dads, no one is more … Read more
Readers at the Reader’s Digest LookSmart website find FatherMag.com suggested. The Reader’s Digest “LookSmart” award is now displayed at the FatherMag.com website. During its first year FatherMag.com received an award from The Los Angeles Times, a favorable review in Whole Internet Catalog and a “Best of the Net” listing at WebCrawler. Our thanks go to Reader’s Digest, … Read more
Veni, vedi, vici. We came, we saw, we conquored! For the past 8 years there have been a group of social workers and “psychologists” in Tyler who have run roughshod over the East Texas area on incest cases in divorce knocking off hundreds of fathers in that time. They didn’t count on encountering the “A-Team.” … Read more
The Heritage Foundation report “The Child Abuse Crisis: The Disintegration of Marriage, Family, and the American Community,” May 15, 1997 notes that: “[due to] … the disintegration of family and community … America’s infants and young chilren, about 2,000 of whom — 6 per day — die each year,” and provides the following estimate: Total … Read more
Child kidnappings by strangers are rare, but they do occur. A look at the news stories reveals that these strangers are usually not stereotypical perverts or ransom seekers. Who should you watch out for then? That nice lady next door. According to Hospital Safety and Security – Infant Abduction (pdf), the typical offender is a “female of … Read more
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 07:17:26 -0500 (CDT) From: “Men’s HOTLINE” <men@menhotline.org> Subject: Teenage parents To: “Men’s HOTLINE” <men@menhotline.org> This from Julian Garcia of New York. NFI has been featured in the media with excellent pro-father pieces. Wade Horn, Ph.D., of Maryland, is their Executive Director. Men’s HOTLINE : 512-472-3237 : men@menhotline.org ——- A crisis … Read more
Unlimited justice: Once a criminal, always a criminal unlimited justice © Willee Cole – Fotolia.com All rights reserved. The statute of limitations limits the amount of time during which a crime can be punished. Time was, if someone committed an offense (as most everyone has in some manner), it had to be punished within a … Read more
by Archie Wortham © Corbis. All rights reserved. “Are we there yet?” Vacation is in the air. For those of you who are planning a vacation this summer, I’m providing a few ideas for you to think about that might make this year’s trip more memorable, bearable, and possibly might save someone’s life. After 180 … Read more
by Clyde Verner © Aleksandar Nikolov – Fotolia.com All rights reserved. We shouldn’t hit our kids. I raised two sons to adulthood without ever needing to really hit them. I thought it was due my good parenting skills. Now I know better. Some children are simply more accepting of authority. For a variety of reasons, … Read more
The programme It’s a Boy, to be screened on Channel 4 this month, includes graphic footage of a circumcision in the Midlands that went disastrously wrong. The 8-day-old baby, circumcised without anaesthetic by a rabbi who is not a doctor, is seen bloodied and screaming in agony during the operation. When it was clear things were … Read more
Not as important as you might think! by Mark Phillips –show me more like this © Irina Fischer – Fotolia.com All rights reserved. When a couple discerns which of them should stay home with their children, there are personality traits that seem like they would be useful for the Primary Parent to have but aren’t … Read more
Wall Street Journal Europe Wednesday 14 January 1998 “Social science confirms that children raised in day-care centers and similar institutions are often emotionally maladjusted and mentally impaired.” Many young families today depend on day care. Single fathers may rely on it even more than single mothers do. But is it good for our children? In … Read more
by John Edward Gill I raised Margie, my daughter, until she was twenty-three and had finished college. It was hard because Estelle kept telling her that she had left us because I was horrible. Yet my ex-wife never came to those school events, not even Margie’s graduations–from high school, junior high, elementary school–not even when … Read more