October 20, 2011
Were you aware that all men are pedophiles, with the potential to abuse little girls at any moment? I sure as hell wasn’t. But a preschool with parent-helpers is being attacked for allowing men to take little girls to the bathroom. Aren’t they parents to little girls and boys too? “Perhaps when my daughter is ...
Tags: bad touching,
child abuse,
child molestation,
daddies,
dads in the bathroom,
doting dads,
father's rights,
fatherhood,
fathers,
modern man,
no feeling,
pedophiles,
pervert daddies,
perverts,
stay-at-home-dads
April 4, 2011
Ever wanted to be a stay-at-home dad but couldn’t afford it? Now you can do it – for six months at least. New paternity leave rules have just come into effect in the UK which allow dads the chance to have 26 weeks off work to stay home with their new child (biological or adopted). This ...
September 27, 2010
Everyone knows that the courts have traditionally favoured divorced mothers getting custody of children. Fathers and fathers’ rights groups have been speaking out about this for years and they will (hopefully) finally get some resolution. There has been a major consultation on the family justice review in the UK and it closes this week. The intention of ...
May 31, 2010
Men, is your wife pregnant? Do you want to help at antenatal classes and attend the birth? Researchers say this might be a bad idea and it would be better if you were left out. Dr. Ives, who did a two-year study, says that there is a “‘false, modern rhetoric of equal involvement that has ...
Tags: babies,
equality,
father's rights,
gender,
gender roles,
male postnatal depression,
marriage,
parents,
paternity issues,
postnatal depression,
pregnancy
April 12, 2010
Research in Australia has shown that “non-residential parents”, that is, mostly the divorced dads, don’t have enough involvement with their kids’ schools. They recommend teachers do more to involve dads. This is good in theory, but seriously, whose fault is this? If the dads want more involvement it’s up to them to ask for it.
February 15, 2010
Men in Manchester and Edinburgh are taking part in a two-year trial for an injectable male contraceptive. Comments by readers on this article talk of an end to men being tricked into supporting children who are not theirs.
Tags: child support,
contraception,
father's rights,
fertility,
hormones,
injection,
male birth control,
male contraception,
mother's rights,
myths,
parents,
pregnancy,
relationships,
shared responsibility,
sperm
January 29, 2010
The British Government is going to allow fathers and mothers to share parental leave with up to three of the legal nine months being available to fathers and an additional three months unpaid. It’s about time fathers got some official recognition for their importance in the early life of their children.
Tags: equality,
equality at work,
father's rights,
feminism,
parental leave,
parents,
paternity leave,
pay equality,
sexism,
work life balance,
working fathers,
working mothers
December 17, 2009
A new Charmin toilet paper commercial has switched the doting dad for a mom. Why the change? Apparently men can’t be trusted with their own kids. The ad itself is a little odd to begin with. A cartoon bear with a little boy’s voice comes out from behind the tree and turns around, showing his ...
November 22, 2009
Mike raised a daughter who wasn’t his own for four years. When it was discovered he divorced the mother but still continued to see the girl and pay child support as the biological father was out of the picture. When his ex-wife and the biological father got married he tried to stop child support. But ...
November 4, 2009
Dads are not just incompetent moms, despite what the sitcoms tell us. They parent in a different way, one that is good for children to be exposed to, but they are often treated like second class citizens.