http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/04/03/barbara-kay-fair-play-for-divorced-dads/ Time spent with fathers is highly correlated with positive outcomes for children of broken marriages. Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin has commissioned a report aimed at overhauling Canada’s family-law system. Its recommendations, which will be officially released later this month, reportedly include strategies for streamlining the legal process, encouraging mediation and reducing litigation.
Year: 2013
The dad effect: Why dads are as important as mums
While the mother-child bond is indisputable, increasingly research is showing that dads, too, have a huge impact on their kids – and vice-versa. Of course, it makes sense that today’s fathers should be found to be at least equally as influential as mothers, yet it’s tended to be mums who’ve got all the credit, or,
Domestic abuse: Our male-victimizing myths live on
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/03/27/barbara-kay-our-male-victimizing-myths-live-on/ Twenty years ago Earl Silverman of Calgary, fleeing his home to escape violence from his abusive wife, had no refuge to take shelter in. There were plenty of shelters for women victims of domestic abuse, but for men the only publicly funded services were for anger management. The message was clear to Silverman: “As
Defeated dads
http://m.smh.com.au/executive-style/culture/blogs/all-men-are-liars/defeated-dads-20130326-2grz8.html Watched a beautiful little film recently titled For Ellen that made me cry more than any movie has in 20 years. It stars Paul Dano, who played that irritating preacher kid Eli Sunday in There Will Be Blood and it’s the kind of role that makes you want to hug the actor. For Ellen
Women: hitting your man is not cute; it’s abuse
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/9930142/Women-hitting-your-man-is-not-cute-its-abuse.html A new US survey indicates that young women are three times as likely to admit hitting their partner than men, but the normalisation of intimate violence is a disturbing trend with miserable implications for both genders, argues Jennifer O’Mahony The scene will be familiar to anyone who has sat through a Hollywood romcom-by-numbers. A
What are fathers for? – Michael Lamb
Policy makers have had the advantage of more than 70 years of fatherhood research to inform their legislative decisions. It is time to act on this accumulated wisdom. Posted by Yuri Joakimidis, Thanks to Yuri and the Shared Parenting Information Group UK http://www.spig.clara.net/ippr/lamb.htm Michael Lamb Speaking at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Conference ‘Men
Shared Parenting Research – Must Read
Yuri Joakimides has once again produced an extremely useful listing for those dads who are facing a negative response to the suggestion of shared parenting. Thanks Yuri. Recently published must read shared parenting research that lays to rest the most common claims made by those who seek to eliminate or marginalize fathers in the lives
Why Did He Kill All Those Children?
http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/column/why-did-he-kill-all-those-children.html The idea for massacring children in an elementary school or shooting up a mall filled with Christmas shoppers does not come from reading books, watching movies, or listening to music. Does the incitement for such unspeakable acts come from hours of role-playing violent video games? As we speculate on what was going on in