IN War of the Roses, Hollywood’s 1989 black comedy about a bitter marriage (Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner star), divorce lawyer Gavin D’Amato (Danny De Vito) declares the gloves off, explaining: “There is no winning in divorce, only degrees of losing.”
As bleak as that sounds, it is, it seems, the best of it.
SUMMARY: This bibliography examines 95 scholarly investigations, 79 empirical studies and 16 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 60,000.
“The constant message from TV, movies and commercials is that men are cheaters, lazy, unreliable and stupid.” Source: AdelaideNow
TELEVISION is filled with male characters who are hopeless, uninterested, bumbling idiots, writes Rebekah Devlin.
According to a poll conducted for the Francophone Belgian family and parenting magazine Filiatio, seven out of ten Belgians are in favor of equal accommodation or bilocation of the child between the homes of divorced parents. This type of care is far preferred above sole care arrangements for the children with one of the parents, combined with a “fortnightly weekend of access with the other parent ” (15.2%) or the “5/9″ – parenting arrangement with the children staying five days with one of the parents, and nine days with the other parent ( 5.2%).
When your life is committed to helping the world work for everyone – men and boys included – it’s easy to forget that most people don’t see the inequality and discrimination that men and boys face on a daily basis.
So to help us spread the word about the desperate need to help men and boys live longer, happier, healthier lives ………..
Feminism has latched onto sexual-harassment laws as a successful way of bringing men to heel, says a University of Massachusetts professor and sometime feminist in a new book. In “Heterophobia,” Daphne Patai says that sexual-harassment law, once a useful tool to identify outrageous behavior, is now an albatross. “Sexual harassment seems often to be little
Family violence has, in recent years, been subjected to a very short sighted restricted analysis that is based on stereotypes of victims and abusers. Typically, the “victim” is depicted as a timid, oppressed female and the abuser is portrayed as a brutish, aggressive male that often assaults or even murders children. But such gender stereotypes are dangerous, and leave groups of people suffering and vulnerable because they do not fit the pigeon hole prescriptions that dominate family violence discourse and support organisations in our country.
I read this email, sent to Men’s Rights Agency just this week 16/6/12, and I want to share it with you as it expresses so well the devastation many fathers feel when their children are removed from their lives, for no good reason. I have the writer’s permission to publish his email. MRA Editor Hello, I
Letter and article FYI. The letter below was published in The Washington Times on Monday, June 18,2012 and is followed by the op-Ed to which it responded. Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D. Inarguably, children need fathers http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/15/inarguably-children-need-fathers/ In light of the commemoration of Father’s Day Sunday, I would like to thank Edward Kruk for his op-Ed column
From the loving, engaged portrayals of fathers featured in recent popular movies like “The Descendants,” “Moneyball” and “A Better Life” — all three performances were nominated for Academy Awards — one might conclude American dads are culturally valued.
