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The Difference A Dad Makes

By New Boston Post on 06/17/2017 “…Kids are expensive, and it’s hard to imagine supporting a family alone. But children who have fathers in the home don’t just have access to a second income stream, they have, on average, an exponentially higher level of financial security and opportunity. For example, the median annual household income […]

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MICHIGAN BILL PUTS BREADWINNERS OVER KIDS IN CUSTODY DISPUTES

By Schmidt & Long on 06/08/2017 “…If HB 4691 passes, the Michigan Shared Parenting Act will shift the focus of the statute from children’s interests to parents’ rights. The bill claims it protects the “best interests of the child” by protecting “the right of the child to a substantially equal parenting time arrangement that promotes a strong

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Must My Son Be a Feminist?

By Psychology Today 06/09/2017 “…I feel like a broken record, always mentioning the fact that I have three sons and five grandsons. But I don’t think there is anything that defines me more. As someone whose academic interest in gender issues began when I only had two sons and no grandsons, the fact that I am not

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Institute For Family Studies Has No Clue About Shared Parenting, Opposes It Anyway

By National Parents Organization on 06/04/2017 “…I find I must take a short detour from reporting on the International Conference on Shared Parenting. Why? For two reasons. The first is that the conference so powerfully made the case for shared parenting that this article was impossible for me to allow to stand (IF Studies, 6/2/17). Second, the

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Dealing with a parent who won’t let you see your children

By Marilyn Stowe on 06/02/2017 “…Typically one parent, normally the principal or main carer, embarks on a pattern of behaviour, with a view to ensuring that the children concerned do not want to see their other parent. This can include making allegations of physical and sexual abuse against the other parent, or convincing the children

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Parental alienation: A call to change parenting culture — and law

By Wealthy Single Mommy on 06/06/2017 “…On this Like a Mother episode I interview film maker Ginger Gentile, whose latest project is called Erasing Family, a documentary about parental alienation, focused on the now-adult children who grew up without knowing a parent, siblings, or extended family thanks to the wishes of another parent, and a court system historically designed

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Traditional families harmed by trade shocks, men’s falling “marriage-market value”

By AJC on 05/05/2017 “…Perhaps marriage is a matter of romance, an amalgam of love and chemistry, a choice made for reasons spiritual, soulful and biological. But perhaps there’s some economics involved. The loss of manufacturing jobs has made men—especially rural men—less valuable as marital partners leading to a decline in rates of marriage and an increase

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