Category: Family

What to think about while looking for your soul mate -a.k.a. THE ONE

More food for thought by Matt Walsh. The original and full article is HERE: http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/i-didnt-marry-the-one-she-become-the-one-after-i-married-her/ We think that our task is to find this preordained partner and marry them because, after all, they’re “The One.” They were designed for us,…

Our Marriage Ended. Our Family Did Not.

Children do not divorce their parents. This is a typical example of how most people who co-parent have to deal with real life after divorce. An excert from this article: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/parenting/2014/11/23/our-marriage-ended-our-family-did-not/?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1&referrer Divorcing felt like a death that deserved mourning. Yet…

Bill would increase noncustodial parents’ time with children

From this article: http://m.deseretnews.com/article/865615952/Bill-would-increase-noncustodial-parents-time-with-children.html?ref=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%3Fref%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com SALT LAKE CITY — A grandmother who helped her son wage a custody battle for his children endorsed proposed legislation that would give courts another option in determining parent time in divorce cases. The proposal, considered…

Dad’s Don’t Get Work-Life Balance Empathy

An excerpt from this article: http://www.timsackett.com/2014/08/08/dads-dont-get-work-life-balance-empathy/ Friends and colleagues often ask my wife how she balances her job and motherhood. Somehow, the same people don’t ask me.” When we talk about ‘inclusion’ we aren’t really talking about everyone. That’s the…

Mothers who deny fathers access to the couple’s children after a break-up could be jailed

An excerpt from this article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158490/Mothers-deny-fathers-access-couple-s-children-break-jailed.html Separated parents who fail to allow their partners to maintain a proper relationship with their children could be stripped of driving licenses or passports, hit with curfews, ordered to do a period of unpaid work…

The Myth of the Empowered Working Class Single Mother

An excerpt from this article: http://www.the-spearhead.com/2014/07/16/the-myth-of-the-empowered-working-class-single-mother/?utm_source=pulsenews&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheSpearhead+%28The+Spearhead%29 I’ve been coming across a lot of articles about how working and lower middle class women are better off raising their kids “alone.” It’s a bit baffling, really, because taking care of a baby…

The Feminist Leader Who Became a Men’s-Rights Activist

An excerpt from this article: http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/the-now-president-who-became-a-mens-rights-activist/372742/ DeCrow raised eyebrows in 1981 when she served as defense counsel to Frank Serpico, the former New York detective and whistleblower, in a paternity suit. Serpico claimed the plaintiff had used him as a…

Prison Math

An excerpt from this article: http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/08/prison-math America’s enormously high incarceration rate is a relatively recent phenomenon. According to a 2010 report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), U.S. incarceration rates between 1880 and 1970 ranged from about 100…