Fathers

The fatherhood effect

You should be very careful when talking to kids. Responsibility is an obligation; an availability; an act of listening, taking account. The only time we listen to our children is when we need evidence to correct and control them.

The Man Always Pays – The Men’s Review (1948 Article)

We continue the series of Men’s Review excerpts below with this piece discussing the unbalanced financial and parental burdens placed on fathers. – PW * * * The Man Always Pays by Vertir   About a hundred thousand men are sentenced for life to the bondage of maintenance orders. Try to imagine the welter of misery …

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The Scourge of Fatherlessness and the Death of God

If God is dead, all things are permitted. —Ivan Karamazov in The Brothers Karamazov   There is a father absence crisis in society, observes the National Fatherhood Initiative. “According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18.3 million children, 1 in 4, live without a biological, step, or adoptive father in the home,” it reports. This is generating a …

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