Father’s Day is often a touchy time in the MHRM, as well as it is in more mainstream life where people are hesitant to be open. Paul Elam tells us about his relationship with his Dad. Far from perfect as it was, it also seems to be just what he needed to be the man he wanted to be.
Clayton Craddock takes on Hallmark’s “Father’s day cards for mom” line and how it promotes the dysfunctional belief that mothers and fathers are interchangeable, on the one day set aside to celebrate fatherhood. If we want fathers to value being fathers, we need to honor the unique skills they bring to parenthood and not imply fathers are an extraneous add-on to families.
Caleb Levette and his son Parker have just put on a real life, flesh and blood clinic in self-autonomy and freedom from the tyranny of family courts, as well as the abuse from custodial parents that those courts often foster and enable. AVFM honors and salutes these modern day heroes.
Aimee McGee’s father is less than perfect. But we are supposing that anyone who has ever lived would have to come to the same conclusion about their own. But the question is in how we measure a man. By his weaknesses, which they all have, or by his totality as a person, and who he inspires us to be.
There is a whole lot of talk in this culture about men “stepping up” to be fathers. Too much talk if you ask Paul Elam. He takes a look at what he thinks is really happening to fathers in the post divorce world, and it isn’t pretty. Not for fathers, and especially not for their children.
Zach Rosenberg’s four year old son tried to kiss a girl. He trustingly told his father all about it. Big mistake, son. Your father is a sick asshole who just stabbed you in the back so he could be popular with readers at the Good Men Project.
The men’s human rights movement has a winding, often buried and intractable history. A thousand upstarts, a thousand failures, heroes, snakes in the grass, and many, many, many wounded men. Robert Sides brings us one slice of that history with the telling of just one of those stories.
An Italian father wins a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights after his daughter was taken from him by his ex-wife, carving 12 years out of the father-daughter relationship. But how much of a real victory was it when all was said and done?
What can a man say to a son he never had, or perhaps one he was not allowed to hang on to? Dr. F reaches inside and speaks to the hidden shadows in every man, and the son who stands there waiting for his word.
Eastern Europe has seen the advancement of much misandry, particularly in their family courts. Their is also the rumblings of resistance afoot. The national media there is slow to pick up on it, but Lucian Valsan brings us the report.
