One of the highlights of the 2013 National Men's Health Gathering in Brisbane was the Men and Vulnerable Families Forum Plenary Session featuring presentations by Dr Warren Farrell (USA) and Glen Poole (UK). Titled Working with men and relati...
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Fatherlessness
Working with men and relationship issues – opportunities and challenges (Video)
Finding a way through the pain of separation
Dean Mason, chairman of Dads in Distress Support Services, whose book, Daddy's OK, will be launched tomorrow. Photo: Jason South
When Tim's* marriage ended more than a decade ago, the Melbourne teacher who was living alone in his small workshop, thoug...
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A happy Father’s Day ahead – well, for some men at least
Every year, tens of thousands of Australian children are not able to wish their dad, or their granddad, a happy Father's Day due to their parents being separated or divorced.
What does that tell us, that fathers who don't see their children are "deadb...
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A Father’s Day downer (USA)
Dustin Hoffman in 1979's "Kramer vs. Kramer." Children need their fathers!
How courts and the culture disrespect dad
By Barbara Kay / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, Sunday, June 17, 2012, 4:47 AM
From the loving, engaged portrayals of fathers featured in recent...
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Fathers4Justice UK Launch Father’s Day Olympic Ad in Times Newspaper
This advertisement appeared on page 37 of the Times Newspaper. Today Fathers4Justice are holding a Father's Day Service at Trafalgar Square to protest against the secret British family courts that routinely separate children from good loving fathers.
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KRUK: Dads needed on Father’s Day – Washington Times (USA)
As Father's Day 2012 approaches, let’s take stock of the significance of fathers in children’s lives by examining what the child-development research tells us about the effects of father absence. There is a much more nuanced picture than t...
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Mothers who deny fathers access to the couple’s children after a break-up could be jailed (UK)
Separated parents who fail to allow their partners to maintain a proper relationship with their children could be stripped of driving licences or passports, hit with curfews, ordered to do a period of unpaid work or even jailed.
Ministers will today pr...
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Father Absence, Father Deficit, Father Hunger | Psychology Today (Canada)
Despite President Obama’s 2011 Father’s Day lament on the irresponsibility of “deadbeat fathers” footloose and fancy free from taking responsibility for their children, in fact the two major structural threats to fathers’ ...
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Involved Dads Give Kids an Edge (Canada)
September 15, 2011 — New data from a long-running study of Canadian families suggest that fathers play a key role in their children's intellect and behavior.
Compared with children with absentee fathers, children whose fathers were present and ac...
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A father’s day gift from Labor and the Greens: increased fatherlessness
Virtually every major social pathology has been linked to fatherlessness: violent crime, drug and alcohol abuse, truancy, teen pregnancy, suicide – all correlate more strongly to fatherlessness than to any other single factor. The majority of pri...
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Kids to be denied their Fathers, because of ONE Man’s vote – Tony Windsor
Please read the following letter that was sent to Tony Windsor, Federal Member for New England, on the proposed 2011 child custody/family law changes currently before Parliament, designed to prevent most separated fathers from having contact with thei...
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