Channel 7 News Sydney reporter Sally Bowrey reports on the increase in the number of stay-at-home dads, but the lack of social services to support them. Broadcast on 12th June 2012.
Source: 'Daycare Dads' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO4s8X...
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Playing the dating game Photo: istock photos
Naomi sat in the back row of Melbourne's Grattan Institute, about to watch her fiance give a lecture. She was joined by three unfamiliar women - all attractive, well groomed, in their mid-30s. From their wh...
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Men's Health Australia is proud to be able to present to you a series of three weekly excerpts from Steve Biddulph's The New Manhood: The handbook for a new kind of man (with many thanks to Finch Publishing, Sydney).
The third excerpt comes from ...
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Men's Health Australia is proud to be able to present to you a series of three weekly excerpts from Steve Biddulph's The New Manhood: The handbook for a new kind of man (with many thanks to Finch Publishing, Sydney).
The second excerpt comes from...
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Men's Health Australia is proud to be able to present to you a series of three excerpts from Steve Biddulph's The New Manhood: The handbook for a new kind of man (with many thanks to Finch Publishing, Sydney).
We will be releasing one extract per...
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In this month's issue:
'Mansome' examines men's self-image, grooming
‘Men Care’ project in Coffs Coast
Current Training Programs (Effective Ways of Engaging Men, Effective Men’s Health Promotion)
more than just a haircut
the high cost...
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Mud glorious mud ... The joys of being a boy.
I’m as much of a fan of martial arts as I am of major dental work. But this week, as I watched my little boy wrap a white belt around his skinny waist, join a line of his mates and learn to kick, my ...
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The Middle Men
Wednesday 30 May, 10:00pm
The concept of ‘middle age’ is changing as recent generations are living longer and healthier lives. Men in the 21st Century are entering their ‘second adulthoods’ in radically different...
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The Middle Men
Wednesday 30 May, 10:00pm
The concept of ‘middle age’ is changing as recent generations are living longer and healthier lives. Men in the 21st Century are entering their ‘second adulthoods’ in radically different...
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By SUSAN GREGORY THOMAS
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When K.J. Wiemer got married in the 1990s, he didn't think he was becoming a husband. Rather, he says, he saw himself as "one of two 20-something professionals living together, who were now entering the phase of 'o...
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Today the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australia's so-called impartial statistical body released its Gender Indicators report: "a summary of gender specific data in six domains representing Economic security, Education, Health, Work and famil...
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An event that aims to reverse some of the negative stereotypes associated with men, has garnered the support of the Gold Coast Titans, police and business leaders.
The initiative was sparked by Gold Coast Councillor Bob La Castra, following a question...
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Matthew Thompson dedicates a day a week to spending time with his two-year old daughter, Lydiana. Picture: Gary Graham
Men increasingly are casting off their traditional roles as hunter providers to work part time and take a greater role in caring for...
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