Father’s Day is fast approaching. Few more days to go and we will be celebrating this day with overwhelming gratitude for our dads.
In a half-century study involving over 10,000 people from around the world, researchers from the University of Co...
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95% of people now agree that both parents should share responsibility for bringing up children and 84% say both parents deserve equal custody rights.
In response to the current shake-up of the family justice system, there is a strong consensus among B...
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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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The work of The Men’s Network (UK) was featured in a day of inspiring talks at The London School of Economic (LSE) to promote the development of tomorrow’s thinkers and leaders.
The aim of the TEDx (LSE) event is to support a...
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This case has stirred the Australian press for almost a month now. I posted this piece about it some two weeks ago. It’s the case of the Australian woman who moved to Italy to study the language, met an Italian man, married him and ha...
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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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The student union at Simon Fraser University in B.C. has made the apparently contentious decision to finance the creation of a Men’s Centre on campus. Motivated, surely, by deep-seeated patriarchal values, the union approved a budget of $30,000 t...
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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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In this month's issue:
Dear Doctor, these mags are killing me
effects of the recession on European men
Current Training Programs
Effective Ways of Engaging Men
Effective Men’s Health Promotion
‘Linking Up’ Conference, May 1 & 2 ...
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About The Program
Choirmaster Gareth Malone teaches in a primary school in Essex for one term. It is a school like many across Britain, with a significant gap between girls' and boys' achievement in literacy. Last week we saw Gareth and the boys tree-...
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About The Program
Choirmaster Gareth Malone teaches in a primary school in Essex for one term. It is a school like many across Britain, with a significant gap between girls' and boys' achievement in literacy. Last week we saw Gareth and the boys tree-...
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When discussing gender issues from a male perspective you will often hear people talk about a pendulum that has swung too far.
It’s a nonsense metaphor that serves neither women nor men. The idea that there’s an imaginary pendulum that ...
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When discussing gender issues from a male perspective you will often hear people talk about a pendulum that has swung too far.
It’s a nonsense metaphor that serves neither women nor men. The idea that there’s an imaginary pendulum that ...
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