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| Mentoring Fatherless Children |
14 June 2010
In Black America, young boys are learning unconventionally how to be strong, responsible, law-abiding, productive male contributors to their communities. In large number, they are influenced by behavior they see exhibited on television, or are seeking guidance from anyone who will listen. Morals and ethics are not high priority in some cases. So instead of offering a contribution, absentee fathers have drained lives, creating a crisis in the community. By not taking responsibility for their actions in bringing life into being, they have stripped life by denying their sons and daughters the support and love they so desperately need and deserve. |
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| The White House Speaks Out on Fathering |
26 June 2009
Friday, the same day that legislation to promote active fatherhood was introduced in both the Senate and the House, President Obama convened a town hall forum specifically focused on fathering. Regardless of politics, I consider it a very encouraging sign that responsible fathering is being discussed and championed in the highest office in our land. The President was on point with his comments about why fathering is important and his challenge for all dads to step up and be involved. See his brief PSA and his remarks at the meeting, or read his article in Sunday’s Parade Magazine. |
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| USA: Bayh, Davis Introduce Legislation to Promote Healthy Families, Active Fatherhood |
26 June 2009
With one in three children in the United States living apart from their biological fathers, Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL) are renewing their efforts to promote healthy families and support American fathers who are trying to earn a livable wage and take a more active role in the lives of their children. |
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| Commentary: Man up and be a real dad |
15 May 2009
"I'll kill all y'all."
Imagine looking at the man whose DNA you carry standing in your home, telling you those chilling words, as he wields a shotgun.
The frightening image is a scary thought. But according to former Major League Baseball star Darryl Strawberry, it was an actual scene, one that begins his book, "Straw: Finding My Way."
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| A Father's Magic Touch: Building Positive Partnerships in Thailand |
14 May 2009
BANGKOK, Thailand. Jenjira Boonlom lies wearily on her bed in the post-partum ward of the Bangkhen district hospital, still weak from her Caesarean operation a week ago. Despite the pain, she feels blissful, appreciating Vorayuth, her husband, and his dedication to her and to their little Dream, the one-week-old baby girl on his lap. |
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| UN deputy secretary-general calls on men to do more HIV care |
8 March 2009
Men need to play a more active role in caring for people living with HIV so that women have the chance to participate in public life, said UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro. |
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| UNDP supports all-Ukrainian responsible fatherhood school in Zakarpattya |
2 March 2009
Certain stereotypes that exist in Ukrainian society often create obstacles to equal division of domestic chores and selection of flexible tools leading to harmonious family life overall.
"In Ukraine it is common to think that women are the only ones responsible for raising children while men have to work and gain money. This stereotype deprives men from their right to educate their children and reduces the importance of fathers. As a result, women have to choose between career and family while men can not take a parental leave to stay with their child," Larysa Kobelyanska said.
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| Mathematical Model Suggests New Approach to AIDS |
30 November 2008
Scientists have proposed a radical new strategy to halt the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but its implementation could have human rights implications, say commentators.
Under the approach, published in The Lancet, people in the worst hit areas - Sub-Saharan Africa for example - would be tested for HIV annually and those found positive would be immediately put on antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. |
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| The AIDS scare was one of the most distorted, duplicitous and cynical public health panics |
26 November 2008
Finally we have a high-level admission that there is no threat of a global Aids pandemic among heterosexuals. After 25 years of official scaremongering about western societies being ravaged by the disease ? with salacious, tombstone-illustrated government propaganda warning people to wear a condom or "die of ignorance" ? the head of the World Health Organisation's HIV/Aids department says there is no need for heterosexuals to fret. |
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| Diversity, complexity and change in parenting - UK, July 2008 |
24 July 2008
This brand new study from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation examined parenting in Britain during early and middle childhood within different social and cultural groups in Britain, using a ?parenting score? derived from different measurements of parents? relationships with their children. The study was based on parents? reports of attitudes, feelings and behaviour recorded in response to specific questions relating to parenting. The study also assessed changes in parenting across time. |
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| Fathers Day a long way behind Mothers Day in calls home |
15 July 2008
An international long distance carrier reported that in 2006 phone calls routed over its network revealed that people spent 48% more time calling home on Mothers Day than on Fathers Day. Mothers Day continued to rank within the five busiest call volume dayswhereas Fathers Day failed to make into the top twenty. |
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| British Study Asks: Nature or Nurture? |
14 July 2008
Researchers at the University of Birmingham in Great Britain have completed a study on what constitutes meaningful fatherhood. With growing fathers' rights concerns in Great Britain (and in other countries), the study explored whether being the biological dad or being a nurturing dad was more important to fathers. The results are in: fathers find greater reward in being involved. One of the authors, John Ivie, said, "All the groups of men that we spoke to felt strongly that to be a father in a meaningful sense you have to provide more than the genetic material. Being a father meant playing a role in caring, providing and protecting a child. The men felt that this should take precedence over genetics in giving men a say in a child's life." Read a summary of the study results and let us know if you agree or disagree. |
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| The Tragedy of America's Disappearing Fathers |
14 June 2008
As we celebrate Father's Day tomorrow, we should reflect upon a sad fact: It is now common to meet young people in our big city schools, foster-care homes and juvenile centers who do not know their dads. Most of those children have come face-to-face with their father at some point; but most have little regular contact with the man, or have any faith that he loves or cares about them.
When fatherless young people are encouraged to write about their lives, they tell heartbreaking stories about feeling like "throwaway people." In the privacy of the written page, their hard, emotional shells crack open to reveal the uncertainty that comes from not knowing if their father has any interest in them. The stories are like letters to unknown dads ? some filled with imaginary scenes about what it might be like to have a dad who comes home and puts his arm around you or plays with you.
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| UNIFEM & MenEngage sign MOU |
9 June 2008
UNIFEM and MenEngage have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will forge partnerships and projects to tackle gender based violence. |
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| UK Dads to be on childrens birth certificates |
7 June 2008
The UK government has just proposed a change in the law so that all unmarried fathers will be on the birth certificate, ending the practice whereby if the mum doesn't want his name on, she doesn't have to.( UK White Paper with story) |
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| For a man to refuse to acknowledge a baby he has fathered is about as low as it gets |
4 June 2008
The photograph on the front of the UK Government's White Paper, Recording Responsibility, is very jolly. It depicts a healthy and smiling couple, as they bill and coo over their pink, gleaming baby. Which is very odd, since this White Paper, published jointly by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), does not concern itself with happy couples, or happy families, in the least.
Instead it seeks to address the parlous situation whereby 7 per cent of all children ? 45,000 of them ? are registered at birth in England and Wales every year with no legal father at all. Only the production of a marriage certificate gives men the automatic right to be named on a birth certificate as the father of their baby. Otherwise it is up to the discretion of the mother, who herself is under a legal obligation to register her children.
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| Giving Vietnamese Men the Support They Need to Be Supportive Partners |
1 June 2008
THAI BINH, Viet Nam ? Representing different generations and occupations, Vinh, Hanh, Sinh and Toan form an unlikely, nervous group in the heat of a small waiting area at a health clinic in Viet Nam?s Red River Delta region. What unites them ? and distinguishes them from many of their peers ? is that they have all come to this non-government-run clinic with their wives. They are paying a fee ? and staying involved ? out of a commitment to the reproductive health of their partners. |
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| It Takes Two: Men as Partners in Maternal Health |
27 July 2007
UNITED NATIONS, New York. Having children is a partnership. It is one in which women face greater risks, both because of physiological differences and gender inequities. Women have a right to health, but protecting that right often depends on a partner's support. |
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| Do Real Men Take Care of the Kids? Changing Perspectives on Gender in Brazil |
19 July 2007
RECIFE, Brazil ? ?I get no respect from my friends for staying home with Gabriel,? says José Silas as he lounges on the sofa with his eight-month-old son, Gabriel. In their tiny concrete home in the balmy Brazilian city of Recife, a football [soccer] game is playing on TV, flickering a greenish light on the sofa where Gabriel is squirming around naked. |
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| UK - Children send 'missing you' father day messages |
27 April 2006
Hundreds of children in UK have posted special Fathers Day messages to their dads, many recording how painfully they miss their fathers. |
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| The confused role of the modern father |
10 July 2005
Claude Mubiangata killed his four children and himself on Saturday by setting fire to the parked car they were in. At his home, a friend found letters to his estranged wife, Chantalle, and to his younger brother. The letter to his wife asked her to "forgive me for everything I have done" and said that he was "giving you freedom to do your thing and look after your sister's kids because I am taking mine with me". |
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First draft of the AFI Training Manual on tackling abusive behaviour. Comments, additions, improvements welcome!
