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Fatherhood Rules

Rory Stamp, the new and slightly confused father of baby Lucie, decides to gives... more

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One Million Fathers Asked to Lead the Nation Back to School This Fall

"Education has become a matter of national security. Because we cannot control our schools, we cannot control our economy. And because we cannot control our economy, we cannot control and protect our quality of life in America," says Phillip Jackson, Executive Director of The Black Star Project, U.S.A. The Black Star Project is sponsoring the Million Father March 2008 on the first day of school in nearly 300 cities across America. The Million Father March has become a special day that fathers and men use to make a commitment to their children, their families, their communities and their country with their dynamic presence at a school. This is the real fathers' day!

The Million Father March 2008 will play-out at thousands of schools across America and in other parts of the world. About 300,000 men from 127 cities participated in the Million Father March in 2006. An estimated 400,000 men in 238 cities participated in 2007. This year, an estimated 500,000 men from 300 cities are expected to participate. The Million Father March also provides an escort of safety, support, and encouragement to children of all ages on their first day of school. Jackson says, "Gang recruitment, bullying and random violence goes way down on any day that a group of men are at a school."

Research shows that children whose fathers take an active role in their educational lives earn better grades, get better test scores, enjoy school more and are more likely to graduate from high school and attend college. Additionally, children have fewer behavior problems when fathers listen to and talk with them regularly and are active in their lives. A good father is part of a good parent team and is critical to creating a strong family structure. Strong family structures produce children who are more academically proficient, socially developed and self-assured. Such children become adults who are valuable assets to their communities. "Better parents produce better communities, better schools, and better students with higher academic achievements," says Jackson.

Participants in the event include fathers, grandfathers, foster fathers, stepfathers, uncles, cousins, big brothers, significant male caregivers and friends of the family. Although this event is created by Black men, women and men of all races are also encouraged to take their children to school on their first day. Businesses are asked to give fathers and men 2 hours off that morning to take their children to school. Men will also be encouraged to volunteer at schools throughout the year. A special effort will be made to coordinate Latino Fathers in La Marcha de Padres.

Since schools across America and the world start the new school year on different days and months, the March will be a rolling event that takes place on the first day of this school year in cities, villages, and towns between August 7, 2008, and October 13, 2008. The 2008 Million Father March is managed by The Black Star Project, U.S.A. in partnership with the National PTA and the National Fatherhood Initiative. Please visit our website for complete information at www.blackstarproject.org. You may also email blackstar1000@ameritech.net or call 773-285-9600 for more information. "Education has become a matter of national security. Because we cannot control... more

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More rights for fathers? Australia wants to protect dads

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Angst, Lies & Audio Tape

The Antagonist Movement hosts weekly events in NYC's East Village. It showcases... more

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Barack Obama at NAACP Annual Conference

On Monday Barack Obama spoke at the NAACP Annual Conference Another great great... more

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Father kills daughter over divorce

25 year old Sandeela Kanwal was strangled by her father Chaundry Rashid in Jonesboro,... more

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The perfect husband...is there one?

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Should Children HaveThe Right To Divorce Their Non Biological Parent ?

The 2 biological-parent family is slowly being dismantled by the spread of no fault... more

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Pip Squeak A-Go-Go

A wave of rock 'n' roll toddlers are being raised by a new generation of... more

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A Father’s Day Moment: Only a Dad, But the Best of Men

"A Father's Day Moment: Only a Dad, But the Best of Men." This... more

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The Purest Thing In Life

Record producer and hip hop mogul, Jermaine Dupri, talks about the most important... more

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Sacrifice For My Sons

John from Secondhand Serenade has been deeply impacted by the love and sacrifice of... more

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"Lesbian Fathers ! " and "Homosexual Mothers !" Does America Have A Choice ?

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Adventures in Equal Parenting

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That message was one the Vachons had agreed on from the evening they met, though they were clearly still tinkering with the details. They would not be the kind of parents their parents had been — the mother-knows-best mold. Nor the kind their friends were — the “involved” dad married to the stressed-out working mom. Nor even, as Marc put it, “the stay-at-home dad, who is cooed at for his sensitivity but who is as isolated and financially vulnerable as the stay-at-home-mom.”

Instead, they would create their own model, one in which they were parenting partners. Equals and peers. They would work equal hours, spend equal time with their children, take equal responsibility for their home. Neither would be the keeper of the mental to-do lists; neither of their careers would take precedence. Both would be equally likely to plan a birthday party or know that the car needs oil or miss work for a sick child or remember (without prompting) to stop at the store for diapers and milk. They understood that this would mean recalibrating their career ambitions, and probably their income, but what they gained, they believed, would be more valuable than what they lost.

Other couples might have resigned themselves to inequity, redefining it as choice, but Marc and Amy fought back. If they were to avoid skirmishes over their parenting standards and if they were to avoid defaulting to Amy as the expert, they would have to decide what those parenting standards were. Marc explains: “Did we want to work toward a set nap schedule? Yes. Did our daughter’s outfits have to match perfectly? No. Did we need to take the diaper bag when our daughter came with us to the grocery store? Not necessarily.”

There is one pocket of American parenting in which equality is the norm or, at least, the mutually-agreed-upon goal. Same-sex couples cannot default to gender when deciding who does what at home. How these parents make their decisions, therefore, sheds some light on why married men and women act the way they do. They are the exceptions that both prove and challenge the rules.

“Heterosexual couples can learn from gay couples about sharing housework and child care,” says Esther D. Rothblum, a professor in the women’s studies department of San Diego State University whose comparative study of the relationships of 342 couples — lesbian, gay, heterosexual — was published in the journal Developmental Psychology in January. “They are good role models."
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Thanks Dad !!! You gave me half of the universe

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The children of empire, McCain and Obama

This article from the Independent in the UK talks about the similarities between McCain and Obama in relation to their family history. It also goes into pointed detail as to how each father shaped the sons into the candidates and men they are today, taken from speeches and excerpts from both candidates' books written about their fathers.

These paragraphs frame the race as only an independent observer, outside of the U.S. political sphere could frame this historic competition.

"I do not want to exaggerate the difference between Obama and McCain. The US political system is hemmed in by vast blocks of corporate power and geopolitical pressures. Any president can only nudge this system by inches, in either the right or wrong direction – but when a giant moves by a few inches, the effect is vast.

From his father, Obama learned to eschew "the confidence reserved for those born into imperial cultures" that they should rule the world their way, with "a steady unthinking application of force". He can imagine the mentality of the boy in Basra whose father has vanished into an occupiers' prison, because it happened to his father and grandfather too. McCain learned the opposite from his father: that the natives only ever learn "to behave themselves" at the end of a big stick. So now we have to ask: which ghostly father will America choose?"

I chose this image of the tensions between General William Henry Harrison and Tecumseh to highlight the theme of this article: the historic perspectives that both McCain and Obama share and to show how far we have come in American history. America was born on both a spirit of liberty and oppression and that's a complex history we have all inherited. Freed from the tyranny of a King spreading the seeds of democracy in places like France, and French colonies like Haiti alike. The contradictions of our history that lead both Harrison and Tecusmuh to be labelled as American folk heroes. Our history reveres cowboys and Indians, Colonists, and those who seek independence from Colonizers.

A history where McCain's grandfather both stopped the spread of fascism in Asia with Admiral Halsey along with his son McCain's father and then helped to foster fascism and squelch democracy in Latin America later in his military career. Where Obama's grandfather who served in WWII could liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp at a time when America had a 'quota' on the number of Jews who could live in the U.S. and when Obama's other grandfather was being detained by an American ally, Britain for speaking up for democracy. A generation later McCain is tortured by a communist government and Obama's father by a Democratic Kenya that his grandfather hoped for. At a time when everyone in the world is heralding and applauding how far we have come as a nation and as a world we need to take a step back and ask ourselves, what have we learned from the journey? This article from the Independent in the UK talks about the similarities between... more

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Minnie Driver drops clues about her baby's father

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Ronald Smith on How Family Courts Profit From the Creation of Non-custodial Parents.

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YouTube - Fathers4Justice, Equal Parenting Bike Trek and CRISPE Swarm A PA Courthouse

The Equal Parenting Bike Trek Crew http://www.cycling4children.com meet with... more

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YouTube - Bush, Hillary, Obama & McCain on Equal Parenting Bike Trek

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