Fatherhood

Parentless Parents: Using The Holidays To Keep The Memory Of Your Parents Alive -- Part 2

Allison Gilbert | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Holiday Season, Parenting Tips, Holiday Season Commentary, Orphans, Motherhood, Parenting, Loss, Mothers, Parenthood, Grieving, Death, Grief, Fatherhood, Parenting Advice, Parents, Fathers, Death & Dying, Living News
Allison Gilbert

All you have to do is make a conscious decision to slow down long enough -- not so easy this time of year, I admit -- to simply talk with your children about the grandparents they no longer have in their lives.

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Men Of A Certain Age: The Divorced Dad Hotel

Tom Matlack | Posted 12.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Men of a Certain Age, Ray Romano, Divorce, Relationships, Fatherhood, Masculinity, Parenting, Breaking Up, Love, Separation, Living News
Tom Matlack

As I drove away, I couldn't help picturing my kids -- Kerry and Seamus -- in my mind's eye and thinking that I was driving straight out of their lives.

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Parentless Parents: Using The Holidays To Keep The Memory Of Your Parents Alive -- Part 1

Allison Gilbert | Posted 12.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Parenting Tips, Grief, Motherhood, Fatherhood, Parenting, Loss, Mothers, Parenting Advice, Death, Fathers, Grieving, Parents, Parenthood, Death & Dying, Living News
Allison Gilbert

Less than half of all mothers and fathers who have taken the Parentless Parents survey say they use the holidays to talk about their parents who have died. Why so few?

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Tiger Should Take More Than "Indefinite" Leave, He Should Take Swedish Parental Leave

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 12.14.2009 | Sports

Read More: Parental Leave, Golf, Sweden, Tiger Woods, Elin Nordegren, Fatherhood, Socialism, Elin Nordegren's Mother, Fathers, Tiger Woods Mistress, Tiger Woods Affair, Indefinitie Leave, Tiger Woods Scandal, Sports News
Nathan Hegedus

Tiger would do well here in Sweden. For Swedes' sense of privacy and reserve far outstrips their distaste of all things porn and sleaze.

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Parentless Parents: Do You Put On A "Happy Face" For The Holidays?

Allison Gilbert | Posted 12.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Holiday, Holidays, Holiday Season, Grief, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Motherhood, Fatherhood, Parenting, Loss, Mothers, Death, Fathers, Grieving, Parents, Living News
Allison Gilbert

'Tis the Season to be Jolly, right? I see reminders everywhere that I should be happy! But what happens if the month of December serves not only to remind you of all things Merry -- but of all the people you've lost?

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Tiger Woods And The State of Modern Manhood

Tom Matlack | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Fatherhood, Tom Matlack, Manhood, The Good Men Project, Tiger Woods, Golf, Masculinity, Tiger Woods Affair, Living News
Tom Matlack

The continued revelations about Tiger Woods are crushing because his public persona was so perfectly manicured. We loved his goodness as much as his swing. We must look deeply in the mirror as men.

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Career Lessons From Fred The Pharmacist

Fawn Germer | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Small Business Owners, Mentoring Tips, Senior Living, Working Senior Citizens, Success Tips, Fatherhood, Commitment, Fathers, Living News
Fawn Germer

This is not the story of a man starting out with one store and turning it into an empire. It is the story of a man who loved being a pharmacist so much that he refused to quit -- no matter what.

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My Father The Miracle Worker

Philip Smith | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Growing Up, Miracles, Witness, Relationships, Miracle, Mysteries, Fatherhood, Parenting, Childhood, The Inner Life, Spirituality, Living News
Philip Smith

One day back in the 60s, my father, a high-society interior decorator with clients like the Presidents of Cuba and Haiti, suddenly discovered that he could talk to the dead and heal the sick.

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My Father Is Dying

Judy Wieder | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Bereavement, After-Death, Family, Lgbt, Dying, The Advocate, Mourning, Parenting, Loss, Death, Acceptance, The Inner Life, Death & Dying, Grief, Coping, Fatherhood, Judy Wieder, Fathers, Living News
Judy Wieder

Deep in a rustic canyon, tucked away in the bedroom of his beautiful glass home, wrapped tightly in a hospice hospital bed, buried behind the damage of another stroke, my father is dying.

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Men Who Are Redefining Masculinity

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Marriage, Husbands, Workers, Relationships, Sons, John Sheehy, Fatherhood, Kate Hudson, Tom Matlack, The Good Man Project, Manhood, Fathers, Living News
Tom Matlack

Just as Kate Hudson accused men of being interested only in sex and sandwiches, 500 men and women packed the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston to discuss the complexities of modern manhood.

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Are Womb Transplants The Next Frontier In Fertility?

Politics Daily | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Birth, Infertility, Infertility Treatments, Health Insurance, Motherhood, Fatherhood, New Treatments for Infertility, Future, Babies, Fertility Treatments, New Fertility Treatments, Womb Transplants, Results, Parenthood, Health, Home News

Doctors in Britain have announced that they have figured out a process to transplant wombs that could result in healthy pregnancies -- and they estima...

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A Fathers Instruction Manual: Walking The Line Between Devotion And Direction

Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Fathers and Daughters, Fatherhood, Daughters, Fathers, Living News
Peggy Drexler

There is a difficult emotional terrain when a father's interest in his daughter's life extends to trying to control it. How does a daughter balance intimacy and independence?

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Obama Nobel for Being Good not Great Man

Tom Matlack | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Norway, Obama Nobel, Raising Children, Beer Summit, Fatherhood, Manhood, Politics News
Tom Matlack

Obama sets an example for the rest of us 40-something guys looking in the mirror asking ourselves those difficult questions how to move forward.

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Daddy Diaries: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Anchorman

Rob Morrison | Posted 10.08.2009 | New York

Read More: Recession, Raising Children, Jobs, Fatherhood, Recovery, Unemployment, BROADCAST JOURNALISM, New York News
Rob Morrison

There were times over the past year and a half that I cursed my stay-at-home status. Privately, I worried if I'd ever have the chance to resume my career.

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Three Males, No Women -- The True Story of The Boys Are Back

Simon Carr | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Single Parent, Siblings, Single Parent Home, Raising Children, Fatherhood, Father Parenting, The Boys Are Back Movie, Scott Hicks Film the Boys Are Back, Living News
Simon Carr

After my wife died the care and control of our five-year-old son fell to me. The idea of a man bringing up a young child was alien to the spirit of the age.

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National Work & Family Month - The New Emphasis on Fatherhood

David Gray | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Work Life Balance, Work-Life Balance, Fatherhood, National Work and Family Month, Family Life, Fathers, Living News
David Gray

Work-life balance is a significant issue for most Americans. Polls show that more than 80% of Americans experience conflicts between their work and family lives. The impact on families is significant.

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The Healing Power of Fatherhood

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Fatherhood, Kids, Living News
Tom Matlack

When I listen to Cole snore and stare up in the dark at the bottom of top bunk, my mind is empty of any thoughts.

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India: Girls Go Back to School, Helped By Fathers

Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Attitudinal Change, Delhi, The Times of India, Girls' Education, Fada, Chief Minister, Father and Daughter Alliance, India, Fathers, Dalit, Fatherhood, Girls Education, World News
Pedro C. Moreno

Meetings will foster father-daughter communication, help fathers understand the value and dignity of their daughters and will keep fathers accountable.

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Are You a Caretaker or Caregiver Dad?

Juliet Linley | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Caretaker, Fatherhood, Parenting, Family, Caregivers, Living News
Juliet Linley

I've decided fathers fall into two categories here in Italy: Caretaker Daddies and Caregiver Daddies.

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A Son's Appreciation -- For His Father and the Immigrant Experience of the 20th Century

Dennis Whittle | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Globalgiving, Immigrant Experience, Marc Gunther, Greenwich Village, Fatherhood, Immigration, Fathers, Living News
Dennis Whittle

Marc Gunther's father died -- and the appreciation by Marc is well worth reading.

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Renegade and Dreams of My Absent Father

Don McNay | Posted 09.08.2009 | Media

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Al Gore, Dreams of My Father, Obama, Sarah Palin, Reagan, Gambling, Unwed Mothers, Politics, 2008, Richmond Ky, John Edwards, Richard Wolffe, The Making of the President 1960, The Daily Beast, Lexington KY, Bookmaking, Obama Haters, Covington Catholic High School, Richard Wolffe Renegade, Barack Obama, Adoption, Clu, Playboy Magazine, Playboy Mansion, Born Again, Louisville, Million Dollar Round Table, Son of a Son of a Gambler, Obama's Dreams of My Father, Hillary Clinton, Nixon, Sports Betting, George Bush, 2008 Elections, Playboy, Keith Olbermann, Msnbc, President of the United States, George H.W. Bush, Single Parents, Gerald Ford, Cincinnati, Betting, American College, Newsweek, Playboy Bunnies, Covington Kentucky, Bill Clinton, Structured Settlement, Msfs, John McCain, Michelle Obama, Annuities, Chfc, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Father's Expectations, Don McNay, 2008 Election, Barack Obama 2008, Structured Settlements, Vanderbilt University, Renegade Obama, Playboy Bunny, 2008 Presidential Race, Eastern Kentucky University, George W Bush, Fatherhood, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, Cssc, Hugh Heffner, Renegade, Media News
Don McNay

Obama's election was not only a door opener for people of color. It also showed that people with absent dads, or no dad at all, can grow up and live in the White House.

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White House To Launch National Fatherhood Tour Next Week

usnews.com | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living

Read More: President Obama, Obama Administration, Fatherhood, Father's Day, White House Town Hall, National Fatherhood Week, Living News

The Obama administration is taking its effort to promote responsible fatherhood, which it launched with a White House town hall event just before Fath...

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Finally, a Reality Show for Men

Tom Matlack | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Tom Morello, Fatherhood, Reality TV, Prison, Manhood, Two and a Half Men, Working Fathers, Life Lessons, Boston, Living News
Tom Matlack

The male stick figures presented by popular culture, often either Navy Seal macho or Two and a Half Men ignorant, confuse our boys.

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Daddy Dearest

Juliet Linley | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Italy, Fatherhood, Parenting, Babies, Families, Family, Living News
Juliet Linley

Why aren't babies in Italy allowed to be babies anymore? Why are they made to feel that seeking the comfort of mummy is something to be ashamed of and scoffed at?

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Controller in Chief: Your Child

Juliet Linley | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Fatherhood, Parenting, Mothering, Family, Living News
Juliet Linley

So many people have children, but are determined said kids won't "control" their lives. In other words, I will not sacrifice my freedom for this clinging, helpless creature. I cannot give up my career for a child. The child must adapt to me.

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