Fathers

At the Good Men Foundation, we have begun taking our message of manhood to the streets. Here I want to talk about the effect the absence of a father can have on children.

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.

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.

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.

Women who say they hunger for a new intimacy with their fathers often have a hard time defining it, or apportioning it -- how much is too much; how much is not enough?

Will a daughter taught to be a hard-charging, take-no prisoners competitor with men have trouble adjusting to the necessary give-and-take with the man with whom she shares a home?

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?

One of the most painful and confusing passages in the lives of women is when dad is there, but changing. The rock in their lives, who they desperately want to please, is suddenly different -- and so is the bond they shared.

Throughout much of history, mothers were the center of a daughter's universe. But as young women join the world their fathers know, it's a whole new age of possibility for a daughter-father relationship.

If you're like most women, you probably don't know as much about your dad as you think you do. He can be a mentor, a cheerleader and a friend. But all relationships take work -- especially this one.

For years, I'd seen mostly just mothers at weekday school eventsm but I looked around and saw more fathers -- in fact, many fathers, along with the familiar crowd of moms who don't commute as I do.

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.

Jaycee Dugard's kidnapping story got me thinking about the day I got a call from a distraught child molester. I had gotten to know Carl well when he ...

Released from old biological constraints, women have flooded the universities and climbed career ladders, redefining "women's work" by expanding it to include just about every field, and doubling our national talent pool.

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

While there's abundant advice directing divorced fathers to avoid "screwing up" the kids, there's little out there to help dads appreciate the big parenting opportunity before them.

I only have one parent left out of two biologicals and two in-laws and I cherish her, honestly, I do. But after this week, I'm dangerously close to ta...

A growing trend shows that many men become better parents post-divorce, to the surprise of ex-wives who find it difficult to grasp that a man who wasn't a good husband can indeed be a good father.

Walking down the beach with Cole to look for crabs in a tidal pool, I realize that, a decade later, I have finally re-created what in my prior life had looked so good on the outside but had no structural integrity.

As more women raise boys alone, the fathers of those women are moving to a different place in boy's lives. They can fill the missing pieces in ways that no one outside the family can.

The harsh reality is that their teenager can't grow up without taking risks, can't take risks without denying danger, and can't deny danger without cr...

Our 6-year-old is enforcing the law from her booster seat again. Who got the bright idea to build Jaycie's literacy skills by encouraging her to read road signs?

Who is happier and psychologically stronger - people who got married and then got unmarried, or people who stayed single? The answer, in just about every study I've ever reviewed, is people who have stayed single.