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Parentless Parents: Time Is Running Out

Allison Gilbert | Posted 12.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Support, New Year's Resolutions, Feelings, Grief, Community, Motherhood, Fatherhood, Parenting, Loss, Mothers, Parents, Fathers, Death & Dying, Living News
Allison Gilbert

One of the surprising findings I've come across so far is just how isolated many parentless parents feel and how few turn to others for help.

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2009's Headline Dads: A Year in the Garden of Good and Evil

Phil Bronstein | Posted 12.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Fathers, Richard Heene, David Goldman, Media, Phil Bronstein, Balloon Boy, Media News
Phil Bronstein

Not to desert the holiday spirit, but here's to a more nuanced, realistic 2010, full of robust skepticism and humanity without the edges sanded off and tucked neatly into a one-minute elevator pitch.

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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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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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Hunger, Learning and Making Mistakes...

Sebastian Siegel | Posted 12.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sebastian Siegel, Sweat, Fit, Hunger, James Whitmore, Acting, Discipline, Mistakes, Self-Esteem, Advice, Fathers, Entertainment News
Sebastian Siegel

I'm hungry, hungry for life, hungry to feel, hungry to do. It just feels right. If you look at your hands, these hands, they were meant to DO things with - to work, to play, to struggle, to fight for it, to care.

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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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Giving Thanks

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Tom Matlack, Children, The Good Men Project, Fathers, Thanksgiving, Living News
Tom Matlack

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.

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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 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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A Fathers Instruction Manual: What Do You Really Want?

Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Fathers and Daughters, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Daughters, Fathers, Living News
Peggy Drexler

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?

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A Fathers' Instruction Manual: Understanding How Dad Affects How You Relate to Men at Work and in Your Life

Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Father-Daughter Relationships, Women, Families, Daughters, Fathers, Living News
Peggy Drexler

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?

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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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A Fathers Instruction Manual: Accepting Dad For Who He Is; And Who He's Not

Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Dads, Fathers, Living News
Peggy Drexler

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.

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Fathers: An Instruction Manual -- For You and Dad, Opportunity Is What You Make It

Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Fathers and Daughters, Mothers, Family, Fathers, Living News
Peggy Drexler

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.

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Fathers: An Instruction Manual -- Who Is This Man? If You Think You Know Dad, Think Harder

Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Father-Daughter Relationships, Women, MIA Dads, Fathers, Living News
Peggy Drexler

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.

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More Fathers Present; Sign of Our Times?

Janet Carlson | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Fathers and Daughters, Parenting, Economy, Fathers, Fathers and the Recession, Fathers and Sport, Parenting Advice, Living News
Janet Carlson

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.

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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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22 Girls from Slum in Delhi, India Enroll in School with Help from Fathers

Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

Read More: Deepalaya, Illiteracy, Paraya Dhan, Slums, Fada, Chief Minister Delhi, Unesco, Father and Daughter Alliance, Fathers' Association for Daughters' Advancement, Girls Education, Fathers, World News
Pedro C. Moreno

There are close to 3,000 girls who are not attending school in three slums alone, and Father and Daughter Alliance intends to bring them all to school as its work in Delhi expands.

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Save a Kid; Bring a Molester to Church

Patrick Boyle | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Phillip Garrido, Jaycee Dugard, Sex-Offender-Registration, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Sex Offender Laws, Sex Abuse, Molest, Sex Offenders, Fathers, Living News
Patrick Boyle

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 ...

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Women's Labor and Infertility

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Family Friendly Policy, Later Motherhood, Infertility, Labor Day, Resolve, Health Care Reform, Birth Control, Work-Life Balance, Business, Delayed Childbearing, Living, Women's Work, Fathers, Living News
Elizabeth Gregory

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.

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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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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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Top Ten Things Divorced Dads Need to Realize

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Thomas Jane, R. Kelly, Robin Williams, Divorced Dads, Divorce, Mel Gibson, Jon Gosselin, Bradley Whitford, Usher, Edward Furlong, Billy Joel, Fathers, Living News
Joel Schwartzberg

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.

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