Men's Awareness

From the article: "There is simply less product for 30-something women, in particular, to choose from." Men are "product"?

Stephen Baskerville, political science teacher at Howard University, wrote this article. From the article: "Then there's Bruce, who was a truck driver in Boston and who came home one day to find his things on the street, the locks on his doors changed, and his wife's new boyfriend already moved in. Angry and bewildered, Bruce kicked in the door and began shouting. (He did not strike anyone.) His wife called the police, who arrived and took Bruce away in handcuffs. She got a restraining order preventing any contact with his three children.

According to a study from Uppsala University in Sweden, researcher Anna Sarkadi says that children do better socially and academically when they have a positive father figure than if they are raised without one. They are also less likely to be in trouble with the police. Women age 33 who had solid relationships with their fathers at age 16 were more likely to have stable love relationships. This research shows the time-tested fact that children need both of their parents.

Ned Holstein, Executive Director of Fathers & Families had to respond to something Mitt Romney said when he was running for president. Romney: “In my state I do not recall a circumstance...where a law of this kind interfered with the rights of a parent in a way that seemed like it was out of keeping, but if you’re familiar with such, let us know.” Massachusetts is notorious for railroaded fathers. Holstein had a chance to produce 300 stories of falsely accused fathers and delivered them to Romney personally.

Great article from Barbara Kay at the National Post.

F4H held another rally to raise awareness about the family law system disenfranchising fathers and splitting up families. The event was held in Columbia Park in Torrance, California. Many visitors and even some park rangers stopped to talk about the issues and the signs on display at the park. Just hours after the event began, a divorced father in the area committed suicide. He was the relative of a neighbor of one of the F4J members.

Although the man at the center of this article takes more of a Christian stance than an MRA stance on the issue of post-abortive men, it still brings up an interesting point. Is abortion also a men's issue? Jason Baier suffered years of depression post-abortion. There are clinical reasons why doctors claim abortion should be legal, such as the fact that many women might be subject to unsafe procedures should it become illegal. The people interviewed for the article seem to have a slant against that idea as their comments are based in religious ideology.

Several radio and TV stations actually covered this event. It was sponsored by Children Need Both Parents, Inc., Dads and Moms of Michigan and Abundant Life Ministries.

India has a law preventing a husband and his family from demanding too high of a dowry from the wife's family. Men in India are forming groups to discuss how some of their wives have used the laws for power in marital conflicts. By falsely accusing a man of "demanding too much dowry", even after a divorce, vengeful spiteful wife can have him thrown in jail. One man complained that his ex would blackmail him with threats of this. More and more the anti-abuse laws in that country are being misused as they are in America, England, Australia and New Zealand.

Convoluted as this essay is, at least a woman is mentioning that father's are more important than feminists have made them out to be. However, with statements the author makes such as "Third-wave feminists should be wise enough to move beyond the duelling cultures of the past, where men and women battle it out in a zero-sum game, the winner taking all." makes it sound like feminism has always been a good thing and is just turning bad. Wrong! Feminism of all "waves" is is responsible for men being treated as lesser beings and having fewer rights.