Category: Parental Rights/ Parenting

The $154 Billion Problem Many Communities Are Ignoring-And How to Fix It

In 2018 alone, the U.S. government spent $154.2 billion on programs supporting families in father-absent homes. This finding comes from The $154 Billion Man: The Economic Argument for Investing in Fathers, published by National Fatherhood Initiative® and the Center for Policy Research.

That’s more than a statistic. It’s a signal that the systems serving families are carrying a significant and growing cost.

If you work in human services and are not intentionally engaging fathers, this isn’t just interesting data. It’s a clear opportunity to rethink how your organization creates impact.

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Placement of Graphic Books at the Core of Texas Library Director’s Firing

Christin Bentley, a Texas Senate Republican Executive Committee member, says that the issue didn’t begin with politics. It began with parents in 2022 but was brought to the forefront due to a Tyler mayoral election.

“Parents across the country started to see that there was explicit content in their school libraries. Out here in Tyler, there was a group that had been looking,” Bentley says.

Bentley explains that this group found really explicit and inappropriate books in the children’s section of the public library.

“And when we talk about sexually explicit, we don’t mean that, in these books, there is something sexual that is being implied. We are talking about graphic, leaving nothing to your imagination,” Bentley states.

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Gay Couple Face Online Fury for Video Making Fun of Crying Baby: ‘There Is No Mama’

Fury has erupted online after a gay country singer posted a video appearing to poke fun at his baby, who was seemingly crying out for his mother. In the Instagram Reel, posted Wednesday, Grammy-winning artist Shane McAnally hoists his baby and asked if he wanted his “dada” or “papa.” Those prompts came after the singer-songwriter told the crying infant, “There is no mama.”

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Boys to Men: Ushering Boys into Manhood

We modern Americans no longer provide for our own bodily needs, having off-loaded practically all of this work to corporations, robots, and professionals. Whatever the gains of this system (and there are many), it should come as no surprise that a culture thus alienated from creaturely embodiment is profoundly acedic and sexually confused.

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