Articles

John Westlund shares the delights and difficulties of being a single father.

The author writes about fathering through power-sharing and learning through mistakes instead of discipline and punishment.

Alan Wheatley writes about his father.

Jac Brown looks at the risks of real connection.

Note that a PDF version of the article is available below.

What obstacles do men face in their attempts to become better fathers? Michael Eburn reflects on his own experience and comes up with some ideas.

Separation and rejection or honouring our connection? Bob Pease discusses the politics of the mother/son relationship.

Trich Wilson's response to Louise B. Silverstein and Carl F. Auerbach's article "Deconstructing the Essential Father."

Richard Jones on how ‘daddy’s girls’ changed his life.

Richard Jones on de-gendering fathering to become a better parent.

The fathers’ rights movement is defined by the claim that fathers are deprived of their ‘rights’ and subjected to systematic discrimination as men and fathers, in a system biased towards women and dominated by feminists. Fathers’ rights groups overlap with men’s rights groups and both represent an organised backlash to feminism. Fathers’ rights and men’s rights groups can be seen as the anti-feminist wing of the men’s movement, the network of men’s groups and organisations mobilised on gender issues. Please see below for the attachment, in Word.