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By SUSAN GREGORY THOMAS Among fathers in two-income families, 60% said work-family conflict was an issue in 2008, up from 35% in 1977. When K.J. Wiemer got married in the 1990s, he didn’t think he was becoming a husband. Rather, he says, he saw himself as “one of two 20-something professionals living together, who were now entering the phase of…
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Source: Uploaded by user via The Kobie on Pinterest https://pinterest.com/kobiechronicles/tofatherhood/ (New York, NY) A father reads with his young son. “Education is the passport to the future.” www.tofatherhood.com
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Joseph Arradondo assists his son Nasir, 2, on the sidelines of his daughter’s soccer game in Brooklyn Park, Minn. Arradondo attended Co-Parent Court about a year ago and says the court helped with communication between him and Nasir’s mother. May 7, 2012 from MPR Across the U.S., 40 percent of children are now born to unmarried parents. This demographic shift,…
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Six guests recently had the opportunity to share a private dinner with Barack and Michelle Obama, as part of the Obama campaign’s President’s dinner contest. During dinner discussion Mr. Obama spoke of the time when it was up to him to style older daughter Malia’s curls; My favorite story out of this is Malia, when she was 4, she…
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Father’s Day is two months away, but Nas reaches out to today’s listeners with the emotional and heartfelt new single “Daughters.” “The way mothers feel for their sons, how fathers feel for their daughters. When he date, he straight. Chip off his own poppa. When she date, we wait behind the door with a sawed-off. Cause we think…
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Forty-five days have passed since the murder of Trayvon Martin. His killer, George Zimmerman, is now in police custody. In listening to the Martin Family’s attorney, we’ve learned that the arrest of George Zimmerman all began when Tracy Martin, Trayvon’s father, wasn’t convinced by the factual information that he received from the Sanford Police Department about his son’s death. Tracy…
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Race relations is one of the most explosive issues in America and for many, it’s one of the most taboo to talk about, especially with children. Tonight’s segment will explore the finding that a white child and a black child look at the exact same picture of two students on the playground but what they see is often very different…
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This road of life you are now on has been filled with many twists and turns. You have experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of lows throughout your marvelous journey thus far. You have ventured far beyond the shore, more times than not, successfully. You have been blessed to experience firsthand the world, its people, its values, its…
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by Sasha Aslanian, Minnesota Public Radio March 27, 2012 STILLWATER, Minn. — Leon Perry was 22 when he shot a man outside a bar in Minneapolis. Convicted of first-degree murder, Perry began serving a life sentence at Stillwater Prison in 1995. When he went in, his five children were all under 7 years old. In prison, Perry has earned an…
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Men play a vital role in strengthening one another, their communities and homes. I had the pleasure of screening a partial edit of From Fatherless to Fatherhood with the Men’s Ministry at my home church, First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens (Somerset, NJ), this past weekend. The breakfast was well attended and I was encouraged by not only the response…
