Male Psychology: The Magazine
Why does the law underestimate the psychosocial benefits of fathers?
While it is important that children are supported, financially and otherwise […] child maintenance payments appear to be moving many non-resident parents into poverty
UK law starts excluding fathers at birth: what psychosocial impact might this have on children and fathers?
The potential benefits of paternity leave on the father, the child and the family unit are numerous.
The long, dark shadow of parental alienation
Parental alienation is subtle. It leaves no visible scars. The victim may see the perpetrator as their rescuer. A loving parent can be seen as the villain. There will be no cry for help
Why do we overlook the psychological impact on men of being childless? An interview with Dr Rob Hadley
…critical gerontology focuses on the political-economic approach and consequently had a limited perspective on women and men: economically the former were seen as deprived and men privileged. Men were therefore disregarded.
Looking back on a childhood, and seeing parental alienation
Mother ‘explained’ to me that we had to leave our father for our own protection. Father, I was told, was a very dangerous man.
Does children’s TV drive you crazy? Here is one dad’s Top 3 recommendations for what’s best for your child, and most bearable for you.
"In training, they forced me to listen to the Barney [the Dinosaur] "I Love You" song for 45 minutes. I never want to go through that again".
How can a single dad be the best dad he can be? An interview with Dads House founder Billy McGranaghan
People depart a man in trouble [but as] soon as a man's got someone to talk to he will pour his heart out.
Is parental alienation a topic that’s too controversial to make a TV drama about?
As the series progresses, we'll show the transformation that occurs in a teen boy after a strong male role model does become involved in his life.
Fatherlessness, violence and suicidal tendencies in Norway. A review of the novel ‘Mysteries’ by Knut Hamsun
…if you could take the pages of that book and condense that precise combination of words and their meaning into a pill, people would never want to take drugs again
The state should help prevent - not enable – abuse during family breakdown
Although a ‘survivor’ of domestic abuse… I was never going to give my career up to make me financially eligible for legal aid.
A therapist who has survived the family court process shows other men how they can get through it too
I was ignorant of these horrors until I had my own skirmish in the family courts. Being a therapist, I emerged wondering if I could support other separated fathers
One man’s experience of how the family court system can impact the mental health of fathers
During that holiday whilst not with me, the oldest boy started self-harming and talked about killing himself. …What do you think was the action of social services at the case conference? Case closed, the children were taken off the At Risk Register. The father was no longer in the family home and now the children were deemed safe.
Dads should not be sneered at for taking their little daughters to the women’s toilets
Inside, there was a huge set of cubicles, all fully closable to give lots of privacy. We walked along the cubicles to a free one, but…