Let fathers be
Regarding Monday's Page One article "New school year brings new class: parenting": The problem is children having children — girls who have babies and boys who do not provide child support. The treatment for the problem is education. The prevention for the problem is to keep dads in the lives of their children.
How many studies does it take to get the word out? Adolescents reared in homes without fathers are significantly more likely to engage in premarital sex. Children need both parents.
It is time for courts to quit removing dads from the lives of their children in custody cases. We can throw money at parenting classes. We can throw money at child support enforcement. But until we allow dads to father their children, it is money wasted.
DON MATHIS
Sherman
Published by Houston Chronicle January 16, 2008, 10:13PM
Original location: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5461621.html
Having just discovered your blog, I must send a heartfelt thanks and appreciation for your efforts. I can only hope my own blog could rise to the level of your own (and many others I know regularly make a point of visiting). It includes stories of my own personal experiences (with an ex-spouse with a suspected personality disorder) and in court - where I must say I have (so far) been "luckier" than millions of others. I live everyday with the fear that it can all come unglued with the next round of "abuse by litigation" that my ex-wife perpetrates on me and my family.
I hope you get a chance to take a look and again, thank you. I hope I can become as meaningful a cog in the gears of reversing the horrible course the country has taken regarding fathers and families.
http://www.thepsychoexwife.com