Most fathers are deadbeat dads who abandon their children and who flee commitment. By Prentice Reid:We’ve all heard the mantra repeated endlessly by media and popular entertainment. We witness constant fictionalized accounts of it on television, in movies and in commercials. Culturally, it is profitable to sell products in ads using this myth as a selling point. So, what are the facts about paternal participation in children’s lives today? Let’s look at some widely held myths and in doing so, shed light on the truth. Myth #1: Most dads who owe child support do not support their children financially. More men than women pay child support regardless of custody status. Only 25% of mothers with physical custody of their children do not receive any child support payments. Mothers who were owed child support by the father of their children also were paid a higher percentage of the child support owed than were fathers who had physical custody of their children but were owed child support by the mothers. Also more mothers than fathers paid none of the child support they owed the other parent so if we culturally judge a non-custodial parent’s value based on how much child support they pay then technically there are more“deadbeat”mothers than fathers.
Between 2009 and 2013, including when Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, according to that foundation, which is based in Kiev, Ukraine. It was created by Mr. Pinchuk, whose fortune stems from a pipe-making company. He served two terms as an elected member of the Ukrainian Parliament and is a proponent of closer ties between Ukraine and the European Union. In 2008, Mr. Pinchuk made a five-year, $29 million commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative, a wing of the foundation that coordinates charitable projects and funding for them but doesn’t handle the money. The pledge was to fund a program to train future Ukrainian leaders and professionals “to modernize Ukraine,” according to the Clinton Foundation. Several alumni are current members of the Ukrainian Parliament. Actual donations so far amount to only $1.8 million, a Pinchuk foundation spokesman said, citing the impact of the 2008 financial crisis.
This show was painful to watch. Too many feminist nutjobs in one room. I'm pretty sure some of my brain was leaking out of my ears by the end of it. But Milo's sass kept me from completely losing my mind. Ceara McCord.
"Men Going Their Own Way. No getting married. No fight. No BS. So why are feminists so afraid of them? Because you can't oppress what you can't screw."Terrence Popp
By Charles Hugh Smith:Those who refuse debt, regardless of the sacrifice, are starving the parasitic, exploitive machine; those with debt are feeding it. We hear a lot about debtors, and very little about undebtors. I define an undebtor as an individual or entity that has sworn off debt or considers debt a necessary evil that must be paid off as quickly as possible regardless of the sacrifices required to do so. Undebtors are created by these conditions: 1. People with cultural/familial values that eschew/fear debt. 2. People who have been crushed by debt in the past and refuse to repeat the experience. 3. People who recognize debt as the status quo's favored instrument of oppression, control and exploitation. 4. People who understand that paying off debt is the easiest way to earn a zero-risk significant return on one's money. If you pay off a 12% credit card, that's the equivalent of earning 12% on your money. There's no mystery as to the low profile of undebtors in the mainstream media: undebtors are the equivalent of the cross to the vampire-parasites peddling debt.
By Michael Krieger:There’s no better way to show terrorists you mean business than by preemptively ending freedom before the infidels have a chance to. Ever since the tragic Charlie Hebdo terror attacks, France has responded by turning its back on decency, freedom and civilization itself. While the counterproductive authoritarian government response to terror attacks throughout the Western world has been long noted by myself and countless others, no country has demonstrated a more enthusiastic embrace of fascism and irrationality than France. The writing was on the wall shortly after the attacks. I noted it in the post, French Authorities Demonstrate Defense of Free Speech by Arresting 54 People for Free Speech. Here’s an excerpt:
While I’m sure many of the millions of French citizens who marched in solidarity with the victims of the recent senseless violence and in the name of free speech came with genuine intentions, the corps of professional authoritarians, I mean politicians, who tagged along in order to pose for a staged photo op, clearly had less than noble intentions.
US President Barack Obama has told Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington will "reassess" its ties with Tel Aviv after the Israeli prime minister's recent provocative statements.
Orwellian UK BANNED Press TV: Obama delivered the message in a phone call to Netanyahu on Thursday, days after Netanyahu rejected the idea of a Palestinian state during his election campaign. "The President told the [Israeli aka JSIL, Zio-Nazi] Prime Minister that we will need to re-assess our options following the Prime Minister's new positions and comments regarding the two state solution," according to a White House official. Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud party won 30 of the 120 seats in parliament, against 24 for rivals in the center-left Zionist Union in Tuesday’s Israeli national election. Netanyahu made opposition to nuclear negotiations with Iran a centerpiece of his reelection campaign. He also rejected the idea of a Palestinian state, which has been a key element of US foreign policy.
By Annelie Sjöberg: The
performance problems of boys in school are not the fault of masculine
norms. It is the absence of these norms that is the problem. In an article in SVT Opinion,
the three authors (Ida Östensson, Karen Austin and Roberth Maier
Ericsson) argue that traditional masculine roles are to blame for boys’
declining performance in Swedish schools. This supposedly limiting male
role allegedly leads to an anti-study culture where boys exhibit
“hyperactivity, aggression and an aversion to learning during
schooling.” The article is a response to another recent article by editorial writer Csaba Bene Perleberg in the newspaper Göteborgs-Posten. Perleberg
highlights boys as a discriminated group in the Swedish school system
with a focus on the alarming divergence in performance and grades that
educators and the public have been been aware of for some time.
By We’ve all heard the mantra repeated endlessly by media and popular entertainment. We witness constant fictionalized accounts of it on television, in movies and in commercials. Culturally, it is profitable to sell products in ads using this myth as a selling point. So, what are the facts about paternal participation in children’s lives today? Let’s look at some widely held myths and in doing so, shed light on the truth.
