Category: domestic violence
Domestic Violence, Mental Health, and Lemon Pepper Wings
We should be teaching boys that masculinity without emotional honesty is a danger. We should be teaching girls that love should never require fear. We should be teaching co-parents that unmanaged conflict can become generational trauma. And we should be teaching communities how to spot a person in crisis before we get in line at someone’s funeral.
We also need to be honest enough to say something else: Many men have never been taught how to handle rejection, shame, powerlessness, heartbreak, or fear. They’ve been taught, instead, how to posture, perform, possess, suppress, joke, deflect, drink, and disappear. And if all else fails, they’re taught to explode.
What Fatherhood Programs Must Say About Domestic Violence
As an organization that works daily with fathers — men who are often healing, learning, and rebuilding their relationships — FI sees firsthand that domestic violence is not just a women’s issue or just a criminal justice issue. It’s a family issue. A public health issue. A community issue.
When fatherhood programs give men the language, space, and opportunity to confront domestic violence, they often become some of the strongest advocates for ending it.
Parental Conflict Contributes to Irreconcilable Consequences for Children
Fathers Incorporated is going to do what we do best, educate, bring awareness, and form real-time context to the issue of parental conflict, especially as it relates to fatherhood.
Ways to Save Your Sanity at Your Next Family Gathering
Whether you love your extended family with all your heart or you can barely stay in the same room for five minutes without an argument erupting, getting a family under one roof for a holiday celebration can be an enormous challenge.
Jada Pinkett-Smith: “The War on Men Through the Degradation of Women”
After speaking out against critics of her daughter Willow’s new haircut, the mega-articulate actress and activist Jada Pinkett-Smith earlier this week used her Facebook platform to bring awareness to a much larger […]
False Domestic Abuse Claims: the impact on your divorce or separation
By: Jeffery M. Leving; Matrimonial Attorney Did you ever yell at your spouse in a heated argument or touch your partner’s arm to emphasize a point in […]
“2015 Deadliest Year for Domestic Violence in a Decade for Georgia”
When I saw this headline yesterday on WCOT.com, a local news affiliate in Savanah, I was reminded that, as a Fatherhood organization, we MUST initiate and take […]