If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Over the last few years, I have started down my path to becoming a Family First Entrepreneur. These three words came from a brain storming session I had while on a road trip. I was trying to come up with [...] [...more]
It has become increasingly popular among divorced men to blame the failure of marriage and the dissolution of their families on the teachings of feminism, be it modern, post-modern, or neo-feminism. Men fault women’s liberation and family law changes over the past 30 years for giving women the incentive to divorce their husbands. An essay [...] [...more]
There are roughly 120,000 adoptions in the United States each year and 2 – 4 percent of all families have 1 or more adopted children. With so many adoptions happening each year, why are so many men afraid of adoption? Well, according to a new study released by the Federal Government, they aren’t. Wait, what? [...] [...more]
Michael Kimmel is a professor of gender studies, specializing in men’s issues. His new book, Guyland, explores the emergence of a new developmental stage in men’s lives. Cory: Tell me about your work and how you decided to write Guyland. MK: I started writing Guyland because there was something going in this new developmental stage [...] [...more]
This is a guest post from Chris Diggins, professional counselor (LMHC). You can check out his practice and blog by visiting Relationship Counseling Seattle. Pornography is sometimes viewed as “normal” or an “art form.” A person might say, “What’s wrong with it?…I am not hurting anybody….everybody does it.” Those who promote, want to use, or [...] [...more]
How many times have you been in love? I'm not talking about the number of times that you think you were in love, or all of the instances in which you were passionately attracted to another person. I mean really in love with someone, caring about her more than you do yourself and accepting her without wanting to change a thing. [...more]
Many people are of opinion that cohabitation is a good way to “test out” a relationship and see if it’s ready for marriage. Indeed, some people are even seeing cohabitation as a substitute for marriage. Are those who are cohabiting thinking of how that practice will affect their children? In the United States since 2000, [...] [...more]
Once you get married, you are (hopefully!) part of a team on an adventure to a great life. As a team member (or maybe even the team captain), you want to make sure you’ve taken all the necessary steps to make sure no team member is left behind on your journey to success. That means [...] [...more]
Here’s an interesting snapshot of the actual divorce statistics, according to Vital Statistics Reports from the National Center for Health Statistics: Per capita divorce rates 1990-2002: 1991, 0.47% 1992, 0.48% 1993, 0.46% 1994, 0.46% 1995, 0.46% 1996, 0.43% 1997, 0.43%, 1998, 0.42%, 1999, 0.41%, 2000, 0.41%, 2001, 0.40%, 2002, 0.38% A couple thoughts: - Divorce [...] [...more]
What would an experienced professional counselor say about the effects of living together before marriage? I asked Dr. Lee Jagers the following questions, and he had these things to say. In your practice, how has cohabitation affected your patients? This is anecdotal at best, but my sense is that those who are cohabiting seem to [...] [...more]
Many people today are seeing cohabitation as an acceptable alternative to marriage, but is it? Since 1970 the number of heterosexual couples living together outside of marriage has increased over 1000 percent, according to the Rutgers National Marriage Project (NMP). From a NMP study: “Yet cohabitation in place of marriage should be considered a major [...] [...more]
Traditional wisdom says that cohabitating before marriage results in a higher likelihood of divorce, a poor impact on children, and a lower standard of marital satisfaction, but is that wisdom true? [...more]
