20 Reasons Dads Matter

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Why Our Boys Need The Good Men Project And More

We need to love our boys so they learn the power of their own love as husbands, fathers and men.

When you lose your identity, it’s called insanity. And for some men, manhood is their identity.

“It’s refreshing to see these guys take the public perception of parents into their own hands.”

The Unabashed Tourist Brings Her Lover to the French Quarter

Tom Gualtieri insists that DOMA and Prop 8 are bias laws without basis in the U.S. Constitution.

Poet Robert Peake asks us to look at war, nihilism and love to start the healing.

Rape culture is the trivialization of rape, and it permeates our society to an alarming extent.

By all means, let’s improve mental health services in the US. Please. But if you want to talk about how to prevent rampage violence, s.e. smith is afraid you’re going to need to move on to other subjects.

Shooting after shooting, we’re confronted by the question of what it means to be a man. We refuse to answer—and we all suffer for it.

Sam Sattin wonders, how do we tell the difference between the revolutionary and the trivial?

Must-read from the Good Men Project for all those interested in Boys Issues

Save Our Sons’ Emotional Intelligence: What Dads Can Do Now

and the companion piece:
(both by Mark Greene and his wife Dr. Saliha Bava)
by Jennifer Flescher
by Kristian Orozco

Fear of Heights & Changes

Each city offers visitors a custom solution for managing high anxiety.

My birthday gift coupon from Tiffany said, “My brother-in-law Mark is yours for 24 hours.”

Ken Goldstein and his father talk about all the changes of the past 75 years to get at the one that mattered most.

What I felt for her wasn’t love. It was more an addiction.

“What did it mean to be a person in this world?” 3-year-old Walter asks himself somewhere in his subconscious in this weekend’s brilliant story by Sarah Tourjee. Isn’t that the question we’re all asking?”

On their last trip to a neighborhood park, Jerry Mahoney finally gives in and lets his twin toddlers run free.

MJ Kelly learned that it’s easy to devalue emotional sensitivity, until you see it in your child’s eyes.

Liam Day explains the political controversy behind Vikings punter Chris Kluwe’s viral rant, and urges gay athletes to break the stereotype that pits homosexuality against masculinity.

The first time Dan Griffin asks a woman out in recovery, the intensity of the experience is overwhelming.

Have you seen our Comment of the Day? 

An Oftentimes Different and Unheard Perspective... Infertility

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The Missing Voices of Men

Anthropologist Emilia Perujo discovered that infertile men are hard to hear, even if your thesis is about listening to them.

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Meeting My Sperm Donor Dad

Ben Sommer, conceived through alternative insemination, is a young man now and tells the story of deciding to meet his donor.

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Interview with a Male Infertility Rock Star

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A veteran of many treatments, Denny Ceizyk answers some infertility questions that many men keep to themselves.

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Flickers of Hope and Sorrow

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Robb Zimmerman speaks about the grief and confusion of two lost pregnancies.

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Think We Should Keep IVF Legal?

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Men need fertility treatments just as much as women, writes Lee Rubin Collins, so “personhood” amendments are about their rights, too.

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The Marginalization of an Infertile Man

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When Marcus Williams was ready to face his infertility, he had a hard time finding any fertility doctors willing to face it with him.

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The Happy Hour Miscarriage in Paradise

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How many times can you lose a child without even having one before things change?

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Dreams and Visions: On Being a Man After 3 Miscarriages in 20 Months

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Dave Sanfacon remains a father and a husband through the agonizing nightmare and another attempt at kids.

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Men Who Don’t Want Children: Do They Feel the Guilt?

Sylvia D. Lucas challenges the gendered double-standard that surrounds the choice to not have children.

Child-free men, whether they’re Dual-Income-No-Kids (DINK) “lifers” or just waiting until later to have kids, haven’t shared the focus of the barrage of attacks their female counterparts have endured since the advent of birth control. How do men without children get off so much easier … or do they?

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