mens-issues
By Stacey Tallitsch | August 7, 2026 Every June the headlines run the same autopsy. A "fatherlessness epidemic." Millions of kids growing up without a dad. And the implied cause, stated or not, is always the same: men left. They couldn't commit, wouldn't grow up,
mens-issues
By Stacey Tallitsch | August 4, 2026 It is back-to-school season, which means the annual wave of headlines about boys falling behind — behind in reading, behind in grades, behind in college applications. The diagnosis is always some version of the same thing: something is wrong with the boys. They
mens-issues
The deadbeat dad is the one man it's still safe to hate. But 78% of the nation's child support debt is owed by parents earning under $20,000 a year. He isn't refusing to pay. He can't - and the enforcement machine is built to keep it that way.
fatherhood
By Stacey Tallitsch | June 23, 2026 This spring, the equal-parenting wave finally hit the statute books. Mississippi made 50-50 joint custody the legal starting point in April. Florida moved a fast-track parenting-time bill through committee. Kentucky, the first state to install a shared-parenting presumption back
paternity-leave
By Stacey Tallitsch | June 15, 2026 It's Men's Health Week, the lead-up to Father's Day, and the annual ritual is back: a wave of coverage scolding men for the paternity leave they don't take. The International Labour Organization frames it cleanly
fatherhood
Every June the op-eds mourn the absent dad and blame male character. The colder, more useful read: father absence is the predictable output of a structure that prices fatherhood as high-cost, low-control, and revocable.
mens-issues
On May 4, JAMA Pediatrics published the first major study tracking what happens to American fathers in the years after their kids are born. Northwestern researchers followed 130,267 babies born in Georgia in 2017 and looked at how many of their dads were dead five years later. The press