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Fathers are Important Too
Kids Need Their Fathers, During and After Divorce
One of the sad realities of divorce and the outcome is fatherlessness. In this episode of The Smart Divorce with Deborah Moskovitch, we discuss the need for fathers to stay involved in their kids lives, especially during and after divorce.
Deborah Moskovitch
It is more common for father’s relationships to be thinned out more than mothers. While a lot of attention and research has focused on single-parent families where the parent is the mother, limited attention has focused on single-parent families where the father is the parent. Single-father families are a small, but growing segment of our society. But what happens when dads aren’t involved?
Deborah Moskovitch and Steve Peck explore this issue, and help provide an understanding of fatherlessness, while providing ideas for staying connected.
Did you know:
- Up to 25% of children do not see their father by 2-3 years after divorce
- Daughters that do not have a relationship with their father are more likely to have long term emotional issues – are more promiscuous and less likely to graduate from high school and college; while sons are more likely to exhibit delinquent behavior
- 80% of the daughters and sons in the U.S. only live with their fathers for a maximum of 10 to 15 percent of the time after their parents divorce
Tune in to discover what can be done and how you can overcome these obstacles. There’s been research that shows when fathers are more involved in their kids’ lives — they are less likely to divorce themselves.
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To hear this interview, click on the link
http://www.divorcesourceradio.com/kids-need-their-fathers-during-and-after-divorce/
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How to Become the Most Awesome Dad
Becoming the Most Awesome Single Dad
Becoming the most awesome single dad is our new episode of The Smart Divorce with Deborah Moskovitch. Dads often get under played in society and the media…..Disney dads, born again fathers, dads that disappear from their children’s lives…..and then there’s our guest Joel Schwartzberg.
Joel is an award-winning humorist, personal essayist and screenwriter whose work has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, New Jersey Monthly, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, The Star Ledger, Babble.com, and in the flimsy pages of regional parenting magazines around the country. He’s the author of The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad, a unique and award-winning collection of funny and personal essays that examine how divorce reinvents relationships with kids and one’s own sense of Dadhood.
Joel offers great tips and insights on being a part-time Dad in a full-time life — a meaningful interview for any parent, particularly the millions who’ve gone through divorce with their senses of humor intact.
Topics include:
- Putting a spin a heart wrenching situation and finding the humor in life
- “Lazy Dadurday” offer a glimpse into those special moments and new routines with dad after a split
- Top Ten Things Divorced Dads Need to Realize
- What Remarried Dads Owe Their Stepmom Wives
- And so much more….
More about Joel’s book, The 40 Year-Old Version can be found at: BookForDad.com
To hear this most awesome interview, click on the link http://www.divorcesourceradio.com/becoming-the-most-awesome-single-dad/
The Joys of Being a Single Parent: A Dad’s Point of View
Our guest on The Smart Divorce on Divorce Source Radio, is Bruce Sallan who shares his story of becoming a first-time dad, to a son, four days after his 40th birthday, less than 9 months after getting married (they got pregnant on the honeymoon). His second son was born three years later. When Bruce’s sons were still quite young, he left his job as Vice President ABC Motion Pictures for Television to become a full-time dad and to care for his ailing parents, the classic “sandwich” situation.
Shortly thereafter, his marriage ended and his wife abandoned their children, leaving the state. He became a full-time single dad, in his late-forties. Hear Bruce share his lessons and musings on being a single dad.
Topics in this program include:
- Reactions from friends and acquaintances about being a single stay at home dad
- The inherent differences in the parenting styles of mothers and fathers
- How gender differences affecting parenting, friendships and dating
- A single dad’s view on custody and the children’s best interests
- Triumph over heartbreak; new ventures and lessons learned
- The real importance of being a single parent
Life as a single dad
As father’s day nears my radar has been more tuned into reading articles about single fathers. The articles below highlight the trials and tribulations of single dads and the appreciation and kudos they have received.
Please post your comments and share your thoughts. And if you are a father reading this post — Happy Fathers Day!
My father was a single dad ahead of his time
Micah Toub
I used to be my father’s wife.
I mean that in the most old-fashioned, sexist way. I know things have changed, but when I think of the word “housewife,” I still see the 1950s illustration of a woman behind an ironing board, happily removing the creases from her husband’s work shirts and slacks. Replace that aproned woman with a glum teenaged boy and that’s me at 13 years old.
After my parents’ divorce, I lived with my father. He decided that it would be my duty in our new household to iron our clothes. Since my T-shirts and jeans didn’t need it, this really meant that it was my duty to iron his clothes
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Juggling life as both Mr. Wallet and Mr. Mom
Sarah Hampson
Deadbeat dads, ghost dads, Disneyland dads, Santa daddies: The divorce culture is rich in labels, especially ones that reduce men to negative stereotypes.
Some may be warranted, but the trouble with simplistic labels is that they rarely shed light on the complex truth of reality.
What is forgotten is that fathers have their own painful adjustment to divorce that is different than that faced by mothers.
I have heard some of that truth from men who write to me and agree to tell their stories.
If the stereotype is that men have a tendency to suffer in silence, the reality is that they no longer want to.
To read the whole article click on the link:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/juggling-life-as-both-mr-wallet-and-mr-mom/article670260/
I wasn’t prepared to be a single dad
Graeme McRanor
Two-and-a-half years ago, quite unplanned, I became a dad.
My girlfriend Tina’s pregnancy was a shocker. But, after nine months of heated dialogue on the questionable reliability of Mexican condoms, some light reading on how to be a parent, plenty of obsessive worrying and a summer-long pub crawl, I finally felt ready for parenthood.
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