Archive for June 2009

Responsible Citizenhood Part I of II includes knowing where your tax $$ are going

PART I of II:

(PART II of II is how to answer: “what foundations/funds are telling my government to fund what it does?”)

Now — it took some time, but – when I want to know what is my government funding? I have a good idea where to look.

For example, see blogroll to the right. For example, in prior posts, I have introduced a link showing that the Federal Dept. called “Health and Human Services” is THE largest one, and recently accounted for over 50% of government outlays.

Under this are welfare, child support enforcement, Head Start (and “Early Head Start”) and the bulk of the Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage grant system.

I also showed in a recent post that the average ANNUAL cost for housing an adult male prisoner in the US, per a “postsecondary.org” newsletter of 2006, was (I believe in 2005) somewhere around the discretionary (not the majority, just the discretionary) grants level of the HHS — i.e., over $40 billion/one year.

I also noted that in a certain year, allocation to Homeland Security virtually disappeared, and the same year, the HHS allotment jumped upwards by almost the same %. Hmmm

So, if you are smart enough to remember 3 letters “HHS” and that the Government sites end in “.gov” and not “.com”, you could get to:

http://www.hhs.gov

and take it from there. For example, you could explore how faith-based initiatives are being sought as solutions to various problems, including substance abuse:

http://www.hhs.gov/fbci/funding/#OpportunitiesforFaithBasedandCommunityOr

Funding Opportunities

This page seeks to connect faith-based and community organizations with current funding within HHS. Additionally, it provides resources to assist faith-based and community organizations looking to partner with the Federal government.

Current Funding Opportunities

Human Services ***

Health/Substance Abuse Treatment

International

Research

Opportunities for Faith-Based and Community Organizations at the State and Local Levels

Catalogs and Tools to Search for Grants

Become A Grant Reviewer

Frequently Asked Questions about Grants and Funding for Faith-Based and Community Organizations

***(Am I the only one around who questions what kind of mentality is behind the term “Human Services”? As opposed to what — animal? Yet, from what I can see, the mentality driving many of these programs is that humans ARE animals, to be trained, behaviorally — and measured, labeled, incentivized, educated (of course) and in general be induced by either punishments or rewards to behave in a certain, government-endorsed manner. This is absolutely foreign to the founding principles of the United States, which views men as having Certain Unalienable Rights.

I have been a teacher (one sort or another) most of my adult professional life. In dealing with children, I found — uniformly — that the more I dealt with them as Individual Beings — with souls, spirit, if you will, needs, emotions, and wills — and less as a pack of animals: in other words, the closer I got to mutual respect — the better the results, musically and otherwise.

The carrots and sticks approach is not ideal of adult human beings with enough vision and self-restraint to run their own lives. I find, on closer inspection, that the Federal Government services many times infantilizes the entire populace in many ways. Naturally, this meets with resistance. It’s an insult to the soul.

The detachment in it is a little odd. For example, if those being served are “humans,” who are those designing, and executing the services — “immortals”? Or automated beings? Language tells a story, and sends a message about the speakers. I think that detachment is indeed the order of the day, at least organizationally. This was also my perception on browsing a number of the professional / educational backgrounds on some o the principal (grants) investigators. They started publishing, many of them, before the Ph.D. was added to the title. It brings up the question, how can someone become an “expert” on ANYTHING straight out of 6-8 years of college? Except theories one learned IN college?)

Or, if you can in addition remember another 5-letter acronym, “Taggs” you could find out how woefully underfunded the fatherhood movement has been, which is why we need ANOTHER initiative to promote this concept nationally, at:

http://www.taggs.hhs.gov

This is a database of over 500,000 grants, searchable by a number of categories. I have been working with it quite a bit. By search, click, google, read, think — many interconnections will show up. Here’ s a casual search I just did, choosing which columns to display, not specifying years, and on the words “responsible fatherhood” only. If I were you, I’d be curious about the ones that were over $1,000,000 each. I came up with 231 results.

Of interest should be the words “demonstration” and also “Community Action Program.” “Demonstration” means, if this one passes someone’s muster, it will be duplicated, probably nationwide.

This search is NOT exhaustive, and covers 1995-2009.

Responsible Citizenhood . . .

would entail taking with a grain of salt, complaints that fathers, as a group, are being taken to the cleaners financially and morally by our government, moreso than, say, mothers. It seems to me that within one year of the formation of the “National Fatherhood Initiative” (1994?), the concept was being taken quite seriously at a federal level.

Without researching all of these, I hope that the image of this table should also be kept in mind with the next news release on how we need more fatherhood initiatives. And there are more upcoming, believe me.

I have had some trouble adjusting column widths below. If this doesn’t read well, best advice I have is to go do your own search.

Please note that under the search Advanced “Responsible Fatherhood,” Award Classes are either Discretionary or Cooperative.

The CFDA Numbers, except the top one, and first few (see bottom of chart), are 93086.

93086 = “Healthy marriage and Promoting Responsible Fatherhood”

A search on that # alone would produce more results, for example:

http://taggs.hhs.gov/”Healthy Marriage Resp Fatherhood Grants 2006-2008 total over #353,000,000″

(I searched by # only. This produces interactive list by recipient, with zip codes. Which group is local to your area?

I would want to know, for example, why a group called “Trinity Church, Inc.” out of Miami, is getting grants. I would be curious about why one particular group, “Public Strategies, Inc.” received in the same 3- year period, over $11,000,000, whereas the average 2006-2008 grant ran from very minimum $400,000 (on average) through $1,500,000 or even $2,000,000 (average seems to be pretty much around 1 milion).

Recipient: PUBLIC STRATEGIES INC
Recipient ZIP Code: 73116

FY	Award Number	Budget Year of Support	Agency	Award Code	Action Issue Date	Amount This Action
2006	90FE0026	1	ACF	0	09-24-2006	$1,000,000.00
2006	90FH0001	1	ACF	0	09-22-2006	$2,000,000.00
2007	90FE0026	2	ACF	0	09-17-2007	$997,864.00
2007	90FH0001	2	ACF	0	09-21-2007	$3,250,000.00
2008	90FE0026	3	ACF	0	09-22-2008	$1,000,000.00
2008	90FH0001	3	ACF	0	09-29-2008	$3,250,000.00
2009	90FH0001	3	ACF	1	03-26-2009	mce_marker.00
Award Subtotal:						$11,497,864.00

Who is this? (Note: I have an idea, and will follow up).

Also from the huge range of TYPES of recipients, it seems quite a few groups are getting in on the cash flow. How come, however, when I went as a working woman, and called High and Low, all kinds of agencies, nonprofits, and government entitities, I was unable to get help (1) enforcing child support (arrears) (2) help establishing or enforcing a restraining order to make a safety zone for me, as a single mother, to work in, when family of origin had been turned away by my ex-batterer, and churches are pretty much a washout when it comes to acknowledging domestic violence within their ranks (being instead a source of the problem, not a solution to it!). Many of the entitites I called for help, it seems, already knew about these programs. And why is it that our schools are suddenly underfunded and struggling, while we have funds for these activities. Moreover, in the past year (2008) I was also searching high and low for a group that would simply provide help with phone service (cell phones), in the context of stalking — and found none; ones that existed before had been shut down.

There are many questions that SHOULD BE ASKED by the general public as well as specific individuals, when this amount of funding is routine, and increasing year after year.

The letters “ACF” stand for one (and ONLY one) “OPDIV” (operating Division) of the HHS. The words mean “Administration for Children and Families.”

Every single grant below, I believe, came under the “ACF” so I omitted that column.

The CFDA # 93647 can be looked up on the site also. My point is to show the scope of the programs, and encourage people to investigate.

http://taggs.hhs.gov/AdvancedSearchResults.cfm

Fiscal Year	Grantee Name	City	State	Grantee Type	Award Title	CFDA Number	Award Class	Principal Investigator	Sum of Actions
2009	Native Pride	CORRALES	NM	Welfare Dept	THE GOOD ROAD OF LIFE: RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93612	Discretionary	DR CLAYTON SMALL	$ 2,000
2008	Archuleta County Dept of Human Services	PAGOSA SPRINGS	CO	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ERLINDA B GONZALEZ	$ 200,000
2008	BOAT PEOPLE S.O.S. INC.	FALLS CHURCH	VA	Other Educational Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	KHANH T TRAN	$ 250,000
2008	CENTERFORCE	SAN RAFAEL	CA	Other Social Services Org	HEALTHY MARRIAGE AND RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROJECT	93086	Discretionary	CHARLES GREENE	$ 481,554
2008	CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC	TUCSON	AZ	Supplier Orgs ( Service, Supplies, Material and Equipt )	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	GREG JOHNSON	$ 500,000
2008	CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE	MANCHESTER	NH	Other Health Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MICHAEL R OSTROWSKI	$ 315,830
2008	CHILD ABUSE COUNCIL, INC.	PALMA CEIA	FL	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	BRIAN MCEWEN	$ 250,000
2008	CHILD DEVLOPMENT RESOURCES, INC.	NORGE	VA	Supplier Orgs ( Service, Supplies, Material and Equipt )	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	SHERI C OBSORNE	$ 249,999
2008	CHILDREN’S FRIEND AND SERVICE	PROVIDENCE	RI	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	TERESA DEBOISE	$ 250,000
2008	CHILDREN`S INSTITUTE , INC	LOS ANGELES	CA	Vocational & Training School	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	HERSHEL K SWINGER	$ 500,000
2008	CHILDREN`S INSTITUTE , INC	LOS ANGELES	CA	Vocational & Training School	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD, COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	93086	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	HERSHEL SWINGER	$ 1,000,000
2008	CIRCLE OF PARENTS	CHICAGO	IL	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	93086	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	CYNTHIA SAVAGE	$ 1,000,000
2008	CO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES	DENVER	CO	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	93086	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	RICHARD BATTEN	$ 2,000,000
2008	COOK INLET TRIBAL COUNCIL, INC	ANCHORAGE	AK	Indian Tribal Council	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	DEBORAH L NORTHBURG	$ 418,832
2008	CT ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES	HARTFORD	CT	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ANTHONY J JUDKINS	$ 1,000,000
2008	Comprehensive Youth Services of Fresno, Inc.	FRESNO	CA	Other Special Interest Org	POMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	LISA M BROTT	$ 250,000
2008	Denver Indian Family Resource Center	DENVER	CO	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ISABELLE MEDCHILL	$ 198,280
2008	Detroit Workforce Development Dept	DETROIT	MI	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	LUCIUS A VASSAR	$ 500,000
2008	Employment Opportunity & Training Center of Northeaster	SCRANTON	PA	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ANGELA SEIBERT	$ 225,608
2008	Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse	FORT PIERCE	FL	Welfare Dept	RESPONSBL FATHERHD CLASSES WITH INCARCERATED FATHERS. CONCURRENT WORK WITH MOTHER/CARETAKER OF CHILD, TO LEARN RESP	93086	Discretionary	DOUG BORRIE	$ 242,822
2008	FAMILY & CHILDREN’S SERVICE, INC.	TULSA	OK	Other Social Services Org	F&CS PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROJECT	93086	Discretionary	GAIL LAPIDUS	$ 250,000
2008	FIRST A M E CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER	SEATTLE	WA	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	TERRENCE LEWIS	$ 250,000
2008	Family Services of Westchester, Inc.	PORT CHESTER	NY	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MARISSA MALETT	$ 497,812
2008	GA ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES	ATLANTA	GA	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	RUSSELL EASTMAN	$ 225,000
2008	GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC	ST PAUL	MN	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ANDREW FREEBERG	$ 500,000
2008	GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS, INC	AUSTIN	TX	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JENNY C FRITZ	$ 240,000
2008	GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF PITTSBURGH	PITTSBURGH	PA	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ERIC YENERALL	$ 225,000
2008	GWINNETT CHILDRENS SHELTER	BUFORD	GA	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	NANCY F FRIAUF	$ 250,000
2008	HEALTHY START, INC.	PITTSBURGH	PA	Other Health Org	HSI RESPONSBL FATHERHD LEVEL 1 – A COORDINATED EFFORT TO RECRUIT AND ENROLL FATHERS AND EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY ABOUT	93086	Discretionary	CHERYL FLINT	$ 900,000
2008	Healthy Families/Thriving Communities Collaborative Cou	WASHINGTON	DC	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JACQUELYN HENRY	$ 500,000
2008	Indiana Dept of Correction	INDIANAPOLIS	IN	Welfare Dept	IDOC APPLICATION FOR THE PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD GRANT FOR THE PREP PROGRAM	93086	Discretionary	STEPHEN T HALL	$ 400,000
2008	Indiana Dept of Correction	INDIANAPOLIS	IN	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	STEPHEN T HALL	$ 249,896
2008	Indiana Youth Institute	INDIANAPOLIS	IN	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	93086	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	RICHARD GORDON	$ 999,000
2008	LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER	WASHINGTON	DC	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	NATALIE WILLIAMS	$ 250,000
2008	LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA	SIOUX FALLS	SD	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	THOMAS P WALSH	$ 500,000
2008	MD ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES	BALTIMORE	MD	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JOHNNY RICE	$ 899,991
2008	MD ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES	BALTIMORE	MD	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MEDGER L REID	$ 441,514
2008	Metro United Methodist Urban Ministry	SAN DIEGO	CA	Other Social Services Org	SAN DIEGO’S RESPONSBL FATHERHD INITIATIVE	93086	Discretionary	JOHN R HUGHES	$ 268,349
2008	Montrose County Health and Human Services	MONTROSE	CO	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JON MERRITT	$ 249,552
2008	NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF CONCERNED BLACK MEN, INC	WASHINTON	DC	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD, PRIORITY AREA 3	93086	Discretionary	ESTHER KAGGWA	$ 250,000
2008	NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY REGENTS	LAS CRUCES	NM	Junior College, College & University	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	RITA C PARRA	$ 218,336
2008	Native Pride	CORRALES	NM	Welfare Dept	THE GOOD ROAD OF LIFE: RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93612	Discretionary	DR CLAYTON SMALL	$ 150,000
2008	New York Youth At Risk, Inc.	NEW YORK	NY	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	CLAUDETTE C FAISON	$ 225,000
2008	OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES	PONTIAC	MI	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	NATALIE MARCHIONE	$ 200,170
2008	OAKLAND/LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY	PONTIAC	MI	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	LYNN A CROTTY	$ 368,555
2008	Osborne Association, Inc.	Bronx	NY	Other Special Interest Org	PROMORING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ELIZABETH GAYNES	$ 448,856
2008	Osborne Association, Inc.	Bronx	NY	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD, PRIORITY AREA 3	93086	Discretionary	ELIZABETH GAYNES	$ 250,000
2008	PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL OF WESTMORELAND FAYETTE INC.	GREENSBURG	PA	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JOHN E SPROULL	$ 250,000
2008	PUERTO RICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE, INC	NEW YORK-NEW YORK	NY	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD: BUILDING PATHWAYS FOR LATINO FATHERS	93086	Discretionary	ABIGAIL KARIC	$ 900,000
2008	Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc.	SAINT LOUIS	MO	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	KATE A MCGILLY	$ 250,000
2008	REGION II COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY	JACKSON	MI	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	CHRIS KILMER	$ 203,854
2008	REGION XIX EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER	EL PASO	TX	Other Educational Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	BLANCA E ENRIQUEZ	$ 900,000
2008	RIDGE Project, Inc	HOLGATE	OH	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	CATHERINE TIJERINA	$ 412,000
2008	ROSALIE MANOR	MILWAUKEE	WI	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ALISON SERGIO	$ 500,000
2008	Read To Me International Foundation	HONOLULU	HI	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	LIANE K AKANA	$ 250,000
2008	Relationship Research Foundation, Inc.	IRVINE	CA	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	M.P. P WYLIE	$ 250,000
2008	Resource, Inc	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	Supplier Orgs ( Service, Supplies, Material and Equipt )	RESPONSBL FATHERHD SINGLE ACTIVITY GRANT, LEVEL 1: MEN IN THE MAKING	93086	Discretionary	ELIZABETH L MCMILLAN	$ 250,000
2008	Resources for Children`s Health	PHILADELPHIA	PA	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JEANNE CIOCCA	$ 250,000
2008	SOUTHWEST KEY PROGRAMS, INC.	AUSTIN	TX	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	RACHEL ROSALES	$ 460,000
2008	ST MARY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY	FRANKLIN	LA	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ALMETRA J FRANKLIN	$ 230,092
2008	Shelby County Division of Corrections	MEMPHIS	TN	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	DAVID BARBER	$ 500,000
2008	Shelby County Division of Corrections	MEMPHIS	TN	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	FRANCHISKA L DORSE	$ 485,000
2008	THE FAMILY HEALTH AND EDUCATION INSTITUTE, INC.	SEABROOK	MD	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MELVIA L WALLACE	$ 500,000
2008	THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN, INC`	HARTFORD	CT	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ALDWIN ALLEN	$ 250,000
2008	The South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families	COLUMBIA	SC	Welfare Dept	STRENGTHENING RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROGRAMS FOR LOW-INCOME, NON-CUSTODIAL FATHERS -LEVEL 2	93086	Discretionary	PATRICIA LITTLEJOHN	$ 499,456
2008	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES	LITTLE ROCK	AR	Other Health Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	PATTI A BOKONY	$ 250,000
2008	UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY, INC	GRAETTINGER	IA	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD- PRIORITY AREA #3	93086	Discretionary	MIKE SIMCHO	$ 225,000
2008	Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	PRISCILLA BROWN	$ 250,000
2008	VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION	BURLINGTON	VT	Other Health Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	SUSAN LANDSMAN	$ 250,000
2008	WAYNE METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY	Wyandotte	MI	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD, PRIORITY AREA 3	93086	Discretionary	CYNTHIA CARRUTH	$ 250,000
2008	WOMEN’S OPPORTUNITY AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, INC.	MISSOULA	MT	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	NAOMI S THORNTON	$ 212,399
2008	WSOS COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION, INC	FREMONT	OH	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JACQUIE S WELLS	$ 249,492
2008	YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION	SANFORD	ME	Community Action Org	‘BEING THE DAD’ RESPONSBL PARENTING PROJECT TYPE OF PROJECT: RESPONSBL FATHERHD SINGLE AC	93086	Discretionary	BRAIN CLARK	$ 245,333
2008	YouthLaunch, Inc.	AUSTIN	TX	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	RUSSELL SMITH	$ 243,315
2007	APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION, INC.	NEW YORK	NY	Other Social Services Org	HEALTHY MARRIAGE PROMOTION AND RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93647	Discretionary	ADRIENNE N EDWARDS	$ 50,000
2007	Archuleta County Dept of Human Services	PAGOSA SPRINGS	CO	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ERLINDA B GONZALEZ	$ 200,000
2007	BOAT PEOPLE S.O.S. INC.	FALLS CHURCH	VA	Other Educational Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	KHANH T TRAN	$ 250,000
2007	CANGLESKA, INC.	KYLE	SD	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	KAREN M ARTICHOKER	$ 400,000
2007	CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF IDAHO, INC.	BOISE	ID	Welfare Dept	IDAHO DADS MATTER! RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROJECT	93086	Discretionary	KRISTAN SCHLICHTE	$ 379,753
2007	CENTERFORCE	SAN RAFAEL	CA	Other Social Services Org	HEALTHY MARRIAGE AND RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROJECT	93086	Discretionary	BARRY ZACK	$ 474,555
2007	CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH	CHICAGO	IL	Health Dept	CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROGRAM, PRIORITY AREA 2	93086	Discretionary	DARYL J MURPHY	$ 325,000
2007	CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC	TUCSON	AZ	Supplier Orgs ( Service, Supplies, Material and Equipt )	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	WENDY SABATINI	$ 352,000
2007	CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE	MANCHESTER	NH	Other Health Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MICHAEL R OSTROWSKI	$ 245,830
2007	CHILD ABUSE COUNCIL, INC.	PALMA CEIA	FL	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	BRIAN MCEWEN	$ 100,000
2007	CHILD DEVLOPMENT RESOURCES, INC.	NORGE	VA	Supplier Orgs ( Service, Supplies, Material and Equipt )	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	SHERI C OBSORNE	$ 214,000
2007	CHILDREN’S FRIEND AND SERVICE	PROVIDENCE	RI	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	TERESA DEBOISE	$ 212,000
2007	CHILDREN`S INSTITUTE , INC	LOS ANGELES	CA	Vocational & Training School	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	HERSHEL K SWINGER	$ 500,000
2007	CHILDREN`S INSTITUTE , INC	LOS ANGELES	CA	Vocational & Training School	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD, COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	93086	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	HERSHEL SWINGER	$ 1,000,000
2007	CIRCLE OF PARENTS	CHICAGO	IL	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	93086	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	CYNTHIA SAVAGE	$ 900,000
2007	CO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES	DENVER	CO	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	93086	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	MARY E ROBERTO	$ 2,000,000
2007	COOK INLET TRIBAL COUNCIL, INC	ANCHORAGE	AK	Indian Tribal Council	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	M J LONGLEY	$ 319,832
2007	CT ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES	HARTFORD	CT	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ANTHONY J JUDKINS	$ 1,000,000
2007	Comprehensive Youth Services of Fresno, Inc.	FRESNO	CA	Other Special Interest Org	POMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	LISA M BROTT	$ 250,000
2007	Denver Indian Family Resource Center	DENVER	CO	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ISABELLE MEDCHILL	$ 209,308
2007	Detroit Workforce Development Dept	DETROIT	MI	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	CYNTHIA BELL	$ 370,000
2007	Employment Opportunity & Training Center of Northeaster	SCRANTON	PA	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ANGELA SEIBERT	$ 223,808
2007	Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse	FORT PIERCE	FL	Welfare Dept	RESPONSBL FATHERHD CLASSES WITH INCARCERATED FATHERS. CONCURRENT WORK WITH MOTHER/CARETAKER OF CHILD, TO LEARN RESP	93086	Discretionary	DOUG BORRIE	$ 198,565
2007	FAMILY & CHILDREN’S SERVICE, INC.	TULSA	OK	Other Social Services Org	F&CS PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROJECT	93086	Discretionary	GAIL LAPIDUS	$ 210,000
2007	FIRST A M E CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER	SEATTLE	WA	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	PAULA JONES	$ 215,000
2007	Family Services of Westchester, Inc.	PORT CHESTER	NY	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MARJORIE LEFFLER	$ 497,812
2007	GA ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES	ATLANTA	GA	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	RUSSELL EASTMAN	$ 85,000
2007	GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC	ST PAUL	MN	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	KELLY MATTER	$ 475,000
2007	GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS, INC	AUSTIN	TX	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JENNY C FRITZ	$ 240,000
2007	GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF PITTSBURGH	PITTSBURGH	PA	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ERIC YENERALL	$ 225,000
2007	GWINNETT CHILDRENS SHELTER	BUFORD	GA	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	NANCY F FRIAUF	$ 224,640
2007	HEALTHY START, INC.	PITTSBURGH	PA	Other Health Org	HSI RESPONSBL FATHERHD LEVEL 1 – A COORDINATED EFFORT TO RECRUIT AND ENROLL FATHERS AND EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY ABOUT	93086	Discretionary	CHERYL FLINT	$ 600,000
2007	Healthy Families/Thriving Communities Collaborative Cou	WASHINGTON	DC	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JACQUELYN HENRY	$ 500,000
2007	Indiana Dept of Correction	INDIANAPOLIS	IN	Welfare Dept	IDOC APPLICATION FOR THE PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD GRANT FOR THE PREP PROGRAM	93086	Discretionary	KATHY LISBY	$ 398,740
2007	Indiana Dept of Correction	INDIANAPOLIS	IN	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	KATHY LISBY	$ 215,000
2007	Indiana Youth Institute	INDIANAPOLIS	IN	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	93086	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	RICHARD GORDON	$ 999,000
2007	LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER	WASHINGTON	DC	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	CARLOS VERA	$ 250,000
2007	LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA	SIOUX FALLS	SD	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	THOMAS P WALSH	$ 422,924
2007	Love in the Name of Christ Fairbanks	FAIRBANKS	AK	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	DENNIS EAMES	$ 205,834
2007	MD ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES	BALTIMORE	MD	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MEDGAR L REID	$ 550,451
2007	MD ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES	BALTIMORE	MD	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MEDGER L REID	$ 252,547
2007	Metro United Methodist Urban Ministry	SAN DIEGO	CA	Other Social Services Org	SAN DIEGO’S RESPONSBL FATHERHD INITIATIVE	93086	Discretionary	JOHN R HUGHES	$ 268,349
2007	Montrose County Health and Human Services	MONTROSE	CO	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	PEG MEWES	$ 249,552
2007	NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF CONCERNED BLACK MEN, INC	WASHINTON	DC	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD, PRIORITY AREA 3	93086	Discretionary	LEROY HUGHES	$ 250,000
2007	NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY REGENTS	LAS CRUCES	NM	Junior College, College & University	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	RITA C PARRA	$ 218,335
2007	New York Youth At Risk, Inc.	NEW YORK	NY	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	CLAUDETTE C FAISON	$ 225,000
2007	OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES	PONTIAC	MI	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	NATALIE MARCHIONE	$ 188,828
2007	OAKLAND/LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY	PONTIAC	MI	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	LYNN A CROTTY	$ 283,555
2007	Osborne Association, Inc.	Bronx	NY	Other Special Interest Org	PROMORING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ELIZABETH GAYNES	$ 398,856
2007	Osborne Association, Inc.	Bronx	NY	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD, PRIORITY AREA 3	93086	Discretionary	ELIZABETH GAYNES	$ 215,533
2007	PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL OF WESTMORELAND FAYETTE INC.	GREENSBURG	PA	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JOHN E SPROULL	$ 202,000
2007	PUERTO RICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE, INC	NEW YORK-NEW YORK	NY	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD: BUILDING PATHWAYS FOR LATINO FATHERS	93086	Discretionary	SOFIA OVIEDO	$ 599,372
2007	Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc.	SAINT LOUIS	MO	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	KATE A MCGILLY	$ 212,500
2007	REGION II COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY	JACKSON	MI	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MARY CUNNINGHAM-DELUCA	$ 203,854
2007	REGION XIX EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER	EL PASO	TX	Other Educational Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	BLANCA E ENRIQUEZ	$ 510,000
2007	RIDGE Project, Inc	HOLGATE	OH	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	CATHERINE TIJERINA	$ 412,000
2007	ROSALIE MANOR	MILWAUKEE	WI	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ALBERTO CAAREO	$ 500,000
2007	Read To Me International Foundation	HONOLULU	HI	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	LIANE K AKANA	$ 214,203
2007	Relationship Research Foundation, Inc.	IRVINE	CA	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	M.P. P WYLIE	$ 250,000
2007	Resource, Inc	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	Supplier Orgs ( Service, Supplies, Material and Equipt )	RESPONSBL FATHERHD SINGLE ACTIVITY GRANT, LEVEL 1: MEN IN THE MAKING	93086	Discretionary	ELIZABETH L MCMILLAN	$ 230,000
2007	Resources for Children`s Health	PHILADELPHIA	PA	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JEANNE CIOCCA	$ 250,000
2007	SOUTHWEST KEY PROGRAMS, INC.	AUSTIN	TX	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JUAN J SANCHEZ	$ 460,000
2007	ST MARY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY	FRANKLIN	LA	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ALMETRA J FRANKLIN	$ 210,092
2007	Shelby County Division of Corrections	MEMPHIS	TN	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	DAVID BARBER	$ 965,000
2007	THE FAMILY HEALTH AND EDUCATION INSTITUTE, INC.	SEABROOK	MD	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MELVIA L WALLACE	$ 500,000
2007	THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN, INC`	HARTFORD	CT	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	CANDIDA FLORES	$ 212,000
2007	The South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families	COLUMBIA	SC	Welfare Dept	STRENGTHENING RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROGRAMS FOR LOW-INCOME, NON-CUSTODIAL FATHERS -LEVEL 2	93086	Discretionary	PATRICIA LITTLEJOHN	$ 499,456
2007	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES	LITTLE ROCK	AR	Other Health Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	PATTI A BOKONY	$ 224,562
2007	UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY, INC	GRAETTINGER	IA	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD- PRIORITY AREA #3	93086	Discretionary	JEAN A DREY	$ 225,000
2007	Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MARK-PETER LUNDQUIST	$ 220,000
2007	VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION	BURLINGTON	VT	Other Health Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	J C HINDES	$ 250,000
2007	WAYNE METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY	Wyandotte	MI	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD, PRIORITY AREA 3	93086	Discretionary	CYNTHIA CARRUTH	$ 250,000
2007	WOMEN’S OPPORTUNITY AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, INC.	MISSOULA	MT	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	NAOMI S THORNTON	$ 212,399
2007	WSOS COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION, INC	FREMONT	OH	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JACQUIE S WELLS	$ 249,492
2007	YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION	SANFORD	ME	Community Action Org	‘BEING THE DAD’ RESPONSBL PARENTING PROJECT TYPE OF PROJECT: RESPONSBL FATHERHD SINGLE AC	93086	Discretionary	BRAIN CLARK	$ 245,318
2007	YouthLaunch, Inc.	AUSTIN	TX	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	RUSSELL SMITH	$ 243,173
2006	Archuleta County Dept of Human Services	PAGOSA SPRINGS	CO	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ERLINDA B GONZALEZ	$ 200,000
2006	BOAT PEOPLE S.O.S. INC.	FALLS CHURCH	VA	Other Educational Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	KHANH T TRAN	$ 250,000
2006	CANGLESKA, INC.	KYLE	SD	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	KAREN M ARTICHOKER	$ 400,000
2006	CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF IDAHO, INC.	BOISE	ID	Welfare Dept	IDAHO DADS MATTER! RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROJECT	93086	Discretionary	KRISTAN SCHLICHTE	$ 449,753
2006	CENTERFORCE	SAN RAFAEL	CA	Other Social Services Org	HEALTHY MARRIAGE AND RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROJECT	93086	Discretionary	BARRY ZACK	$ 481,555
2006	CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH	CHICAGO	IL	Health Dept	CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROGRAM, P	93086	Discretionary	DARYL J MURPHY	$ 500,000
2006	CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC	TUCSON	AZ	Supplier Orgs ( Service, Supplies, Material and Equipt )	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	WENDY SABATINI	$ 500,000
2006	CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE	MANCHESTER	NH	Other Health Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MICHAEL R OSTROWSKI	$ 316,854
2006	CHILD ABUSE COUNCIL, INC.	PALMA CEIA	FL	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	BRIAN MCEWEN	$ 250,000
2006	CHILD DEVLOPMENT RESOURCES, INC.	NORGE	VA	Supplier Orgs ( Service, Supplies, Material and Equipt )	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	SHERI C OBSORNE	$ 250,000
2006	CHILDREN’S FRIEND AND SERVICE	PROVIDENCE	RI	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	TERESA DEBOISE	$ 250,000
2006	CHILDREN`S INSTITUTE , INC	LOS ANGELES	CA	Vocational & Training School	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	HERSHEL K SWINGER	$ 500,000
2006	CHILDREN`S INSTITUTE , INC	LOS ANGELES	CA	Vocational & Training School	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD, COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	93086	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	HERSHEL SWINGER	$ 1,000,000
2006	CIRCLE OF PARENTS	CHICAGO	IL	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	93086	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	CYNTHIA SAVAGE	$ 900,000
2006	CO ST COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION	DENVER	CO	Educational Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	93086	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	MARY RIOTTE	$ 2,000,000
2006	COOK INLET TRIBAL COUNCIL, INC	ANCHORAGE	AK	Indian Tribal Council	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	M J LONGLEY	$ 414,832
2006	CT ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES	HARTFORD	CT	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ANTHONY J JUDKINS	$ 1,000,000
2006	Comprehensive Youth Services of Fresno, Inc.	FRESNO	CA	Other Special Interest Org	POMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	LISA M BROTT	$ 250,000
2006	Denver Indian Family Resource Center	DENVER	CO	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ISABELLE MEDCHILL	$ 209,308
2006	Detroit Workforce Development Dept	DETROIT	MI	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	CYNTHIA BELL	$ 500,000
2006	Employment Opportunity & Training Center of Northeaster	SCRANTON	PA	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ANGELA SEIBERT	$ 223,808
2006	Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse	FORT PIERCE	FL	Welfare Dept	RESPONSBL FATHERHD CLASSES WITH INCARCERATED FATHERS. CONCURRENT WORK WITH	93086	Discretionary	DOUG BORRIE	$ 227,734
2006	FAMILY & CHILDREN’S SERVICE, INC.	TULSA	OK	Other Social Services Org	F&CS PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROJECT	93086	Discretionary	GAIL LAPIDUS	$ 250,000
2006	FIRST A M E CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER	SEATTLE	WA	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	PAULA JONES	$ 250,000
2006	Family Services of Westchester, Inc.	PORT CHESTER	NY	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MARJORIE LEFFLER	$ 497,812
2006	GA ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES	ATLANTA	GA	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	RUSSELL EASTMAN	$ 225,000
2006	GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC	ST PAUL	MN	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	KELLY MATTER	$ 500,000
2006	GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS, INC	AUSTIN	TX	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JENNY C FRITZ	$ 240,000
2006	GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF PITTSBURGH	PITTSBURGH	PA	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ERIC YENERALL	$ 225,000
2006	HEALTHY START, INC.	PITTSBURGH	PA	Other Health Org	HSI RESPONSBL FATHERHD LEVEL 1 – A COORDINATED EFFORT TO RECRUIT AND ENROLL	93086	Discretionary	CHERYL FLINT	$ 900,000
2006	Healthy Families/Thriving Communities Collaborative Cou	WASHINGTON	DC	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JACQUELYN HENRY	$ 500,000
2006	Indiana Dept of Correction	INDIANAPOLIS	IN	Welfare Dept	IDOC APPLICATION FOR THE PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD GRANT FOR THE PREP PRO	93086	Discretionary	KATHY LISBY	$ 400,000
2006	Indiana Dept of Correction	INDIANAPOLIS	IN	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	KATHY LISBY	$ 250,000
2006	Indiana Youth Institute	INDIANAPOLIS	IN	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	93086	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	BILL STANCZKIEWICZ	$ 999,000
2006	LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER	WASHINGTON	DC	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	CARLOS VERA	$ 250,000
2006	LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA	SIOUX FALLS	SD	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	THOMAS P WALSH	$ 450,671
2006	Love in the Name of Christ Fairbanks	FAIRBANKS	AK	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	DENNIS EAMES	$ 205,834
2006	MD ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES	BALTIMORE	MD	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MEDGAR L REID	$ 899,991
2006	MD ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES	BALTIMORE	MD	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MEDGER L REID	$ 441,513
2006	MEMPHIS & SHELBY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH	MEMPHIS	TN	Health Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	AC WHARTON	$ 454,255
2006	Metro United Methodist Urban Ministry	SAN DIEGO	CA	Other Social Services Org	SAN DIEGO’S RESPONSBL FATHERHD INITIATIVE	93086	Discretionary	JOHN R HUGHES	$ 268,449
2006	Montrose County Health and Human Services	MONTROSE	CO	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	PEG MEWES	$ 249,552
2006	NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF CONCERNED BLACK MEN, INC	WASHINTON	DC	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD, PRIORITY AREA 3	93086	Discretionary	LEROY HUGHES	$ 250,000
2006	NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY REGENTS	LAS CRUCES	NM	Junior College, College & University	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	RITA C PARRA	$ 218,335
2006	New York Youth At Risk, Inc.	NEW YORK	NY	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	CLAUDETTE C FAISON	$ 225,000
2006	OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES	PONTIAC	MI	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	NATALIE MARCHIONE	$ 200,193
2006	OAKLAND/LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY	PONTIAC	MI	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	LYNN A CROTTY	$ 368,555
2006	Osborne Association, Inc.	Bronx	NY	Other Special Interest Org	PROMORING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ELIZABETH GAYNES	$ 448,856
2006	Osborne Association, Inc.	Bronx	NY	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD, PRIORITY AREA 3	93086	Discretionary	ELIZABETH GAYNES	$ 245,533
2006	PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL OF WESTMORELAND FAYETTE INC.	GREENSBURG	PA	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JOHN E SPROULL	$ 250,000
2006	PUERTO RICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE, INC	NEW YORK-NEW YORK	NY	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD: BUILDING PATHWAYS FOR LATINO FATHERS	93086	Discretionary	SOFIA OVIEDO	$ 900,000
2006	Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc.	SAINT LOUIS	MO	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	KATE A MCGILLY	$ 250,000
2006	REGION II COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY	JACKSON	MI	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MARY CUNNINGHAM-DELUCA	$ 203,854
2006	REGION XIX EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER	EL PASO	TX	Other Educational Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	BLANCA E ENRIQUEZ	$ 900,000
2006	RIDGE Project, Inc	HOLGATE	OH	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	CATHERINE TIJERINA	$ 400,000
2006	ROSALIE MANOR	MILWAUKEE	WI	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ALBERTO CAAREO	$ 500,000
2006	Read To Me International Foundation	HONOLULU	HI	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	LIANE K AKANA	$ 250,000
2006	Relationship Research Foundation, Inc.	IRVINE	CA	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	M>P> WYLIE	$ 250,000
2006	Resource, Inc	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	Supplier Orgs ( Service, Supplies, Material and Equipt )	RESPONSBL FATHERHD SINGLE ACTIVITY GRANT, LEVEL 1: MEN IN THE MAKING	93086	Discretionary	ELIZABETH L MCMILLAN	$ 250,000
2006	Resources for Children`s Health	PHILADELPHIA	PA	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	`JEANNE CIOCCA	$ 250,000
2006	SHELBY COUNTY GOVERNMENT	MEMPHIS	TN	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	DAVID BARBER	$ 415,998
2006	SOUTHWEST KEY PROGRAMS, INC.	AUSTIN	TX	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JUAN J SANCHEZ	$ 460,000
2006	ST MARY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY	FRANKLIN	LA	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ALMETRA J FRANKLIN	$ 224,892
2006	THE FAMILY HEALTH AND EDUCATION INSTITUTE, INC.	SEABROOK	MD	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MELVIA L WALLACE	$ 500,000
2006	THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN, INC`	HARTFORD	CT	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	ENID REY	$ 250,000
2006	The South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families	COLUMBIA	SC	Welfare Dept	STRENGTHENING RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROGRAMS FOR LOW-INCOME, NON-CUSTODIAL FATH	93086	Discretionary	PATRICIA LITTLEJOHN	$ 449,456
2006	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES	LITTLE ROCK	AR	Other Health Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	PATTI A BOKONY	$ 224,562
2006	UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY, INC	GRAETTINGER	IA	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD- PRIORITY AREA #3	93086	Discretionary	JEAN A DREY	$ 225,000
2006	Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	MARK-PETER LUNDQUIST	$ 250,000
2006	VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION	BURLINGTON	VT	Other Health Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	J C HINDES	$ 250,000
2006	WAYNE METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY	Wyandotte	MI	Other Social Services Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD, PRIORITY AREA 3	93086	Discretionary	LISA JOHNSTONE	$ 250,000
2006	WOMEN’S OPPORTUNITY AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, INC.	MISSOULA	MT	Other Special Interest Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	NAOMI S THORNTON	$ 212,399
2006	WSOS COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION, INC	FREMONT	OH	Community Action Org	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	JACQUIE S WELLS	$ 249,492
2006	YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION	SANFORD	ME	Community Action Org	‘BEING THE DAD’ RESPONSBL PARENTING PROJECT TYPE OF PROJECT: RESPONSBL FATHERHD SINGLE AC	93086	Discretionary	MARYANN GLEASON	$ 245,336
2006	YouthLaunch, Inc.	AUSTIN	TX	Welfare Dept	PROMOTING RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93086	Discretionary	RUSSELL SMITH	$ 243,173
2003	INST FOR RESPONSBL FATHERHD & FAM. REVITALIZATION	WASHINGTON	DC	Community Action Org	RESPONSBL FATHERHD AND STABLE FAMILY PROJECT (EARMARK)	93647	Discretionary	CHARLES A BALLARD	$ 99,350
1999	INST FOR RESPONSBL FATHERHD & FAM. REVITALIZATION	WASHINGTON	DC	Community Action Org	EVALUATION OF THE INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSBL FATHERHD	93647	Discretionary	CHARLES A BALLARD	$ 180,000
1995	ADDISON COUNTY PARENT & CHILD CENTER	MIDDLEBURY	VT	Community Action Org	RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROJECTS	93647	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	HOWARD RUSSELL	$ 85,000
1995	INST FOR RESPONSBL FATHERHD & FAM. REVITALIZATION	WASHINGTON	DC	Community Action Org	RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROJECTS	93647	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	CHARLES A. BALLARD	$ 170,000
1995	ST. BERNANDINE’S HEAD START	BALTIMORE	MD	Other Social Services Org	RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROJECTS	93647	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	SHEILA TUCKER	$ 85,000
1995	WISHARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	INDIANAPOLIS	IN	Hospital	RESPONSBL FATHERHD PROJECTS	93647	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT	DR. WALLACE O. MCLAUGHLIN	$ 85,000

Responsible Stewardship includes knowing where your taxes are going. I have just given you at least one tool, but I can only lead horses, not make them drink. If you are a little tired of pulling the plows down the road of life without insight into what rows are being tilled, and what plants being seeded, this is one way to find out.

In my next post, I will talk about recent issues with databases reporting on the media — watchdog groups on foundations funding the mainstream media. One of my recent, faithful sources of PRIVATE (foundation) funding of some of the same individuals pushing this Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage agenda (which, again — is affecting outcomes in litigation, when it shouldn’t!), while reporting on the millions and sometimes billions, and tracking who paid whom for what — went belly-up. Now, what to do is the question, in STUDYING WHO IS FUNDING THE GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES.

That is, if WordPress can support all the links and graphics (it’s been laboring recently, having as much trouble delivering an intact page as our nation has been producing responsible fathers, let alone Congresspeople, let alone women and children – – perhaps we ought to review the metaphor of “Health and Human Services” in light of the metaphors of the founding documents of this country).

As every mother knows, the delivery process, environment, and her attitudes and beliefs about pregnancy and labor (which will affect emotions) are likely to have an impact on the baby. I had some very distressing factors (called assault & battery, some of it very severe, all of it unwarranted) on me during one pregnancy, but my faith in the natural process and in understanding that the pain would have an end I know helped mitigate it. And despite being older, both children were quite healthy, as well as both deliveries.

I’m speaking metaphorically in saying, it’s time for the Federal Government to treat people as they adults they are — with choice and the ability to process information, if given fair and complete access to it — and stop unproven behavioral intervention programs conducted without informed public consent. That’s exactly what these grants provide, in too many cases. We have faith-based programs around the court systems, and fatherhood-motivated agenda driving both the welfare and the child support programs, EACH of which has huge influence in the well-being of children. Moreover, (while I’m at it), this worldview is full of FUNDAMENTAL logical inconsistencies. Talking about the best interests of the children, and need to bond with both parents (which is typically true), they ignore the factors of where such bonding is inadvisable — and those are issues of character and behavior — and try to pay extra to compensate. SOME of this you can see in the grants above. In other words, biological primacy pre-empts track record. It just makes so little sense (to me) in the larger picture. Moreover, oversight is inconsistent and fragmentary, which is coming out through GAO reports on some of these initiatives. However, the GAO reports showing lack of oversight are not producing action to fix the problems. And so forth.

Again, Let’s Study what Government is Funding.

As to how to study WHO is funding Government (Initiatives), that can get more complex.

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June 8, 2009 at 10:58 AM

Posted in Cast, Script, Characters, Scenery, Stage Directions, Funding Fathers - literally, Organizations, Foundations, Associations NGO Hybrids, Vocabulary Lessons

Rhetorical Questions about the Rhetoric

This was originally my long intro to the Boyhood project post. Then I had mercy on the readers, and split the post in two, saving my sarcasm (and the graphics) for this one, and splitting off the more sensible discussion to the previous post (“Suicide, Incarceration — a guy thing..”)

I have long felt that some of the difficulties the US Lower, and Disappearing Middle Class is experiencing today were intentional and pre-programmed. I have long felt that the monopoly on public education had more causes than even the jobs bank it obviously is. The dysfunction is necessary to the employee / consumer / militaristic economy. If I had to choose between causes, in my 50s plus (without further specifying!), I have debated with friends whether to go after the family law system dysfunction, or the educational system dysfunction.

Again, the word “DYS”function depends on one’s point of view. If that point of view is of having assets sufficient to generate wealth for onesself and one’s offspring (or sufficient to TEACH them how to do this), the “Dys” seems quite optional.

Anyhow I hope today’s post is a break from boredom, and taking ourselves too seriously in the supposed matter of He vs. She.

MEN:

Aren’t you BORED with all the postings about the domestic violence homicide/suicide/familycide statistics, and people who blame it on women (including some of the women killed) for leaving their men to start with? (Same rationale would complain about runaway slaves over a century ago…) Aren’t you BORED with all the pro and con drivel about Parental Alienation (It’s junk science. It’s God’s truth. It’s abuse of children. It’s used to counter valid accusations of child abuse, etc.)

Aren’t even some of you bored with the “promoting responsible fatherhood” news articles (timed to Mother’s Day) reporting it as if it just sprang up unaided from the grassroots folk, or full-grown from the reporter’s sudden discovery of these issues, naked like Venus from a seashell, or for that matter, Athena, fully armed, from Zeus’s head? **

How many of you do not really buy the concept that feminism did the same, fully grown out and supposedly unaided, from women’s own heads?

Not even “Eve” (for you fundamentalist Bible-thumpers, if not readers) just sprang out of Adam’s side, but was surgically (and while Adam was unconscious, in a deep sleep) extracted by God for companionship, not for being treated and trained like a dog….

(Although by the time of this version, ca. 1493 century, before she was fully born, it appears she was getting lectured….). By the time of, say, the Civil War, USA, the desired shape, state, and color of the future “Mrs. Adam” was at least per Steinhardt, pale, naked, innocent, inactive).

Anyone who has been around competent dogtrainers realizes that abuse is not part of this, and that using a single woman individually for a punching bag, or ALL women verbally, for a rhetorical punching bag, and justifying it on some lofty ideal makes — or should! — a public laughingstock.

Kind of like many women have their wombs surgically extracted, for profit, often for frivolous reasons, called “hysterectomies,” and they we are protrayed as “hysterical.” Kind of like children are often surgically extracted from stable households, also for pay and on frivolous causes. Doing this, reporting this, and analyzing this is BIG business: in fact, is driving institutes, centers, and majors in reputable universities around the USA. (But, not the topic of this post).

No, the births of most ideas, & doctrines take time and don’t just drop onto the scene fully-formed! Feminism, like “responsible fatherhood,” has identifiable benchmarks, history, and spokespersons.

WOMEN:

Aren’t you BORED with the: All divorced or unmarried single mothers receiving welfare or protesting abuse are: lying about the abuse;feminazi lesbians intent on destroying, God, country, and the family; and while we’re at it, so is VAWA. Are you bored with hearing how women (unless we are married, staying at home with 2.5 children and not on welfare) are all out to soak their exes and are gold-digging bitches who should’ve remembered their place in society, and in general, poor men? {{Ignoring who went to the factories while men went to war in the early 1900s}} Or that we’re having babies to get child support or welfare? Or that if one woman was caught making up a rape or child abuse report, or abusing a child, therefore we ALL are and should be suspect if we do?

Are you bored yet, with the prolonged conflict, artificially generated, between the government-sponsored Healthy Marriage, Family, Fatherhood rah-rah in the court systems (and associated realms), and the sensitivity-training in the (almost bankrupt, and non-literacy producing) public schools, as to LGBT, how innocuous Islam is and awful right-wing Christianity is (In reality, the latter is drawing closer to the former when it comes to women).

Are there others around who have questioned, like me, whether the REAL “divide and conquer” Family Law policies may not actually be Men vs. Women, but Haves vs. Have-nots? The students with the material studied (i.e, populaces), And have noticed the uncomfortable resemblance between social and behavior sciences (including at times their history) and eugenics, and other atrocities that supposedly the World Wars I & II addressed and are skeptical that our “new, improved” system of compulsory education {design dating back to the Industrial Age, and formatted after Prussian military regime, with a mixture of anti-Catholicism for good measure} will teach children fair-mindedness, and good human values, and is NOT a replication of indoctrination systems from other, prior, totalitarian regimes?

TERMINAL BOREDOM BY RHETORIC

In my personal life, other than the DV, the frightening aspects, the chaotic and backwards financial policy of my years of abuse, the OTHER times I was determined to get out was when being subjected to yet another (long) lecture on:

Men rule, because of their Y chromosome (anatomical reference deleted)
Women should shut up, because they aren’t smart enough to have input into “the big picture.”
It’s been this way since Eve, which you are (when I wasn’t , alternately, “Satan”)

I didn’t put it on my TRO, but death of psyche by conversational boredom was also a hazard of not leaving that situation. No matter, the other valid reasons (including weapons, and use of them, etc.) were on there.

Face to face with this behavior, or publically exposed through the airwaves, it’s not funny. It results in real blood and death. There are similarities between this rhetoric and propaganda preceding genocides, or attempted genocides, in recent centuries. Step ONE is to objectify and dehumanize the targets, and blaming them for society’s woes. The next step is purging. After a while, one becomes sensitive to the pre-purge talk. People become aligned with group identities, losing their own in the crowd and gangs.

Anything that can draw us/you/them all out into humanity, which includes dialogue, embrace, empathy and accountability (ability to sometimes be part of a community, but to have a separate identity from this as well) will help reduce, I believe, the damages.

I used to function in the expressive arts (particularly music).

In the next post, I speak back to some more NON-sense, drum-beating, war-talk on feminism.

For example, overlooking the topic of PTSD in returning war veterans, instead blaming women for trying to protect themselves from it, and their kids, in returning traumatized men.
For example, linguistic confusion with the concepts in the “Declaration of Independence” (let alone Constitution & Bill of Rights) with a concept so vague and all-encompassing as “Patriarchy.” Fools! — King George was “patronizing” (a.k.a. “using!”) the colonies, a.k.a. he was pimping/exploiting them.
As to “Feminazi” (an attempt to associate Feminism with Nazi-ism. In fact, the compass points the exact opposite direction: Wikepedia, for what it’s worth, has this to say:

Usage

Feminazi is a portmanteau of the nouns feminist and Nazi. The on-line version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the term as used in a “usually disparaging” manner, to describe “an extreme or militant feminist”.[2]

[edit]Popularization

The term was popularized by conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, who credited his friend Tom Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, with coining the term.[3] Limbaugh originally stated that the word “feminazi” refers to unspecified women whose goal is to allow as many abortions as possible, saying at one point that there were fewer than twenty-five true feminazis in the U.S.[6]

In practice Limbaugh has used the term “feminazi” for much wider contexts. Limbaugh also used the term to refer to members of the National Center for Women and Policing, the Feminist Majority Foundation,

and the National Organization for Women, which has over 500,000 members.[7][8][9]

[edit]Criticism

Some consider use of the term “feminazi” ironic because feminists and other political dissenters were among the victims of Nazi concentration camps and Nazi work camps.[11]Gloria Steinem said in an interview, “Hitler came to power against the strong feminist movement in Germany, padlocked the family planning clinics, and declared abortion a crime against the state—all views that more closely resemble Rush Limbaugh’s.”[12] Many prominent German feminists like Helene Stöcker, Trude Weiss-Rosmarin and Clara Zetkin were forced to flee Nazi Germany.

{{Comments: In the “Non-Sense” counterpart to this post, I highlight the VERY militant talk from the masculinity-mongers.

Other than Helen of Troy’s beauty (and was it really her fault?), I feel it safe to say, women are not launching ships and wars.

Calling feminists militant is sort of the pot calling the kettle black…}}

Seems to me that somewhere in there, freedom of religion was a force in some people brought to the U.S. Slavery was another. Fleeing oppression in other countries (or famine) was another. Now, we are exporting oppression from the USA worldwide, and through a variety of institutions. One has to ask, why?

Mythology . . Violence. . .

Suicide, Incarceration? Yes, “it’s a guy thing,” but let’s talk SENSE as to why! (2006, “TheBoysProject.net”)

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Finally, some SENSE, facts, (vs. rhetoric, or paid-for data), from at least ONE man concerned about the welfare of men and boys (and, as a result, our nation). . .on “The State of American Manhood.“

Thomas G. Mortenson, Senior Scholar, The Pell Institute for the Study of Higher Education, and Higher Education Policy Analyst has my attention, because his talk makes sense with experience AND data. Rather than rhetoric and trying to scapegoat an entire gender, or system, this newsletter is full of charts and data addressing the very real problem.

The 2006 newsletter No. 171, from “Postsecondary.org” is attached as a PDF to this post

If you are limited in time (or patience with my writing style), PLEASE read my quotes in italic blue ( which discusses higher education as the former land-ownership access to the middle class, and participation in the US economy) from Mr. Mortenson’s blog, and the about 24-page, black & white, chart-filled, common-sense pdf. . . . It will help you come this June 20th, cut through some of the propaganda!

I will listen to any man or woman who will acknowledge the problem in a sane and non-volatile manner, and state some of the potential causes more sensibly than to blame an entire gender for wanting, say, justice, or employment, or to protect themselves or their children from violence. Who does not come at the reader with hate, or religious bias, at least that I can see. And whose personal background is not a trail of fundraising and rabble raising with a religion already known to be rough on women.

From his blog, “postsecondaryopportunity.blogspot.com“:

My endowment gift to the Pell Institute is an unrestricted gift to support and advance the research agenda of the Institute. I decided to do so a decade ago because closing the gap in higher educational opportunity between those born into low-income families and those born into affluent families would not be accomplished in my lifetime. In fact this gap has been widening almost steadily since the advent of regressive social policy in the United States around 1980.

My personal motivation for endowing the Pell Institute with my gift reflects my family’s story of what America has meant to us. {{Note: this man spent his own money, not taxpayers!, in attempting to address a social problem}}

Family history has become a lifelong hobby, and I am not done yet with either life or that assignment.

In 1975 I went to Europe to see where my ancestors had come from and try to understand why they left their homelands for America. Of the five places I visited one, in Prussia (now Poland) I knew the motivation to emigrate was to escape conscription into Otto von Bismark’s armies. These were draft dodgers.

But in the other four places I was stunned to find that my ancestors had lived in the shadow of castles. My ancestors were share croppers, or serfs, and did not own the land they farmed. They worked for the people who lived in the castles and owned the land. These places included Sweden (Skane), East Germany (Neuenkirchen), West Germany (Oberderdingen) and Switzerland (Graubunden). My farmer ancestors saw that good farm land was available free or at least cheap in the United States, and so they left and settled in Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and South Dakota.

When these ancestors came to America between about 1840 and 1880 they came as farmers, and opportunity in the agrarian economy of that era meant owning and working your own land. America provided that opportunity in abundance and my ancestors benefited directly from the opportunities America offered but which were not available in Sweden, Prussia, Neubrandenburg, Mecklinburg and Switzerland.

My ancestors also benefited from the developing educational system America decided it needed.

The modern equivalent to the opportunity of land ownership that my ancestors sought when they emigrated from Europe for America is higher education. Since about 1973 access to the American middle class is through higher education. Other work that paid well in agriculture, manufacturing and some other industries has been replaced with work in other industries such as education and health care, business and professional services, leisure and hospitality services and other service industries that require higher education.

Today both immigrants and natives can prosper only if they have the education and training that only higher education provides. Higher education has become the gatekeeper to the American middle class experience. And under regressive policy choices that access has been largely limited to those that inherit privilege by their birth. The United States is becoming the kind of country that my ancestors fled when they left Europe for the opportunities available in America. And Europe is starting to look more like the progressive America that we once were.

THIS SPEAKS TO ME. I entered marriage educated, well-educated, and took an extra 4 years to explore what the public school and my family did NOT provide for me, a sense of purpose, and faith (“God”) to the education. I already knew to share music was my joy and intention since age 15. But I had no answers or system of reference to what had happened in our own family, including 4 divorces, a sudden death, and why no one ever talked about “God” while they sent the girls (only) to church. There was in fact, almost no talk of life whatsoever, it was just lived, and experienced. No long-term planning, no service orientation, no deep thought as to the “whys” of life ever took place. No talk about relationships, men & women, families, life, community — almost anything. We simply absorbed education and literature, privileged travels and arts & leisure. I sought this elsewhere, in a B.Th., and then settled in, I thought to marriage. It did not occur to search for meaning to parents who didn’t even believe there was a God. My extended communities consisted of professional and school associates, and roommates, etc. v ia work.

MARRIAGE WAS EXPERIENCED AS A DECADE OF INTENTIONAL PUT-DOWN AND ATTEMPT TO “EVEN THE BALANCE” BY CHOPPING OFF PARTS OF MY LIFE AND PSYCHE (AND TO AN EXTENT, OUR DAUGHTERS’ ALSO), SO AS NOT TO EMBARASS DAD. RATHER THAN DAD, AS WE HAD, LIFTING HIMSELF UP BY READING, STUDY, AND EFFORT.

DIVORCE & CUSTODY WAS EXPERIENCED, IN FAMILY COURT, THE SAME WAY. AS I CONTINUED TO SEARCH FOR ANSWERS WHY (IN THIS REALM), I WAS SHOCKED AND DISTURBED TO FIND MY COUNTRY ENDORSING A VIRTUAL STATE RELIGION BASED ON GENDER AND FEAR OF THE FEMININE. LOOKING FURTHER, THE ECONOMY APPEARS TO BE DRIVEN BY — AND ABSOLUTELY REQUIRE — CLASS SEPARATION BY EDUCATIONAL DYSFUNCTION. THE USA HAS BECOME THE WORLD’S LARGEST INCARCERATOR, AND WASTING ITS OWN TALENT. WOMEN ARE FLEEING IT FOR SAFETY AND CIVIL RIGHTS, ALTHOUGH WHERE SAFETY MAY BE IS QUESTIONABLE. IT IS EXPORTING DYSFUNCTION WORLDWIDE THROUGH A NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS, AND AT PUBLIC EXPENSE.

THOMAS MORTENSON OBSERVES AND DOCUMENTS SOME OF THIS THIS. I HOPE YOU READ.

Note: I am not federally funded, and cannot spend too long adjusting each post, the dysfunction I speak of still affects my life, my daughters’ and my family of origin’s, and it is tending to drain our creative productive energies to fighting over this issue of justice, and the right to keep family secrets (which include a history of DV on both sides, generationally), and in general dumb down and impoverish my own family line. I was in a service industry, one which helped lift people up by empowering them to do music, well, together. That experience, and the music people were exposed to, enriched all of us by the doing.

I had to stop to fight this battle, and hope that we will not continue recycling through dumbing-us-down any longer. As of this post, my own daughter is about to enter a top-notch university in California. That graduation is colored by my need to SKIP it for safety reasons, a recent parental abduction to avoid child support and “win,” and a family refusal to recognize that alternatives to the public school education work, and are viable for single mothers. As well as a refusal to acknowledge the role of fundamentalist-driven misogyny in the current trouble.

Carpet-baggers and profiteers have ALWAYS thrived after war and in situations of strife and chaos. Sometimes they don’t wait to find such situations, but help create them. It is not enough to chase the ambulances, but to actually create the accidents.

Mr. Mortenson appears to notice that the educational system is such, at least for boys (I say, for girls as well, it doesn’t help us, at this point). I maintain, at this point, that it is the accident-creater that is driving this ecomony. Our present economy feeds off dysfunction and dependency, and literally REQUIRES it. Whereas, formerly, it was a credit and pride to a family to be able to feed themselves, and then some.

THIS scholar & newsletter ACKNOWLEDGES: A lot of the “fatherlessness” and disengagement is apparent in part from, the USA having become the world’s largest Imprisoner. THEN, he relates it to higher education for men.

So, Mr. Mortensen here begins by ADMITTING we have a problem, and naming it.

“By a broad array of economic, social, and civic measures, a growing section of American men are in serious trouble. For decades men have been disengaging from the labor force, disengaging from children they have fathered**, getting into serious trouble with the law, disengaging from civic roles, and even killing themselves at record rates. Our traditional notions of economically productive, socially responsible, family oriented, civically engaged and happy adult men apply to a rapidly shrinking share of American men.”

**The typical father’s rights activist would often blame this on either (1) women, for divorcing or not marrying, or (2) the family court system, as well as of course, those feminists. This had my attention immediately it is NOT inflammatory, but acknowledges a problem exists.

Page 19-20:

Incarceration is a guy thing… 90.1 % of those behind bars in the US are men…[Citing 2004/2005 statistics, and Federal/State/Local, as to local, he writes: “These men were in jail for property and violent crimes — acts that deserved punishment.”

FR solution: reduce their child support and increase their re-engagement with the children they fathered, without addressing WHY these people were in jail, or whether their behavior was sufficiently safe. Work-around: fund supervised visitation centers.. THIS author’s solution: Note this history and characteristics of US imprisoning men, and relate it to education. He NOTes that it began to increase rapidly in 1975, and that this is “attributable in part to Rockefeller drug laws in NY State, that introduced mandatory, long sentences for drug use.“

I knew this from reading libertarians who oppose/question drug laws (as well as violence against women laws) poking around the origins of family law, and finding out that one reason low-income people are so streamlined {{via mediation}} through the system (those without money which could be soaked for other services, such as custody evaluators, etc.) was that the courts and prisons were overcrowded because of the drug issues. This is rarely a topic in “responsible fatherhood” press.

As of this newsletter, 2006

of 213 countries, the 5 with highest incarceration rates are, in order: USA (top), Russian Federation (2nd), St. Kitts & Nevis (who?), Bermuda (UK), and Virgin Islands (USA)

Costs of incarceration:

(summarized quote); While experts vary, typically the direct operational costs are in the range of $20-25,000 per prisoner per year. At (XXX) prisoners, the annual costs is in the range of $43.6 BILLION to 54.5 BILLION per year.

For comparison, the annual discretionary (only, not “total”) grants for the Health and Human Services Dept. (2008) of the USA is cited as $40 billion. How many citizens know what that $40 BILLION is going towards? Not even the GAO does, we are now hearing (General Accountability Office), whose job it is to know. And report.

Just imagine if some way were found to avert the criminality — or major and increasing incarceration rate — among American men. . . Perhaps these two figures might be cancelling each other out? Is promoting responsible fatherhood and healthy marriage at the adult level (one figure I heard says, $150 million/year allocated) and in prisons and courtrooms as sensible as addressing foundational issues of the educational system? Is pouring more MONEY into the K-12 system going to fix it, or are there some design flaws? Is the exodus of “religion” from the public life (to be compensated for by allowing religious conservatives to run major US agencies) the problem?

I think Mr. Mortenson may be on the right track. Unfortunately, he’s of retirement age, and others will have to carry on, let’s hope.

So, Consider: “The Boys Project”

I am among many mothers where educational choice became a battlefield. I have a unique perspective from having taught many years before becoming a mother, then homeschooled our own daughters during the marriage, and having forcibly had children jerked in and out of different educational venues afterwards (while continuing, til recently, to teach kids across a spectrum myself). Because homeschooling had been challenged in family court, I continued to read up and try to ascertain WHY an educated (supposedly) adult could come to equate the word “credentialed” with “competent” and remain unable or unwilling to accept evidence underfoot.

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No, I’m not selling anything. I just found a male person that has something relevant and non-inflammatory to say on boyhood/manhood

This talks about the EDUCATION.

This report below addresses the problem from a different perspective — that of education. Combined with his blog, it makes sense. He tells how public education is failing boys. It is ALSO failing girls, even when they succeed in it, and not addressed in this either is how the shooters, in public schools, are uniformly (to my knowledge) male, and their targets commonly female. Schools are failing girls, too. There is probably a message here about the school system’s assault on individual autonomy.

But, the dialogue (and charts) are at least above the level of “feminazi bitch family-haters, and poor, underfunded fatherhood woes” dialogue typical of the press these days. And some of the Congressional initiatives, too. At least let’s toss into the pot some other factors.

My ex husband, non-college grad, became an education expert a few years after I filed the restraining order. The theme of our divorce, as well as our marriage, continued to focus on repeated put-downs, religiously motivated. The pattern was: I would act, it would be undone, under some external threat or declaration. The result is: action produces punishment, inaction (which would ostensibly appear safer) produces poverty. Nice choice. I think that the public education system failed us both — me, female, through success, him, male through failure, and overall, in manners that have been addressed in other books. This system does NOT support the families, and were it not so politicized to start with, POSSIBLY there wouldn’t be so many reactionary movements to it, giving a bad name to others who simply exited the system because they had a better alternative available elsewhere.

Consider:

A report from ‘The Boys Project” – “The_State_of_American_Manhood“

I forgot where I ran across this one. Who cares? But the authors say I can post if I credit them. So here is A Report from The Boys Project — and it’s not talking about responsible fatherhood (aren’t you BORED with that?), but some very REAL issues that existed before the ones that are being artificially prophesied, and then produced, through my own federal government.

I cannot reproduce the pages on this post, so please look yourself.

They are talking about inequality in the public school classroom.

Now we are on my turf, and there is some truth to this. However, our nation is not going to permit the obvious solution — understanding the insanity between age-separated co-ed grade levels for children, kept in rooms, from K-8th grade at a minimum.

See pages 19 & 20. Scan and enjoy. I will also post from one author’s blog.

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What this is:

A Sept. 2006 Newsletter 171, “Postsecondary Education Opportunity,” with the reference to “postsecondaryopportunity.blogspot.com,” which I recommend (and may quote) and “postsecondary.org”
It is a 24-page pdf WE SHOULD READ filled with graphs, statements, and figures not common to the men’s rights/women’s rights dialogue.
Thomas G. Mortenson is a Senior Scholar at the Pell Institute for Higher Education.

Why didn’t Congress vote in 1998 and 1999 to hold a National Let’s Talk About Higher Education Summit with as much urgency and drama as they did about “fathers” per se?

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June 4, 2009 at 7:05 AM

Posted in Cast, Script, Characters, Scenery, Stage Directions, History of Family Court, Vocabulary Lessons

Tagged with Education, fatherhood, social commentary, U.S. Govt $$ hard @ work..

. . . and Non-sense, diagrammed….

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O dysseus in America: Combat trauma and the trials of homecoming

By Jonathan Shay, MD, PhD;

Foreword by Senator Max Cleland and Senator John McCain

Book review by Helen A Williams, MS

New York: Scribner; 2002. ISBN 0-7432-1156-1 352 pages. $25.00

Those moved by Jonathan Shay’s first book, Achilles in Vietnam (1995)1–an inquiry into Homer’s Iliad as metaphor for the deforming effects of military combat on character–are in for another compelling read. This time, Shay examines The Odyssey and discovers that Odysseus’ adventures look a lot like the symptoms of what we now call posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Shay’s gift is to convey these symptoms as dramatis personae from The Odyssey cannibalizing the inner life of the Vietnam veteran.

Jonathan Shay is a psychiatrist in the US Department of Veteran Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Boston, where he began his career in 1987 working with Vietnam veterans suffering with PTSD. Based on Shay’s work with these vets, his second book culminates in a plea for changing the way the US military organizes itself to fight a war–or, at least, for changing the way the military had organized itself through December 2001. The book went to press in 2002, before the war in Iraq began (in March 2003).

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Boston’s Jonathan Shay Honored with MacArthur Fellowship

VA PTSD Psychiatrist Given “Genius” Award

September 25, 2007

WASHINGTON — A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employee in Boston, Dr. Jonathan Shay, has been awarded the so-called “Genius Award” from the MacArthur Foundation. Shay, the author of two popular books about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), has been a VA staff psychiatrist treating combat veterans with PTSD since November 1987.

“Dr. Shay is living proof that VA is providing our veterans with the best health care this country has to offer, especially for the treatment of PTSD,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson. “Our veterans deserve — and VA is providing — world-class health care.”

Shay was one of 24 Americans who each recently received a $500,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, one of the nation’s largest philanthropic organizations, for “exceptional merit and promise of continued creative work.” Shay combines a study of classic literature with 20 years of experience treating veterans inBoston to explain PTSD to both the public and health care professionals.

In addition to publications in professional journals, he is the author of Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America, two widely regarded books that helped spread the understanding that PTSD is an age-old battlefield injury by comparing the works of the ancient Greek poet Homer to the experiences of modern combat veterans.

He also pioneered the use of certain anti-depression medicine, called “selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors,” for combat trauma, a treatment that now has broad endorsement for veterans with psychological injury.

(3) The men in my family, in re: military service:

The men in my family background did not come home and get betrayed by their wives, bad women. This is how it went:

One cousin went to Viet Nam and served. He came home, and had a wife and two kids and was an upstanding man. He was done in, eventually, by Agent Orange and died, leaving THEM. The other cousin was disqualified due to poor circulation.

My Dad, I’m told, was held back here to work on a military-funded project for a major research lab in NJ. Naturally, as a kid, I was not privvy to on all of this. Later, I learned more. from a book and the Internet than my own family ever shared. One thing I also learned, and remembered, is that behind MOST technological advances is a military purpose (and money). He died early (65), why, I don’t know. I am sure had he not died early, he might have put my ex in place when the battering began. However, it’s also quite likely that childhood abuse was a factor in his life, and stress level overall. DNK. He overperformed and dedicated himself to study and work, and providing for us.

My uncle served in the war, and I never knew him that well as a person to start with, he was always kind of sidelined in the family; he was very talented artistically, and I have some cartoons of his, sardonic commentaries on how inhumane the treatment of his soldiers. He typically had a silly smile on his face (mental illness? Fetal alcohol syndrome? Smacked around as a kid by his Dad??) and never said much. No one would talk about this. He never married, and died early; I wasn’t told why.

SIDE NOTE: My Dad grew up with domestic violence, we were told. I suspect some of it got to this uncle and may have accounted for how well he did in life, and how short a life he lived. As he lived, so he died — though a niece, I was told next to nothing, then, or now.

In-law: My father in law served in Korea, and came back, at least, paranoid schizophrenic, medicated, and is described by my ex as uninvolved / depressed. My sister in law described him as a drunk (she refused to ride home in the same car with him from the airport). His household was definitely dysfunctional and he was most likely uninvolved as a parent because he was on medication and depressed. Eventually, well after one son divorced, remarried & was jailed for incest, and another one got a restraining order with kickout for domestic violence, and I guess after a daughter had multiple kids with a man who wouldn’t support them, my father in law blew his life out with a bullet to the head. Certificate reads “acute chronic depression.”

A brother in law I never met served in the military, came back, and remarried a woman with children. He was the one jailed for incest — not long enough as far as I am concerned. He since remarried almost 20 years older than than himself and judging an on-line photo, and his track record, I’d say she was desperate.

This was NOT “women leaving their husbands,” and it was not woman’s war on manhood. Perhaps THE logical conclusion of this version of manhood IS war. Period. Manliness = fighting someone. I don’t know. I don’t go for it. Not safe!

“The war on fathers,” by David Kupelian, an in-depth look at what’s really behind the feminization of America.
Who knows — perhaps the “feminazi” (as we are called) came at one point from having to deal with generation after generation of war-torn fathers, brothers, orphans? Perhaps these men were coming back and acting out what they’d lived in war. . . And we protested.

Anyone who wishes to blame the ‘feminists” for everything has an ahistorical perspective. Where did we come from to start with? Not wanting to be the new slave class? Nationally speaking — and these FR guys DO obviously get national platforms to speak from — they own many of them, and pay for others (which can be traced at least in part) – – have externalized and targeted women as their personal “demons,” For being women, for not going along with the stereotyped gender roles, for wanting to leave the home and work, even if the household is suffering for lack of their doing so, for failing to crawl low enough – — A bigger, better man would face his own issues and think about maybe why she left. . . . . I know the man I left has apparently not done that yet. He’s simply found more people to agree with him, and got them all worked up (and incited to action), also.
“Why men are being attacked,” by Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who says: “It isn’t all about hating men – it’s largely about disdaining and dismissing them.”

I don’t disdain men overall. For one, that’d be foolish — I work with choirs, and it takes all kinds to sing, deep voices and high voices, “SATB.” Historically within music, I have worked with male and female, let alone straight and gay, old and young. The children’s choirs I hung out with, some were boys and girls, and some girls only, and some boys only. It takes all kinds. I married and had children, which indicates at least a nominal ability of some sort, and stuck it out for almost a decade. I drew the line somewhere between the collections of weapons (more than one kind), destruction of my credit, attempt to keep me without transportation, and being concerned that a suicide was imminent. Not to mention being physically assaulted in front of my own kids, and lectured, too. Enough was too much.

Now, I want a little space, some peace, and sanity within the family court, only to find it is more interested in funneling funds to tweak the male/female family balance because of earlier concerns about welfare vs. child support and the establishment of what looks, sounds, feels, and is experienced like the establishment of a new national religion. Now THAT, I object to.

Those who have lived with certain personality types understand how setting a limit can be interpreted as declaring “war.”

I do reserve the right to determine when someone is talking sense, or nonsense, speaking treasures of wisdom or rubbish coming from sloppy, emotional, thinking. I do reserve the right to not be assaulted in my own home — and for this, I eventually had to have one of us leave — him! (we rented, don’t get all worked up about family property — I had chaos to deal with, from years of the chaos of violence. And plenty of debt. No assets — at all. Period. None, other than books, I suppose. An old car…, and not the only one…)

“Has the bias pendulum swung against men?” Fewer college-bound, higher suicide rates, shorter life spans suggest males getting shaft. (OR, maybe they are not doing something right?)

NOTE: I am ONE woman, not ALL women. Most women I know are not “ALL” women. To attack us — to the point of killing! — because of perceived injustices by other women shows delusional thinking no different than attacking all people on the basis of race, national origin, or for that matter, body size, or faith. The rhetoric simply makes no sound sense.

“Paternity fraud rampant in U.S.,” showing how 30 percent of men assessed for court-ordered child support are not actually the fathers of the children receiving the support.

Cites please? And if this is so, it is likely made up for the ones who ARE the fathers not paying it. Plus some fathers who are having custody switched and now their wives pay, or are jailed.

“‘Shared parenting’ seen as custody solution,” a look at bills in New York that would require courts to treat mom and dad equally. (Courts have never done this, and do not do so now, thanks to the U.S. HHS // ACF programs and many more initiatives from at least as far back as 1994, and ongoing. Millions of dollars gone towards these initiatives. See elsewhere on site.)

“Resolving the boy crisis in schools” by Jeffery M. Leving and Glenn Sacks, showing how today’s public schools are profoundly unsuited for the genuine needs of boys.

I lived and worked in Mr. Leving’s home greater metropolitan area.

I do not think he was practicing on the Chicago’s South Side. I was there in the 1970s and 1980s working under a man who talked less and did more to help support and supplement inner city public schools through inspired excellence in music, the Unitarian church, to help boys AND girls get along together in mixed ensembles and non-age-level-separated situations. Another unique (for his generation) thing he did, starting in the 1950s (before Maryland had fully ratified women’s right to vote, and told Congress so!) was get some of the kids from the privileged Chicago Laboratory (private, upperclass) school and others on the North side of town to function, at work and play, and on tours and rehearsals, with some on the South and West sides. This was (the late) Rev. Christopher Moore. I came in from Oberlin Consevatory, and learned a thing or two as well.

I respect that man (shortcomings and longsuits) because I saw his work and service. Unlike Promoting Responsible Fatherhood, it’s not getting families killed or put back on poverty — except ONE child, “Virgil White” who was shot for quitting gangs through this group. It enriched their lives and infused something terrific INTO these public schools — singing. He also got kids OUT of the schools to sing together after school, and concertizing in front of a variety of others. This group is still going, and infusing emotional, musical and other cultural life into the city, and the lives of the boys and girls (now young men and women, or some gray-haired ones). In 2007 they had their 50th anniversary celebration, brining across male — and female; young — and old – musicians from across the country and across time. We (I came, too) sang for almost 3 days straight and filled the Lyric Opera House as to both audience and stage.

They also had something better (more noble) to focus on than gender, and gender alone. OR marital status. Good grief.

Guess why I was unable to bring a daughter along? Not in small part because of what demagogues like these were pushing through Congress, and then down through the Health and Human Services Department by way of Child Support Enforcement (or non-, as the case may be), and other programs that were set in motion while I was: 1. working to put music back in the schools, and not for high pay; 2. as a woman, pursuing a B.Th because it was part of my faith, and still doing music, and 3. During marriage, getting slapped around, in marriage, in front of pastors, family, employers, and others without intervention. And thereafter, in the family law system, when I was again attempting go rebuilding the profession marriage had trashed.

I can testify that the family law and child support systems are in bed financially with several others, and that groups that helped weaken the VAWA laws and enforcement of existing family codes in place to protect women — and children — and men from beating on them and hounding them out of work — couldn’t/wouldn’t even stick for a mother whose kids were stolen on an overnight visitation, and refused to enforce child support collections diligently either before or afterwards.

So I went to that 2007 50th anniversary of this group (Chicago Children’s Choir, incidentally) without my daughters, and inbetween the 6th & 7th court hearings in one year, ALL of them jumpstarted with a felony crime that no one will take responsibility for to start with: child-stealing.

Had they come, they would’ve had an eye-opener culturally (my daughters have scarcely left the state they were born in, to date) and seen adults respecting their mother, been musically inspired beyond belief, and heard a choir from South Africa sing also. (A group from here has also toured South Africa, and some of them sung for Nelson Mandela). Why should I, because I am female, and single, be prevented from bringing my offspring in front of such wonderful opportunities? How does this figure into the “feminazi war on fatherhood” because I protested that injustice? One daughter is accomplished musically, and still sings in a choir. This would’ve been a great opportunity. What kind of mindset would make that opportunity, for a lower-income single mother (which we became primarily through the courts to start with!), impossible for some growing daughters?

We are indeed in dark times. To me, that’s just totalitarianism.

I’d rather SEE a sermon — or hear a concert — than hear a sermon any day.

I think perhaps we need as a nation to start choosing our leaders from poorer backgrounds, uniformly, and not people who come straight out of college into law school, clerkships, judgeships, and privilege. Our current President apparently didn’t, but what about the rank and file of Congress? I think “royalty” is highly overrated, and the Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage is about neither topic, but about dumbing down the general level of conversation to TWO identifiers only: 1. Gender and 2. Marital Status, both of them to be considered privileged, when neither of them is really a character indicator.

Humanity is much more diverse, as are the issues important to debate nationally. And neither wealth nor poverty are, of themselves, sole indicators of how well a child is going to do in life. Let’s get out of the fields of virtual self-fulfilling prophecies, and predictions, and take a closer look at PROCESS (as in, due process) in the court systems, among other places.

i recommend a closer look at Tom Mortenson’s blog:

“postsecondaryoppotunity.blogspot.com.” There are valuable lessons on it, including one on the recent omission of the “family income” category in US Census work. One of the most stratifying institutions we have today — and one that was supposedly in place to do the opposite — is the k-12 educational system. Because of what comes out, only wealthier communities, or those where nonprofits committed to certain causes exist, to put it back in, as they still do ( from what I recall) in Chicago. Moreover, the monopoly has to be willing to let go some of its privilege and acknowledge failure. ONE of the failures is also character failure. One character builder includes competence, but it is not the only one. Another one is service, and participation in meaningful communities.

I think it’s also time to look at the dependence of our national economy on the public school system. Whole sectors would have to be dismantled if it were, yet it is failing students. I say this as a former teacher and parent, supplemented by experience and reading. Childcare cannot solve everything, and boys in particular, need their mothers when they are very young, and to not be age and grade-sorted with girls, and then stigmatized because they are different. And children who literally DO learn differently, should be allowed to — they are among the creators and inventors, we are drilling out of the population by reducing things to a standardized test answer. Such kids need TIME and some freedom to experiment, and permission to fail also without stigma. Edison did, after all! And Einstein.

That’s all for today.

This blog is becoming unwieldy (electronically), and I recommend that readers perhaps explore some of the links, and do their own research particularly on what our government is doing with tax dollars. There are few subsitutes for a little direction and a lot of googling, mixed with real-life experience and informal, unmonitored conversations with lots and lots of people from many walks of life.

If life is work, church/mosque/synagogue/single community organization, school, and commute — when does this happen?

What are we living, working, schooling, and campaigning/worhipping FOR? The right to direct someone else’s lives, or restrict their opportunities, or living one’s own, peaceably?

Above all, children are not property. Of all things, parents should know this. Too many entitities are making merchandise of them. When parents divorce, Sometimes it’s “no-fault,” but sometimes there are legitimate faults or crimes. At this time, one size fits all does not work, and shouldn’t be forced to at public expense in the courts any more than it does in the school system. ANy more than an employer should be forced to keep incompetent employees affecting its bottom line and public reputation.

As a nation, the US Government is the EMPLOYEE of the American people, as well as employing many in the exercise of its authority. It is in too many different businesses for sure, and has forgotten who it was to be Of, By, and For. Looking at who is greasing the wheels of Congress, and presuming to speak for an entire nation without openly consulting them on its policies, this has gotten entirely out of hand.

Like most bulldozers, or for that matter outsized tanks, it lacks the finesse, and substitutes force. and works best with a free rein in a large area.

People who work primarily as employees, paying taxes, have been bulldozed over at teh behest of private foundations running institutes at major universities driving data for federal purposes not voted on. It is paying salaries of judges who are sometimes caught with their pants down, or taking kickbacks, and trafficking in kids too (I refer to a federal judge in Texas on sexual harassment, a NJ judge on pornography involving kids, and two judges who sent juveniles, improperly, to detention centers, in Pennsylvania, among others).

I’m tired of this — as a mother, and former musician (as to employment) both practices require finesse and a degree of freedom to work right.

As to this post, I apologize for the length and its condition (not up to “snuff”) but hope that some of its links, references, and ideas may spark something in a reader for follow up, or to reconsider some of the rhetoric in light of, perhaps education, versus the gender or ideology wars. Maybe there is a better way!

Written by Let's Get Honest|She Looks It Up

June 3, 2009 at 11:34 AM

Posted in History of Family Court

Tagged with Manhood, men's rights, Motherhood, social commentary, women's rights

That’s my USA: 1770s-Founding Fathers design a nation, including “Congress,” 1990s-Congress redesigns “Fatherhood,” [Omitting “motherhood”] while slaves and women try to fit in somewhere along the way

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And inbetween (1863, 1963), two major civil rights leaders (one white, one black, both male), remind the nation about the original proposition of Justice.

Meanwhile, before and after the Civil War, women ask to be included in the nouns referring to “citizens” and “persons.” Somewhere around World War I, Congress passes this; with Maryland waiting til 1958 to send its acknowledgement in…

Yep, that’s what I love about this country, the “USA”:

1770s, let’s say 1776. . . .

Some forefathers held a number of meetings (summits) and designed, among other things Declared Independence from Longstanding and Egregious Pattern of Oppressions, declared certain unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, protested and enumerated (specifically) some nasty things the Mother Country (England) and its King had done, and in an attempt to make sure the people had a voice in their own government. They designed two houses of Congress to meet and make laws; an EXECUTIVE Branch to enforce & execute them (NOT write them) and a JUDICIAL Branch to judge fairly as to the enforcement of these laws.

This all based on the premise that no one individual or entity should have too much power over the people.

The concept of a national definition of “Happiness” I don’t think was set in concrete; but that life and liberty would enable men to pursue it, at least.

Keywords: “Forefathers Design Congress”

For “oppression,” compare “abuse.”

SAMPLE:

Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident:

That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures. ((NB: The standing armies of our day & time may have other names, but are backed up by police force….))
He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

Hmmm. . . . . Interesting . . . . .

1848 — 72 years later, women say, “Us, too!”

Some women, referring to the Declaration of Independence meet in NY to demand equal rights, including the vote.

Fighting for the Vote

The first women’s rights convention took place in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in July 1848. The declaration that emerged was modeled after the Declaration of Independence. Written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, it claimed that “all men and women are created equal” and that “the history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.” Following a long list of grievances were resolutions for equitable laws, equal educational and job opportunities, and the right to vote.

1863 (87 years later….)

President Lincoln remembers what 1776 was about

Growing pains — some discrepancies of interpretation of the word “men” arise, and more discrepancies about the balance of powers between Federal and States.

President Lincoln — following a 2-hour speech, gives a memorable 2- MINUTE speech referring to the above:

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal”

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow, this ground — The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.

It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

“With the Union victory in the Civil War, women abolitionists hoped their hard work would result in suffrage for women as well as for blacks. But the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, adopted in 1868 and 1870 respectively, granted citizenship and suffrage to blacks but not to women.”

1866-1868 –

13th, 14th, & 15th, Amendments still not thought to include women:

Constitutional Grants of Powers to Congress under the Civil War Amendments

AMENDMENT XIII

Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865.

Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

AMENDMENT XIV

Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.

Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2-4 [omitted].

Section 5.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

AMENDMENT XV

Passed by Congress February 26, 1869. Ratified February 3, 1870.

Section 1.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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1871 (95 years later) Congress has yet to acknowledge women as citizens or persons, in re: voting

Petition to Congress, December 1871

In the year following the ratification of the 15th amendment, a voting rights petition sent to the Senate and House of Representatives requested that suffrage rights be extended to women and that women be granted the privilege of being heard on the floor of Congress. It was signed by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other suffragists. Well known in the United States suffrage movement, Anthony and Stanton organized the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) in 1869.

(http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/petition-to-congress.html)

1920 — US. Constitution 19th Amendment, gives

women suffrage.

Nineteenth Amendment
     Passed by Congress June 4, 1919.
Ratified August 18, 1920.

Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Section 2: Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Which countries granted women the vote first? Do you see USA on here?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women’s_suffrage

1958

Maryland finally sends its acknowledgement that women can vote (now 38 yrs old) to Congress.

1963 (187 years later). . ..

This man, speaking at the “Lincoln Memorial” remembers both Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence.

Because of copyright (image is public domain), please review at link (title) for audio and transcription:

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

1966 – N.O.W. formed, and says:

We, men and women, who hereby constitute ourselves as the National Organization for Women, believe that the time has come for a new movement toward true equality for all women in America, and toward a fully equal partnership of the sexes, as part of the world-wide revolution of human rights now taking place within and beyond our national borders.

The purpose of NOW is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all the privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men.

We believe the time has come to move beyond the abstract argument, discussion and symposia over the status and special nature of women which has raged in America in recent years; the time has come to confront, with concrete action, the conditions that now prevent women from enjoying the equality of opportunity and freedom of which is their right, as individual Americans, and as human beings.

NOW is dedicated to the proposition that women, first and foremost, are human beings, who, like all other people in our society, must have the chance to develop their fullest human potential. We believe that women can achieve such equality only by accepting to the full the challenges and responsibilities they share with all other people in our society, as part of the decision-making mainstream of American political, economic and social life.

We organize to initiate or support action, nationally, or in any part of this nation, by individuals or organizations, to break through the silken curtain of prejudice and discrimination against women in government, industry, the professions, the churches, the political parties, the judiciary, the labor unions, in education, science, medicine, law, religion and every other field of importance in American society. Enormous changes taking place in our society make it both possible and urgently necessary to advance the unfinished revolution of women toward true equality, now. With a life span lengthened to nearly 75 years it is no longer either necessary or possible for women to devote the greater part of their lives to child-rearing; yet childbearing and rearing which continues to be a most important part of most women’s lives-still is used to justify barring women from equal professional and economic participation and advance.

AND:

NOW we have Congress Designing Fatherhood, trying to “equalize” the progress since, say, women got the right to vote, own property, sue their husbands in divorce situations, and become increasingly educated:

1990s, before women’s right to vote turns 100, Fatherhood Fights Back . . .

The Fatherhood Industry – initiatives to promote responsible fatherhood, stigmatize absentee fathers

Progressive, The , Nov, 1999 by Judith Davidoff

Created in 1994 to “counter the growing problem of fatherlessness by stimulating a broad-based social movement to restore responsible fatherhood as a national priority,” the National Fatherhood Initiative believes that “fathers make unique and irreplaceable contributions to the lives of their children.”

In its first year, the group convened a National Summit on Fatherhood in Dallas. The purpose, according to the group’s literature, was to gather the nation’s “civic, business, and philanthropic leaders” together to “build a national consensus on the need to quickly reduce father absence.” The National Fatherhood Initiative provides technical assistance to the Governors’ Task Force on Fatherhood Promotion, whose goal is to help “rebuild the institution of fatherhood” in the twenty-first century. And the group works with the bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Fatherhood Promotion,formed in 1997 to promote leadership in combating “fatherlessness.”

1992/1993, Jack Straton writes about “what’s Fair to Children of Abusive Men?

1994 – VAWA act passed. Losing no time,

1994 — NFI Formed

JUNE 1995? — Clinton, Fatherhood Executive Memo (see my blogroll), directing ALL Federal Depts & Agencies to review and revise their policies to include fathers.

June 1998 — House of Reps passes a resolution (see below; I also posted the 1999 Congressional resolution earlier).

http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/bills/105/hr417eh.txt.pdf.

AND SO ON, AND SO FORTH…

The Declaration of Independence AND The Gettysburg Address AND the “I Have a Dream” speech contain complete sentences: subject, object, verb. They reference specific time and place and identified principles.

Several of the doctrines I find so damaging and hurtful to families in this nation, USA, today, do not even have a verb! They are buzzwords, sound-bytes, with no nutrients inside. They are enzymes, not protein, not fiber, not a healthy balance of nutrients. When even the SUBJECTs (agents of the missing verbs) are missing, then we have no open accountability for either precipating the action leading up to the desired state:
“Promoting Responsible Fatherhood.”
“Healthy Families”
“No Child Left Behind”
“Personal Work and Responsibility Act” (i.e., get off welfare)
“Violence Against Women Act”
“Parental Alienation Syndrome”
“Equal Parenting” (a made-up word, attempting to eradicate the difference between “mother” and “father” and in essence, delete the word “mother” from public discourse, reducing us instead to “female.”), and, as I said yesterday,
“Explicating Domestic Violence in the Context of Custody.”
“Best Interests of the Child.” (anyone have a DEFINITION of that??)

We would be better off promoting justice, rather than “fatherhood” (but not motherhood”), to promote which requires UNDERmining the justice process, outside of plain view of the participants.

That’s enough for today. More of the same can be found at the HHS website.

I will share some of the “funding” of the fatherhood movement (some, only) in a separate post.

1998 H. Res 417 s

Next thing you know, about 222 hundred years later

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105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 417

 Regarding the importance of fathers in the raising and development of
                            their children.

_______________________________________________________________________

                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 30, 1998

   Mr. Pitts (for himself, Mr. Turner, Mr. Rogan, Mr. McIntyre, Mr.
  Gingrich, Mr. Armey, Mr. DeLay, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Gephardt, and Mr.
 Bonior) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

_______________________________________________________________________

                               RESOLUTION

 Regarding the importance of fathers in the raising and development of
                            their children.

Whereas studies reveal that even in high-crime, inner-city neighborhoods, well
        over 90 percent of children from safe, stable, two-parent homes do not
        become delinquents;
Whereas researchers have linked father presence with improved fetal and infant
        development, and father-child interaction has been shown to promote a

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The vote (Roll No. 212) was yeas 415, nays 0, not voting 18.

REGARDING IMPORTANCE OF FATHERS IN RAISING
AND DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR CHILDREN

(House of Representatives – June 09, 1998)

H. Res. 417

Whereas studies reveal that even in high-crime, inner-city neighborhoods, well over 90 percent of
children from safe, stable, two-parent homes do not become delinquents;

Whereas researchers have linked father presence with improved fetal and infant development, and
father-child interaction has been shown to promote a child’s physical well-being, perceptual
abilities, and competency for relatedness with other persons, even at a young age;

Whereas premature infants whose fathers spend ample time playing with them have better cognitive
outcomes, and children who have higher than average self-esteem and lower than average
depression report having a close relationship with their father;

Whereas both boys and girls demonstrate a greater ability to take initiative and evidence
self-control when they are reared with fathers who are actively involved in their upbringing;

Whereas, although mothers often work tremendously hard to rear their children in a nurturing
environment, a mother can benefit from the positive support of the father of her children;

Whereas, according to a 1996 Gallup Poll, 79.1 percent of Americans believe the most significant
family or social problem facing America is the physical absence of the father from the home and the
resulting lack of involvement of fathers in the rearing and development of their children;

Whereas, according to the Bureau of the Census, in 1994, 19,500,000 children in the United
States (nearly one-fourth of all children in the United States) lived in families in which the father was
absent;

Whereas, according to a 1996 Gallup Poll, 90.9 percent of Americans believe it is important for
children to live in a home with both their mother and their father’;

Whereas it is estimated that half of all United States children born today will spend at least half their
childhood in a family in which a father figure is absent;

Whereas estimates of the likelihood that marriages will end in divorce range from 40 percent to 50
percent, and approximately three out of every five divorcing couples have at least one child;

Whereas almost half of all 11- through 16-year-old children who live in mother-headed homes
have not seen their father in the last twelve months;

Whereas the likelihood that a young male will engage in criminal activity doubles if he is reared
without a father and triples if he lives in a neighborhood with a high concentration of single-parent
families;

Whereas children of single-parents are less likely to complete high school and more likely to have
low earnings and low employment stability as adults than children reared in two-parent families;

Whereas a 1990 Los Angeles Times poll found that 57 percent of all fathers and 55 percent of all
mothers feel guilty about not spending enough time with their children;

Whereas almost 20 percent of 6th through 12th graders report that they have not had a good
conversation lasting for at least 10 minutes with at least one of their parents in more than a month;

Whereas, according to a Gallup poll, over 50 percent of all adults agreed that fathers today spend
less time with their children than their fathers spent with them;

Whereas President Clinton has stated that `the single biggest social problem in our society may be
the growing absence of fathers from their children’s homes because it contributes to so many other
social problems’ and that ‘the real source of the [welfare] problem is the inordinate number of out
of wedlock births in this country’;

Whereas the Congressional Task Force on Fatherhood Promotion and the Senate Task Force on
Fatherhood Promotion were both formed in 1997, and the Governors Fatherhood Task Force was
formed in February 1998;

Whereas the Congressional Task Force on Fatherhood Promotion is exploring the social changes
that are required to ensure that every child is reared with a father who is committed to be actively
involved in the rearing and development of his children;

Whereas the 36 members of the Congressional Task Force on Fatherhood Promotion are
promoting fatherhood in their congressional districts;

Whereas the National Fatherhood Initiative is holding a National Summit on Fatherhood in
Washington, D.C., with the purpose of mobilizing a response to father absence in several of the
most powerful sectors of society, including public policy, public and private social services,
education, religion, entertainment, the media, and the civic community;

Whereas both Republican and Democrat leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate
will be participating in this event; and

Whereas the promotion of fatherhood is a bipartisan issue: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the House of Representatives–

(1) recognizes that the creation of a better America depends in large part on the active involvement
of fathers in the rearing and development of their children;

(2) urges each father in America to accept his full share of responsibility for the lives of his children,
to be actively involved in rearing his children, and to encourage the academic, moral, and spiritual
development of his children and urges the States to aggressively prosecute those fathers who fail to
fulfill their legal responsibility to pay child support;

(3) encourages each father to devote time, energy, and resources to his children, recognizing that
children need not only material support, but more importantly a secure, affectionate, family
environment; and

(4) expresses its support for a national summit on fatherhood

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PART I of II:

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http://www.hhs.gov

http://www.hhs.gov/fbci/funding/#OpportunitiesforFaithBasedandCommunityOr

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PART I of II:

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MEN:

How many of you do not really buy the concept that feminism did the same, fully grown out and supposedly unaided, from women’s own heads?

No, the births of most ideas, & doctrines take time and don’t just drop onto the scene fully-formed! Feminism, like “responsible fatherhood,” has identifiable benchmarks, history, and spokespersons.

WOMEN:

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No, I’m not selling anything. I just found a male person that has something relevant and non-inflammatory to say on boyhood/manhood

This talks about the EDUCATION.

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By Jonathan Shay, MD, PhD;

Foreword by Senator Max Cleland and Senator John McCain

(2)

(3) The men in my family, in re: military service:

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And inbetween (1863, 1963), two major civil rights leaders (one white, one black, both male), remind the nation about the original proposition of Justice.

Meanwhile, before and after the Civil War, women ask to be included in the nouns referring to “citizens” and “persons.” Somewhere around World War I, Congress passes this; with Maryland waiting til 1958 to send its acknowledgement in…

Yep, that’s what I love about this country, the “USA”:

1770s, let’s say 1776. . . .

1848 — 72 years later, women say, “Us, too!”

Some women, referring to the Declaration of Independence meet in NY to demand equal rights, including the vote.

1863 (87 years later….)

President Lincoln remembers what 1776 was about

1866-1868 –

13th, 14th, & 15th, Amendments still not thought to include women:

1871 (95 years later) Congress has yet to acknowledge women as citizens or persons, in re: voting

1920 — US. Constitution 19th Amendment, gives

women suffrage.

1958

Maryland finally sends its acknowledgement that women can vote (now 38 yrs old) to Congress.

This man, speaking at the “Lincoln Memorial” remembers both Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence.

1966 – N.O.W. formed, and says:

1990s, before women’s right to vote turns 100, Fatherhood Fights Back . . .

Progressive, The , Nov, 1999 by Judith Davidoff

AND SO ON, AND SO FORTH…

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