July 5, 2005

Excellent News From FatherWorld Magazine

So while everyone's staring at the nipple, it turns out Fathers Direct has uncovered some very promising findings about dads being more involved with raising their kids. The findings were published in FatherWorld, a magazine-format roundup of research and projects...
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Tshirthell Baby T-Shirt Contest

T-Shirt Hell is sponsoring a T-Shirt Whore contest, where customers send in pictures wearing the merch. There's a "Future Whores" category for kids. While most are just truck stop funny, "Are you my daddy?" is a classic (although an uncomfortable-hence-unpopular...
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Why Men Have Nipples. Seriously.

After an exhaustive assessment of fathers' childrearing involvement in cultures around the world, the British charity Fathers Direct recently made a startling discovery: men's nipples are there, not only for twisting in pool fights, but for sucking by a crying...
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Circumcision Reduces HIV Risk, But Conservatives Now Face Quandary

According to the most extensive and rigorous studies of the connection between circumcision and HIV transmission (the results are as-yet unpublished, but they've been widely discussed in the HIV prevention community, apparently), circumcision reduces a man's likelihood of infection from...
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Male Postnatal Depression? Some British Bird Says Buck Up

When it comes to psychiatry-hating, the Times of London's India Knight apparently hails from the Stiff Upper Lip faction, not the Tom Cruise one. But that doesn't make her dismissal of the idea of male post-natal depression any less stinging....
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