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Category: Fatherhood in Divorce

What Legacy of Loving Will I Leave for My Sons?

I have been to a couple of weddings in the past few months. As one who has been married and divorced twice, I have felt myself wince each time when the couples have pledged to be together for life. The wince registers on many levels I’m sure. In part it registers an abiding sense of…
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January 1, 2017
Love and Skateboarding: An Ollie at the Ends of the Earth

Photo by Tim Libretti Our friend Dr. Tim Libretti had written another piece for his Fatherhood in Divorce series. For those of you that skateboard or have children that skateboard there is a lot more to it than riding a piece of wood with four wheels attached to them. Many years ago…
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December 31, 2016
Our Children’s Happiness, a Parent’s Happiness: A Two-Way Street

I’ve heard it told that what can be most damaging to a child’s healthy development are a parent’s unfulfilled dreams. These words have hovered in my mind insistently over the past year as I’ve had to make many monumental , or what felt like monumental , life decisions while in the midst of a protracted…
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August 14, 2015
Nurturing Manhood in my Sons

When we started Fandads five years ago, we had a somewhat of a vision of what we wanted to do. We wanted to share how two “fanboys” grew up into “fandads” and how they passed down their geekiness to their kids. As in life, things do not always go as planned. We veered away…
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August 1, 2015