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Looks like the NH Status of Men is out..
http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/usher/...tatus-of-men-i
n-new.html Watershed Report: The Status Of Men In New Hampshire The State of New Hampshire released its first report, entitled the First Biennial Report Of The New Hampshire Commission On the Status of Men. The Commission's report is a watershed event in politics because it is the first official recognizance of structural discrimination against boys in education and men in the family, and because the findings indicate those policies need to be changed to reverse the trend. It is also the first state-level commission to follow through with the work started in the "Families First" - The Report of the National Commission on America's Urban Families (GPO, January 1993 [ISBN 0-16-041600-0], issued in the closing days of the H.W. Bush administration. The report encourages debate by calling attention to inappropriate influences of special interests in family law, particularly in the areas of domestic violence and child support, which in turn drive a diaspora of problems for children and men including educational failure, delinquency, poor workplace performance, and men's health issues. Third, it is the first state-level report to recognize that federal programs may have a negative impact on the father-child connection. Lastly, New Hampshire is the first state legislature to realize the need for a Commission to quantify the problems, triage the causes; and recommend a wide scope of initiatives, reforms, and programs. Overall, the report represents a sea-change in legislative attitude towards improving the futures of boys, men, and subsequently marriage. There is no reason to restate the contents of this report. It speaks eloquently on its own. While the minutiae may vary in different states, the overarching issues and relationships do not. All states would do well to study it carefully, and take the findings and suggestions to heart. The real value of this report is its political significance. New Hampshire has realized that social policy should no longer live in the 1950's. Social policy has not yet recognized or mitigated the drastic changes in the social position of men in family and society. Rather, we have spent approximately forty years surviving contorted politics and policy as if nothing had ever changed. Egalitarians of all political stripes, particularly those who realize the importance of reversing the wide variety of intractable social and economic problems caused by structural discrimination against men in marriage and family, are beginning to realize that the Men's movement is the legitimate marriage movement. This movement has been working hard for many years to reverse the trend of father-absence and prurient divorce that has cost everyone so dearly since the early 1960's. Politicians are increasingly unafraid to discuss the profound drag on the economy, business, public safety, and public coffers these problems continue to present, and then to do something positive about it. Boys have not changed genetically since 1950, but the way they are raised certainly has. Today, too many boys develop an antisocial attitude that they "have to" do it on their own. They do not build trust in others or a sense of attaining a future role in society. They are raised absent the father socialization that is so necessary for building team-working skills, an ethical competitive spirit, and maturity into functional adulthood. It is not uncommon when speaking with today's young men to hear them say that marriage is "too dangerous" to risk. Too many of them have no real goal in life - other than hanging out, video games and chat rooms. This is far different from men prior to 1960, whose style of self-reliance was built on healthy competitiveness and a goal and expectation of being a loving father and good husband. Father-absence seriously affects girls as well. A girl learns how to trust a man and what to expect from one by having an involved father, instead of experimenting on boys down the street. Today's marriage movement is comprised of men and women who where brought up with pre-1960's values, many of whom who ended up paying the price of unrestrained feminist policies. It is important that our "bridge generation" correct the failures of the last forty years. If we fail, we will leave it to a generation socially unequipped to deal with the problem. Let us all work together to establish a new modern standard that works for the substantive benefit of all men, women, and children: "We must now grant to fathers the same right to be in the family as we have granted to women in the workplace. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberalism: that haunting fear that someone, somewhere, can help themselves without Government intervention. |
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