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Father and Son Reunited After Oklahoma Tornado (Video)

May 21, 2013 By Abigail Ortlieb Leave a Comment

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With at least 51 people dead from the giant tornado that ripped through Oklahoma, the Wheeler family was relieved to know that their son was alive.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: child hero, disaster, elementary school, family, gabriel wheeler, hero, natural disaster, Oklahoma, oklahoma tornado, tornado

A Different Kind of Alzheimer’s Book

May 19, 2013 By Staff Reviewer Leave a Comment

A Grandson and Grandmother together in The Living End, A Memoir of Forgiving and Forgetting.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Alzheimer's, book, family, grandmother, Memoir, men, relationships, Robert Leleux

To my Son… Love, Your Dad

May 17, 2013 By Chris Read Leave a Comment

One five year old’s superhero is slowly running out of time. Read this father’s letter to his growing boy.

Filed Under: Families Tagged With: Canadian Dad, childhood, children, Chris Read, Dad Advice, family, father and son, Good Feed Blog, growing up, Letters, male vulnerability, parenting, relationships

Father Helps Kids Get to Chemo

May 13, 2013 By Abigail Ortlieb Leave a Comment

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In the wake of his son’s death, Richard Nares started an organization to help low-income families get their children to chemotherapy.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: cancer, carpool, chemo, chemotherapy, children, emilio nares, emilio nares foundation, enf, family, fundraising, good deeds, inspiration, kids with cancer, leukemia, non-profit, not for profit, richard nares, San Diego, San Francisco, silvia johnson

My Last Days: Meet Ryan Woods

May 9, 2013 By Chris Vargas Leave a Comment

“We’re all in the process of dying. What story are you going to live out?”

Filed Under: Bits & Pieces Tagged With: Bits and Pieces, cancer, Community, coping, death and dying, disease, family, family values, Glioblastoma, Men's Health, men's stories, Ryan Woods, SoulPancake, uplifting

What Takes Root

May 8, 2013 By Ged Naughton 3 Comments

When Ged Naughton gardens with his father, they grow more than food for the table.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Men's Work Tagged With: connection, dad, digging, family, father, Frodo, gardening, Ged Naughton, helping, Lord of the Rings, sam, seamus heaney

Male Star Power – A Blessing and a Curse

May 5, 2013 By Mervyn Kaufman Leave a Comment

Dealing with a celebrity co-worker may tell you stuff no one else knows.

Filed Under: Business Ethics Tagged With: American, author, beauty, Boys, celebrity, children, Dyslexia, employment, family, flaw, george, job, John Kennedy, Kennedy, magazine, manhood, masculinity, men, plane, politcs, politics, relationships, struggle, weakness, women, Work, writing

Baby Hates the Mall (And So Do I)

May 2, 2013 By Dan Kimber 1 Comment

Dan Kimber just doesn’t like malls. Lucky for him, neither does his grandson.

Filed Under: Families Tagged With: boy, family, grandson, mall, mall shopping, men, men hate malls, shopping

Study of Men’s Falling Income Cites Single Parents

May 2, 2013 By Dave Kaiser 9 Comments

How Do We Reverse the Cycle?

Filed Under: Business Ethics, Good Feed Blog Tagged With: autor, Boys, children, conservative, dads, education, employment, failure, Families, family, fatherhood, fatherless, fathers, gender, gender roles, Good Feed Blog, Husband, job, kids, left, liberal, male, manhood, marriage, men, MIT, new york times, parenting, relationships, right, single mothers, wasserman, women, Work

Struggles Faced by Stay at Home Dads Re-Entering the Workforce

April 29, 2013 By Richard McMunn 2 Comments

Charting a New Path Back for Dads

Filed Under: Business Ethics Tagged With: business, employment, Families, family, fatherhood, fathers, feminism, gender, gender roles, job, manhood, marriage, masculinity, men, parenting, politics, relationships, SAHD, stay-at-home dad, Work

[Sponsored Video] No Longer Standing Silently

April 27, 2013 By John Taylor Leave a Comment

“Cancer brought out the best in us.” John Taylor talks about his recent battle with cancer and how The American Cancer society helps us all.

Filed Under: Health, Psych, & Addiction Tagged With: American Cancer Society, cancer, diagnosis, family, John Taylor, men, Nobel Laureates, recovery, Survivor, testicular cancer, treatment

“I cried like a baby for three months as my son fought for his life in a St. Louis Children’s Hospital.”

April 20, 2013 By the Editors 1 Comment

This is a comment by Josh Magill on the post “Parents, This is Our Edict”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: anger, baby, birth, children, children's hospital, dad, family, father, hospital, Husband, kids, life, medical, men, parenting, son, wife, women

Secondary Survivors

April 20, 2013 By 1in6 2 Comments

For those that love us and are aware of our past: the other survivors of abuse.

Filed Under: On Rape and Sexual Violence Tagged With: behavior, emotional, family, men, pain, past, secondary, self, Sex and Relationships, sexual abuse, Suffering, Survivors, wife

Anzor Tsarnaev: Devoted or Delusional?

April 20, 2013 By Abigail Ortlieb 1 Comment

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In the aftermath of the Boston Bombing, Anzor Tsarnaev defends his sons despite everything he has seen and heard.

Filed Under: Breaking Stories, Good Feed Blog Tagged With: anzor tsarnaev, bomb threats, Boston, Boston bombing, Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Chechen, delusion, due process, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, ethnicity, family, fatherhood, fathers, grief, ideology, MIT Police officer killed, paternal devotion, paternal love, patriot, patriotic, patriotism, prioritizing family, religion, ruslan tsarni, Sean A. Collier, shock, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, terrorism, terrorist, trauma, Tsarnaev brothers, uncles, Watertown manhunt

“This guy lost his son and by paying tribute to him he ended up in the right place to save another man’s son. THIS is manhood and fatherhood.”

April 17, 2013 By the Editors Leave a Comment

The Man in the Cowboy Hat, Boston Marathon, bombs, Patriots Day, heroes, fathers, Iraq War, War on Terror

This is a comment by Joanna Schroeder on the post “#51:The Man in the Cowboy Hat”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: Boston Marathon, Boston Marathon Bombing, dads, family, father, Good Men, grief, loss, parenting, rescue, son, sons, tribute

“Being a grandparent is like all the joy of being a parent, multiplied, with minimal responsibilities.”

April 9, 2013 By the Editors 2 Comments

This is a comment by bobbt on the post “Grandfatherhood: A Baggage-Free Relationship”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: children, family, feed, grandchildren, grandfather, grandkids, grandmother, grandparent, Grandparents, kids, maternal, parenting, parents, paternal, relationships, sports

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David R. Dow: Lessons From Death Row Inmates (TEDTalk VIDEO)

David R. Dow is an attorney in Texas who has defended over 100 death row inmates over the last 20 years.

HuffPost Live: Decapitating Extremism (VIDEO)

Mike Sacks discusses the attack in Woolwich, London, and extremism with a panel of experts on Islam and the Quran.

Our Mission: The Vasectomy Files 8

The Vasectomy Project is encouraging men to join forces and take responsibly for family planning. This is an opportunity to bring people together to talk about our collective responsibility while offering men a concrete way to contribute towards a solution by having a vasectomy.