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Guest Article... by Glenn Sacks and Mike McCormick
New American Bar Association Article Points to
Crisis in False Paternity Judgements...
Child support enforcement programs are supported by all sides of the political spectrum, from women’s advocates on the left to traditionalists on the right. While this popularity is sometimes understandable, it has also allowed glaring and inexcusable abuses to fester and grow. Of these, none is more egregious than when men are forced to pay 18 years of child support for children who are not theirs, and who in many cases they’ve never even met.
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Men's Worklife... by Marty Nemko
Never Look Back...
My father is a Holocaust survivor who lost his entire family to the Nazis. After the war, he was dumped onto a cargo boat and dropped in the Bronx, with no English, no money, no education, and knowing no one. His first job was sewing shirts in a Harlem factory. On the weekend, he sold shirts he had sewn on the streets of Harlem, out of a cardboard box.  He did that until he had saved up enough for the first and last month’s rent on the tiniest, smelliest store in New York City: 105 Moore St., Brooklyn. On one side was a live chicken market, spewing the aroma of stale blood. On the other side was a Puerto Rican deli. So the blood smell merged with that of chiccarones (deep-fried pork intestines).  
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
Racial Profiling...
All my liberal and ACLU friends are going to hate me for saying this even though they may be thinking it too, but here it is, America has been doing racial profiling for years, in fact, ever since we set the country up. And we're not the only country or people to do this. In fact, everybody does it.
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THE NEW INTIMACY... monthly column by Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James Sniechowski, Ph.D.
The Success Prison: Are You Incarcerated?...
If you feel frustrated, even mystified by what’s standing in the way of your greater success, it’s actually not that difficult to understand.
The question is: Are you ready? Really ready?
Because the answer lives down in your unconscious . . . laying there . . . lying to you.
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly column by Jeff Stimpson
Bully for Him...
All summer, Ned's worn the face of a kid who seems to be making the best of it. We paid $2,600 -- peanuts, I know, compared with the fees of some day camps -- for him to attend a day camp: swimming, sports, arts and crafts, the brand of fun to be had in life before you realize how miserable humidity makes you.      
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DADS, DON'T FIX YOUR KIDS... monthly column by Mark Brandenburg, M.A
A Family Reminder for a Father...
Dusk was rapidly approaching on our last night at the lodge. On this windy evening, my wife and kids were out watching the surf, and I was in the lodge. As I tried to figure out my next move, I noticed the Minnesota Twins baseball game on the TV. I sat down and began to watch, feeling my interest in the “real world” drift away. As the inning finished, I felt a strong urge to join my family. I got up and headed straight out to the water, and found them huddled on a large rock.
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TOWARD MANHOOD... A book in progress by Larry Pesavento
Chapter 18...  Last Temptations
As a man gets closer to his goals on his initiatory journey, there are some powerful last temptations. In the middle of ordeal his weakness and confusion may get the better of him. As he starts to feel and understand the goal he is after, he finds it illusory and impermanent. He has not gone far enough in his journey to truly believe his vision. He is tired and spent.
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LATEST REVIEWS

REVIEW: Straight Talk for Men about Marriage: What Men Need to Know About Marriage (And What Women Need to Know About Men)
By Martin G. Friedman ©2006
The author has put together an appealingly presented, male-friendly guide to improving the quality of our marriages. As Friedman is the first to point out, this isn’t exactly rocket science. We need to learn to do the basics. A marriage is a path to learning about ourselves. Projecting our discontent onto our spouse doesn’t do either of us any favors.
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REVIEW: Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Journey into Manhood and Back Again
By Norah Vincent
Norah Vincent has produced a new book whose simple underlying concept nevertheless seems to possess all the potential power of, say, John Howard Griffin’s classic Black Like Me, in which the Caucasian author masqueraded as a black man and was astonished at the depths of the discrimination and barriers he discovered.  Author Vincent tries to do the same thing for gender, dressing in drag as “Ned” and entering various supposed male bastions to report on what she discovers.
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REVIEW: The Smart Couple’s Guide to the Wedding of Your Dreams:
Planning Together for Less Stress and More Joy
By By Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski
Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski, husband-and-wife psychologists and authors of three books previously reviewed by me in these pages (The New Intimacy, Opening to Love 365 Days a Year, and Be Loved for Who You Really Are) have just published a new book on their favorite topic, love and marriage. In a literal sense, The Smart Couple’s Guide to the Wedding of Your Dreams covers a narrower subject than any of their three previous books.  But actually, predictably enough given the authors’ excellent writing skills and tireless, creative devotion to promoting passion, their latest offering manages to transcend the limits of the genre of wedding guides.  Not seeing a book that went beyond the technicalities of wedding planning and touched the spirit of the event, they took the plunge and wrote it!
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REVIEW: Partnering: A New Kind of Relationship
By Hal Stone and Sidra Stone © 2006
Hal and Sidra Stone are, like Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski (whose latest book is reviewed elsewhere in this issue) a husband-and-wife psychologist team who have written a number of books and who travel the world giving workshops on their techniques for improving one’s life and relationships.  Partnering does not represent a stunning advance on the authors’ previous work but it does expand, in the specific context of relationships, on the work they have helped pioneer in exploring the multiple selves each of us contains through the voice dialogue technique.
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REVIEW: The Prodigal Father: A True Story of Tragedy, Survival, and Reconciliation in an American Family.
By Jon DuPre.
Jon DuPre’s achievement with “The Prodigal Father” is stupefying. What this correspondent for Fox Network News has done is so simple: He has told the story of his family of origin, consisting of two brothers, himself, and his mother and father. As a novel, the book would fail. For one thing, the plot would be utterly unbelievable! But “The Prodigal Father” is billed as an “autobiography,” and written with loving detail and self-revelation so honest and so deep that took my breath away. As such, it is utterly compelling and simultaneously completely credible.
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REVIEW: Gendercide and Genocide
Edited by Adam Jones © 2006
Apart from the rarest exceptions (such as the not-to-be-missed “Female ‘Circumcision’ in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change,” Edited by Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund), edited volumes tend to be hit-and-miss affairs. It’s hard enough simply to find an appropriate topic, to accumulate contributions that are varied enough to provide interest but not so different that they work at cross-purposes, and to publish the work. Maintaining a razor-like focus as can easily be done with an individually authored book by definition becomes almost impossible with an edited volume.
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