MENSIGHT Index June 2000

BOOK OF THE MONTH...
by Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and Jim Sniechowski, Ph.D.
Jim and Judith are know for their male affirmative approach to relationship issues. 
Read MENSIGHT Review by J. Steven Svoboda

FATHERS DAY IS JUNE 18... Pay tribute to your father (grandfather, great grandfather, etc.) on our Fathers Honor Roll page  Go to Fathers Honor Roll 

NATIONAL MEN'S HEALTH WEEK... National Men's Health Week is celebrated each year as the week leading up to and including Father's Day, June 12-18 this year. The purpose of National Men's Health week is to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys.  Go to Men's Health Week web-site

LIFE WITHOUT FATHER... feature by author/sociologist David Popenoe.
The decline of fatherhood is one of the most basic, unexpected and extraordinary trends of our time. Its dimensions can be captured in a single statistic: In just three decades, between 1960 and 1990, the percentage of children living apart from their biological fathers more than doubled, from 17 percent to 36 percent. Go to Article.

COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
Garlic and Appreciating My Father. Recently I took my first garlic pill. It's supposed to help in lowering cholesterol so Elizabeth has talked me into it. Along with the soaring numbers from my blood work. Go to Article

THOUGHTS... monthly column by Larry Pesavento 
My Second Father. I realize, now, more of what happened back then. The simple fact is, I needed fathering. I needed that mysterious, masculine something that older, wiser men can give. 
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TRANSITIONS... monthly column by Ken Byers, Ph.D.
The Grandfather. Although the birth of a son experience happened to me 30 and 32 years ago, I still carry the fresh new pride and excitement that only fatherhood can bring to a man and, in a particularly different way from that of a daughter, the birth of a son.  Go to Article

GETTING DAD... a true story by Katherine Russell
It has rained for three days. My father and I have waited for three days in our sleeping bags in a lean-to. Drips on the corrugated roof, drips on the chestnut leaves, drips down my neck when I shuffle out to pee.
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