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The 50/50 Solution: The Surprisingly Simple Choice that Makes Moms, Dads, and Kids Happier and Healthier after a Split (SOURCEBOOKS) hit Amazon bestseller lists and won a National Parents Organization research award.

It has also been featured in dozens of media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Slate and in a presentation before a Scottish Parliament group.

Now you can get The 50/50 Solution in your ears via audiobook!

More about the book and media appearances:

Like most schools, Virginia Commonwealth University promotes abundant mental health and wellness resources for its students.

VCU’s support services for men, however, resemble a women’s studies course more than behavioral health care. It’s a case study in how men’s health is routinely dismissed—and a glimpse into why men’s college enrollment has trailed women’s by double digits for four decades.

On its counseling services website is a Student Resources page listing 16 ...

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In this monthly roundup of equal parenting news:

Announcing: Virginia Commission for Boys and Men & Coalition

New Danish data challenges assumption that unfair divorce leads to suicide

Data-devoid WSJ article on 50/50 presumptions a relic of yesteryear

Action items for Canadians

50/50 mentions in the wild

50/50 celebrities

The big news!

I’ve been lending a hand to this very exciting effort of Democrats aim to create nation’s first legislati...

Big reveal that has been underway all year ... yesterday Virginia legislators, including the House Speaker and Democrat Party Chair, announced a commitment to passing a bill to create an advisory commission to study and devote resources to serving males in the Commonwealth.

I am very proud to have been part of the effort.

More details, media coverage and next steps:

Virginia Coalition for Boys and MenVirginia Advisory Commission for Men and Boys announcedYesterday Virginia Democrats announced an ...

Does unfair family court drive men to suicide?

Data from a new study suggests the answer is no.

A new study found that single dads in Denmark have a markedly higher risk of early death from addiction, suicide and lung cancer.

This new information challenges the 50/50 parenting advocates’ assertion that unequal, sexist divorce laws rob men of their children and drive single dads to suicide. Here we see Danish single dads are among the most likely in the world have equal time with their kids and are...

Adapted from The 50/50 Solution (Sourcebooks).

50/50 schedules when parents live apart is not just good for kids — it also closes gender pay and care gaps, not only for families who practice it, but society at large, studies find.

For decades, social scientists have studied various parenting schedules, and the evidence is compelling: Academic, social, emotional and dozens of other outcomes in children improve the closer the schedule is to a 50/50 split — w...

Friday the Wall Street Journal published Kentucky’s Equal-Custody Experiment: A law setting 50-50 shared custody as the state’s standard was hailed as a victory for fathers, but critics say it puts mothers and children at risk.

The the article story is a smash-up of anecdotes from dads who wanted more time with their kids and women who claim they were abused by their husbands and won’t divorce for fear of having to co-parent with a violent man. The article contains no data on family viole...

Friday the Wall Street Journal published Kentucky’s Equal-Custody Experiment: A law setting 50-50 shared custody as the state’s standard was hailed as a victory for fathers, but critics say it puts mothers and children at risk.

The Wall Street Journal article story is a smash-up of anecdotes from dads who wanted more time with their kids and women who claim they were abused by their husbands and won’t divorce for fear of having to co-parent with a violent man. The article contains no data...

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In this monthly roundup of equal parenting news:

The world is organically barreling towards 50/50 parenting. Are laws relevant?

Male teacher shortage, a vision

Would birth rates improve if divorce were fairer to men?

Shoutouts re: gender equality advocacy

Research news

Despite millions of dollars of research on how equal parenting schedules affect children, men, women and violence, and thousands of activists working to change...

Excerpted and adapted from The 50/50 Solution: The Surprisingly Simple Choice that Makes Moms, Dads, and Kids Happier and Healthier after a Split (Sourcebooks)

Hang out on social media channels devoted to equal parenting activism, you would believe the majority of separated families are lawyered-up, alienating sociopaths at brutal war with benevolent exes, at the mercy of sexist, greedy judges. The answer, they believe, is to pass laws to guarantee a equal parenting presumption.

Meanwhile, there a...