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Below you will find a list of recommended reads in many areas we have discussed on this site. Feel free to browse thru these books; and read the mini subject paragraph that tells you about each book.

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101 Ways To Be A Special Dad

A heartwarming collection of tips and special ideas for Dads. The delightfully illustrated book shows good dads how to enrich the parenting experience with thoughtful activities, thus creating special memories to last a lifetime.



A Man You Know Is Grieving

Two books in one! One half gives tips for caregivers in helping masculine grievers and the other half is for the men. A handy, concise, and practical book for both men and women.



A Man's Life: The Complete Instructions

The Complete Instructions to : Animal Magnetism Beer as Food Careers Daycare for Men Exercises that work Firing Your Boss growing tomatoes How to Change a Diaper with One Hand Inspirational Sex Junk-Food Diets Killer hooptricks Landing a 747 Married women Nasty Neighbors Outwitting Fish Pension Plans Quick Cleans Rural real estate Screws Travel Urban Tenting Vested Options What to Do to Your Thumb After You Whack It with a Hammer



And when Did You Last See Your Father: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss

This "is a memoir by the poet Blake Morrison of his father, a Yorkshire doctor who died in 1991." (NY Times Book Rev)



Child Support's Wacky Math

Child Support's Wacky Math is a book about the way that Virginia and other states modify child support orders in consideration of visitation and shared parenting. It promises two things; to prove that the formula is grossly in error, and to show how reality gets lost and logic muddled in the overly political process that now dominates the child support system. It delivers on both promises with room to spare



Co-parenting for Everyone

Providing profound, helpful advice on all major issues of divorce. Age- and temperament-appropriate schedules, infant overnights, moving away, money, the three co-parenting nightmares. You'll find help for almost anything you face.



Custody for Fathers: A Practical Guide through the Combat Zone of a Brutal Custody Battle

A wealth of information for dads going to court, whether for the first time or for modifying orders. Easy to read. Tells you everything! How to dress, conduct in the courtroom, what judges are looking for in behavior and presenting your case, how to respond when your ex makes false allegations,and my FAVORITE part:'Mom's Dirty Tricks' and how to counteract.Treats the courtroom like a football game. A MUST HAVE!



Delusions of Violence

Do you want to know the truth about violence in society? Nobody has for over two decades. Delusions of Violence comes to some remarkable conclusions about the source of this current wave of calling violence male. Join K.C. as he identifies the two emotional characteristics of this hysteria. and see what is behind the last twenty years of domestic violence falsehoods. You will be rewarded.



Divorced Dads: Real Stories of Facing the Challenge

Real Stories of Facing the Challenge



Embracing Your Father:Building the Relationship You Always Wanted With

In this encouraging, healing, ground-breaking book, Dr. Linda Nielsen shows daughters how to create more meaningful, more comfortable relationships with their fathers



Father and Child Reunion: How to Bring the Dads We Need to the Children We Love

In Father and Child Reunion, the author demolishes conventional wisdom about the nature of fatherhood and shows how the courts, media, and government create a vast array of subtle, immensely powerful undercurrents that separate men from their children



Father's Rights: Hard--Hitting and Fair Advice for Every Father Involved in a Custody Dispute

Millions of fathers are currently in the fight of their lives: the fight for custody of their children. Many wonder if they will ever again be an important part of their children's lives. With this landmark book, renowned men's rights attorney Jeffery Leving leads fathers through every twist and turn of the legal system, offering meaningful advice to save years of anguish and possibly thousands of dollars.



Fathering: Strengthening Connection with Your Children No Matter Where You Are

An inspiring collection of stories and suggestions based on the experiences of over 100 fathers, Fathering supports men in building a strong bridge to their children.



Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem

The author criticizes the growth in the number of fatherless families and the development of a culture of fatherlessness. Detailing how the social role of fathers has been diminished and devalued, he theorizes that devalued fatherhood has led to higher incidences of crime, domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and child poverty.



Fighting for Your Children: A Father's Guide to Custody

"Fighting for Your Children", the authors help men who are facing such a battle, guiding them through the entire legal experience. Using anecdotes from fathers who have successfully gained full or joint custody of their children as well as from fathers who have met with failure, this book illustrates the dos and don'ts of waging a custody battle for children.



I Love My Daddy Because...

Familiar phrases from a preschooler's world give a child's-eye view ofbeing an animal baby. Many different animal fathers are shown caring for their young. "Preschool to kindergarten."



Iron John:ÊA Book About Men

"A fascinating examination of myth, literature, psychology, and anthropology" (Newsday), National Book Award-winning poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man. "Important and timely."?New York Times Book Review.



It's a Guy Thing: An Owner's Manual for Women

It's a Guy Thing provides women with the reasons why men act the way they do. Included are chapters on sex, work, relationships and communication. Interspersed throughout are sidebars that shed light on the many faces of men and help women grasp what makes them act the way they do



Joint Custody with a Jerk:Raising a Child with an Uncooperative EX

This hands-on, practical guide offers many proven comunication techniques that will not only help readers deal with a difficult ex-husband ot ex-wife by describing examples of common problems, but also teach them how to examine their roles in these sticky situations.



Life with Father, Vol. 1

Working and playing, guiding and caring: the joys and trials of fatherhood. Here in 82 photographs collected from the archives of LIFE magazine are classic images of LIFE with Father. Everything from bath time to bedtime, from bike rides to backyard baseball, is fondly recaptured in this album of fatherly love, from the editors of America's favorite picture magazine.



Male Nurturing

Author K.C. Wilson has compiled and annotated over 60 of the most significant studies done on fatherhood over the last 35 years, and starts it off with a summary of what is revealed and its implications. The purpose is to make this large body of work accessible. The reader comes away with a solid grounding in fathercare.



Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, & the Search for Masculinity

Psychiatrist and family therapist Frank Pittman explores what it is like to grow up male today. With poignancy, humor and candor, Dr. Pittman combines case studies, examples from literature and films, plus his own experience to examine issues of commitment, caring, and control for the father's of tomorrow's men.



Men on Divorce: Conversations with EX-Husbands

Men on Divorce: Conversations with EX-Husbands



Swallowed by a Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing

Acclaimed by experts Elisabeth Kubler Ross M.D. and many others, Swallowed by a Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing continues to help both men and women heal with the masculine side of loss.



The Divorce Primer

The Divorce Primer provides you with a single information source on Divorce and Separation issues in an easy-to-read plain English format. Information is power. Answer your questions and explore your options before you decide what you want. Do you really want a divorce? What about a separation? Do you want to try mediation or do you want to start with an attorney and the courtroom?



The Divorced Dad's Survival Book: How to Stay Connected with Your Kids

This book shows how to navigate the process of getting a divorce so as to minimize the negative impact on one's children. The goal of the book is to show how fathers can use the divorce to improve their relationship with their kids. The father-child relationship cannot only survive divorce but also triumph through conscious and deliberate planning and execution.



The Multiple Scandals of Support

This is the definitive book on child support. Thoroughly researched, very readable, and carefully thought through, it gently carries the reader through all the issues and startling contradictions, allowing the reader to decide. This is an absolute must-read for anyone having anything to do with child support. It really lays it all out, clearly.



The Ultimate Survival Guide for the Single Father

A MUST HAVE! The Ultimate Survival Guide for The Single Father is answer driven for fast referencing with just a taste of men's humor. Best of all its filled with all the popular topics from the self-help section in bookstores. No need to spend $40.00 or more on various self-help books, it only takes one--this one!



The Von Hoffmann Bros.' Big Damn Book of Sheer Manliness

Big Damn Book of Sheer Manliness is bursting with riotously funny observations, short stories, tips, lists, and definitions. Contents include a look at Spartacus (the manliest film ever made), a guide to fishing lures, chili recipes, drinking songs, a tribute to the guy who painted the "poker dogs", and more.



This Child of Mine

This Child of Mine is a deeply personal account of the author's fifteen years of practice as a child therapist. Using play and expressive arts therapy, Wakenshaw deals with emotionally traumatized children and presents the healing relationship that occurs between therapist and patient on a human, rather than clinical level. The children raise memories from her own childhood which intersperse the story of her own personal and professional development.



TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES

A "straight-no chaser" exploration of the questions and issues directly and indirectly related to Fatherhood which confront Married Fathers, Single Fathers, Stay-At-Home Fathers, Long-Distance Fathers, Divorced Fathers, Custodial Fathers and Non-Custodial Fathers throughout our global village.



Understanding Women

Even women will enjoy these insightful essays on gender issues. What do things like feminism and female aggression look like to a lot of men? (Probably much the same as to a lot of women.)Seven of K.C.'s finest are in this lively, maybe provocative set.



Where's Daddy

Where's Daddy? offers striking insights into our self-perceptions. The author contends that only when our social practices are examined in their cultural context do their distortions become clear, as do the equally obvious solutions.



Witness Guide

Whether testifying as an expert witness, for a friend, or for yourself, whether for a traffic ticket, divorce, or crime, you will want to avoid these common mistakes.