Tag: Fatherhood

No Battle of the Sexes | Dr. Stephen Baskerville

Dr. Stephen Baskerville is an expert in the politics surrounding family court and divorce. He is widely recognized as a leading authority on fatherhood, family policy, and sexual politics. His writings have appeared in leading national and international publications such as the Washington Post, Washington Times, Independent Review, Salisbury Review, Society, The American Conservative, Chronicles, […]

Reaching Black Pastors with A Pro-Life Message.

Walter B. Hoye II is both Founder and President of the Issues4Life Foundation, the California Civil Rights Foundation, Founder of the Frederick Douglass Foundation of California, co-founder and Executive Member of the National Black Pro-Life Coalition, a Board Member of The Morning Center (providing free full-service maternity care for women in urban and under-served areas), a published author (Leadership from the IN|SIDE Out), a board member of The Ruth Institute, a full-time pro-life activist, and a leadership consultant. As a young man, Walter played football at Michigan State University, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Sociology. He graduated from the United States International University, now Alliant International University, with a Master’s degree in Business Administration in 1983. In 1984, God used the premature birth of his firstborn son (six months, 2.1 pounds) to teach Rev. Hoye that the preborn is a person, a living &amp, breathing human being. Walter is an ordained Baptist minister. He served as Minister of Christian Education at the St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Oceanside, California, as Assistant to the Pastor and Director of the Youth Department at the Greater Faith Baptist Church in Stockton, California, and as the Executive Elder of the Progressive Missionary Baptist Church of Berkeley. In May of 2010, Walter resigned to work full-time in the Pro-Life movement. He was asked to join a group of pro-life sidewalk counselors, to pray and give out literature to women on their way to the entrance of an abortuary. His ministry blossomed so much that the abortuary lost a great deal of business, and they complained to the Oakland authorities, who literally created a law just to put Rev. Hoye in jail. Though in court Rev. Hoye and his attorney from Life Legal Defense proved both that Walter did absolutely nothing illegal and that the only witness against him blatantly lied, the pro-abortion judge made sure Rev. Hoye unjustly went to jail, which he did. The judge, in fa

Reaching Black Pastors with A Pro-Life Message

Walter B. Hoye II is both Founder and President of the Issues4Life Foundation, the California Civil Rights Foundation, Founder of the Frederick Douglass Foundation of California, co-founder and Executive Member of the National Black Pro-Life Coalition, a Board Member of The Morning Center (providing free full-service maternity care for women in urban and under-served areas), a published author (Leadership from the IN|SIDE Out), a board member of The Ruth Institute, a full-time pro-life activist, and a leadership consultant. As a young man, Walter played football at Michigan State University, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Sociology. He graduated from the United States International University, now Alliant International University, with a Master’s degree in Business Administration in 1983. In 1984, God used the premature birth of his firstborn son (six months, 2.1 pounds) to teach Rev. Hoye that the preborn is a person, a living &amp, breathing human being. Listen This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here, with readings and resources. Walter is an ordained Baptist minister. He served as Minister of Christian Education at the St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Oceanside, California, as Assistant to the Pastor and Director of the Youth Department at the Greater Faith Baptist Church in Stockton, California, and as the Executive Elder of the Progressive Missionary Baptist Church of Berkeley. In May of 2010, Walter resigned to work full-time in the Pro-Life movement. He was asked to join a group of pro-life sidewalk counselors, to pray and give out literature to women on their way to the entrance of an abortuary. His ministry blossomed so much that the abortuary lost a great deal of business, and they complained to the Oakland authorities, who literally created a law just to put Rev. Hoye in jail. Though in court Rev. Hoye and his attorney from Life Legal Defense proved both that Walter did absolutely nothing illegal and that the only witness against

No One is Entitled to a Child, but Every Child Deserves Two Parents

June 22, 2021 For Immediate Release For More Information: info@ruthinstitute.org No One is Entitled to a Child, but Every Child Deserves Two Parents In the June 15 New York Times article, “I Did I.V.F. Without a Partner. It Shouldn’t Have Been So Hard,” author Alicia Lombardini described the emotional burden and expense of getting pregnant […]

Merits of Fatherhood

(June 17, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio’s Driving Home the Faith. They’re discussing the importance of fatherhood to children, families, and society. Listen Check out our newest resource center on fatherhood over at ruthinstitute.org/resource-center/fatherhood.

​On my Dad’s Shoulders, a New World Opened for Me.

My earliest memories were bank holidays, when my usually serious father would be relaxed and happily bundle the family onto a train to get to a large park. There we joined up with the extended families. All the fathers would organise a cricket or mock rounders game with the older children which Dad joined in […]

I Have Striven to Raise my Sons as I imagine my Dad Would Have Raised Me

Despite how fathers are often portrayed in our American society today, fathers of strong character are essential to the well being of the family; to the wife and mother and the children. My own memories of my dad have been created from the stories told to me by my mother and uncles, and by a […]

I was Richly Blessed by My Father

My father was quite the man. After working his way through medical school, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, the Captain of Death in those days. A baby and another on the way struck severely at his sense of responsibility. He said he never doubted that he would live. He recovered, but lost a lung in […]

So Blessed

Dad played children’s records and other good music all the time. He also played piano by ear while singing lyrics, played hangman on a school-size chalkboard, played wiffle ball and beach ball baseball in our backyard and on the street in front of our house, took us to the park and to visit grandparents, played […]

In Honor of Arnold E. Hedtke, Jr.

I consider myself fortunate because my father was an exemplary man. I grew up in an era when you could count on your father to say what he meant and that he meant what he said! Basically, he was a man of his word and expected the same from everyone, including me. Setting an example […]

Thank You, Dad

My mom and dad were reluctant immigrants from Ireland, arriving here in 1958, the year I was born. The streets of NYC were not paved with gold for them. And my father’s social drinking habits became full-on alcoholism in the new world. Despite this, my old man was grounded in his Irish-Catholic faith. His work […]

Fond Memories

My dad was completely dedicated to ensuring that the three of us children had a college education. He had several job reversals throughout his life, but I never heard a complaint from either my mom or dad. They loved each other very much and were very dedicated to one another and to caring for us. […]

​Leading by example

As a youngster, I was helping my dad paint our garage. A neighbor saw what we were doing and that it was such a nice day for outside chores. He proceeded to paint his garage. When my dad saw what the neighbor was doing, he suggested we put aside our painting to assist him, which […]

Their Only Monuments Are in the Hearts of Their Families

Sunday is Father’s Day. Last week, we lit a yahrzeit candle (a memorial candle) for my father, Harold Samuel Feder. If it was in my power, I’d light candles for him from here to Jerusalem. He was, quite simply, the best man I’ve ever known. My father’s life spanned the 20th century. He was born […]

Do Your Best. Others Are Depending on You.

My dad’s boyhood dream was to fly airplanes for a living. At age 19 in early 1941, my dad was a licensed civilian pilot trained by a precocious 22-year-old instructor (Bob Bean) at the Max Conrad Flying School. In August 1941, dad enlisted in a Navy aviation pilot program.

Fathers need recognition as husbands, too

by Jennifer Roback Morse // originally published at NationalReview.com and MercatorNet In the wake of Father’s Day there is a great article on the Ruth Institute blog about honouring husbands. Jennifer Roback Morse talks about the importance for children of seeing their parents loving and admiring each other Father’s Day is a day for honoring […]

The new, improved, disposable father

by Jennifer Roback Morse // originally published at MercatorNet Last fall, I debated same-sex marriage at a university in Florida. I argued that treating same-sex unions identically with marriage would lead to marginalizing fathers from the family even more than they already are. At the time, I viewed that as a long-term prediction. I did […]

Are Dads Disposable?

by Jennifer Roback Morse // originally published at TownHall I hate to disagree with my friend Glenn Sacks, but I think he has missed the boat in his recent comparison of lesbian “social” mothers with divorced fathers. Mr. Sacks, a prominent fathers’ rights advocate, is correct that in both cases, family law courts diminish the […]

What Dads Do

by Jennifer Roback Morse // originally published at National Catholic Register Social science has shown beyond any shadow of a doubt that dads matter. But there is a lot of controversy over what exactly dads contribute. It isn’t just that two-parent households have more income, although they do. It isn’t even just that two parents […]