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  • Two Worst Methods by which Men Deal with Vulnerability
  • Male/Female Differences in Variability Itself
  • 10 Milestones to Manhood – All Pro Dad
  • Men adrift: Badly educated men in rich countries have not adapted well to trade, technology or feminism
  • 3 Families Every Young Man Needs | The Art of Manliness
  • 5 Types of Friends Every Man Needs | The Art of Manliness
  • Men Are Doing More Work At Home, But Women Still Say They Have It Harder. Here’s Why.
  • The Distinct, Positive Impact of a Good Dad – The Atlantic
  • Even Punk Rockers Eventually Want to Be Good Dads | National Center for Fathering
  • How to Create a Moral Code with help from Winston Churchill| The Art of Manliness
  • The Influence of Fathers on Children | The Art of Manliness
  • Work and Family: The Ongoing Tug-of War | All Pro Dad
  • 6 Tips on How to Overcome When You Feel Overwhelmed | All Pro Dad
  • Perfect Wives In Ideal Homes book lays bare how things were for women in Fifties Britain | Daily Mail Online
  • 4 Huge Mistakes I Made As A Husband (Psst, I’m The Ex-Husband Now) | YourTango
  • Most Americans are one paycheck away from the street
  • Do you have adolescent children? I hope you’re sitting down | Psychology Today
  • How to Develop Charisma | The First Element – Presence | The Art of Manliness
  • The Warrior Wives of Evangelical Christianity – The Atlantic
  • More than half of fathers pretend to be asleep to avoid looking after children
  • Your Day in a Chart: 10 Cool Facts About How Americans Spend Our Time – The Atlantic
  • 15 Life Lessons a Dad Wishes He Had Learned Earlier 
  • The downside to an extravagant wedding for your daughter
  • Father/Son conversation starters
  • How To Make Sandcastles With Your Kids Fatherly
  • How to Feel Like a Man | The Art of Manliness
  • The Mighty Power of “I Don’t Know” | Psychology Today
  • 10 Acts a Chivalrous Husband Does for His Wife | All Pro Dad
  • 98% of women hate partners wearing Speedos on the beach | Mail Online
  • How Boys Teach Each Other to Be Boys – The Atlantic
  • 6 Lessons Travel Teaches You That College Never Will | Ryan O’Rourke
  • Why You Hate Work – NYTimes.com
  • Carolyn Hax: Dad can’t stop daughter from measuring herself against sister – The Washington Post
  • Lessons in Manliness from Andrew Jackson
  • Lessons in Manliness from The Old Man and the Sea
  • Lessons in Manliness from Gladiator
  • “The Power of Truth”
  • 4 Marine Corps Combat Leadership Lessons Every Man Should Learn
  • Summary on Character
  • Importance of a Family Meeting
  • 10 Steps to changing the world
  • Conversation starters: How well do you know each other?
  • Study Says Stressful Marriages Can Lead To Early Death In Men
  • For Some Social-Media Users, an Anxiety From Approval Seeking – NYTimes.com
  • Why Do So Many Women Wear So Much Makeup? – Olga Khazan – The Atlantic
  • Men & Housework – Salon.com
  • 10 Life Lessons You Can Learn From Children | Jocelyn Kelley
  • Brains Do It: Lust, Attraction, and Attachment
  • 12 Things to Tell My Son Before His Wedding Day | Marci Rich
  • 23 Signs You’re Secretly a Narcissist Masquerading as a Sensitive Introvert | Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.
  • Seeking Out Peer Pressure – NYTimes.com
  • Sorry, Marriage Is a ‘Luxury Good’ – Jordan Weissmann – The Atlantic
  • The Evolution of Bitchiness – Olga Khazan – The Atlantic
  • Why We Make Bad Decisions – NYTimes.com
  • Fathering With Intentionality: The Importance of Creating a Family Culture | The Art of Manliness
  • Study: 70 Percent Of Americans On Prescription Drugs « CBS Atlanta
  • Stress can cause permanent damage to a man’s sperm – and affect the mental health of his children | Mail Online
  • Turns Out Women Have Really, Really Strong Sex Drives: Can Men Handle It? – Atlantic Mobile
  • Ronald Reagan speaks about D-Day
  • Anger May Raise Your Heart Attack Risk | Men’s Health News
  • How is Porn Affecting the Libido of the American Male?
  • How to Get a Job – NYTimes.com
  • Modern Love – Friends Without Benefits – NYTimes.com
  • Limping Toward the Truth — Modern Love – NYTimes.com
  • After a breakup, a temporary no-contact rule may be a help – The Washington Post
  • 10 Ways to Fight Pornography | All Pro Dad
  • 10 Practical Ways to Battle Your Sexual Temptations | All Pro Dad
  • 23 Foolproof Relationship Tips and Advice for Men
  • The 7 Worst Things About Being a Male
  • 10 Things Your Son Needs From You – All Pro Dad
  • When does a boy become a man?
  • 100 Must Read Books: The Man’s Essential Library | The Art of Manliness
  • Manliness Precedes True Gentlemanliness | The Art of Manliness
  • 50 Funny and Inspiring Quotes About Dads – What will your child say about you?
  • The Consequences of Fatherlessness | National Center for Fathering
  • Your Job Description: Defining What it Means to Be a Good Dad | National Center for Fathering
  • How to Plan and Lead a Weekly Family Meeting | Creating Family Culture | The Art of Manliness
  • The Best Way to Build Strong Children
  • Work/Family Tension | All Pro Dad
  • My Husband Learned The Hard Way Why Women Cheat 
  • Why do so many middle-aged men feel so lost?
  • Be aware of pressure on “Mom” in today’s world
  • The Secret to Resisting Temptation
  • How to Develop Charisma | The Third Element – Warmth | The Art of Manliness
  • Women’s desire for sex is more complex than previously thought, study says | Daily Mail Online
  • Manning Up: How The Rise Of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys
  • What 50 Fathers Told Me About Parenthood
  • 13 Things You’ve Probably Thought About Your Parents’ Divorce
  • Doodling can help people focus, ease impatience, vent emotions and even generate bursts of insight or new ideas
  • Why Dads need to take care of the kids more
  • Paycheck to Paycheck – Break the cycle
  • Summary: ‘How Children Succeed’
  • Be More Memorable: How to Better Answer the 3 Questions You Always Get Asked When Meeting Someone New | The Art of Manliness
  • 10 Things to Tell Your Dad While He is Still Living | All Pro Dad
  • The ABCs of Being a Real Man 
  • The Case for Dedicated Dads – The Atlantic
  • The Truth About Being A Dad, According To 14 Really Funny Famous Guys
  • Pro Wrestlers Add Heft to Campaign for Better Parenting by Fathers – NYTimes.com
  • The Greatest Challenge of Fatherhood | Psychology Today
  • Lessons in Manliness: The Hobbit
  • Lessons in Manliness from Dante
  • Lessons in Manliness from Beowulf
  • Manvotional: Man’s Chief Purpose
  • The 3 P’s of Manhood: A Review
  • Doing Good
  • Creating a Positive Family Culture: How to Get the Most Out of Family Dinners
  • Family Tradition Ideas
  • Drinking responsibly
  • Conversation starters: Engage your wife
  • Would your wife cheat on you? Why 73 Percent Of Cheating Women Say They Stray
  • Porn in US ‘a public health crisis’
  • Revenge, My Lovely – NYTimes.com
  • Do your words mean anything? – NYTimes.com
  • Manliness – WSJ
  • Bringing Men Back Into Families – Lois M. Collins & Marjorie Cortez – The Atlantic
  • Millennials’ Travel Quirks and Desires – Yahoo Finance
  • Stacy Taylor Obituary: View Stacy Taylor’s Obituary by Houston Chronicle
  • One Family Spent The Year Traveling The World, And Learned What They Really Need In Life
  • 5 Things You Should Never Say to a New Mom
  • How Women Change Men – Sarah Yager – The Atlantic
  • Have More Sex, Make More Money
  • Sex After Baby: Dads’ Desires Change Too (STUDY)
  • Most workers hate their jobs or have ‘checked out,’ Gallup says – San Jose Mercury News
  • Health Questions For Dad: 5 They might save your life
  • Sex and the Law in China: ‘The People Will Pull, and the Government Will Follow’ – Atlantic Mobile
  • Matt Chandler – The Difficulty of Marriage, Being a man, and why God wired it that way. – YouTube
  • How to stay motivated at work
  • The 1 Percent Are Only Half the Problem
  • Are You a Man? One Author Feels Your Changes | Off the Cuff – Yahoo! Finance
  • The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap — Modern Love – NYTimes.com
  • Though Now Apart, We Faced a Common Enemy — Modern Love – NYTimes.com
  • Politics, passion and a matter of respect – The Washington Post
  • 10 Things You Need to Know about The 5 Love Languages | All Pro Dad
  • Happiness Inc. – NYTimes.com
  • Advice for men: List of maxims that went viral in the nineteenth century
  • Bromance and Tribe Identity Young men know more about friendship and connection than many realize.
  • Teaching Your Son How to Become a Man – All Pro Dad
  • Parents Who Are War Reporters
  • The Pitfalls of Consuming Pornography | The Art of Manliness
  • How Men Can Succeed in the Boardroom and the Bedroom – The New York Times
  • Fathers Are Not Mothers to Their Daughters 
  • Trends in Fathering | National Center for Fathering
  • Real Fathering and the Glue that Holds Families Together | National Center for Fathering
  • Creating a Positive Family Culture: How to Get the Most Out of Family Dinners | The Art of Manliness
  • When You Come Home From Work | All Pro Dad
  • Spend Time with your kids: No Excuses | All Pro Dad
  • Aggressive boys tend to develop into physically stronger teens, says study | Daily Mail Online
  • Daughters spend more than double on mothers than they spend on fathers
  • Consider 35 Lessons Learned So Far on This Journey Called Life 
  • 10 Battles for Your Family You Must Fight and Win | All Pro Dad
  • How to Develop Charisma | The Second Element – Power | The Art of Manliness
  • The Persistent Myth of the Narcissistic Millennial – The Atlantic
  • Why falling in love gives you spots and makes you feel like you’re on drugs | Daily Mail Online
  • Pimco’s Mohamed El-Erian quits after daughter’s list of milestones he’d missed
  • To My Sons: 20 Lessons for a Meaningful Life (That I Wish I Knew When I Was Your Age) 
  • Love People, Not Pleasure – NYTimes.com
  • It’s Pretty Much True: For Males More Parenting Equals Less Sex
  • Education, Education, Education and the Role We Play in Its Unfolding 
  • How to Talk About Your Accomplishments without Coming Off Like A Jerk | The Art of Manliness
  • Are You Addicted to Texting? | Psychology Today
  • 10 Battles for Your Family You Must Fight and Win | All Pro Dad
  • The Myth of Wealthy Men and Beautiful Women – The Atlantic
  • 10 Life Lessons I Learned from My Dad in 23 Years 
  • “Take a deep breath. Don’t argue with your father. Do this for your mother.”
  • Manvotional: Want to Change the World? Start by Making Your Bed | The Art of Manliness
  • The Daddy Juggle: Work, Life, Family and Chaos
  • Cato: Lessons From a Self-Made Man
  • Lessons In Manliness: Benjamin Franklin’s Pursuit of the Virtuous Life
  • Lessons in Manliness from It’s a Wonderful Life
  • 20 Aphorisms That I Thought Were Dumb as a Boy But Now Appreciate as a Grown Man
  • Why Are We So Conflicted About Manhood in the Modern Age?
  • 10 Overlooked Truths About Taking Action
  • 10 Ways to Help a Grieving Friend
  • Embrace Family Traditions
  • Conversations starters: Engage your kids
  • Conversation starters: Engage your parents
  • Please, Mother, Enough – NYTimes.com
  • Why don’t women know what men find attractive? – Salon.com
  • Ignoring an Inequality Culprit: Single-Parent Families – WSJ
  • Preserving Family History, One Memory at a Time – NYTimes.com
  • How Schools Can Give Men the Skills They Need to Be Good Dads – The Atlantic
  • A Generation of “Firsts” (Part One) | Tim ElmoreA Generation of “Firsts” (Part One) – Tim Elmore
  • Helping Families Dealing With Cancer: Do’s and Don’ts | Claire McCarthy, M.D.
  • 9 Reasons Your Great-Grandpa Was The Original Hipster (PHOTOS)
  • Important Life Lessons: What’s The Most Important Life Lesson Older People Feel You Must Know?
  • When Being Alone Turns Into Loneliness, There Are Ways to Fight Back
  • How porn is rewiring our brains
  • What Happy People Do Differently | Psychology Today
  • Broken Homes: ‘That’s as Bad as It Gets’ – NYTimes.com
  • Did man’s yearning for young women create the menopause? Research suggests that men may have caused middle-age loss of fertility | Mail Online
  • 10 Steps to family financial health
  • Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower
  • The Complexity in a Sperm Donation – Modern Love – NYTimes.com
  • How Did Work-Life Balance in the U.S. Get So Awful? – Atlantic Mobile
  • Help a friend: Loneliness and Suicide
  • Pity the Men on Top – NYTimes.com
  • The Upside of an Emotional Plunge – Modern Love – NYTimes.com
  • Hiding From the Truth – Modern Love – NYTimes.com
  • Recommended books on Manhood
  • 10 Signs of a Good Listener | All Pro Dad
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