"Oxygen Media has pulled the plug on 'All My Babies' Mamas,' a reality special... about a musician who has fathered 11 children with 10 different mothers."

The conceived the show. They gave it life. Then they walked away. ADDED: Rush Limbaugh riffs on the O Media decision: It's not gonna air...

"I couldn't take it anymore: 'Your father! Great! Genius! I always liked him!'"

"The idolization has got worse and worse since he died."

"More intelligence and fewer offspring?"

"Perhaps Idiocracy was stating a more general rule...." But another thing... When it comes to humans, for example, though our bra...

State grabs man's nuts...

... or something. From the front page of the NY Post: ... teasing this item (on a subject we've already talked about extensively ).

"Craigslist sperm donor forced to pay child support to lesbian couple - despite giving up parental rights to the baby BEFORE she was born."

How sympathetic are you to this man's argument? Why should the father of a child ever be allowed to contract out of responsibility for i...

"It's an argument with which older, calmer people needle the emotional young."

I wrote in the previous post . Meade asks: "Did you mean 'the emotionally young'?" No, I'm not insulting anyone for em...

"It is obvious that none of you has the faintest notion of the bitter disappointment each of you has in your own way dished out to us."

A father writes to his adult children: We are seeing the miserable death throes of the fourth of your collective marriages at the same time ...

"My daughter has repeatedly brought home books from the school library that I have a problem with. I'm a feminist and I'm anti-censorship. I'm lost."

So wrote a woman at Ask Metafilter: Yesterday, for the THIRD time, LittleTaff brought home a fairy tale... this time Rapunzel. Objectified w...

What if men sang about longing for life in the larger world the way the Little Mermaid did?

Via Metafilter , where I think people are experiencing this as really sweet, because these are — presumably — fathers and the fathers are wa...

"I didn’t want to talk my son into not wearing dresses and skirts."

"He didn’t make friends in doing that in Berlin already and after a lot of contemplation I had only one option left: To broaden my shou...

Lots more men are the stay-at-home parent in marriages these days.

"But no one really talks about what that means for their identity as men." In fact, the linked article, doesn't really talk ab...

"You are embarrassing because, in spite of being ridiculous, you are not content to keep your absurdity decently to yourself..."

"... but insist on parading it around in public, greeting the 13-year-old's friends and teachers as though you were a normal human ...

"Nothing of importance happened today."

Wrote King George III in his diary, July 4, 1776. Not. He didn't even keep a diary. From a list of "10 Things You Didn't Know A...

"Imagine what kind of policies people would adopt if this idea that work and family life should balance..."

"... for everyone, was at the forefront of their minds." There are just countless places we could make changes without hurting pro...

"[A] Texas grand jury... said a young father acted within the law when he used his fists to beat a man to death for sexually assaulting his 5-year-old daughter...."

But it's not some simple stamp of approval of a father's right to visit swift justice: Legal analysts had earlier raised questions a...

"I did think of it all on my own."

Jack Andraka, age 15. Watch him get the $75,000 Intel prize... ... and don't click off before you get to the part where he explains — wi...

"Happy father's day - or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day."

A tweet, from Woody Allen's son Ronan Farrow. The message was then retweeted by Allen's ex-wife Mia Farrow, who added the word: ...

At the Father's Day Café...

... don't you love your dad?

"Twenty years later, [Dan] Quayle’s words seem less controversial than prophetic."

Writes Elizabeth Sawhill in the Washington Post, citing the increased number of children born to unmarried mothers and correlations between...

"While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads."

"In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people...