June 2011 Blog Posts (4)

Money gives men a tool for controlling women

How true is this?

Added by LOUANN BRIZENDINE on June 26, 2011 at 8:15pm — 5 Comments

So whats up with: The new Fatherhood? Motherhood?

So, what's up with: "According to the Pew report, married fathers in the year 2000 spent an average of 6.5 hours a week as the primary caregiver, providing basic daily care, teaching and playing with their children. That number is up from just 2.6 hours a week in 1960. While that’s good news, the role of fathers in daily care is still about half that of mothers, who invest 12.9 hours in daily caregiving. Today’s mothers also spend more time on their kids than their counterparts in 1965, who… Continue

Added by LOUANN BRIZENDINE on June 19, 2011 at 4:13am — 16 Comments

Are Latin men different? machismo?

Why are the Spanish far more tolerant of domestic violence than those of us in the United States? I am in Madrid giving a talk at the NEO-11 Conference and i have been interviewed by several journalists here today and this is the question they all ask me...why is the Spanish/Latin male more violent toward female partners than men elsewhere?

Added by LOUANN BRIZENDINE on June 19, 2011 at 4:04am — 2 Comments