Sentences with phrase «deadbeat dads»

Leving argues that there are some «deadbeat dads» out there.
As for «deadbeat dads,» I do discuss above that there are multiple sides to see, that what you see changes over time, and that what you see comes from interactions between parents.
As compared to «deadbeat dads,» men who have shared parenting (joint legal custody), ample time with their children, and an understanding of and direct responsibility for activities and expenses of children stay involved in their children's lives and are in greater compliance with child support obligations.
Valerie Rind, author of Gold Diggers and Deadbeat Dads: True Stories of Friends, Family, and Financial Ruin, pointed out the importance.
«The issue isn't whether or not you sign one,» says Valerie Rind, author of Gold Diggers and Deadbeat Dads.
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Manitoba's online initiative matches an Ontario site called Good Parents Pay, which shows photos, last known location, and other information on a rogues» gallery of deadbeat dads.
I have a problem with public «shaming,» too — whether it's being used on deadbeat dads, the customers of prostitutes, or those who fail to pick up dog waste.
As for «deadbeat dads,» I do discuss above that there are multiple sides to see, that what you see changes over time, and that what you see comes from interactions between parents.
Since the 1970s the academics Charlie Lewis and Michael E Lamb, among others, have challenged stereotypical and one - dimensional portrayals of fathers as «deadbeat dads» or «play partners» incapable of the serious business of rearing a child.
Calling one parent a hero to the exclusion of the other sets up an unhealthy and unnecessary divisiveness exactly at a time when more men are hands - on dads, when we're talking about more egalitarian partnerships and when even so - called poor «deadbeat dads» are actually finding meaningful ways to be involved in their children's lives.
They have the option of being distant fathers, deadbeat dads, and moving on with their lives with little repercussions but a child support bill they may or may not pay.
Your belief that family planning is destructive to society and leads to licentious living and deadbeat dads is naively simplistic.
After a childhood marred by substance abuse and a deadbeat dad, I made a friend who would change my life.
If you are opposed to deadbeat dad / moms, do nt become one yourself.
After a divorce, some men retreat from their children's lives, but the stereotype of the deadbeat dad is misleading: The same dads that refuse to pay child support are usually men who provided little support before they got divorced.
While it's sad that this little boy won't know his dad, he has a mom who'll always be in his corner, and that counts for so much more than a deadbeat dad who has to be forced to be a father figure.
There's no need to say that your divorce was just final after three years of divorce court, that your ex doesn't support you, or that he's a deadbeat dad.
(In Over The Top, Sylvester Stallone similarly plays a deadbeat dad who must win back his son and the title.)
Only Hugh Jackman could make a deadbeat dad likable.
Hugh Jackman, recently outed as a close pal of Rupert Murdoch, plays deadbeat dad Charlie who, in need of cash, offloads his estranged pubescent son (Dakota Goyo) to relatives, but then bonds with the kid during a summer hiatus on the fight circuit.
Real Steel's human drama is wrought between deadbeat dad Charlie (Hugh Jackman), his abandoned but headstrong son Max (Dakota Goyo, who resembles Jake Lloyd but at the very least has better dance moves), and love interest Bailey Tallet (Lost's Evangeline Lilly).
This is the story of a deadbeat dad developing a lasting relationship with his son, that happens to have robots.
Dee has enough problems just getting on with life - trying to raise her children, with her children's deadbeat dad and his abusive girlfriend in the same building, and yet even after her conviction is overturned, her subsequent case (spearheaded by the A.C.L.U.) puts her in the D.A.'s crosshairs - who uses his substantial infuence to not only prevent her from returning to her job of 7 years, but even makes sure that she is terminated from the minimum wage job she finally manages to procure.
Adapted from Willy Vautlin's 2010 novel, Lean on Pete follows young Charley, a soft - spoken teen living in Oregon with his father Ray, a stereotypical deadbeat dad given a slightly more multifaceted turn by actor and ex-model Travis Fimmel.
Chandler grows some scruff and shaggy hair to play the deadbeat dad to Miles Teller's character.
Nor is that a slam on the rest of the cast, all of whom do impressive work — especially Friday Night Lights's Kyle Chandler, whose performance as a deadbeat dad might be best described as «Bleary Eyes, Pickled Heart, Totally Lost.»
Summary Capsule: The squandered potential of an upper class family of geniuses gets one last chance at redemption when the deadbeat dad, the architect of their woes, attempts to win his back into the fold.
The span of Linklater's story, if it can even be called that, allows him the latitude to leisurely explore Mason's relationships to his mother (Arquette), sometimes - deadbeat dad (Hawke), sister (Lorelei Linklater, the director's daughter), and a rotating cast of friends, girlfriends, and step - siblings.
Garmadon's villainy extends beyond his island - conquering desires: He's also a deadbeat dad, an absentee father whose egotism and narcissism has left him incapable of the whole fatherhood thing.
Hunter (Ike Barinholtz) is the third father in their little group, but he isn't overprotective but instead sort of a deadbeat dad.
Sandler stars as an outlaw named Tommy, AKA White Knife, an orphan raised by Native Americans who discovers that he has five half - brothers (including the likes of Luke Wilson, Terry Crews, Rob Schneider and Taylor Lautner) and decides that they'll go on a mission to find their wayward, deadbeat dad.
Finally, there's Nathan's young partner, David Thomson (Ben Davies), a deadbeat dad who is in denial about the existence of a 4 year - old daughter born out - of - wedlock.
On her way out the door, the mother promises to return by the time the bank is filled, before disappearing forever, supposedly in search of her daughters» deadbeat dad.
Swallowing his Mexican accent so that he sounds like Pee - Wee Herman's masculine bellhop from Pee - Wee's Big Adventure, the overexposed, generally unpleasant Gael García Bernal plays Elvis — no, not that Elvis (the pic's cheeky title and scattershot allusions notwithstanding), but a sailor who takes his leave of the Navy and tracks down his deadbeat dad, David (William Hurt, who could only be Bernal's biological father in the same metaverse where Marc Anthony sired Dakota Fanning), now a pastor living in Corpus Christi.
Seventeen - year - old Erica Vandross (Deutch) patrols her California suburb with a couple of amoral friends (Dylan Galula and Maya Eshet), coercing men out of their money to pay her deadbeat dad's bail.
Every character sets off another, whether it is a warden taunting a counselor or a deadbeat dad reappearing in his son's life (and vice versa).
Having just lost his restaurant inspector job and been dumped by his live - in girlfriend (Amanda Peet), Ritchie reluctantly agrees to visit deadbeat Dad in Atlantic City.
There are cameos from Kenan Thompson as a wisecracking retail manager, and Matt Dillon, who smirks his way through his role as the cop, and Christopher Lloyd, embarrassingly hung out to dry in some cruel parody of dementia, and Peter Serafinowicz, in a perplexing role as the simpleton stoner deadbeat dad to Caine's grandchild.
When she's assigned to spy on a deadbeat dad in the middle of the night, Bailey thinks nothing of the potential dangers, only that she needs to gather evidence.
You hear about this type of «deadbeat dad sting» operation every few years, but the most recent one carried out in Alabama used some almost irresistible bait to lure fathers into the police's trap: the promise of two free tickets to the 2011 Alabama - Auburn football game.
If you are a deadbeat dad, the court could take any one or more of the following actions against you:
The history of recorded music is full of disputes between artists and their record companies so there is no way of saying that litigation would not have occurred, however if Tupac had created a Will Afeni wouldn't have needed to take Court action to establish that Billy was a «deadbeat dad» and was not entitled to a share of the estate.
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But now, like a deadbeat dad, its parent company is saying goodbye.
We need to debunk the deadbeat dad myth also.
Research on the decline of women's economic status following divorce (e.g., Hernandez, 1988; Laosa, 1988) has contributed legislation of not much use in addressing the «Deadbeat Dad» problem, but has encouraged a backlashing trend of misogynistic propaganda and specious «research,» in the ostensible interests of «presenting two sides of an issue» which never had a whole lot to offer on the wrong side in the first place.
Research on the decline of women's economic status following (e.g., Hernandez, 1988; Laosa, 1988) has contributed to recent legislation to address the «Deadbeat Dad» problem.
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