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Defiant Dads: Fathers’ Rights Activists in America

By Jocelyn Elise Crowley, Cornell University Press 2008

Book Review by Matt Krogh

“Defiant Dads,” by Dr. Crowley of Rutgers University, could have been an important and useful analysis of what is right and wrong about this growing movement of divorced and divorcing. Unfortunately, while the book provides excellent background data, the author’s analysis is marred by her refusal to acknowledge that fathers’ rights activists’ primary political interest—encouraging equal-time parenting—could ever be a good idea.

A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce

Author:  Alec Baldwin (with Mark Tabb)

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, New York, NY (2008)

Book Review by Matt Krogh

“I never wanted to write this book.”  That’s the first thing that Alec Baldwin writes us, but every divorcing parent should be glad that he did.

The difficulties of divorce multiply when children are involved. Most parents, however, don’t have to deal with constant media coverage, international therapy requirements, and expenses of over a million dollars in legal fees—all spent in Baldwin’s effort to preserve parental rights after property settlement had already been reached.