Author: Edward Bartlett

Men and Boys

Growing Momentum Across the Nation to Remedy ‘Crisis’ of Men’s Health

Post author By Edward Bartlett
Post date February 24, 2026

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Henry Herrera

Telephone: +1-301-801-0608

Email: info@saveservices.org

Growing Momentum Across the Nation to Remedy ‘Crisis’ of Men’s Health

WASHINGTON / February 26, 2026 – Public figures, researchers, and celebrities have described the current state of men’s health as in a state of “crisis.” (1) During a recent radio address, Prince William deplored soaring male suicide rates in the UK as a “national catastrophe.” (2)

For years, men’s health has suffered from a state of benign neglect. But recent developments across the nation reveal a revitalization of concern over the fact that American men are dying five years sooner than women, and suicide rates of men are four times higher (3).

In response, last week the State of Men’s Health Act, H.R. 7602, was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The law calls for a detailed analysis of the leading causes of male mortality, and will establish an Office of Men’s Health in the Department of Health and Human Services.

In Maryland, last month a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill to establish the Maryland Commission for Boys’ and Men’s Health (4). The bill highlights the importance of men’s health, not only to affirm the fundamental human rights of men, but also to promote economic productivity in the State of Maryland.

The crisis of men’s health is being addressed in other states, as well:

California: Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order last July to address high suicide rates among men and boys (5).
Virginia: SB 447, recently passed in both the Senate and House, establishes the Virginia Boys and Men Advisory Commission, and calls for eliminating the “disparity in health outcomes.” (6)
Washington State: House Bill 2401 highlights the importance of men’s health. (7)

In November, the American Medical Association approved a resolution urging states to establish offices of men’s health. The resolution states, “Our AMA encourages the establishment of an Office of Men’s Health within each state’s Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate awareness, outreach, and outcomes on men’s health.” (8)

In Congress, the Dads Matter Act has been introduced both in the Senate (S. 2131) and House of Representatives (H.R. 5828). The Dads Matter Act will encourage fathers of newborns and fathers-to-be to become actively involved in promoting the welfare of both the mother and child.

But funding for research on male-specific diseases such as prostate cancer has lagged, compared to funding for female-specific conditions. Over the years, 14% of the NIH research budget has been allocated for women’s health, with only 6% allocated to men’s health (9).

The men’s health issue goes beyond considerations of morbidity and mortality. When an older man dies prematurely, his surviving wife faces a higher likelihood of nursing home admission (1).

Premature male mortality cost $697 billion in 2020 alone, in terms of diminished economic productivity of men:

Suicide: $387 billion (10)
Cardiovascular disease and stroke: $234 billion (11)
Cancer: $76 billion (12)

Men’s Health Week will be celebrated during the week leading up to Father’s Day, June 14-20 (13)). SAVE urges lawmakers consider their male family members, friends, and colleagues as they redouble efforts to eliminate the crisis of men’s health.

SAVE – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments – is a 501(c)3 organization working to assure due process, fairness, and equal opportunities for men.

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Men and Boys

AOC Remarks About Men are Negating Democrat Efforts to Reconnect with Male Voters

Post author By Edward Bartlett
Post date February 21, 2026

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Henry Herrera

Telephone: +1-301-801-0608

Email: info@saveservices.org

AOC Remarks About Men are Negating Democrat Efforts to Reconnect with Male Voters

WASHINGTON / February 23, 2026 – Male voters are the new “power demographic” of the American electorate (1). During the 2024 presidential election, 4.5 million male voters abandoned the Democratic Party, handing the election victory to Donald Trump. (2)

In response, the Democratic governors of California, Maryland, and Michigan launched new outreach programs for men and boys. And Virginia Democrats advanced a bill to create an Advisory Commission for Boys and Men (3).

But not all Democrats are on board with this outreach effort. In particular, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York has made inflammatory statements that denigrate men and masculinity, and serve to polarize the debate:

During a CNN interview, AOC emphatically insisted that Republicans “are able to radicalize and target and exploit a generation of young boys, in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires a domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker or a different gender than them.” (4)

But AOC did not back up her impassioned claims with any survey findings, credible reports, or even a single anecdote. Her statements carried all the credibility of a make-believe fairytale.

In response, media commentators excoriated AOC for her claims:

Media star Megyn Kelly issued this riposte (5):

“Let’s be perfectly clear: There was, indeed, one party that radicalized today’s young men and it was yours, madam. It was yours who blamed them for literally everything just because they were born male. Your side demonized them at every turn and laughed when they ever dared to express any actual pain at the circumstances that they were forced into, through no fault of their own. It is absolutely disgusting for her to now say it is the Republican Party, which came to their rescue, that ‘radicalized them.’”

Writer Sadie_NC, who boasts 300,000 Twitter followers, explained (6):

“Masculinity isn’t ‘radical;’ its what built America, won wars, protected families, and the country from turning into a weak, crying mess. The left wants soft, confused, compliant boys. We want strong, responsible MEN. The hatred for actual manhood is actually insane. NO MORE ATTACKING MASCULINITY. Real men make America strong. Weak men make it fall. Bring back the real ones!”

And commentator Lisa Britton posted (7):

“Since the last election, many leaders in the Democratic Party have really stepped up their efforts to address the issues of boys, men and fathers….Yet, people like AOC are continuing to push the same messaging that encouraged men to move to the Right. If their rhetoric like this continues, I believe the Democrats will all lose again, big time.”

If Democratic leaders aspire to have a strong showing during the upcoming November elections, they need to tell AOC to refrain from making her divisive – some would say, hateful — comments about men and masculinity.

SAVE – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments – is a 501(c)3 organization working to assure due process, fairness, and equal opportunities for men.

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Men and Boys

New Program Outlines Strategies to Reach Male Voters for Election Success

Post author By Edward Bartlett
Post date February 16, 2026

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Henry Herrera

Telephone: +1-301-801-0608

Email: info@saveservices.org

New Program Outlines Strategies to Reach Male Voters for Election Success

WASHINGTON / February 18, 2026 – Male voters have been described as the new “Power Demographic” (1). Accordingly, President Donald Trump achieved his election victory in November 2024 in large part as a result of the support of young men. Trump scored impressive gains among all four racial and ethnic groups, largely due to a wave of support from 18 to 29 year-old men.

Compared to the 2020 election, gains among male voters across four key demographics were documented (2):

Whites: 4-point gain
Blacks: 8-point gain
Latinos: 12-point gain
Asians: 6-point gain

Following the election, Democrat governors of California, Connecticut, Maryland, and Michigan established new programs (3), and, in January, the Republican governor of Utah convened a Men and Boys Well-being Symposium (4).

Other notable developments include:

Bills supportive of men’s issues have been recently introduced in Colorado, Virginia, and Washington State (5).
Men’s health is receiving greater attention, as the American Medical Association approved a resolution last November calling on states to establish offices of men’s health (6). On January 19, House Bill 341 was introduced to establish a Maryland Commission for Boys’ and Men’s Health (7).
A number of states have introduced shared parenting bills with a presumption of joint custody.

Now, candidates are planning for the November 2026 elections and developing strategies to attract the male electorate. In support of these efforts, SAVE has developed a how-to presentation titled, “How to Engage with the Male Voter to Assure Election Victory.”

The 22-slide PowerPoint presentation covers:

Why men represent the new “Power Demographic”
Lessons learned from the 2024 presidential election
Recommended strategies to secure election victory in 2026

The program is suitable for viewing by individual candidates or by teams of political activists. The program is available at no charge on the SAVE website (8).

SAVE – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments – is a 501(c)3 organization working to assure due process, fairness, and equal opportunities for men.

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Men and Boys Men's Rights

Editorial Dishonesty at the Root of Washington Post’s Financial Woes

Post author By Edward Bartlett
Post date February 10, 2026

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Henry Herrera

Telephone: +1-301-801-0608

Email: info@saveservices.org

Editorial Dishonesty at the Root of Washington Post’s Financial Woes

WASHINGTON / February 10, 2026 – Last Wednesday the Washington Post announced its long-awaited decision to lay off more than 300 editors and reporters. The purge will eliminate the paper’s sports section, several foreign bureaus, and books coverage. The outlet lost an estimated $100 million in 2024, according to The Wall Street Journal (1).

Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) views the move as self-inflicted, largely the result of staffers who glossed over scientific truth in favor of a politically acceptable version of events.

The US Centers for Disease Control reports that each year, there are more male victims than female victims of partner abuse (2):

6.5 million male victims
5.7 million female victims

But repeatedly, the Washington Post published accounts that ignored the research and proffered a one-sided version of the truth that ignored male victims. One editorial, authored by actress Amber Heard, later resulted in Heard’s agreement to pay $1 million to Johnny Depp for defamation (3).

Following is a listing of many of the untruthful articles that appeared in the Washington Post over the years(4):

May 10, 2013: “Conference Shines Light on Plight of Battered Mothers Seeking Custody.”
December 29, 2021: “The Pandemic Caused a Global Surge in Domestic Violence. For Victims with Few Options, Abuse has Become the New Normal.”
January 18, 2022: “Senators are Pushing to Reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. Will it Help Indigenous Communities?”
February 17, 2022: “More than 1 in 4 Women Have Experienced Domestic Violence in Their Lifetimes, Global Study Finds.”
October 20, 2022: “Domestic Violence Victim Advocates on Case Uptick During Pandemic.”
January 3, 2023: “Climate Change Puts More Women at Risk for Domestic Violence.”

Leading researchers have repeatedly recognized the similar levels of male and female perpetrated domestic violence. California State University researcher Martin Fiebert reviewed 343 scholarly investigations in over 40 countries and concluded, “women are as physically aggressive as men (or more) in their relationships with their spouses or opposite-sex partners.” (5)

But to this day, even reputable organizations such as the World Health Organization publish reports that ignore the problem of female-perpetrated domestic violence (6).

Reporters need to take a balanced and science-based approach in covering the domestic violence issue.

SAVE – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments – is a 501(c)3 organization working to assure due process, fairness, and equal opportunities for men.

Links:

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/04/washington-post-layoffs-jeff-bezos-00764227
Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2016/2017 Report on Intimate Partner Violence, 2022. Tables 9 and 11. https://www.cdc.gov/nisvs/documentation/nisvsreportonipv_2022.pdf?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs/nisvsreportonipv_2022.pdf
https://www.foxnews.com/us/amber-heard-finally-paid-johnny-depp-1-million-owed-bitter-defamation-battle
https://endtodv.org/pr/abusegate-10-year-suppression-of-the-truth-on-domestic-violence-by-the-washington-post/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261543769_References_Examining_Assaults_by_Women_on_Their_Spouses_or_Male_Partners_An_Updated_Annotated_Bibliography
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/violence-against-women

Men and Boys

WA, UT, CO, and VA Latest States to Launch Initiatives to Address Disparities of Men and Boys

Post author By Edward Bartlett
Post date January 28, 2026

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Henry Herrera

Telephone: +1-301-801-0608

Email: info@saveservices.org

WA, UT, CO, and VA Latest States to Launch Initiatives to Address Disparities of Men and Boys

WASHINGTON / February 4, 2026 – “This bill is deeply personal to me. As the widow of a man who committed suicide and as the mother of a Black son, seeing our boys and men thrive in the community is at the utmost top-of-mind for me each and every day.”

This powerful statement was delivered on January 23 by Washington State Rep. April Berg in support of House Bill 2401, designed to establish a commission on boys and men. Rep. Berg is the lead sponsor of the bill, which already has 19 co-sponsors (1).

The Washington bill is the fourth state-level initiative unveiled in 2026 that is intended to give a boost to men and boys:

Utah: On January 8 Utah Gov. Spencer Cox convened a Men and Boys Well-being Symposium. The event revealed that nationwide, only 64% of men Strongly or Somewhat Agree with the statement, “I understand my purpose in life,” and 30% of men say they don’t have someone to talk with about their mental health (2).

Colorado: The Parental Equality and Child Empowerment Act (PEACE) Act was introduced on January 14 by Sen. Lynda Zamora Wilson. The proposed PEACE Act will establish a rebuttable presumption of equal shared parenting for fathers and mothers (3).

Virginia: On January 14, Del. Josh Thomas introduced HB1188, which establishes a Virginia Boys and Men Advisory Commission. The body is expected to advise on “issues of concern, including education inequity, economic opportunities, disparity in health outcomes, and the impact of social media use.” (4)

These initiatives built on a series of state-level initiatives unveiled in 2025 to advance men and boys:

California: Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order in July to support young men and boys, and to reduce male suicide rates. Newsom observed, “Too many young men and boys are suffering in silence — disconnected from community, opportunity, and even their own families.” (5)

Maryland: During his 2025 State of the State Address, Gov. Wes Moore announced an “all-of-government” effort to “uplift our men and boys.” Proposed efforts include strengthening recruitment of male educators, establishing partnerships, and more (6).

Michigan: Last month, with the support of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential hosted its first Moving Michigan Males Forward Convening to address the urgent challenges facing men across the state (7).

Men’s health has attracted bipartisan attention in recent months, as well. In December the American Medical Association passed a resolution in support of the establishment of offices of men’s health (8).

Men are lagging behind women in 12 major areas (9). SAVE urges lawmakers to continue to strengthen their focus on erasing the many disparities that affect men and boys.

SAVE – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments – is a 501(c)3 organization working to assure due process, fairness, and equal opportunities for men.

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Men and Boys

Inexorable, Growing Political Support for Men and Boys Around the Country

Post author By Edward Bartlett
Post date January 14, 2026

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Henry Herrera

Telephone: +1-301-801-0608

Email: info@saveservices.org

Inexorable, Growing Political Support for Men and Boys Around the Country

WASHINGTON / January 16, 2026 – The past year has witnessed a series of bold new initiatives for men and boys established by Governors Gavin Newsom (CA), Wes Moore (MD), Gretchen Whitmer (MI), and others (1). Last month, for example, the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) hosted its first Moving Michigan Males Forward Convening to address the urgent challenges facing men across the state (2).

Now Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has joined the list, as the Sutherland Institute convened a Men and Boys Well-being Symposium on January 8. The event spotlighted male health, vocation, and purpose.

The event revealed that nationwide, only 64% of men Strongly or Somewhat Agree with the statement, “I understand my purpose in life,” and 30% of men say they don’t have someone to talk with about their mental health (3).

On January 14, 2026, Chief Patron Del. Josh Thomas introduced HB1188, that (4): “Establishes the Virginia Boys and Men Advisory Commission as an advisory commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of advising the General Assembly on issues of concern, including education inequity, economic opportunities, disparity in health outcomes, and the impact of social media use, as such issues relate to boys and men in the Commonwealth.”

Men’s health has attracted considerable bipartisan attention in recent months:

In Congress, the Dads Matter Act of 2025 has been introduced both in the Senate (S. 2131) and House (H.R. 5828).
In June, President Donald Trump issued a message that revealed, “For far too long, the health, happiness, and well-being of our Nation’s men have been neglected, contributing to a troubling reality: men in the United States have a life expectancy five years shorter than women.” (5)
In late November, the American Medical Association approved a resolution that affirms, “Our AMA encourages the establishment of an Office of Men’s Health within each state’s Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate awareness, outreach, and outcomes on men’s health.” (6)

Men are lagging behind women in 12 major areas (7). As state legislatures commence their 2026 sessions, SAVE urges lawmakers to continue to strengthen our national focus on erasing the many disparities affecting men.

SAVE – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments – is a 501(c)3 organization working to assure due process, fairness, and equal opportunities for men.

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Major Benefits of Enhancing Father Involvement

Post author By Edward Bartlett
Post date December 10, 2025

Major Benefits of Enhancing Father Involvement

December 10, 2025

Source: Grok: https://x.com/i/grok?conversation=1997482461266104751

Father involvement provides numerous benefits to children’s development across emotional, cognitive, social, physical, and long-term domains. Here’s a breakdown of key ways it helps, based on research and expert insights:

Improved academic performance and cognitive skills: Involved fathers contribute to higher school readiness, stronger math and verbal abilities, better overall grades (e.g., children are 43% more likely to earn A’s), and a reduced likelihood of repeating a grade. They’re also associated with kids being twice as likely to pursue college or secure stable employment after high school.
Enhanced emotional well-being and mental health: Children with engaged fathers often experience greater emotional security, higher self-esteem, increased confidence, and better self-control. It also correlates with fewer psychological issues, such as lower rates of depression in young women.
Better social development and relationships: Father involvement fosters greater social competence, sociability, and positive peer interactions. It encourages children to explore their environment, take risks, overcome challenges, show bravery around strangers, and stand up for themselves.
Reduced behavioral issues: Beyond general trouble, it specifically lowers the frequency of behavioral problems, particularly in boys, leading to more positive overall conduct.
Physical health advantages: In infancy, father engagement supports better weight gain for preterm babies and higher breastfeeding success rates.
Long-term physiological and generational benefits: It promotes better stress regulation in adulthood, such as healthier cortisol patterns for managing daily stress. Additionally, children of involved fathers are more likely to become engaged parents themselves when they grow up.

These effects hold across various family structures, including non-resident fathers, as long as the involvement is positive and consistent.

What are the financial benefits to society for increasing father involvement?

Increasing positive father involvement generates substantial financial savings and economic gains for society. Below are the major, well-documented fiscal benefits, with estimates drawn from U.S.-based research (most recent large-scale analyses are from the 2010s–2020s; when adjusted to 2025 dollars, the numbers are even larger).

Area of societal cost	Estimated annual U.S. cost linked to father absence	Estimated reduction with higher father involvement	Source / Notes
Child poverty & welfare dependence	~$100–120 billion (public assistance, food stamps, Medicaid, etc.)	20–30% reduction in child poverty rates when fathers are stably involved	National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI), Sorensen & Zibman (2001), updated estimates
Incarceration (juvenile + adult stemming from childhood risks)	~$35–50 billion attributable to father absence	30–40% lower juvenile delinquency & adult incarceration rates → $10–20 billion saved	NFI, CDC fatherhood research meta-analyses
Teen pregnancy & early childbearing	~$10–15 billion in public costs	40–50% lower teen pregnancy rates with involved fathers → $4–8 billion saved	NFI, CDC
Child abuse & neglect (foster care, CPS, medical costs)	~$30–40 billion linked to absent/uninvolved fathers	40% lower child maltreatment rates → $12–16 billion saved	U.S. DHHS, NFI
High school dropout & lost earnings	~$90–120 billion in lifetime lost productivity	40–50% lower dropout rates → $35–60 billion in higher lifetime earnings/taxes	NFI, Alliance for Excellent Education
Child & adolescent mental/behavioral health treatment	~$15–25 billion	30–40% fewer behavioral disorders & mental health issues → $5–10 billion saved	Multiple meta-analyses
Total estimated annual societal savings/gains	$300–400+ billion	Potential 25–35% reduction through widespread increase in positive father involvement	Aggregated from above sources

Key summary points

The National Fatherhood Initiative’s conservative 2015–2023 estimates place the total annual cost of father absence to U.S. taxpayers and the economy at roughly $300–400 billion (2025 dollars likely >$450 billion).
A 20–30% nationwide increase in positive father involvement could yield $100–150 billion per year in direct fiscal savings and productivity gains.
Every $1 invested in evidence-based fatherhood programs (Responsible Fatherhood grants, 24/7 Dad, etc.) returns approximately $4–$10 in reduced government spending and increased tax revenue (MDRC & ACF evaluations).

In short: Greater father involvement is one of the highest-ROI social interventions available—comparable to or exceeding early childhood education programs in economic return.

Key Sources and Links for Financial Benefits of Father Involvement

Here’s a curated list of primary sources supporting the estimates in the previous response. These draw from reports, meta-analyses, and evaluations by organizations like the National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI), CDC, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and others. I’ve focused on the most direct and recent accessible links, with brief notes on relevance.

Figures are often aggregated or modeled, so totals like $300–400 billion for father absence costs stem from NFI’s comprehensive compilations (e.g., Father Facts 9th Edition, 2024), which synthesize data across studies.

Overall Costs of Father Absence

National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) Father Absence Statistics (2024): Core compilation of research on economic impacts, including poverty, incarceration, and long-term productivity losses. Estimates total annual U.S. costs at $300+ billion.
https://www.fatherhood.org/father-absence-statistic
NFI Father Facts 9th Edition (2024): Flagship publication aggregating data on father absence costs, including breakdowns for child poverty, abuse, and behavioral health. Available for purchase or preview via NFI store.
https://store.fatherhood.org/research

Child Poverty & Welfare Dependence

Sorensen & Zibman (2001) – “Poor Dads Who Don’t Pay Child Support” (Urban Institute): Analyzes child support gaps in low-income families, linking father absence to $100+ billion in annual public assistance costs (e.g., Medicaid, food stamps). Updated NFI estimates scale this to 20–30% poverty reduction via involvement.
https://www.urban.org/research/publication/poor-dads-who-dont-pay-child-support

Incarceration

CDC & NFI Meta-Analyses on Fatherhood (via ASPE/DHHS Review, 2012–2023): Synthesizes studies showing 30–40% lower delinquency/incarceration rates with involved fathers, attributing $35–50 billion in costs to absence. Includes pathways like weakened parent-child bonds.
https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/incarceration-family-review-research-promising-approaches-serving-fathers-families-1
Health Effects of Family Member Incarceration Meta-Analysis (2019, via CDC-linked research): Quantifies long-term costs, including health and economic burdens extending to adulthood.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0190740918309034

Teen Pregnancy & Early Childbearing

NFI & CDC on Teen Pregnancy and Father Involvement (2023 updates): Links involved fathers to 40–50% lower teen pregnancy rates, with $10–15 billion in public costs (e.g., welfare, health). Draws from CDC Vital Signs reports.
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5911
NFI Championing Fatherhood Blog – Teens, Sex, Fathers, and Marriage (ongoing): Discusses intergenerational cycles and cost reductions via two-parent involvement.
https://www.fatherhood.org/championing-fatherhood/teens-sex-fathers-marriage-all-that-n-a-baby-carriage

Child Abuse & Neglect

U.S. DHHS & NFI on Child Maltreatment (2023–2024): Estimates $30–40 billion in foster care/CPS costs tied to father absence, with 40% lower maltreatment rates via involvement. See Third National Incidence Study for baselines.
https://evidence2impact.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/s_nmfis02c02.pdf
NFI Fatherhood Programs Overview: Ties programs to reduced abuse/neglect costs.
https://www.fatherhood.org/

High School Dropout & Lost Earnings

Alliance for Excellent Education – The High Cost of High School Dropouts (2007–2009 updates): Projects $90–120 billion in lifetime lost productivity/taxes from dropouts, with father involvement reducing rates by 40–50% (yielding $35–60 billion gains).
https://all4ed.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/HighCost.pdf
National Dropout Prevention Center – Economic Impacts of Dropouts (2025 update): Reinforces earnings gaps ($9,245/year per graduate) and GDP/tax benefits.
https://dropoutprevention.org/resources/statistics/quick-facts/economic-impacts-of-dropouts/

Mental/Behavioral Health Treatment

Aggregated from NFI Meta-Analyses (via Father Facts, 2024): 30–40% fewer issues with involved fathers, saving $15–25 billion in treatment costs. See overall NFI stats link above .

Return on Investment (ROI) of Fatherhood Programs

MDRC & ACF Evaluations (e.g., Fatherhood TIES, SIRF, 2020–2025): Evidence-based programs yield $4–$10 return per $1 invested via reduced spending and higher taxes. Includes meta-analysis of core components.
https://acf.gov/opre/project/testing-identified-elements-success-fatherhood-programs-fatherhood-ties
MDRC Strengthening Implementation of Fatherhood Programs (SIRF): Details implementation and economic outcomes.
https://www.mdrc.org/work/projects/strengthening-implementation-responsible-fatherhood-programs-sirf

Men and Boys

American Medical Association Passes Resolution to Establish Offices of Men’s Health

Post author By Edward Bartlett
Post date December 2, 2025

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Robert Thompson

Telephone: +1-301-801-0608

Email: info@saveservices.org

American Medical Association Passes Resolution to Establish Offices of Men’s Health

WASHINGTON / December 3, 2025 – The American Medical Association has just approved a historic resolution urging states to establish offices of men’s health. The resolution states, “Our AMA encourages the establishment of an Office of Men’s Health within each state’s Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate awareness, outreach, and outcomes on men’s health.” (1)

Previously, the AMA had approved a resolution to create an Office of Men’s Health at the federal level (2).

To date, public health departments in three states have established such programs:

Connecticut Department of Public Health – Men’s Health Program (3)
Illinois Department of Public Health — Men’s Health Section, opened in 2023 (4)
North Dakota Health and Human Services — Men’s Health Program (5)

In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed P.L. 103-268 into law, officially recognizing the week proceeding Father’s Day in June as Men’s Health Week. Subsequently, hundreds of cities, states, and Indian tribes have issued proclamations in support of the observance. (6)

During the past year, men’s health has enjoyed a surge of bipartisan support. In Congress, the Dads Matter Act of 2025 has been introduced both in the Senate (S. 2131) and House (H.R. 5828). In June, President Donald Trump issued a Presidential Message that revealed, “For far too long, the health, happiness, and well-being of our Nation’s men have been neglected, contributing to a troubling reality: men in the United States have a life expectancy five years shorter than women.” (7)

At the state level, both Gov. Gavin Newsom of California (8) and Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland (9) have spoken out passionately about the mental health crisis facing men.

Over the years, males have comprised only 42% of participants in National Institutes of Health research trials (10). Likewise, funding for research on male-specific diseases lags behind funding for female-specific conditions. Each year, 14% of the NIH research budget goes toward women’s health, and only 6% is allocated to men’s health (11)

Men die five years sooner than women, and the suicide rates of men are three times higher than women’s (12). SAVE urges lawmakers to continue to expand our national focus on improving the health of men.

SAVE – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments – is a 501(c)3 organization working to assure due process, fairness, and equal opportunities for men.

Links:

https://waboysandmen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AMA-Resolution-of-Support-for-Federal-and-State-Offices-of-Mens-Health.pdf
American Medical Association Policy D-160.985. “Establishment of an Office of Men’s Health.” Res. 417, A-07. Reaffirmed: BOT Rep. 22, A-17. AMA House of Delegates Policy Database.
https://portal.ct.gov/dph/cedpp/connecticut-mens-health-program?language=en_US
https://dph.illinois.gov/topics-services/life-stages-populations/mens-health.html
https://www.hhs.nd.gov/health/men
https://menshealthmonth.org/week/proclamation
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/06/presidential-message-on-national-mens-health-week-2025/
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/30/governor-newsom-issues-executive-order-to-support-young-men-and-boys-address-suicide-rates/
https://washingtonian.com/2025/03/14/wes-moore-is-worried-about-marylands-men/
https://jameslnuzzo.substack.com/p/graph-of-the-week-32b
https://jameslnuzzo.substack.com/p/nih-funding-of-mens-and-womens-health
https://www.menandboys.net/health/

Parental Alienation

Parental Alienation and Me

Post author By Edward Bartlett
Post date November 30, 2025

Parental Alienation and Me

By Sean Bw Parker

November 30, 2025

On an evening in the winter of 1984, after my older brother and I hadn’t seen our mother for some weeks, there came a tap on the French windows of our house near Cullompton in East Devon. The heavy burgundy curtains remained drawn, our father ignoring the quiet raps.

Our mother had finally left the family home on 6th June that year, D-Day, after years of stress, and finally prompted by an exposed affair with a local vicar, whose wife had also been a friend. Our father was 18 years older than our mother, his having met her at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London in the 1960s after the break up of his first marriage, and she down in the capital after growing up in Kendal.

His small-c conservative ways, lurking behind a left-wing presentation, didn’t match so well with our truly liberated mother, in town to become independent as a speech therapist, which she later did. After marrying in 1969 they decamped to the Westcountry where she started working for the NHS, he started as a drama lecturer at Exeter University, and they had my brother in 1972 and me three years later.

However nine years after my birth, and four years at the big new house in East Devon they found their divorce in the Daily Mirror due to the story’s salaciousness, and our father moved us 200 miles away to Carmarthenshire in South Wales (near where he had lived with his first wife and they had brought up his first two sons). Contact with my mother was sporadic from that point forth, our father becoming more and more depressed and isolated, while keeping up arm’s length, wary contact with her. After he died in 1997, I was able to make gradual steps in becoming closer to my mother, and have remained so since.

Two years before he died, in 1995 I married my first girlfriend at the age of twenty, and we soon had a daughter and even bought a little prefab bungalow in a Carmarthenshire village with some inheritance from her grandfather. We had been together since 1992 when we met while I was working at my first job at a local antiques shop, and I became close with her Mormon family (she was one of ten siblings).

When my father died of a heart attack in 1997, at the age of 67, and I was 22, I subconsciously started to reassess my situation, and realised I had things I wanted to do in the world of creativity that wouldn’t be possible in my current domestic situation.

Alcohol had always been part of my family story, from my heavy-drinking grandfathers down (though not my own father). Following a liaison with someone named Robyn while I was dressed as Batman at my brother’s Halloween party, which my wife briefly witnessed, she left to stay with family in Essex.

We remained separated into 1998, staying dolefully in contact on the telephone, until she went quiet one day and told me the next day she had met someone else, and stayed the night with him. We were ‘even’, but the divorce came through the next year, after I had had a full blown nervous breakdown the following Halloween, which led to some years of panic attacks and anxious depression, for which I eventually sought treatment.

During this extended breakdown I met my subsequent partner, a primary school teacher living in Surrey Quays in London, who had family in Surrey near where I was living. She quickly fell pregnant, and upon telling me by phone I said I’d stand by her as long as I could, in whatever she chose to do.

However we didn’t know each other too well, and while I spent my father’s small inheritance on a returning – a few years late – to art school and rent for a cottage for us to move into, it became clear she expected me to give up my new degree. I felt somewhat sprung into this having only recently split up with my ex wife, and started drinking again, despite now having lost my licence twice for drink driving, and our tensions mounted.

My new partner objected to my regularly going to the Student Union, while I saw it as living the student life which she had had, and for which I had opted out of domestic life in the first place. I wasn’t in any sense a ‘wild’ student anyway, seeing university, as a mature student, as another career stage by that point. Suffice to say we only just made it into the new millennium, when the tensions became too much, and I moved into a local student house – in the knowledge I now had a four year old daughter and six month old son.

My mother did a good job of keeping in touch with both of my exes and their mothers, aware of the historical resonances in what was happening, and enjoyed being a supportive grandmother. The mothers gradually stopped communicating with me however, as I became a chef to support myself, then moved to Istanbul following my masters degree in 2004. I had met a Turkish/Armenian woman whom I missed when she returned home, was tired of Tony Blair’s constant bombs-era media, and wanted to live in a foreign country for a while at least.

This accidentally became ten years, over which I had ‘Facebook contact’ with my children, being as supportive as I could be, but obviously not enough. After I returned in 2014 we had a couple of semi-frosty meetings, at which I tried my best, but realised there was much work to be done. When I had some serious legal problems of my own in 2018 (the details of which are not for this piece) we became further estranged, and when I was at last in a position to be in touch in 2022, there was tumbleweed, despite a number of letter sent and attempted explanations of all this. I had no idea what had been said about me over the years, by whom, or how accurate any of it had been.

My ex wife had verbally attacked my mother a couple of years before when she gave me our daughter’s new address so I could send a congratulations card on the birth of our first granddaughter. This made my mother unwilling to be go-between from then on, so I made an approach through National Family Mediation. Still crickets.

I knew when I left my wife and young daughter as a 23 year-old that the future would be challenging because of these decisions I felt myself having to make, but the truth is ‘broken families’ were nothing new in my experience – and epigenetically this reality might have gone back generations.

Neither of the mothers of my children shared these experiences, we never talked about it, and I’m still not sure they truly understood the breakdown I endured following my father’s death. Did my father alienate his sons from their mother, and then did the mothers of my children alienate them from me? Was any of it deserved? It’s a matter of perspective, I guess.

Sean Bw Parker (MA) is an artist, writer and musician, and contributing editor to Empowering The Innocent (ETI)

Men's Rights

Republicans Are Losing Elections as They Sidestep the Male Voter

Post author By Edward Bartlett
Post date November 18, 2025

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Republicans Are Losing Elections as They Sidestep the Male Voter

WASHINGTON / November 20, 2025 – Republicans suffered greater-than-expected losses in the recent November 4 elections. In addition to the gubernatorial setbacks in Virginia and New Jersey, the GOP lost its supermajority in the Mississippi Senate; both Republican incumbents in Georgia’s Public Services Commission were ousted; and Republicans lost control of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1).

Most stunning was the fact that 84% of women under 30 voted to make Zohran Mamdani the mayor of New York City. In contrast, White men were the only demographic to vote against the Muslim communist (2).

To seal his 2024 victory, Donald Trump relied on a number of innovative strategies: intensive outreach via podcasts; leveraging high-profile male allies such as Elon Musk; voter registration drives that targeted men; and presenting himself as a positive masculine role model.

As a result, Trump scored impressive gains with all four racial and ethnic groups, largely due to a wave of support from 18 to 29 year-old men (3):

Whites: 4-point gain
Blacks: 8-point gain
Latinos: 12-point gain
Asians: 6-point gain

Following the November election, one would have expected Republicans to build on this momentum, especially since men are more likely than women to embrace pro-family, conservative values:

Commitment to the Goals of Marriage: Men are more likely than women to agree that married persons are more likely to find happiness: Men: 38%; Women: 22%. (4)
Parental Aspirations: Single young men are more likely than their female counterparts to aspire to become a parent. Men: 57%; Women: 45%. (5)
Family Size: In response to the question, “What do you think is the ideal number of children for a family to have?”, the percentage of persons who responded, “Three or more children:” Men: 48%; Women: 37%. (6)
Infidelity: Only 11% of husbands, compared to 14% of wives, had been involved in an extramarital affair, as of 2021-2022. (7)
Divorce: Husbands initiate only 31 % of all divorces, while wives seek 69% of divorces. (8)

In 2025, the Democrat governors of California, Connecticut, Maryland, and Michigan launched high-profile programs designed to benefit men (9).

But Republican governors seemingly turned a cold shoulder to the male electorate — with the sole exception of Gov. Mike Braun of Indiana who issued a proclamation in support of Men’s Equality Month (10).

Commentators have probed the reasons behind the complacency:

Scott McCay argued the broader problem is “Republicans sitting on their rear ends” while the Left is “defrosting the Cold Civil War.” (11)
Charlie Kirk attributed the shortfall to the lack of a “revolutionary mindset” among conservatives (12).
Nathan Stone recently concluded, “There’s a lot of work to do between now and next November. So we had better get started and be anxious for the fray.” (13)

Bottom line, Republicans need to refocus on engaging with and winning the enthusiastic support of the male electorate.

SAVE – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments – is a 501(c)3 organization working to assure due process, fairness, and equal opportunities for men.

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