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In the ongoing saga that is Allen Iverson’s life, his ex-wife, Tawanna Iverson, has filed papers accusing the former Philadelphia 76er of abducting their children. He has yet to return them to her after taking them on vacation on May 22, according to Sports Illustrated. Tawanna Iverson filed papers that said Allen asked for permission…

Privacy is a controversial concept these days, especially since the recent Supreme Court decision allowing DNA samples to be taken during certain arrests. Andrew Cohen writes at The Atlantic that not all personal property is equal. He disagrees with former SCOTUS Justice John Paul Stevens, who recently spoke about the case. John Paul Stevens, the…

A man’s role as provider is ingrained into American society, but Columbia University doctoral student Eva Haldane writes at Parlour magazine that, whether or not they receive child support, kids usually just want to hang out with their dads. To all the fathers who don’t live with their kids; your kids don’t care if you…

As more information emerges about the National Security Agency’s leak, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday that President Obama will soon come out in support of the surveillance activities. President Obama does not believe his administration has violated the privacy of any American in light of…

The stereotype of a father deserting the mother of their children to bear the burden of child rearing alone is being turned on its ear by Harvard sociologists Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson, who wrote the book Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City. The pair interviewed numerous men in New…

While many celebrate the bond between fathers and their children on Sunday, those who lost their little ones to gun violence during the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Conn., are using their energy this Father’s Day to raise awareness about gun violence through the e-card campaign No Father’s Day, the Huffington Post reports. Begun by…

Just in time for Father’s Day, Kanye West and girlfriend Kim Kardashian welcomed their first child together, a daughter, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood, Calif., on Saturday, according to US Weekly. “Kim had her baby,” a hospital source tells Us exclusively. “She’s five weeks early. Kim got sick last night and had the…

Adult relationships are complicated and tough to understand as a child, and Black Ink admits at PostBourgie that he misjudged his father for most of his life, until now. By the time I had moved on to college, I fooled myself into believing I didn’t really need a father figure anymore. I was tired of…

(The Root) — Within the span of three weeks, two public officials went above and beyond their immediate duties to help Chad Milner gain custody of his 9-month-old daughter. An officer in a Virginia sheriff’s department gave Milner (then 26, and a recent Morehouse College graduate) off-the-record advice about what he needed to do to…