The expression "confronting head on" is certainly correct and usable in written English.
It is most commonly used to refer to facing a problem, challenge, or difficult situation directly and without hesitation. For example, you could say, "Despite his fear, he decided to confront the problem head on."
The one criticism that is worth confronting head on is the idea that motherhood is purely a personal decision and none of anyone else's business.
"It is regrettable that the outcome hinged entirely on a procedural issue that Australia chose to advocate instead of confronting head on the merits of whether plain packaging is legal or even works".
Their rooms are a welcome salve after some of the more challenging work on show, places you might go to recover from the perilous battlegrounds that other exhibitors are confronting head on.
A 47-year-old divorcee and a successful businesswoman, she has spent the last five years in the country building a parallel career as a journalist and a blogger, confronting head on sensitive subjects from the abuse of women and poverty in the world's second biggest oil exporter to the chilling effect of the mutawa, the kingdom's draconian religious police.
And Mr. Bush was confronting head on two of the principal obstacles to selling a big tax cut: many voters' belief that politicians are not really going to deliver the goods, or that the total savings would ultimately be pocket change.
We are confronting head-on the things we got wrong".
And it means confronting head-on the poisonous Islamist extremist ideology".
We're not good at discussing this, at confronting head-on what the toll of our best intentions and tortured interventions can be.
The book ends with Pran in Africa, confronting head-on the horror of blackness, of otherness, that has so consumed his life.
Page 1 CAN HE SAVE THE DAY? Mario Draghi will soon take the reins of the European Central Bank, confronting head-on the policy-making challenges of the region's financial crisis.
What explains the reluctance among politicians to consider confronting, head-on, a movement that has been intent on eradicating ideals that the United States and its allies hold dear?
