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ifeminists November 2, 2005 Leving & Sacks	PBS Declares War on Dads Breaking the Silence is a direct assault on American fathers, and the minimal, hard won gains they have made in protecting their children's right to have their fathers in their lives.
ifeminists February 13, 2007 Don Mathis	How VAWA Separates Children From Fathers The result of the VAWA is rampant false claims of abuse. This means that children are removed from decent, loving fathers. The Violence Against Women Act must be radically altered or else it will continue to destroy the father/child bond.
ifeminists June 14, 2007 Leving & Sacks	In this Turf War, Kids Are the Prize Parental Alienation is child abuse. Courts need to do more to protect children from alienation, not dismiss it.
ifeminists September 23, 2003 Glenn Sacks	Convicted Murderess Can Get Custody but Decent Fathers Can't Clara Harris, a Texas woman who was convicted of murdering her husband in March, was just granted joint custody of her twin five year-old boys. The ruling validates what fathers' and children's advocates have been saying for years -- when it comes to children, many courts believe that mothers can do no wrong.
ifeminists January 26, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Removing Legal Incentives to Lie The false accusations that impact most people often occur in the process of divorce, in battles over custody and child support. For years, advocates of fathers' rights have accused the family courts of being "anti-male" and of rubber-stamping women's claims.
ifeminists July 1, 2003 Wendy McElroy	In the Best Interest of the Children... A new legal term is creating debate across North America: the "rebuttable presumption of joint custody." It means family courts should presume that divorcing parents will equally share the legal and physical custody of children unless there is compelling reason to rule otherwise.
ifeminists March 5, 2007 Teri Stoddard	Can't Find a Husband? Men who embrace fatherhood are shown their time and influence aren't important. Our government does this by enforcing child support orders while not enforcing visitation orders.
ifeminists September 24, 2002 Sacks & Thompson	Shared Custody Could Prevent Abductions According to the US Department of Justice, mothers and fathers abduct their children in equal numbers. What is needed is to reform the child custody system in order to prevent the kidnappings from occurring in the first place.
ifeminists April 5, 2009 Wendy McElroy	Is Parental Alienation a Syndrome? Parental Alienation has been a hot topic in the Canadian courts of late with a mother losing custody on the grounds of her continuing campaign to vilify the father and distance him from their children.
ifeminists June 28, 2006 Leving & Sacks	California Spousal Rape Bill Will Harm Innocent Men False accusations of violence or abuse are endemic in family law cases. The California Senate and the Assembly Committee on Public Safety recently approved a misguided bill which will make the problem worse by easing the way for spurious spousal rape allegations to be used against fathers.
ifeminists July 19, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	North Dakota Shared Parenting Initiative Will Help Children of Divorce A misguided collection of federal and state officials, divorce attorneys and women's advocates have all united to oppose a simple proposition: children need both parents.
ifeminists August 8, 2008 Teri Stoddard	Equal Custody And VAWA Regarding custody, the Violence Against Women Act is unconstitutional and full of misandry.
ifeminists March 2, 2005 Jennifer Roback Morse	The True Cost of False Witness False or frivolous charges of child abuse play havoc with the family court system, and in the lives of many innocent people. At the very least, society needs to impose some penalty for inflicting those kinds of costs on others.
ifeminists June 30, 2004 Jon W.	Letter: Civil Disobedience & Fundamental Liberty Rights of Parents There is no sign that the Federal Courts are going to recognize the serious legal mess of the family court system.
ifeminists June 9, 2004 Wendy McElroy	How to Form an Informed Opinion Like it or not, personal opinion of court cases has become part of the process of justice in America. How to make a judgment based more on facts and less on rhetoric.
ifeminists March 8, 2006 Carey Roberts	Family Make-Over Ponzi Scheme Remember how the Great Society evicted fathers from their homes? That's what the M.O.M. Squad has in mind for the rest of us. It's our families that need to be shored up, and our children who desperately need their fathers.
ifeminists December 7, 2005 Wendy McElroy	PBS Continues Probe into Biased Film The documentary, Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories is accused of being anti-father, factually inaccurate and politically motivated. But the documentary's message is clear: the family courts must be overhauled.
ifeminists October 26, 2005 Mark B. Rosenthal	Breaking the Science: Misleading Stories PBS stations around the nation will air a film entitled "Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories". Although protecting helpless victims from brutal abusers is a noble undertaking, distorting the facts to libel an entire class of people is not.
AskMen.com June 10, 2003 Douglas Cooney	Why Do Divorce Laws Marginalize Men? It seems that no matter who you talk to these days, someone knows of a man who came out of a divorce robbed and humiliated. And there is no end to how harrowing such stories get.
ifeminists November 1, 2006 Wendy McElroy	Don't Always Believe the Victim Two recent news stories differ in significant details but share a common message: false accusations of sexual abuse kill innocent people and devastate lives. The stories reveal the terrible human cost imposed by the often heard demand, 'always believe the victim'.
ifeminists March 29, 2008 Terri Lynn Tersak	Congressional Guidelines for Abusing Women This report examines the many problems the author finds inherent in local and national services and legal protections that are designed to help victims of domestic abuse.
ifeminists August 26, 2003 Wendy McElroy	Going to Extremes The issue of fathers' rights in the U.K. may be entering a more violent phase. If so, this should act as a cautionary tale for North America.
ifeminists October 11, 2006 Terri Lynn Tersak	VAWA Fails to Protect Women Who Need Protection the Most Persons who file false or trivial claims of domestic violence are accorded equal standing by the abuse shelters and courts as the most seriously battered women. In a system rife with fraudulent claims, is clear that many of the programs are profiting handsomely.
ifeminists February 11, 2003 Thompson & Sacks	Undermining the American Family The American Law Institute, which exercises great influence on American jurisprudence, has just released a series of family law recommendations that would exacerbate our problems by trivializing the importance of marriage, encouraging divorce and accelerating fatherlessness.
ifeminists June 9, 2004 Sacks & Brass	National Fatherhood Initiative's Ad Campaign Insults African-American Fathers While the NFI's goal is laudable, research shows that a major factor in black fatherlessness, which the NFI campaign completely ignores, is the obstruction of fathers' visitation rights by custodial mothers.
ifeminists May 8, 2007 McCormick & Sacks	Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls Tells an Important Truth About African-American Fathers While no judge or lawmaker can turn a disinterested parent into a caring one, much can and should be done to break down the many barriers which separate loving fathers from their children.
ifeminists March 1, 2006 Carey Roberts	The Feminist Anti-Kid Crusade Despite the fact that kids with involved dads do better, regardless of all the joint custody laws, and in spite of the laughable antics of the M.O.M. brigade, mothers continue to be favored in custody decisions by a 7 to 1 margin.
ifeminists September 27, 2006 Carey Roberts	Gender Newspeak at Newsweek A recent Newsweek article claims that courts are biased against moms when determining child custody in divorce cases. The author disputes the articles sources.
ifeminists June 18, 2008 Carey Roberts	Sex, Lies, and Datatapes of the Partner Abuse Industry The domestic violence industry is reeling from a recent series of high-profile scandals, leaving abuse workers to wonder how things could have possibly gone so wrong.
Salon.com July 6, 2000 Cathy Young	Team players or tools of the patriarchy? Women often are supplying the muscle behind the fathers' rights movement.
ifeminists September 27, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	Shared Parenting Initiative Helps Women, Too The North Dakota Shared Parenting Initiative (NDSPI) grants joint custody to both parents unless one is seen as unfit. However, there are certain children's rights group that oppose this proposed law.
ifeminists May 18, 2005 Carey Roberts	VAWA Law Polarizes the Sexes, Weakens the Family The Violence Against Women Act represents a frontal assault on both fatherhood and on the integrity of the traditional family.
ifeminists February 18, 2003 Glenn Sacks	Valentine's Day & the Gender Wars Part of the division between men and women is due to women's legitimate grievances. But much of it is also caused by men's resentment that the very real problems and disadvantages they face as husbands, partners and fathers have been ignored by the media, our lawmakers and by society as a whole.
ifeminists August 2, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	NOW at 40: Group's Opposition to Shared Parenting Contradicts Its Goal of Gender Equality It's time for the National Organization for Women to re-examine its misguided stand against shared parenting, and to bring its policies into line with its stated ideals.
ifeminists June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts	Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce.
Reason December 2003 Cathy Young	Divorcees and Social Engineers Most people acknowledge that children are better off when they have fathers and when their fathers are actively involved in their lives. But where do we go from there? Fathers face off against the marriage movement.
ifeminists February 22, 2006 Carey Roberts	The M.O.M. Squad Capers Be forewarned, M.O.M.s - Mothers Opposed to Men - wield a formidable array of fake statistics, sob stories, and old-fashioned propaganda.
ifeminists July 8, 2007 Michael J. McManus	Taken Into Custody Father's Day was not joyful for millions of fathers who had a divorce forced upon them, whose children were "taken into custody" by the mother who filed for the divorce.
ifeminists May 31, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	Louisiana's HB 315 Says One Parent is Better Than Two Shared parenting is advocated by a growing consensus of mental health and family law professionals, and current Louisiana law has led to an increase in shared custody awards. HB 315 would reverse this progress.
ifeminists January 5, 2005 Wendy McElroy	What to Do About Daddy? How can courts help to prevent heart-wrenching father-child reunions? They should acknowledge at the very beginning of an adoption proceeding that both responsible parents have an equal voice.
ifeminists November 3, 2007	Child Support: The Fallacy, The Fraud, And The Failure The Family Law system in the U.S. is a disease-ridden, corrupt socialist system that will ultimately destroy us.
ifeminists April 12, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	'Roe v. Wade for Men' Case Illustrates Family Law System's Inequities The "woman good/man bad" modus operandi of the American family law system has wounded children and the fathers they love and need. The problem cannot be resolved until we acknowledge and address the fundamental inequities of the system.
ifeminists October 8, 2002 Sacks & Thompson	Can Abolishing Sole Custody Curb Divorce? Research from American Law and Economics Review indicates the presumption of joint physical custody may serve to keep some marriages together.
On Wall Street September 1, 2012 Alan J. Foxman	Looking at Illinois Court's Ruling on Non-Compete Clause Our legal analyst explores one state s new rules on employment agreements.
ifeminists September 29, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Across U.S., Non-Custodial Parents Sue The number of non-custodial parent plaintiffs who sign on to a federal class action cannot be predicted but it could run into millions. Federal law is being asked to trump state practice in custody matters.
ifeminists June 30, 2004 Carey Roberts	Divorced Dads' White-Hot Sense of Injustice Noncustodial dads find it incomprehensible that their basic human right to be a parent is being curtailed by a legal system that they perceive to be expensive, cloaked in secrecy, and unfair, spurring their suicide rate to 10 times that of divorced women.
AskMen.com Michael Estrin	Paying Child Support 101 Though the laws vary from state to state and each case is different, it's important to know a few things about the general process so you can protect yourself.
ifeminists November 11, 2003 Glenn Sacks	In Defense of Spiderman The mayor of London compares him to Osama bin Laden. He's been dubbed a "menace" holding a city for "ransom," as well as a lunatic and an extremist. What has 36 year-old David Chick done to arouse such anger? He loves his little daughter, from whom he's been forcibly separated.
ifeminists May 26, 2004 Glenn Sacks	Powder Attack on Tony Blair Done in Service of a Just Cause English fathers' rights group protests the greatest social injustice in the Anglo-American world today -- the way decent, loving fathers are driven out of their children's lives after divorce or separation.
ifeminists November 18, 2003 Wendy McElroy	Fathers Protest Unjust Custody Laws The absurdity of a recent UK protest is nothing compared to the obscenity of a system that deprives fathers of their children and children of parental love. In the same vein as theatre of the absurd, politics of the absurd is emerging on the issue of child custody.