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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 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 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 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. |
Psychology Today May/Jun 2007 Mark Teich |
House Divided: Hate Thy Father In an era of bitter divorce battles, parents often use children as hammers to bash each other, manipulating not only the legal system but also their children's affections. Can a broken parent-child bond be restored? |
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 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 23, 2004 Tony Zizza |
Poor Parenting Skills Can Be A Choice It's time for Americans to start improving parenting skills from within. Stop allowing the pharmaceutical companies with their magic pills, brochures and videos to do what we alone must do - raise our children. |
ifeminists September 8, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
Grandparents Can't Trump Parental Rights As the definition of family has changed, the role of grandparents has shifted with it. Sometimes grandparents are excluded from children's lives, as frequently occurs in contested divorces. |
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. |
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 April 19, 2006 David Heleniak |
False Domestic Violence Accusations Can Lead To Parental Alienation Syndrome If the DV restraining order system could be reformed so that only real victims obtained restraining orders and only real abusers were thrown out their houses, then the number of heart-wrenching PAS cases would be greatly reduced. |
The Motley Fool December 29, 2003 Alyce Lomax |
Lilly's Symbyax Gets Green Light Prozac has a new lease on life. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved Eli Lilly's well-known antidepressant in combination with Zyprexa for the treatment of bipolar depression. |
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 February 16, 2009 Wendy McElroy |
Beat up the Kid, Spare the Adults Police removed an unruly 7-year-old from his classroom and forced him to be hospitalized under the state's Baker Act -- against the wishes of his outraged 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 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 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. |
Salon.com July 11, 2001 Amy Benfer |
A history of failure Author and psychologist Bruce Levine pummels psychiatry, psychotropic drugs and the role both may have played in the case of Andrea Yates... |
ifeminists March 22, 2006 Eric D. Tarkington |
Letter: Right Cause, Wrong Approach Equal protection of the law in America is not enough to get fathers all that we deserve. It only puts a limit on what can be taken away. |
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. |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
Fatherhood Guide: Discipline This article addresses the fine line of disciplining your child. Discipline relates to children of all ages, but the following article will be most helpful to fathers of children under the age of 10. |
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. |
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 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 May 23, 2007 Stephen Baskerville |
Spotsylvania 'Deadbeat' Dads? What Virginia's children need is the love, guidance, and attention of their fathers -- the same fathers who are forcibly kept away by divorce courts and then plundered by the state's dishonest child-support machine. |
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 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 16, 2008 Tony Zizza |
Teen Motherhood a "Right"? Why is teen motherhood viewed as an absolute "right" while teen fatherhood is just a financial "responsibility."? |
ifeminists July 1, 2003 Glenn Sacks |
New Study, Case May Help California Children of Divorce Retain Bonds with Both Parents One of the greatest tragedies children of divorce in California face is the way courts allow custodial parents to move hundreds or even thousands of miles away after divorce, damaging or sometimes destroying the bonds between children and their noncustodial parents. That may change. |
ifeminists December 15, 2004 Carey Roberts |
Long Live the Matriarchy! Until the essential role of fathers is recognized and antiquated laws are changed, millions of American children will be deprived of the steady hand of a loving father. |
Sports Central January 7, 2015 Mert Ertunga |
Thoughts on Tennis Parenting Recently, the issue of "tennis parenting," a term used for parents whose kids who play competitive tennis, has resurfaced within the last month. |
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. |
Salon.com July 18, 2001 Lawrence H. Diller |
Defusing the explosive child Prescribing drugs, not discipline, will only escalate conflict, lead to more difficult kids and weaken our already-lax culture of parenting. |
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 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. |
ifeminists May 24, 2006 Gerald K. McOscar |
ADHD Is it child abuse per se for parents to allow doctors to prescribe mind altering drugs with potentially serious or fatal psychiatric side effects to their children, no matter how challenged...or challenging? |
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. |
ifeminists June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce. |
ifeminists June 14, 2006 Leving & Sacks |
New Report: Foster Care System Disregards Fathers America's child welfare policies are seriously misguided. When a mother is deemed unfit to care for her children, dad shouldn't be just one option out of many. He should be first in line. |
Investment Advisor April 2007 Olivia Mellan |
Child Is Father to the Man Few money messages are as enduring as the ones a son learns from his dad. Here's what financial planners need to understand about this special relationship. |
ifeminists April 14, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
Parental Rights and the Pledge Does a parent's custody status determine if he or she has standing in a court of law concerning their child's education, medical care, or other related issues of well-being? |
Salon.com March 9, 2000 Lawrence H. Diller, M.D. |
Kids on drugs A behavioral pediatrician questions the wisdom of medicating our children. |
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 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 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 17, 2004 Byron Fraser |
Review: Your Drug May Be Your Problem Excerpts from the book Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications by Peter Breggin and David Cohen delineating the adverse effects of these medications and how to stop taking them. |
The Motley Fool March 23, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
Down on Drug News? An FDA advisory on labeling antidepressants shouldn't depress drug stocks. |
ifeminists February 22, 2006 Leving & Sacks |
California Supreme Court Takes Step Backward on Children's Rights The Brown vs. Yana decision creates another hurdle for noncustodial parents who are trying to prevent their children from being moved out of their lives. |
ifeminists May 19, 2004 Leving & Sacks |
It's Child Support Guidelines that Need Surgery, Not 'Deadbeat Dads' The pot of child support gold--which hard-line judges and Attorneys General often insist they're going to find if we'd just get tough on deadbeats--simply does not exist. |