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ifeminists July 14, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Paternity: Innocence Is Now a Defense A California man being forced to pay child support for a child he had not fathered got his day in court when the Second District Court of Appeal of California overturned a paternity judgment against him.
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.
Reason February 2004 Matt Welch	Injustice by Default How the effort to catch "deadbeat dads" ruins innocent men's lives.
ifeminists May 16, 2007 Leving & Sacks	Equal Rights Amendment Yes, 'Women's Equality Amendment' No Unfortunately, the bill's sponsors have changed the ERA's name to the Women's Equality Amendment. There's a major problem with that, because when considering injustices based on gender, today men and fathers can lay claim to many of them.
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 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 5, 2007 Leving & Sacks	NY Electronic Tagging Device Bill -- An Orwellian Measure Assembly Bill 5424 is a draconian measure which will victimize many innocent New York men and fathers. The bill requires any person against whom an order of protection is issued.to wear an electronic monitoring device.
ifeminists March 10, 2004 Leving & Sacks	Will Some Reservists' Homecoming Be a Jail Cell? It happened after the first Gulf War. Some of the more than 250,000 reservists called up returned saddled with large child support arrearages they were unable to pay. As interest and penalties on the overdue support piled up, many spent years trying to dig themselves out of debt, while often facing unremitting government harassment.
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 November 26, 2002 Thompson & Sacks	Families and the war America's enemies abroad are not the only danger fathers who will be called up as military reservists face. Upon return, those with child support orders will face a threat here at home -- the war that is being waged against "deadbeat dads."
ifeminists November 20, 2007 Carey Roberts	Massive Human Rights Abuses in the Name of Stopping Abuse State-sanctioned disdain of civil liberties has now spread to foreign lands.
ifeminists September 17, 2002 Sacks & Thompson	High-Profile 'Deadbeat Dad' Raids Won't Fix Child Support System Badly in Need of Reform Reforms are needed that will make the system more rational and workable, and which will benefit both the children owed support and the fathers who owe it.
ifeminists March 23, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Military Dads Denied Father's Rights A military father pays child support yet is denied access to his son. Other active military fathers face repercussions under The Bradley Amendment.
ifeminists October 22, 2002 Sacks & Thompson	California Governor Davis Preserves and Protects Paternity Fraud California Governor Gray Davis had the chance to free thousands of falsely condemned men last week. He chose federal funds instead.
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 August 30, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	New American Bar Association Article Points to Crisis in False Paternity Judgments Child support debtors receive little public sympathy, at times with reason. Yet the victims of false paternity judgments aren't men trying to evade their legitimate responsibilities. They are victims of one of the most indefensible civil rights violations in America today.
ifeminists November 18, 2003 Leving & Sacks	Defrauded Veterans Have Mixed Emotions on Veterans Day According to Carnell Smith, Executive Director of the National Family Justice Association, military men are often "preyed upon" by unscrupulous "father shoppers" who can make fraudulent paternity designations without penalty.
ifeminists September 23, 2003 Wendy McElroy	Do Poor Fathers Deserve Debtors' Prison? What does throwing a "deadbeat dad" in jail accomplish?
ifeminists April 5, 2006 Carey Roberts	Child Support Gold-Diggers Laws that protect women from rape, domestic violence, and sexual harassment all rest on a simple assumption: women who claim to be victims are almost always telling the truth. Maybe it's time to revisit that belief.
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 August 31, 2005 Leving & Sacks	Persecuting Low Income Parents The driving force behind child support arrearages is not bad parents, but instead rigid child support systems which are impervious to the economic realities noncustodial parents face, such as layoffs, wage cuts, and work-related injuries.
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 10, 2005 Carey Roberts	Restraining Orders for Abusive Grandmas? When lawmakers return from their August recess, one of their first orders of business will be to take up the Violence Against Women Act, the bill that fuels the use of restraining orders around the country. Let's hope they don't forget all the grandparents looking forward to seeing their grandchildren.
ifeminists June 30, 2004 Leving & Sacks	New Study Shows Child Support Guidelines in Need of Reform What rationale is there for California's child support guidelines if they serve to harm or drive away one of the two people who most love a child?
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 October 1, 2002 Sacks & Thompson	Michigan Reform Plan Fights Rising Paternity Fraud "You play, you pay" is the response often given to men who complain about the financial burden of supporting their offspring. Today, for thousands of Michigan men, the refrain has become "You didn't play? You pay anyway."
ifeminists June 15, 2005 Carey Roberts	A Government Program Is No Substitute For a Bear-Hug Why does the US taxpayer continue to subsidize government programs, to the tune of billions of dollars a year, that end up separating fathers from their families?
ifeminists August 4, 2004 Wendy McElroy	In Defense of 'Deadbeat' Dads It is time for the prison release of impoverished deadbeat dads to become official policy in every corner of North America.
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 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 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 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 May 12, 2004 Leving & Sacks	Is a Pool More Important than a Dad? Last week the California Supreme Court issued an historic opinion which clarifies current case law and reaffirms the importance of both parents in a child's life.
ifeminists June 21, 2006 Leving & Sacks	Illinois Fatherhood Council Recommends New Reforms in Family Law, Child Support Policies based on blaming and punishing dads may make good political sound bites, but they are counterproductive for society, and hurtful to children and the fathers they love and need.
ifeminists August 8, 2008 Teri Stoddard	Equal Custody And VAWA Regarding custody, the Violence Against Women Act is unconstitutional and full of misandry.
Reason November 2002 Cathy Young	Dad Blood If DNA tests prove that you're not your children's father, do you still owe child support?
ifeminists April 7, 2009 Carey Roberts	Voices from the Grave, Betrayed by a Restraining Order Debi Olson had three restraining orders taken out against her. But that didn't stop the woman from ambushing ex-husband Mauricio Droguett in an Iowa shopping mall last July, fatally stabbing him in front of shocked mall-goers.
ifeminists March 29, 2006 Carey Roberts	Restraining Order Madness Domestic restraining orders were originally designed to protect persons from actual or imminent harm. But over the years, feminists convinced state legislators to expand the definition of domestic violence.
ifeminists March 15, 2006 Leving & Sacks	Kansas License Bill Unfair to Noncustodial Parents The Kansas House just passed a highly publicized bill that would allow the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services to have the driver's licenses of so-called "deadbeat" parents seized if they have child-support arrearages of $500 or more.
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 August 18, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Child Custody Laws Poised for Change A war to change custody laws has clearly been declared, not only in California but also across North America. Hopefully, everyone will remember that the battle is not about ideology but what is best for children.
ifeminists March 16, 2005 Ray Blumhorst	VAWA - One of the Biggest Taxpayer Fleecings in the History of America Those who deal with domestic violence according to gender feminist ideology have been less than effective in dealing with the true dynamics of violent domestic relationships, and now they are going back to congress to ask for billions more in funding for the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
ifeminists December 21, 2005 Leving & Sacks	Federal Child Support Enforcement Cuts Will Hurt Bureaucrats, not Children For too long American child support policies have been determined by politics instead of common sense; the mantra of "help women and children" has allowed large-scale abuses and waste to go unchallenged.
ifeminists November 2, 2005 Carey Roberts	Jim Crow Days For Men Currently the U.S. Congress is mulling the fate of a five-year extension to the Violence Against Women Act, a law that has caused the basic civil liberties of hundreds of thousands of fathers and men to be casually disregarded.
ifeminists October 23, 2007 David Heleniak	Hidden Harm Although it is not politically correct to say so, women can and do use false allegations of domestic violence to gain sole custody and to get their children to hate and fear their fathers.
ifeminists March 14, 2007 Leving & Sacks	Anna Nicole Dispute Shows System's Flaws Larry Birkhead, Smith's ex-boyfriend, has a legitimate claim to paternity. He has been thwarted for several months by the same legal maneuvers which are often employed to separate fathers from their children.
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 17, 2004 Glenn Sacks	California NOW Spits on My Wife My wife is a successful career woman. She has moved up rapidly in a competitive field, and is advancing her career by attending law school at night. I work out of our home and I do most of the child care. If I decide I don't want her anymore, should I be able to move our kids 2,400 miles away from their mother?
ifeminists August 21, 2007 David Heleniak	PC Feminism and the DV Courts Studies of domestic violence have consistently revealed that women are at least as likely as men to commit domestic violence, but PC feminists have pushed the idea that women don't commit domestic violence so far that they've influenced the courts.
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.