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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 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 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 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 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 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 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. |
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 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 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. |
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 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 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 August 8, 2008 Teri Stoddard |
Equal Custody And VAWA Regarding custody, the Violence Against Women Act is unconstitutional and full of misandry. |
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 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 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 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 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 November 16, 2005 |
Letter to the Editor: Feminism and Motherhood What the women's groups now want is control over the next generation of voters. They want to be able to mold the minds of today's children before they are old enough to vote. |
ifeminists November 14, 2006 Carey Roberts |
Fathers No Longer Cost-Effective? There is a small yet influential group in America that views fatherhood as an anachronism and a stubborn obstacle to their utopian vision of the social welfare state. And they see divorce and award of child custody to mothers as a highly-effective ploy to achieve their goal. |
ifeminists April 14, 2004 K. C. Wilson |
Is 50 / 50 Residency the Right Target? It was bold, and possibly suicidal, for the Shared Parenting Council of Australia to make 50:50 residency its seminal target for family law reform. |
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 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 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? |
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 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 August 25, 2004 K. C. Wilson |
Child Support: Income Shares, Part I While assuming a divorce never happened as far as the children are concerned would make an excellent premise for custody arrangements, it is unsustainable for financial ones. |
Salon.com October 3, 2000 Cathy Young |
Dr. Bad News After conducting a massive 25-year study, Judith Wallerstein concludes that children of divorce are hit hardest after they grow up... |
ifeminists June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce. |
ifeminists September 15, 2004 K. C. Wilson |
The Subversion of Child Support Child support in the U.S. would do better to assume no greater ambition than cover normal child costs. It would serve children better, which it is what it's supposed to do, not adult needs nor other social or economic agendas. |
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. |
Salon.com October 4, 2000 Jennifer Foote Sweeney |
Pluck and circumstance Judith Wallerstein makes a case for marriage, and on rare occasions, a healthy divorce... |
ifeminists October 4, 2006 Leving & Sacks |
Are Single Mothers the 'New American Family?' Those who view the traditional family as disadvantageous to women are firing back, defending women who choose single motherhood and depicting fathers as superfluous. |
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 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 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 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 19, 2005 Carey Roberts |
PBS' "Breaking the Silence" Not Ready For Prime Time America's rad-fems want to keep the lid tightly sealed on Parental Alienation Syndrome, since it is one of their most effective ploys for excluding fathers. And gaining child custody is a mother's meal ticket to many years of tax-free child support. |
Salon.com June 12, 2000 Cathy Young |
The mama lion at the gate Maternal chauvinism is a dad's greatest obstacle to parental parity. |
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 April 7, 2004 Glenn Sacks |
California Senate Leader to Family Courts: Don't Consider Children's Best Interests Senate President Pro Tem John Burton (D-San Francisco) is trying to slip a bill through the legislature to make it easier for custodial parents to sever these bonds by slipping out of town. |
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 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. |
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 January 12, 2005 Tony Zizza |
Parental Alienation Is Bad Parenting, Not A Psychiatric Disorder Perhaps more parents will lose custody when parental alienation is proved in family court. Perhaps more parents will wake up to the dangers of Prozac and all antidepressants and psychiatric drugs. |
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 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. |
ifeminists March 30, 2005 Carey Roberts |
The Rise of Big Sister-ism Deadbeat Dad myths have become so ingrained in American thinking that basic Constitutional protections are being casually tossed aside. |
ifeminists August 12, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
The Marriage Strike In examining reasons for the current decline of marriage, one question usually receives short shrift. Why are men reluctant to marry? |