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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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts	Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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 March 24, 2004 Carey Roberts	Women Lose When Feminists Bash Women believed that when they entered the workplace, it would become a kinder, more compassionate place. They were wrong.
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 17, 2006 Carey Roberts	Legal Services Corporation Turns Its Back On Men The LSC was created for a good purpose: to provide legal services so poor Americans could have their day in court. But while taxpayers and lawmakers looked the other way, the Legal Services Corporation has fallen under the sway of a radical feminine ideology.
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.
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 June 9, 2004 Carey Roberts	Air-Brushing Dads Out Of The Picture The rise of fatherlessness in America did not occur because dads decided one day to get up and leave. It happened because they were pushed out.
ifeminists March 9, 2005 Trudy W. Schuett	Everybody Deserves Better Allowing prejudicial, deeply biased and regressive domestic violence programs to continue unchecked will only serve to add to the numbers on the welfare rolls, in the jails and under the care of government-sponsored child protective agencies.
ifeminists August 31, 2005 Carey Roberts	Marriage Movement at the Crossroads There is one voice that is conspicuously absent in the campaign to save fatherhood -- the Marriage Movement, which, sadly and inexplicably, has largely turned its back on men.
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 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.
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 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 May 21, 2008 Carey Roberts	I-VAWA: Bigotry and Contempt at Taxpayer Expense The domestic violence industry needs a top-to-bottom house-cleaning.
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.
ifeminists December 29, 2004 Ray Blumhorst	Make the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Gender Inclusive, or Dump It! The exclusion of male victims from the help they should be receiving from domestic violence law is a cycle of endless battering that has been created by VAWA to endlessly torture the minds, bodies, and spirits of countless innocent men.
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 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 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 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 September 7, 2007	Candlelight Vigil for Cann Family Victims The authors contend that the tragedy could have been avoided had the courts agreed to give custody to the father.
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 June 2, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Father's Rights Groups Must Avoid Violent Protest Appearances have a tendency to become reality and, at the first act of violence by a father's rights advocate, all fathers will suffer.
Salon.com January 26, 2000 Cathy Young	Out with the old and out with the new Feminism of every stripe has failed. It's time for a gender equality movement.
ifeminists September 14, 2005 Glenn Sacks	Are Boys Really Better off Without Fathers? While Peggy Drexler's Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms Are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men may seem like a harmless, feel-good affirmation for these mothers, it could have a damaging impact on children by affecting both the choices women make and family law.
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.
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 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.