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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 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 July 8, 2007 Stephen Baskerville |
Welfare and the "Road to Serfdom" As conservatives congratulate themselves on ten years of welfare reform, they need to start looking at the larger picture and all that was left undone. |
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 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 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 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 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 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. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 August 8, 2008 Teri Stoddard |
Equal Custody And VAWA Regarding custody, the Violence Against Women Act is unconstitutional and full of misandry. |
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 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 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. |
Job Journal October 19, 2008 Marty Nemko |
Quick Fix: Check Your Emotional Baggage What to do when a person or situation makes you feel uncomfortable at work. |
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 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 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 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. |
Registered Rep. June 17, 2013 Kevin McKinley |
The Power of Persuasion These small acts for clients' children and grandchildren can make a big difference. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce. |
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 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 5, 2007 Leving & Sacks |
Utah Bill to Punish 'Deadbeat Dads' Is Based on False Assumptions Much if not most of Utah's $325 million paper child support debt is uncollectible. Instead of enacting new punitive measures, the legislature should concentrate on fixing the child support system's myriad problems. |
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 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 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 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. |
Registered Rep. May 25, 2011 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College Aid Checklist for Grandparents Seven tips that will allow grandparents to safely contribute to their grandkids' college education. |
Financial Advisor April 2005 Gregory Bresiger |
Selling A Home To A Child Convince a client nearing retirement to stay in a primary residence in a booming real estate market, delaying the move to the Sunbelt for a few years. Have the client sell the home to a child. It could help the client and a child under certain circumstances. |
AskMen.com May 19, 2008 Ross Bonander |
Fatherhood Guide: Affection Showing affection is a challenging area of parenting, but this is not uncommon; for many loving and caring fathers, showing their affection represents the most challenging aspect of parenting. |
ifeminists May 21, 2007 Aubrey El |
VA Division of Child Support: One Man's Case The policy question is whether state or federal governments have a legitimate interest in unlawfully depriving its citizens of their property under the guise of the legitimate state interest of child support enforcement or another legitimate state interest? |
Financial Planning February 1, 2012 Martin Shenkman |
Trust, But Verify The estate planning answer for a lot of parents is to leave inheritances in trust for the benefit of their child. But trusts vary widely, and because this is a message many clients miss, planners must reinforce the idea. |
AskMen.com Steven Shaw |
How To: Be A Godfather A look at some of the most important duties to help you learn how to be a godfather. |
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. |