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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 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.
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 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.
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?
ifeminists September 23, 2003 Wendy McElroy	Do Poor Fathers Deserve Debtors' Prison? What does throwing a "deadbeat dad" in jail accomplish?
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 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 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 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 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 August 9, 2001 Suzy Hansen	The myth of the deadbeat dad A researcher who interviewed black fathers who don't live with their kids talks about their surprising views on parenting...
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 July 5, 2006 Leving & Sacks	Some Progress for California Fathers, but Still a Long Way to Go The family law system remains stacked against fathers. Most importantly, California law still does not do nearly enough to protect fathers' relationships with their children.
ifeminists March 10, 2004 Carey Roberts	The Follies of Child Support: Dead-Beat or Dead-Broke? How can a man be made to pay back child support for a child that's already grown?
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 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 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 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 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 October 13, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Deadbeat Dad Contest Bad for Kids The contest will allegedly create a public awareness about unpaid child support. Some believe the whole initiative is based on a false premise and erroneous information. Regardless, it is hard to see how encouraging children to turn against their parents is a proper government function.
Entrepreneur October 2004 Nichole L. Torres	Paternal Instincts Have a feeling that marketing to dads is a smart move? You're right on the money.
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 May 5, 2004 K. C. Wilson	Deadbeat Moms Considering the number of deadbeat moms, those who use children for personal profit, it's surprising how little effort, money, and attention is spent on their prevention and cure.
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?
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 June 10, 2003 Carey Roberts	The Deadbeat Dad's Dilemma Welfare queens, you can heave a sigh of relief. America now has a new public enemy number one: deadbeat dads.
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 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 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 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 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 November 11, 2003 Glenn Sacks	In Defense of Spiderman The mayor of London compares him to Osama bin Laden. He's been dubbed a "menace" holding a city for "ransom," as well as a lunatic and an extremist. What has 36 year-old David Chick done to arouse such anger? He loves his little daughter, from whom he's been forcibly separated.
ifeminists September 1, 2004 Carey Roberts	Will the NASCAR Dads Tilt the Election? White males likely will continue to vote overwhelmingly in Bush's favor. Or perhaps, they will sit this one out.
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 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 June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts	Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce.
ifeminists December 7, 2006 Carey Roberts	The GOP's Betrayal of the Pro-Family Agenda When we survey the current state of the family, we see that Americans are half as likely to wed compared to a generation ago, mostly due to a growing shortage of marriage-minded men. How did all this happen?
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.
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 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 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 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 November 23, 2005 Carey Roberts	Requiem for the Leftist Welfare Utopia Leftists have devised a simple yet amazingly effective formula to engender social discord: break up the family, marginalize fathers, and then blame the whole mess on men. But now people are catching on to the game plan and dads are staging a comeback.
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 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 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 October 18, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	America's Father Hunger Russert's new book Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons goes beyond that of a sentimental journey. It's success is a testament to the hunger so many Americans feel for what recent generations have lost -- their fathers.
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.