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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce.  |
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 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 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 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 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 November 18, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
Fathers Protest Unjust Custody Laws The absurdity of a recent UK protest is nothing compared to the obscenity of a system that deprives fathers of their children and children of parental love. In the same vein as theatre of the absurd, politics of the absurd is emerging on the issue of child custody.  |
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.  |
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 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.  |
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 April 10, 2009 Wendy McElroy |
The Return of Debtor's Prison H. Beatty Chadwick, a former corporate lawyer, has been imprisoned in a Pennsylvania county jail for over 13 years even though he has never been arrested, criminally accused or tried.  |
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.  |
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 August 8, 2008 Teri Stoddard |
Equal Custody And VAWA Regarding custody, the Violence Against Women Act is unconstitutional and full of misandry.  |
ifeminists June 14, 2006 Tony Zizza |
I Used To Be A Stepfather If stepfathers can one day take a crack at being in a family again, even a new one, perhaps there's no reason why on Father's Day we can't look at fatherhood for the appropriate honor it deserves.  |
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 May 25, 2005 Brian Lovett |
Fathers-4-Justice: Would Ayn Rand approve? The British group Fathers-4-Justice is intent on reaching out to the millions of fathers who each feels individually impotent before the enormity of the child custody/support problem in the U.K. and the U.S.  |
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 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 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.  |
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 January 3, 2007 Leving & Sacks |
Dads Finally Get Fair Shake in the Media While the ''Father Knows Best'' depiction of dads was always a distortion, the ''Father Knows Nothing'' media theme of the past couple of decades has been a far greater one. Dads deserve a media rehabilitation -- hopefully 2006 was its beginning.  |
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."?  |
Fast Company June 2010 David Lidsky |
Numerology: Origins of Father's Day Statistics about Father's Day.  |
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 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 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 August 15, 2007 Carey Roberts |
Newark Triple-Murder Reveals Need for Fathers Statistics show that 60 percent of city kids grow up without fathers and 70 percent of long-term prisoners grew up without fathers. What does this say about the future of the city kids?  |
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 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 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 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 22, 2006 Carey Roberts |
The M.O.M. Squad Capers Be forewarned, M.O.M.s - Mothers Opposed to Men - wield a formidable array of fake statistics, sob stories, and old-fashioned propaganda.  |
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 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.  |
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 Carey Roberts |
Playing Politics with the Federal Fatherhood Initiative The Fatherhood Initiative has become an orphan program that the Sisterhood would happily kill off, but the higher-ups know that would be politically embarrassing. So the Initiative now floats in bureaucratic cyberspace with no defined mandate, leadership, operating structure, or budget.  |
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.  |
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.  |