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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 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 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 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 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 April 5, 2006 Carey Roberts	Child Support Gold-Diggers Laws that protect women from rape, domestic violence, and sexual harassment all rest on a simple assumption: women who claim to be victims are almost always telling the truth. Maybe it's time to revisit that belief.
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 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 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 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.
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 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.
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 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 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 August 8, 2008 Teri Stoddard	Equal Custody And VAWA Regarding custody, the Violence Against Women Act is unconstitutional and full of misandry.
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 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 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.
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 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 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 April 7, 2009 Carey Roberts	Voices from the Grave, Betrayed by a Restraining Order Debi Olson had three restraining orders taken out against her. But that didn't stop the woman from ambushing ex-husband Mauricio Droguett in an Iowa shopping mall last July, fatally stabbing him in front of shocked mall-goers.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 23, 2003 Wendy McElroy	Do Poor Fathers Deserve Debtors' Prison? What does throwing a "deadbeat dad" in jail accomplish?
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 June 28, 2006 Leving & Sacks	California Spousal Rape Bill Will Harm Innocent Men False accusations of violence or abuse are endemic in family law cases. The California Senate and the Assembly Committee on Public Safety recently approved a misguided bill which will make the problem worse by easing the way for spurious spousal rape allegations to be used against fathers.
ifeminists June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts	Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 November 20, 2007 Carey Roberts	Massive Human Rights Abuses in the Name of Stopping Abuse State-sanctioned disdain of civil liberties has now spread to foreign lands.
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 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.
ifeminists May 26, 2004 K. C. Wilson	Misandry and Female Sexism There has been no social progress nor movement for gender equality in the U.S. Not if equality means equal dignity and respect for all.
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.