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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 September 29, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Across U.S., Non-Custodial Parents Sue The number of non-custodial parent plaintiffs who sign on to a federal class action cannot be predicted but it could run into millions. Federal law is being asked to trump state practice in custody matters.
ifeminists April 14, 2004 K. C. Wilson	Is 50 / 50 Residency the Right Target? It was bold, and possibly suicidal, for the Shared Parenting Council of Australia to make 50:50 residency its seminal target for family law reform.
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.
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 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 August 26, 2008 Carey Roberts	Senator Biden's VAWA Cover-Up Over the last 15 years, Biden has repeatedly bragged to his friends and colleagues, "What I'm most proud of in my entire career is the Violence Against Women Act."
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 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 January 5, 2005 Wendy McElroy	What to Do About Daddy? How can courts help to prevent heart-wrenching father-child reunions? They should acknowledge at the very beginning of an adoption proceeding that both responsible parents have an equal voice.
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 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 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 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 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 March 16, 2005 Ray Blumhorst	VAWA - One of the Biggest Taxpayer Fleecings in the History of America Those who deal with domestic violence according to gender feminist ideology have been less than effective in dealing with the true dynamics of violent domestic relationships, and now they are going back to congress to ask for billions more in funding for the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
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 June 18, 2008 Carey Roberts	Sex, Lies, and Datatapes of the Partner Abuse Industry The domestic violence industry is reeling from a recent series of high-profile scandals, leaving abuse workers to wonder how things could have possibly gone so wrong.
ifeminists October 19, 2005 Carey Roberts	PBS' "Breaking the Silence" Not Ready For Prime Time America's rad-fems want to keep the lid tightly sealed on Parental Alienation Syndrome, since it is one of their most effective ploys for excluding fathers. And gaining child custody is a mother's meal ticket to many years of tax-free child support.
ifeminists July 20, 2005 Carey Roberts	VAWA: Making Divorce Easy, Profitable, and Fun Word is beginning to leak out that VAWA represents a grotesque violation of men's civil rights. Worse, people are hearing that VAWA is based on a bald-faced lie - that in truth, women commit half of all domestic violence.
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 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 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 2, 2005 Jennifer Roback Morse	The True Cost of False Witness False or frivolous charges of child abuse play havoc with the family court system, and in the lives of many innocent people. At the very least, society needs to impose some penalty for inflicting those kinds of costs on others.
ifeminists June 29, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Congress Should Kill Discriminatory Domestic Violence Act The Violence Against Women Act has become a flashpoint for the men's rights advocates who see it instead as the living symbol of anti-male bias in law.
Salon.com February 25, 2002 Janelle Brown	What family values? The director of the Child Witness to Violence Project argues that President Bush isn't doing enough for kids who see too much...
ifeminists August 15, 2009 Teri Stoddard	Dirty little secrets of domestic violence programs Only one in ten battered women's shelter residents was a victim of violence. Even the White House acknowledges that current programs are failing.
ifeminists June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts	Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce.
ifeminists November 23, 2005 Wendy McElroy	PBS Film Controversy Continues Breaking the Silence may well contribute to misinformation on domestic violence and its impact upon children. And that is shameful.
ifeminists January 12, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Domestic Violence Law Fuels Big Government The Violence Against Women Act, a hand-me-down from the Clinton administration based on gender myths, anti-male bias and an infatuation with Big Government, is a fundamentally flawed piece of social engineering.
ifeminists July 19, 2006 Erin Pizzey	Domestic Violence Is Not A Gender Issue The idea that the family is a danger to women and children has destroyed much of our traditional concepts of marriage. The feminisation of the family and Western society has caused men to become outcasts and a source of ridicule in their children's eyes.
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 April 22, 2008 Radar	Radar Alert A public faceoff between David Levy and Joan S. Meier regarding child custody battles, which can incite domestic violence.
ifeminists October 17, 2008 Gordon E. Finley	Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2008 -- California Leads the Way California courts led the nation in bringing public awareness to a previously hidden Domestic Violence issue -- that of battered men -- and subsequently ruled that battered men deserve equal protection under the law.
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 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.