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U.S. Newswire : Releases : “Family Group Supports Proposed Budget Cuts for Child Support Enforcement”
11/17/2005 5:52:00 PM

To: National Desk

Contact: Jane Spies of NFJA, 330-534-8948 or 330-534-3510 NFJAinfo@aol.com

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ — The Washington Post (Oct. 26, 2005) reported that there is a proposal for federal budget cuts. One program being targeted for cuts is child support enforcement.
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House committee gives judges more leeway in child support decisions
BATON ROUGE, La. A legislative committee today decided that judges need more leeway in determining changes in child support payments for parents whose earning ability has been harmed by Hurricane Katrina or Rita.
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Received this from Terri Lynn Tersak
President
The Center for Children’s Justice – Carolinas Chapter

Are we a nation of whores and whores-mongers? The recent Op/Ed by Kathleen Parker, at: http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/kathleenparker/2005/11/02/173922.html, “Feminism’s devolution from hoaxers to whores.” seems to take an affirmative position that this is in fact the case. Are we all whores? No, but my guess is at least half of American women are though and an equal number of our men are. If you only count those that claim to be “Liberals” or “feminists” that percentage would be considerably higher.
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Boy in custody fight sent to 3rd home
In a span of just under 11 months, a 4-year-old boy at the center of a bitter custody dispute has been sent from Florida to Glenview and is now off to Maine.

The boy finds himself on his way to his third home in his short life because of a judge’s ruling Friday that he no longer can stay with his biological mother after the boy’s stepfather was charged with abusing him.
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Superhero fathers stand up for their rights : Mail & Guardian Online
Elvira van Noort | Johannesburg, South Africa

30 October 2005 11:59

South Africa’s divorced fathers may need to start ironing their favourite superhero costumes and prepare for a headline-grabbing stunt.

The South African chapter of Fathers 4 Justice (F4J), an international civil rights movement fighting for children to have equal access to both parents after a divorce, is planning to execute high-profile stunts at least once a month.
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Dads’ Rights Legal Expert: Courts Failed Baby Evan by Granting Mom Custody – Yahoo! News
Contact: Joe Englert, 312-807-3990 ext. 236 or 312-296-3668 (cell) or pr@dadsrights.com

CHICAGO, Nov. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ — Evan Johnson, the four- year-old boy who earlier this year was at the center of a high- profile and controversial adoption case, was removed from the custody of his biological mother Friday after his stepfather was arrested and charged with battering the child.
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Poll Says Even Quiet Divorces Affect Children’s Paths – New York Times
Published: November 5, 2005
Even in a “good divorce,” in which parents amicably minimize their conflicts, children of divorce inhabit a more difficult emotional landscape than those in intact families, according to a new survey of 1,500 people ages 18 to 35.

“All the happy talk about divorce is designed to reassure parents,” Elizabeth Marquardt, author of the study, described in her new book, “Between Two Worlds.” “But it’s not the truth for children. Even a good divorce restructures children’s childhoods and leaves them traveling between two distinct worlds. It becomes their job, not their parents’, to make sense of those two worlds.”
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Column: Fatherless in America – The Daily Illini – Opinions
Last week in Urbana, the American Coalition for Fathers and Children began a campaign aimed at Champaign County Judge Arnold Blockman on how he handles custody of children in divorce cases. Generally speaking, in almost all cases Judge Blockman will award custody to only one parent and give two weekend visits to the other parent. Most of the time (but not always), it is the mother that gets total custody – thus cutting the father out of the child’s life in a significant way.
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