News: Fathers’ Rights, Child Support, Custody

 Some parents in Michigan have made the news with their protest in the Capitol:

WLNS TV 6 Lansing Jackson Michigan News and Weather - WLNS.COM | Parents Rally at Capitol for Rights
Wet weather couldn’t stop thirty protestors from fighting for parents’ rights at the State Capitol. The protestors gathered on the front lawn. Many of them told stories of losing their visitation rights after child support struggles. Some parents feel they deserve equal access.

Ronald Smith, fathers’ rights advocate: “Who figured that if we jail a non-custodial parent for falling behind on child support, that it makes it easier to collect?”

Another point that really must be faced by the child support and divorce industry is that jailing a parent for being broke irreparably damages the tenuous connection between father and child.  It’s stunning to me, to think that in this modern age, it’s the 21st Century, after all, we treat people so callously.  How is it that language like that in this report: “Some parents feel they deserve equal access” can even be used?  Do parents need to prove themselves worthy of equal access?  This is a very dangerous path we have taken as a society, when people even entertain such thoughts.  It wasn’t so long ago, that it was taken for granted that it was a divinely given right to have complete “access” to your own child.

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