I’ve written an article in about the innocent verdict in the Fathers4Justice trial in Britain that has been published on the online magazine, http://www.99mind.com/.
The article is called They Just Don’t Get It. I wrote it mainly as an answer to a short commentary about the verdict by a prominant commentator in Britain. Here an excerpt from my article:
Women in the feminist movement who constantly disparage these protesting fathers as “angry men” often demonstrate a similar attitude to that of Berlins. To steal one of their own phrases, “They just don’t get it.”
What these people don’t get is that having your family (and your life) torn apart by an unfeeling, heartless bureaucracy and judicial system is actually far worse than if you had lost your family to some disaster or accident, leaving them dead. Dr Richard Harrington argues in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine that children who lose a parent may be less susceptible to depression than those whose parents divorce. I believe that the same can said of fathers.
Knowing that your children are living and growing, just across town, or in the next state, but a court order or other completely artificial and unnatural barrier makes it impossible for you to be there for them is like constantly having a wound reopened and savaged. It is painful, it is devastating, and there is no natural way to heal from this kind of thing.
To read the article, GO HERE And folks, if you know what Social Bookmarking is, then please, by all means, Digg it! You will see at the end of the article at http://www.99mind.com/ links for submitting the article to Digg, and several other social bookmarking services. This simple act, if performed by enough of you, would go a long way toward helping to raise the awareness of these issues.
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