News: Fathers’ Rights, Child Support, Custody

A member of the board of directors from a chain of abuse shelters contacted us last week. They brought forth a total of 187 current and former employees who are willing to testify to the abuses of shelter residents, falsification of funding requests, embezzlement, padding of resident numbers, sexual harassment [...]

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http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080619/OPINION/806190486/1001/NEWSFRONT
Barack Obama’s recent call for responsible fatherhood is welcome, overdue — and misleadingly incomplete.
That America’s fathers need to embrace their most important role is no secret. Activist fathers have been trying to make the same claim for decades, without much success.
Not all fathers are trying to be good dads, it goes without saying. But [...]

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by Stephen Baskerville

Source   6/03/08

Almost four decades after the “no-fault” divorce revolution began in California, misconceptions abound. Even the many books about divorce, including myriad self-help manuals, are full of inaccurate and misleading information. No public debate preceded the introduction of no-fault divorce laws in the 1970s, and no debate has taken place since.
 
Yet divorce-on-demand [...]

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New York State Senator Andrew J. Lanza, R, District 24 (Staten Island), has introduced Senate Bill S4796, which, if passed into law, would require that anyone who has had an order of protection issued against them must wear at all times a GPS monitoring/tracking device.  Further, tampering with and/or disabeling the device would constitute [...]

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Bill would criminalize false abuse charges
By MICHAEL C. LEWIS / Journal Staff Writer
POSTED: March 10, 2008
 
 
MARTINSBURG—Nine times, one aggrieved father says he fought to protect his name and his relationship with his daughters after he was accused of child abuse in a custody dispute.
The man, whose name we will not use to protect [...]

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In the November 2007 issue of the Illinois Bar Journal, Scott A. Lerner, Esq., takes a critical look at the Illinois Domestic Violence Act (DVA) in his article “Sword or Shield: Combating Orders-of-Protection Abuse in Divorce” ( http://www.isba.org/IBJ/nov07lj/590%20Family%20Law.htm).
“There’s no question that victims need protection from abusers,” he writes. “But not all parties to divorce are [...]

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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23613
Feminists Abuse Domestic Violence Laws
by Phyllis Schlafly
Posted: 11/26/2007Radical feminists have devised a scheme to cash in on the flow of taxpayer money in a big way. Their good buddy, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., has just introduced Senate Bill 2279, called the International Violence Against Women Act.
The act earmarks at least 10 percent of its program [...]

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Erring on the Side of Hidden Harm: The Granting of Domestic Violence Restraining Orders
Written by David Heleniak
    Just like FDA officials worrying about the headlines, judges ….
     …. deciding whether to enter domestic violence restraining orders have their careers to think about in addition to the merits of the particular cases [...]

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Gitmo at home: Domestic violence courts in America

Gitmo at home: Domestic violence courts in America
By David Heleniak
Online Journal Guest Writer

Oct 22, 2007, 01:44

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic violence is a very real and significant problem [...]

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New article published in Human Events by Stephen Baskerville:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22904
The falsely-accused Duke University lacrosse players are suing the city of Durham and prosecutor Michael Nifong for malicious prosecution, claiming “one of the most chilling episodes of premeditated police, prosecutorial, and scientific misconduct in modern American history.” In fact, their ordeal was nothing out [...]

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