News: Fathers’ Rights, Child Support, Custody

A FORMER Birmingham civil servant who occupied a church roof dressed as Spider-Man has been arrested on suspicion of harassing his ex-wife (according to story in Britain).
Fathers’ rights activist Ray Barry, who worked at Jobcentre Plus, in Hagley Road, Edgbaston, was quizzed after distributing a leaflet containing details of his marriage split.
He twice […]

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By Stephen Baskerville
The California appeals court decision criminalizing parents who homeschool their children is only the tip of an iceberg. Nationwide, parents are already being criminalized in huge numbers, and it is not limited to homeschoolers.
During the Clinton years, the trend toward turning children into tools for expanding government power increased rapidly. Otherwise indefensible programs […]

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Richard Warnica, Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, March 14, 2008
A B.C. fathers’ rights advocate has lost a defamation suit over a report he said portrayed him as “hate-monger.”
Ken Wiebe sued a Quebec academic, her two research assistants and the federal minister for the Status of Women after a graphic taken from his website was included as an […]

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Received the following from Stephen Baskerville:
My book, Taken Into Custody, has been reviewed in Human Events, by Joseph D’Agostino.  Human Events is a highly prominent and influential newspaper here in Washington that has been very sympathetic to our cause and has published my articles many times.  Joseph D’Agostino, vice president for Communications […]

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 Glenn Sacks sees the same thing I saw in this recent Boston Globe story.  It sometimes feels to me as if everyone has taken some kind of “stupid pill” and fails to see that a bond that develops between a father an child is just as important, just as necessary, as the bond between mother […]

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 Amazing, people opposed the presumption of shared parenting argue that it is wrong to limit the judges’ discretion by requiring them to state their reasons for not granting shared parenting (joint custody).  They know that having to go on record would expose the bias.  When you are dealing with something that is and should always […]

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It is interesting that in this recent article about a mother who killed her children rather than let the fathers have them, or even to see them, that the fathers of the children had been battling in court just be able to see their children.  Here’s a quote from one of the fathers:
“I’ve been fighting […]

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Many of you often wonder about the candidates’ stand on Fathers’ Rights.  About a year ago, Glenn Sacks reported the following quote by McCain (original here) about reforming Family Courts and the laws that make it so easy to exclude the father from the lives of his children:
“Aspiring Republican presidential candidate John McCain contemptuously […]

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 From Stephen Baskerville:
My Chronicles magazine article, “The Failure of ‘Family Policy’,” published in the January 2008 issue, is now online:
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/?p=477.   Chronicles is a very prestigious magazine of politics and opinion, with a very well educated and influential readership.  The article has already elicited some 32 comments, none of which seem […]

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From Welfare State to Police State: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute
By Stephen BaskervilleWelfare reform in the United States has shifted the role of welfare agencies from distributing money to collecting it—not from taxpayers but from divorced fathers. Despite the stereotype of the “deadbeat dad” as a wealthy playboy squiring around his new trophy […]

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