News: Fathers’ Rights, Child Support, Custody

From: Stephen Baskerville <sbaskerville@cox.net> to newsletter@stephenbaskerville.net
7:30am

Touchstone is a prestigious and influential magazine of Christian thought.  So this article, headlined on the cover, is an important event.  It could not have come at a better time, with the possibility of Taken Into Custody going out of print.  Please use this [...]

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Banned dad&squo;s agonising loss | Herald Sun

Laurie Nowell
December 07, 2008 12:00am

“STEVE” has been barred from seeing his daughter for seven years.
He has never harmed his only child or her mother. He has never threatened them and a court has accepted he is of good character.
But last week, after a tortuous 10-year journey through four [...]

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Arrests after fathers’ rights ‘fart gas attack’
By James McKeigue
15/12/2008
TWO people, one of them a 41-year-old man from Epsom, have been arrested following a “fart gas attack” by fathers’ rights campaigners on trade union offices in south London.
The Real Fathers For Justice group confirmed it targeted the premises of Napo - the trade union for family [...]

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Westminster The husband of Harriet Harman, the Deputy Labour Leader, described his horror, alarm and distress at what he thought were burglars trying to break into his home, who turned out to be fathers’ rights protesters.
Jack Dromey, the Labour Party treasurer, told the City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London that he had been woken [...]

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LANDMARK laws that promote equal parenting time for separated couples are emotionally damaging children, according to lawyers and psychologists.
Brisbane-based former Family Court judge Tim Carmody has branded the push towards shared parental responsibility and 50-50 parenting time “a failure”.
Case study: Read Mia’s sad story
He said the onus to apply equal shared parenting orders was part [...]

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Judith Lucas of the NJ Star-Ledger is the reporter that wrote this piece of YELLOW JOURNALISM trash about “Operation Falcon” (see below).
Here’s a quote, so you’ll understand the outrage:
“Sheriff’s officers, marshals and county police scoured the state last week for violent fugitives and sexual predators — and parents who are months behind on their child [...]

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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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A fathers’ rights campaigner has been arrested after he ended his protest on top of a Newcastle city bridge.
Real Fathers For Justice demonstrator Simon Anderton scaled the Tyne Bridge in the early hours of Sunday, where he unfurled a banner reading: “Happy Father’s Day” and tied a dummy with its head in a noose [...]

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The Fathers 4 Justice activists, named as Mark Harris, 46 and Jolly Stanesby, 41, from Plymouth, climbed onto the house in south London dressed as Captain Conception and Cash Gordon.

The group, which campaigns for fathers’ rights, said two more unnamed members were inside the building and had unfurled a banner from a bedroom window which [...]

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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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