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Spider-Man arrested for harassing ex-wife

March 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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Tags: NCP Fathers · Protests and Groups

The criminalization of parents

March 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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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Tags: Courts and Legislatures · NCP Fathers

Defamed father can’t understand judge’s ruling

March 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Source
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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Taken Into Custody reviewed in Human Events

March 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Changing the World · Courts and Legislatures · NCP Fathers

Excellent points by Glenn Sacks: Keeping Dads Away from Their Babies

March 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments

 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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What’s best for kids at issue for dads - The Boston Globe

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments

 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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Tags: Best Interest · Courts and Legislatures · Custody · NCP Fathers

Mother Is Held in L.I. Slaying of 3 Children - New York Times

February 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Courts and Legislatures · NCP Fathers · Tragedies

McCain Dismisses Fathers Rights

February 8th, 2008 · 7 Comments

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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Tags: NCP Fathers · News

The Failure of Family Policy by Stephen Baskerville published

January 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

 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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Tags: Courts and Legislatures · NCP Fathers

From Welfare State to Police State: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute

December 31st, 2007 · 3 Comments

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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