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Divorced from Reality

Calendar January 4, 2009 | Posted by ANCPR
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 article to get media attention, particularly in the Christian media, which is what we need more than anything.
The outpouring of support over Taken Into Custody has been very gratifying and successful.  Yesterday the book rocketed up above the 5,000 Amazon rating and was #1 in several catgories.  This article should assist in getting a reprieve for TIC.  Please send it to your church leaders and members, media, local officials, and other opinion leaders. (more…)

Category Categories: Best Interest, Child Support, Courts and Legislatures, Marriage Movement, NCP Fathers, Protests and Groups  |  Comments No Comments

Five Myths about No-Fault Divorce

Calendar June 3, 2008 | Posted by ANCPR

 
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 is exacting a devastating toll on our children, our social order, our economy, and even our constitutional rights. A recentstudy estimates the financial cost of divorce to taxpayers at $112 billion annually. Recent demands to legitimize same-sex marriage almost certainly follow from the divorce revolution, since gay activists readily acknowledge that they only desire to marry under the loosened terms that have resulted from the new divorce laws. Divorce also contributes to a dangerous increase in the power of the state over private life.

 

Here are some of the most common clichés and misconceptions about modern divorce, along with the facts. (more…)

Category Categories: Courts and Legislatures, Custody, Domestic Violence, Marriage Movement, NCP Fathers  |  Comments 15 Comments

The Marriage Movement Is Very Dismissive of Non-Custodial Fathers

Calendar September 27, 2007 | Posted by ANCPR

Glenn Sacks has made an excellent point here about the Marriage Movement and Non-custodial fathers. Once you are branded an ncp, you really aren’t considered a parent in the same way that the custodial parent is, and the child support and custody laws reflect this.  Your primary role becomes financial, and to support the custodial parent in their role. 

MND: News and Commentary Since 2001 » The Marriage Movement Is ‘Very Dismissive of Non-Custodial Fathers’

September 26, 2007 at 11:30 am · Filed under Vox Populi

I’m quoted on the marriage movement and federal marriage programs in Mary Meehan’s recent article Marriage as social medicine (Lexington Herald-Leader, 9/25/07). According to the article:

“[Sacks] said the pro-marriage movement has become ‘kind of a mania’ and is ‘very dismissive of non-custodial fathers.’ It makes the assumption, he said, ‘that no man will take responsibility unless the government coerces them to do it’ and puts responsible fathers on the defensive.”

One of my criticisms of the marriage movement and its influential thinkers–including David Blankenhorn, author of Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem, and Elizabeth Marquardt (pictured), author of Between Two Worlds–is its view of divorced fathers.

It has always amazed me how the writers cited by Sacks, in addition to many more opinion makers, seem to be blind to what most people on the street seem to know: it’s not the fathers who are abandoning their children.  (more…)

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