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Rapper Luther Campbell Says He Was Jailed 'Unfairly' Because of Unpaid Legal Fees, not Child Support
March 03, 2009
From Rapper Luther Campbell Slams Media Over Child Support Jail-Time Reports (PostChronicle.com, 2/23/09):
Veteran rapper Luther Campbell has hit out at reports he was jailed for skipping child support payments, and accused the media and authorities in his native Miami, Florida of waging a vendet...
February 10, 2009
From Venezuela's Jews Fear More Attacks As Chavez' Anti-Israel Campaign Intensifies (Associated Press, 2/6/09):
As President Hugo Chavez intensifies his anti-Israel campaign, some Venezuelans have taken action, threatening Jews in the street and vandalizing the largest synagogue in Caracas--where...
January 28, 2009
What an incredible story. From Nunavut justice minister demoted over domestic violence remark (CBC, 1/27/09):
Nunavut's premier has stripped the territory's justice minister of his duties over a remark that suggests women are partly to blame when they are assaulted during domestic disputes.
Ev...
January 28, 2009
The Holly Collins custody/parental abduction case is perhaps the most prominent custody case in the media at this moment. Holly Collins and her supporters among domestic violence and feminist advocates assert that the case demonstrates that family courts are biased against battered women and favor a...
Child Support Official Says Bad Economy Helps Him Collect $--by Garnishing Dads' Unemployment Checks
January 27, 2009
It's hard to believe, but the head of child support collections for Idaho says that unemployment is the "'unexpected' silver lining to Idaho's economic malaise." Why? Because it's easy to garnish dads' unemployment checks!
This is the typical attitude of child support enforcement officials--their...
January 21, 2009
I discussed the Batista divorce controversy on Fox & Friends recently. This is the case where Dr. Richard Batista, a prominent New York surgeon, donated a kidney to save his wife's life back in 2001 and is now asking for compensation for the kidney as part of their divorce settlement. He claims she ...
January 20, 2009
I'm often asked what I think the Obama presidency will mean for fathers. I think there are some reasons to be optimistic and some reasons to be pessimistic. Below I list a bunch of them, not in any particular order.
Positive: Obama clearly understands the importance of fathers, and has ofte...
January 19, 2009
From Glenn Sacks eyes Reese Hopkins case (1/16/09):
Columnist and former syndicated talk radio host Glenn Sacks has taken a keen interest in the child rape case against ex-WRKO gabster Reese Hopkins, saying there are "a lot of tangible problems" with the New York prosecution´s case.
"I&a...
January 07, 2009
Few family law cases are as heartbreaking as those involving Parental Alienation, where one parent has turned his or her children against the other parent, destroying the loving bonds the children and the target parent once enjoyed. Many of my readers have experienced it in various forms and to vary...
January 05, 2009
I've long criticized the Single Motherhood by Choice movement for ignoring the importance of fathers and the two-parent family. To learn more about the problems with the Single Motherhood by Choice movement, see my co-authored column Are Single Mothers the 'New American Family?' (World Net Daily, 9/...
December 22, 2008
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott recently got major headlines for nabbing former major league baseball player Troy Neel (pictured) for being a "deadbeat dad." Abbott has launched repeated, well-publicized campaigns against child support debtors, featuring many arrests. In my co-authored column Whe...
December 18, 2008
I recently recalled how my daughter met teen actress Shanica Knowles, co-star of Hannah Montana, and complimented Knowles for being so gracious to her. My daughter was awed, and afterwards was furiously texting all her little friends to tell them about meeting Knowles.
It reminded me of a another...
LA Gang Peace Negotiator Asked 'How many of the gang members you deal with live with their fathers?'
December 10, 2008
Over the weekend my wife and I had the pleasure of attending incoming California State Senator Rod Wright's (pictured) swearing-in Inglewood. While serving in the Assembly from 1996 to 2002, Rod was a pioneer of child support and family law reform in California and the nation.
One of the interest...
December 10, 2008
"That we allow defense attorneys to obfuscate and eroticize rape trials as a way of distorting the truth to produce an unfair result only adds insult to injury." I guess the accuser's story is always "the truth" and giving consideration to the accused's explanations--"the sex was consensual," etc.--...
December 08, 2008
Feminists complain that unrealistic body images in the media are harmful to women and girls. As I've written before (one example here), I think they have a point.
It was one thing in previous eras, when actresses, models, etc. were in the top 2% of female beauty, but at least were depicted as t...
December 01, 2008
"An Oklahoma teenager is swept up in laws aimed at protecting kids from child predators. He must register as a sex offender for life, as the worst level offender, after having a sex with his girlfriend, who said she was his age, 16...
"[T]he district attorney charged Ricky as an adult for two cou...
November 26, 2008
I'm not nominating this guy "Father of the Year" but it does seem quite possible that he was victimized by the child support system. In general, the system deals very poorly (and unfairly) with men who suffer large drops in their income, and it appears that rapper MC Breed was such a case.
From F...
November 25, 2008
Several of you sent me this from Yahoo.com's headlines page -- Economy Hitting Women Hardest, Say Experts (11/21/08). It's a variation on the "Nuclear Holocaust Kills Billions--Women Hit Hardest" theme. If the Ms. Foundation for Women says women suffer the worst, it must be true.
I'm not an exper...
Lindsay Lohan & Girlfriend 'Come to blows in London nightspot'--but don't call it 'Domestic Violence
November 24, 2008
"According to Dr. Donald Dutton, author of Rethinking Domestic Violence, research shows that domestic violence is actually more common in lesbian relationships than in heterosexual relationships.
"For example, one study of 1,100 lesbian or bisexual women who are in abusive lesbian relationsh...
November 20, 2008
The news story Why Japan's isolated mothers are killing their children (The Age [Australia], 11/8/08) has so many outrageously revealing quotes about the pro-mother/anti-father bias that it's hard to know where to begin.
Quote #1--"[Y]oung mothers feel acutely isolated from their community and re...
November 18, 2008
"Hilmar points to events surrounding the election of Barack Hussein Obama as reminiscent of the way the Nazi regime came to power."
Tom Horn, CEO of Anomalos Publishing, recently sent out the mailing "Former Hitler Youth to Appear on The Savage Nation with Michael Savage to Discuss Similariti...
November 13, 2008
"But as Guy held his two boys close for the first time in weeks, his estranged wife tightened her grip from the other side of the Atlantic."
The list looks like someone's parody of what a vindictive, controlling eco-mom/ego-mom might do. Who knows, maybe the Daily Mail is wrong and it is a paro...
November 12, 2008
I've often discussed the issue of the rights of lesbian "social mothers"–women who agreed to employ a sperm donor so that they could have children with their lesbian partners, who are the biological mothers.
I do believe that children fare best when they have both a mom and a dad, and that father...
October 23, 2008
About as clear an example of the female sentencing discount as you'll ever see, though this is so outrageous the word "discount" seems excessively tame.
Perhaps "tame" would be better applied to the sentence--no jail time...
From Mother was seduced by 14-year-old boy, says judge (UK Telegraph,...
October 21, 2008
It doesn't matter how wealthy, powerful and privileged a woman is, in divorce some women still love to play the victim. Latest case in point--Madonna.
Madonna is worth an estimated $850 million. Whatever one thought of her music and her racy image, she is in many ways the model of the empowered m...
October 15, 2008
I've respected conservative nationally-syndicated radio talk show host Mike Gallagher (pictured) for his willingness to take tough stands, such as during the Elian Gonzalez saga in 2000, when Gallagher was one of the few conservatives in the country who said plainly and clearly that Elian belonged w...
October 14, 2008
From Ex-wife given £50,000-a-year maintenance for her three HORSES as part of £1.5m divorce deal (Daily Mail, 9/22/08):
A wife has been awarded £50,000 in maintenance for her horses as part of a £1.5m divorce package in a landmark case that could spark bitter disputes over pets.
The woman, who...
October 09, 2008
A 13-year-old boy was arrested and held in juvenile detention overnight because a female classmate sent him (and other boys) a naked picture of herself. The best line of the story--"So far only the 13-year-old boy has been arrested."
Beyond the prudery and overreaction, the most outrageous thing ...
October 08, 2008
Just when the low-rent McCain-Palin tactics against Obama have disgusted me to the point of helping decide my vote, Obama's supporters are hammering McCain over an absolutely harmless comment he made during last night's debate.
In discussing an energy bill backed by Bush-Cheney which McCain oppos...
October 02, 2008
A common feminist/domestic violence establishment claim goes something like this--"a third of all women who are murdered are murdered by an intimate partner, whereas only 3% of men are murdered by an intimate partner." From this one would think that men are 11 times more likely to kill their wives a...
September 30, 2008
As a general rule I'm opposed to criminalizing victimless crimes such as drugs or prostitution, and a recent conversation with a friend further confirms my belief.
Cary told me that he had recently been called to serve on a jury here in Los Angeles for the trial of a Latin American immigrant who ...
September 24, 2008
Feminists have a bad habit of conflating voluntary sexual relations with rape, and here we go again. The Family Violence Prevention Fund's new youth rape study claims that "Nearly One in Five Young Women Have Experienced Forced Intercourse."
Sounds terrible, right? Except that much of what they c...
September 18, 2008
Obama has a new ad out pushing the "wage gap" myth. As we've discussed many times, men earn more than women on average for many legitimate reasons. These include:
1) Men work longer hours at more demanding and hazardous jobs.
2) Men are more likely to travel, relocate or have long commutes for...
September 16, 2008
...probation. Maybe there's more to the story than what the Asbury Park Press says in the article below, but it looks suspiciously like the female sentencing discount is in play again.
In the story it appears that they were equal partners in the business and should have been sentenced equally--"L...
September 11, 2008
So typical--a TV ad portraying women as attractive and alluring is "sexist," but men and fathers can be made to look like idiot husbands and bad fathers all day long and that's not sexist. Of course not--after all, men have everything and women have nothing, so how dare men ever complain about "...
September 09, 2008
"Biden says in family policy, 'Moms and kids come first.' For nearly two decades Biden has put fathers last."
My new co-authored column, Biden Selection is Bad News for America's Fathers (San Jose Mercury-News, 9/2/08), discusses Senator Joe Biden´s role as the principle architect of federal dome...
Oprah Magazine: Female Teachers Who Have Sex with Students Are Misguided Poor Souls Looking for Love
August 28, 2008
"Sex with students is bad, but why should it be the case that for women it's a case of 'poor boundaries' and for men it's hardcore brutal predation of the most evil sort?"
Jay, a reader, recently wrote me a letter about an article in Oprah magazine on the number of female teachers caught having s...
August 21, 2008
I've long criticized the Single Motherhood by Choice movement for ignoring the importance of fathers and the two-parent family. Now singer Ricky Martin has decided to have motherless children. From Ricky Martin Father of Twin Boys Via Surrogate Mother (Associated Press, 8/20/08):
There won't be muc...
August 18, 2008
"I couldn't believe that our son has to pay child support to his abuser."
I've previously discussed cases where boys who have been statutorily raped by older women are forced to pay child support to their rapists. Here's a new one, from Ohio. From Boy's parents sue to get his baby from mom, 21 (C...
August 14, 2008
From Treasure Coast group seeks to abolish permanent alimony (www.tcpalm.com, 8/8/08):
Dick Lindsey decided something needed to be done.
Since his divorce in 1982, the Treasure Coast resident had paid more than $100,000 in alimony to ex-wife Barbara Lindsey while raising five of their children a...
August 13, 2008
I get countless letters detailing the horrors that alienating parents visit upon their exes and their children, but this story surprised even me. From 'If you see this DVD, I love you' (The Age [Australia], 8/13/08):
A dying man has been told by the Family Court that he may leave a "time capsule", ...
August 12, 2008
Recently on Fox's nationally-syndicated Morning Show with Mike and Juliet we debated a New Mexico case where a man who had donated sperm to a lesbian couple is now on the hook for child support to the children's biological mother. The case is detailed in New Mexico Court Orders Sperm Donor to Pay Ch...
August 07, 2008
Another example of the way the child support system leads to the abuse/jailing of ordinary citizens. From British university lecturer thrown into crowded Brazilian jail for not paying ex-wife £20,000 child support (Daily Mail, 7/30/08):
Martin Boyle is being held in a Sao Paulo prison over unpaid c...
August 06, 2008
"Men lie more, women lie bigger. A man's lie is, 'Where was I? Um, I was over at Tony's house.' A woman's lie is, 'That's your baby.'"--Comedian Chris Rock
From DNA testing: One in five fathers wrongly identified by mothers in Child Support Agency claims (Guardian, 8/1/08):
Nearly one in five p...
August 05, 2008
At the National Organization for Women's recent national conference, NOW declared that there is a "crisis for women and their children in the family law courts."
According to NOW, fathers often "aggressively litigate against mothers" and "use family court to stalk, harass, punish and impoverish ...
August 04, 2008
Mary Winkler--who shot her husband in the back and then refused to aid him or call 911 as he slowly bled to death for 20 minutes--walked away a free woman last year after serving a farcically brief "sentence" for her crimes.
Mary Winkler´s claims of abuse were largely uncorroborated during the tr...
July 31, 2008
"Wood calls the current law on restraining orders 'an efficient system.' We disagree. Yes, the system is efficient in separating men from their children and their homes. However, it is hardly efficient in delivering justice."
My new co-authored column, Restraining Orders Can Be Straitjackets ...
July 29, 2008
"It's great to be an independent creature. Today you don't need a man any more. In the old days, a baby without marriage and people would put you out. I'm very into feeling this female thing."
From No role for dad, says Minnie (MSN, 7/23/08):
Minnie Driver (pictured) has revealed that she ha...
July 24, 2008
Earlier this week, the Mike and Juliet Morning Show featured a segment about divorce and the damage it can wreak on children's lives.
Texan Mario and his ex-wife Brenda appeared on the show with their two teenage kids to discuss how the divorce has affected them. Mario was in a tough situation, ...
July 24, 2008
In his recent MSNBC commentary Katy Perry and the media´s ´Kiss´ of hypocrisy (7/22/08), Tony Sclafani examines the controversy over what he calls "two gay-unfriendly songs by newcomer Katy Perry: 'Ur So Gay' and 'I Kissed a Girl'."
While I have often condemned societal prejudic...
July 23, 2008
In the recent www.feministing.com post Two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to harassing women, Jessica Valenti quotes from Reuters:
Nearly two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women...and a majority say women themselves are to blame for their maltreatment, a survey showed Thurs...
July 22, 2008
"Basically throwing me out on the street." Yup. Getting $750,000, as agreed in their prenup, is being "thrown out into the street."
You remember Tricia Walsh-Smith--according to the AP, she vilified husband Philip Smith in a "furious YouTube video, which has attracted more than 3 million hits. Sh...
July 21, 2008
Apparently the Britney Spears/Kevin Federline divorce/custody battle is over, at least for a while. In the face of a trial that was scheduled to start in a month, Spears instead agreed to give Federline sole legal and physical custody of their two sons.
I have received many letters over the ...
July 17, 2008
Here's another idiotic aspect of the child support system--demanding that incarcerated obligors continue to make child support payments even though we know they have no income and no ability to pay. Then, when they're released, they're several thousand dollars behind on child support (with interest ...
July 15, 2008
Recently a few readers have sent me an e-mail that has been circulating around the internet for the past few months warning about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The e-mail says:
Think you know who this man is? This possible President of the United States!! We CANNOT have someone wi...
July 10, 2008
Michael, a reader, writes:
Just thought you would enjoy the usual feminist carrying on by Hillary. Seems she expects Obama's gang to bail her out financially. Why does this sound so familiar?
Mike refers me to CNN´s Jack Cafferty and provides the following excerpt:
Barack Obama and Hillary ...
July 02, 2008
The media frequently devotes much attention to mothers who are separated from their children by deportation actions. The treatment is usually highly sympathetic to the mothers. When fathers are deported away from their children, little attention is paid. Even when the media covers the issue, there i...
July 01, 2008
From Former foes Clinton, Obama present picture of unity (6/28/08):
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton embraced, praised each other and locked hands in unity Friday, hoping to persuade legions of still-skeptical Clinton backers to rally around her one-time rival.
"She rocks. That's the poin...
June 26, 2008
This story encapsulates many of the problems with the modern domestic violence system--it's anti-male bias, it's insistence on holding only men accountable and sweeping female violence under the rug, and "Zero Tolerance"-style idiocy.
In this case, the woman says she was just as responsible as he...
June 25, 2008
For Christie Brinkley (pictured), apparently her anger at her husband is far more important than the welfare of her kids. Whereas most stars want their divorces private, she's fighting to keep it as public as possible.
To be fair, it sounds like Brinkley certainly had reason to be mad at soon-to-...
June 24, 2008
Proof that statutory rape laws and prosecutions have gone too far--Paul Briggs apparently "feared he would be reported to police for under-age sex with Kyra Applin," so he hung himself. Their ages? 17 and 15. From the BBC's Teen father-to-be hanged himself:
A teenage boy hanged himself after his 15...
June 11, 2008
Recently Jennifer Butler Murray, actor Bill Murray's wife, filed for divorce, accusing him of "drug abuse, sex addiction and physical violence towards her during their 11-year marriage." I have no idea as to the veracity of these claims, but it certainly appears that Jennifer has some problems of he...
June 10, 2008
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge just lowered actress Anne Heche's child support obligation by 75% because Heche says she has fallen on financial hard times. Recently she was allowed to "skip" paying child support for July.The judge may well have acted correctly in this case, but it begs the quest...
June 05, 2008
A letter from Tim Murray, a reader:
Dear Glenn:
Here's a board game that's sure to rival "Monopoly" in popularity and please everyone: Don't Drop the Soap. The goal is to fight your way through various prison hazards to achieve parole, all the while trying to avoid "being cornered" (a code w...
June 04, 2008
We've often discussed anti-father bias in Child Protective Services cases. Fathers are frequently marginalized and deprived of custody of their children when their wives/ex-wives/ex-girlfriends abuse their children. This terrible Nebraska case detailed below is another example.
In the case, a mot...
May 29, 2008
Criminal defense attorney Douglas R. Slain (pictured) has a great post about an outrageous misuse of child pornography laws. The target, of course, is male--in this case Alex Phillips, a 17-year old high school student from La Crosse, Wisconsin. Slain writes:
"Phillips may not be the brightest cr...
May 28, 2008
The latest stupid, petty controversy in the presidential primaries/election is people being "outraged"--and the Republicans demanding an explanation--for Senator Obama confusing Auschwitz with Buchenwald in a recent speech. According to the Associated Press' Obama mistaken on name of Nazi death camp...
May 27, 2008
"Melissa Barton said she is considering legal action after her son's kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class.
"After each classmate was allowed to say what they didn't like about Barton's 5-year-old son, Alex, his Morningside Elementary teacher said they were going to tak...
May 22, 2008
...he won't criticize her for her 'personal habits.'
"Andrew Brownson, one of the Republicans challenging Allen, said it would not be appropriate to ask or force her to resign for her 'personal habits.'
"'I don't believe in that,' said Brownson."
According to the UPI, "Assemblywoman Francis...
May 21, 2008
"What is the attitude of the DCFS when confronted with over 3,000 mistakes they made? Spokesman Kendall Marlowe 'acknowledged that mistakes are made, but he said the vast majority of people…were placed there properly… he declined further comment.'
"The DCFS chief administrative law judge Meryl Pa...
May 20, 2008
"Former teacher Brian Presken, 32, was accused of using a mirror to look under a woman's skirt last summer at Barnes & Noble Booksellers on Airport Boulevard in Pensacola.
"Defense attorney Katheryne Snowden argued that the voyeurism charge should be dropped because Presken's accuser didn't h...
May 15, 2008
Sometimes you find out a marriage is over when you come home and your house is empty except for a note from your soon-to-be former wife. Sometimes it happens after a fight. Sometimes it happens when you find out about an affair.
I found out my marriage will soon be over in a different way--the Ca...
May 15, 2008
From the Associated Press' Sex Offender Banned from Son's Graduation (5/10/08):
"School and law enforcement officials have told a St. Joseph man that he can't attend his son's eighth-grade graduation because he is a convicted sex offender and isn't allowed on school property.
"James Jones, 36,...
May 14, 2008
A few days ago I shared this outrageous story with you--Father Jailed Because His Adult Daughter Fails to Get Her GED. In the case, father Brian Gegner was ordered to see to it that his daughter gets her GED, but she has not done so, in part because she struggles with math. The daughter's problems i...
May 12, 2008
According to Jury convicts wife of forging checks while her husband was serving in Iraq (Minneapolis Star Tribune, 5/2/08):
"Dana M. Kieser deceived and defrauded her husband when he was at his most vulnerable, serving in Iraq with the Minnesota National Guard, a Ramsey County jury heard Friday.
...
May 07, 2008
This article by Rebecca Eckler, author of Toddlers Gone Wild!, is so offensive in so many ways it's hard to know where to begin.
Here's one. Rebecca writes:
"On behalf of my four-year-old, who has a Yahoo account in her name, I recently sent an e-mail to her father, who lives in Alberta.
"'...
May 05, 2008
Apparently the filming of the new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace is being plagued with problems. While listening to McIntyre In The Morning on KABC in Los Angeles this morning, I was dismayed when KABC entertainment reporter Debra Mark (pictured) lightly and semi-laughingly mentioned that one of...
April 30, 2008
Los Angeles, CA--Several thousand protesters have written, faxed or called Fox News executives to protest its launch of a new reality show called Bad Dads. According to Reuters, in Bad Dads child support collector Jim Durham "functions as a sort of 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' for tracking deadbeats...It...
April 24, 2008
Danica Patrick became the first female winner in IndyCar history recently, winning the Indy Japan 300 by 6 seconds.
Some women's advocates and Patrick herself are complaining about a new rule which feminists claim is "aimed at the women in Indy." The rule says that lighter drivers have to carry t...
April 23, 2008
According to Virginia Supreme Court to Weigh in on Lesbian Couple's Custody Battle (CNSNews.com, April 15, 2008):
"The Virginia Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday in a case involving a lesbian couple fighting over who gets full custody of a five-year-old girl. Janet Jenkins, former p...
April 22, 2008
"The way the advertising industry portrays men has drawn increasing scrutiny in both the trade press and the mainstream media. Defenders of the status quo -- in which men are depicted as irresponsible fathers and lazy, foolish husbands -- are starting to feel outnumbered. It's an understandable feel...
April 10, 2008
"Review of statements and video surveillance vindicated students accused of assaulting a 13-year-old student at Athens Middle School, said Athens Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Fred Hayes. The female student will be charged by Athens District Police for making a false report, he said...
April 10, 2008
In the highly-publicized Roman v. Roman Texas frozen embryo case, Augusta Roman and her then-husband Randy Roman had tried for several years to have a child (and had one miscarriage) before undergoing infertility treatments. The day before the embryos were to be implanted, Randy told her that he was...
April 08, 2008
By Jeffery M. Leving and Glenn Sacks
CNN says "Report: Men still not pulling weight on chores." Major newspaper headlines include: "Home equity? Men are doing more chores, but women still do most," "Men still slack off, but not as much," and "Men do more housework, but not yet a fair share." Seve...
'When Randy was 6 he smacked a classmate's bottom...as Randy sat in the principal's office, they cal
April 03, 2008
Today's Washington Post details a nice example of where feminist sexual harassment hysteria (combined with a litigious society) leads:
"In his seven years, Randy Castro has been an aspiring soccer player, an accomplished Lego architect and a Royal Ranger at his Pentecostal church. He also, accord...
April 01, 2008
"The fact that women travel less than men – measured in person- kilometers per car, plane, boat and motorcycle – means that women cause considerably fewer CO2 emissions than men and thus considerable less climate change.
"If women´s consumption levels were to be the norm, both emissions and...
March 27, 2008
By Jeffery M. Leving and Glenn Sacks
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley and LA County Child Support Services Department Director Steven Golightly recently announced a sweeping new campaign against so-called "deadbeat dads." They say their new "Most Wanted Delinquent Parent" list is...
March 27, 2008
"A woman in Port St. Lucie faces charges of chasing her fleeing husband around their yard in a minivan, in attempts to drive over him about 20 times.
"Their baby, who was in the back seat of the minivan, was buckled up and was not hurt, deputies said.
"Deputies said it started over a dispute o...
Hillary Clinton Lies: 'If a place was too dangerous, the president couldn´t go, so send the First La
March 25, 2008
In general I've little interest in the Hillary Clinton-bashing pervasive in the men's and fathers' movement. One example of Hillary's alleged misdeeds which is often cited by men's activists is the "No woman is illegal" incident. It occurred while Clinton was campaigning in Nevada in January and is ...
March 24, 2008
Last week Tim, a reader, wrote:
"This sort of story should send chills...A college professor spent nine days in jail, and was suspended from his job because of a false rape accusation. The lying accuser was sentenced -- to EIGHT (8) days in jail. That's right, eight days for the criminal as oppos...
March 19, 2008
One of the big stories out of the southwest this week has been the abduction of a toddler from Child Protective Services--apparently abducted by his parents, apparently with the complicity of someone who has worked with CPS. According to Parents suspected of abuse accused of abducting tot (Arizo...
March 17, 2008
Dr. Laura is taking an enormous amount of heat from feminists over her comments concerning the Eliot Spitzer/Silda Spitzer situation. For example, in the Salon Broadsheet blog post Dr. Laura to Silda: It's all your fault!, feminist blogger Kate Harding writes:
"Conservative radio host Laura Schle...
March 12, 2008
"She was an ambitious lawyer and TV commentator who starting going to Atlantic City casinos to relax, and soon was getting high-roller treatment that included limousines whisking her to the resort....But her gambling spun out of control...She says her losses totaled nearly $1 million.
"Now she's ...
March 06, 2008
"'If anything good can come out of this tragedy, it is that it woke people up that extreme violence between women is possible,' said Morgan Lynn, a staff attorney with Women Empowered Against Violence, or WEAVE, a District-based advocacy group. 'There are a lot of myths in the lesbian community that...
February 28, 2008
In the music video "Do It Well," singer Jennifer Lopez packs all of the following into a 3 minute, 17 second video:
She pushes a man down a flight of stairs
She kicks a man in the head
She wraps a man's arm behind his back and shoves him
She hits a man in the head (twice)
She kicks a ...
February 27, 2008
"Whenever I tried to get my daughter, Family Court wouldn't let me," said Jewell's father, Ricky Ward. "The courts wouldn't hear me out. I blame this on Leatrice Brewer and Family Court."
"She wanted to kill them. I let the court know that. But they took only one side...I loved them. I've been fi...
February 21, 2008
Beating up on divorced ("deadbeat") dads makes great politics in the United States, and apparently Russian presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev (pictured) has figured it out. United Press International says:
"Medvedev has also gone hunting for votes with the forensic skill of a U.S. campaign st...
February 12, 2008
Background: In June 2006, Darren Mack (pictured), a wealthy Nevada father who was involved in a divorce, stabbed his estranged wife to death and then executed a well-planned murder attempt on a Nevada judge. Mack shot and wounded the judge but failed to kill him. According to the Reno Gazette-Journa...
February 06, 2008
I have been surprised and dismayed over some of the reactions from prominent Republicans to John McCain's recent success. As many of you know, Rush Limbaugh has denounced McCain and said that if McCain is the Republican nominee, he would prefer that the Democrats win the election. Ann Coulter went...
February 05, 2008
"Clinton also recognizes that many states´ child support guidelines are excessive, noting:
"'Child support payments can represent half of [low-income] men's income, and can provide a strong incentive to work in the underground economy.'
"Clinton´s proposals are a good start, but much m...
January 30, 2008
Roger Clemens, future Hall of Famer, welcome to family court.
No, Roger isn't getting divorced--in fact, former teammate Jose Canseco wrote that Clemens was very devoted and faithful to his wife Debbie during his baseball career. What I mean is this--Clemens has been accused in the Mitchell Repor...
January 29, 2008
I doubt many in the men's and fathers' movement feel this way, but there are occasions when our feminist opponents do something so embarrassing that I end up feeling a little sorry for them. Such is the case with New York State NOW's reaction to Ted Kennedy's recent endorsement of Obama over Hillary...
January 23, 2008
There is a controversy over one UK dating agency's offer to connect men with Czech women "unspoiled by feminism." Feminist domestic violence advocates are protesting, and one politician said, "Material like this is frankly disgusting and I am certain that everyone will share my revulsion."
My fee...
January 21, 2008
"When he turned 18, Michael B. Elgin Jr. was a homeless father of a toddler, trying to get himself through high school while living with friends, relatives and, sometimes, in his car. Elgin did not know at the time, his lawyer says, but by failing to register for selective military service within 30...
January 21, 2008
The issue of Single Motherhood by Choice has been getting a good deal of press lately, and is becoming increasingly acceptable in our society.
Now Hugh Hefner, 81, apparently is going to selfishly crank out an inevitably fatherless child with de facto Single Mother by Choice Holly Madison, 28, o...
January 16, 2008
Well now that Bill Richardson has fared poorly in two states, the total populations of which are less than half that of the city I live in, I can see why he needs to drop out of the race. After all, 1.5% of the US population has rejected him.
In fact, Richardson probably decided to throw in the to...
January 16, 2008
USA Today financial columnist Sandra Block's column below all but comes right out and says that men are selfish for retiring at retirement age. Instead, men should continue to work, work, work while--guess what?--women should retire earlier.
According to Block, by working well past retirement age...
January 15, 2008
Amazing--a middle school girl makes a false allegation of rape against a construction worker who is working at her school, and the result is:
a) An outpouring of support and sympathy for the falsely accused construction worker.
b) A tearful apology from the false accuser to the falsely accused...
January 11, 2008
From TMZ.com's Pam to Rick -- I'm Pregnant, Get Lost! (1/9/08):
"TMZ has learned the divorce between Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon is back on and Pam is pregnant!
"You'll recall Anderson filed for divorce last month, but called it off just days later. But sources tell TMZ she is now moving for...
January 08, 2008
From Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine's new press release Governor Kaine Announces 2008 Legislative Initiatives on Domestic and Sexual Violence (1/2/08):
"The Violence Against Women Act of 2005 also prohibits law enforcement officers from asking or requiring a victim of an alleged sex offense t...
January 03, 2008
Background: For fathers and the children who love them and need them, Massachusetts sometimes looks a lot like feminist hell. In this series, Ned Holstein, Executive Director of Fathers & Families, points to four um...problematic...Massachusetts family law bills.
The first three bills Holste...
January 02, 2008
For fathers and the children who love them and need them, Massachusetts sometimes looks a lot like feminist hell. In this series, Ned Holstein, Executive Director of Fathers & Families, points to four um...problematic...Massachusetts family law bills. The first bill Holstein cites limits the fre...
December 19, 2007
Lead Feministing blogger Jessica Valenti, author of Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters, criticizes Abstinence Education in her recent blog post Abstinence-only Education: What we're missing. She makes some valid points, but what most interested me was her citing a 2...
December 12, 2007
Background: Research demonstrates that a significant percentage of allegations of sexual assault are false. To learn more, see my recent column U. of Maryland Correct to Deny Clothesline Project Protesters a Forum to Publicly Name Alleged Rapists (Baltimore Sun, 10/15/07).
Also, see my blog posts...
December 07, 2007
Feminists are up in arms over the "Jennifer Love Hewitt looks fat in a bikini" controversy, and I'm inclined to agree with them. TMZ.com recently ran a photo of Hewitt in a bikini (above left) with the observation "We know what you ate this summer, Love--everything!" Hewitt fired back at critics...
December 07, 2007
I've little sympathy for Debra Lafave (pictured above), who at 23 statutorily raped a 14-year-old boy. She got the female sentencing discount and did not go to jail because she's a woman. A five-year study conducted by a Kansas State University professor found that male teachers are likely to ge...
December 04, 2007
"The capacity to love is a vital, rich and all-consuming function...you can find nobility and sacrifice and love wherever you may seek it out..."--Rod Serling
Hero father Manuel Jesus Cordova Soberanes gave up his attempt to come to the United States and instead turned himself over to the Border ...
December 04, 2007
A man who was kind enough to donate his sperm to a lesbian couple has now--18 years later--been stabbed in the back and hit up for child support. According to the New York Post:
"A sperm donor who sent gifts signed 'Dad' to his biological son has been slapped with a child-support order, 18 years ...
November 27, 2007
Examples of decent, loving dads being manhandled by the anti-father family law system are legion, but this one has to make the Top 10. A recent New Jersey appeals court reaffirmed a decision mandating that a man must pay alimony to his ex-wife--who killed their son. From Legal tussle: Should killer ...
November 20, 2007
An 11-year-old Georgia girl claims that an 8-year-old and two 9-year-old boys kidnapped and raped her, and the boys have been criminally charged. The most recent CNN story is Child-on-child rape case stuns small Georgia town. To watch the video of the girl describe the alleged attack, click here.
...
November 13, 2007
The article below is illustrative of the problems with the child support system in many ways:
1) I've often made the point that when we jail or threaten to jail child support debtors and they pay money to stay out of jail, this money often is not theirs but instead money they've borrowed from their...
November 08, 2007
I debated the issue of Single Motherhood by Choice on Fox's nationally-syndicated Morning Show with Mike and Juliet yesterday. Also on the show were two single mothers by choice, including Louise Sloan, author of the new book Knocking Yourself Up, a psychologist, and 18-year-old Katrina Clark, a chi...
November 06, 2007
Background: Conscientious Virginia judge James Michael Shull, who smoked out a woman who sought to extend a restraining order based on false charges of domestic violence, was just removed from the bench by this Virginia Supreme Court ruling. I have examined the evidence in this case and it is clear ...
November 01, 2007
Background: Newsweek magazine writer Lorraine Ali briefly quotes from my co-authored column Rise in Out-of-Wedlock Births Is Bad News for America’s Kids (Washington Times, 12/4/06) in her new piece Knocking Yourself Up--Some women laugh about turkey basters replacing Mr. Right. The ongoing debate ov...
October 25, 2007
Background: In June 2006, Darren Mack, a wealthy Nevada father who was involved in a divorce, stabbed his estranged wife to death and then executed a well-planned murder attempt on a Nevada judge. Mack shot and wounded the judge but failed to kill him. According to the Reno Gazette-Journal, when pol...
October 23, 2007
"You've never heard complaints about paying child support until it's a woman who has to pay it."--Seattle Family Law Attorney Lisa Scott
"The only way to abolish alimony is to make women pay it."--Tom Leykis, nationally-syndicated talk show host.
When men work hard to support their families, t...
Univ. of Md. Correct to Deny Clothesline Project Protesters a Forum to Publicly Name Alleged Rapists
October 22, 2007
The University of Maryland is under fire for denying activists from the Clothesline Project, a campus rape-awareness event, permission to publicly name alleged rapists. The university cites the danger of lawsuits from those named, and that's certainly a reasonable fear. Yet the university should als...
October 18, 2007
(Los Angeles, CA)--Thousands of protesters have written, faxed or called Florida Governor Crist and Florida Department of Children & Families officials this week to protest the DCF's actions in the "Elian Gonzalez II" case. DCF continues to deny Rafael Izquierdo custody of his five-year-old daughter...
October 04, 2007
Background: In my blog post Is Charlie Sheen the Victim of Parental Alienation?, I discussed the Charlie Sheen/Denise Richards divorce and apparent attempts by Richards to minimize and control Sheen's relationship with his children. Richards claims that the children--ages two and three--don't want ...
October 03, 2007
On numerous occasions I've discussed the ways the taxpayer-funded domestic violence industry vilifies men and promotes unfair and misleading stereotypes about domestic violence. "Restaurant," an amazing domestic violence public service ad from HomeFront, a Canadian domestic violence agency, captures...
October 03, 2007
As many of you know, Mary Winkler recently appeared on Oprah. To watch the show in its entirety, click here.
Oprah was annoyingly sympathetic to Winkler, and seemed to buy her abused wife shtick. My opinion of her claims is as follows:
1) Winkler provided no substantive evidence for her claims...
October 01, 2007
Ford has come out with a new father-positive car commercial for its 2008 Taurus. The ad, called "We Know," depicts a father looking out for his little son as he rides his bicycle, and then draws an analogy between the way the father knows how to keep his son safe and the way Ford says its automobile...
October 01, 2007
Background: I've previously covered the "Elian Gonzalez II" case in Miami--a battle over a 4-year-old Cuban immigrant girl which pits her Cuban father, Rafael Izquierdo (pictured), against wealthy Cuban-American foster parents Joe Cubas, a well-known sports agent, and his wife Maria. Just as Elian's...
October 01, 2007
An article about Charlie Sheen's divorce, which I'll follow with a few comments:
End daughters' overnights with Sheen, ex asks
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Denise Richards has asked a court to stop allowing ex-husband Charlie Sheen to have overnight stays with their two young daughters.
...
September 25, 2007
“How can you expect the country to be loyal to you if your own family isn't?”
A New Hampshire mother posed this question to Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani at a town-hall-style meeting recently. The media has widely reported Giuliani’s uncomfortable response--“Leave my family alon...
September 13, 2007
My new co-authored column, Passport Rules Unfair to Child Support Debtors (San Antonio Express-News, 9/8/07), criticizes the new child support/passport rules which are so overwhelmingly popular among the editorial boards of our nation's newspapers. The column is a response to the Express-News' recen...
September 10, 2007
What opponents of the second amendment have never understood is that the prime benefit of the right to bear arms is now and always has been reaped without a shot being fired. The main benefit does not lie in the occasional person who shoots an attacker in self-defense. It doesn't lie in the many att...
September 06, 2007
Could one find a clearer example of gender bias and the female sentencing discount than this? Brenda Nesselroad-Slaby is not being charged with any crime. Let's review:
1) Brenda Nesselroad-Slaby left her toddler daughter in her car (in heat which reached 100 degrees) for eight hours while she wo...
August 30, 2007
My latest His Side with Glenn Sacks radio commentary for KLAA AM 830 in Los Angeles criticizes the Florida child welfare system for its handling of the “Elian Gonzalez II” case in Miami.
To listen to the commentary, click here. In my commentary, I explained:
"There’s been a lot of media atte...
August 27, 2007
I've noted on countless occasions that when a woman commits domestic violence, we don't call it "domestic violence." In this story, Rebecca Harvey allegedly rammed her ex-husband's car while their three children were in his car.
She's been arrested, and is being charged with felony charge of reck...
August 24, 2007
I'm opposed to prison sentences for certain statutory rape situations--in many countries, a 21-year-old man having a relationship with a 17-year-old woman is perfectly normal.
A friend's grandparents recently celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary, and it was publicized in local papers, as it ...
August 22, 2007
Reflecting the weakness of the fatherhood movement, fathers' issues haven't been much of a part of the current presidential election yet. However, as I've reported on this blog, several candidates have made statements on fathers and child support, including Republican candidate John McCain and Democ...
August 16, 2007
Murderess Mary Winkler--who shot her husband in the back and then refused to aid him or call 911 as he slowly bled to death for 20 minutes--walked away a free woman this week after serving a farcically brief "sentence" for her crimes.
Winkler scammed the court with uncorroborated claims that Matt...
August 16, 2007
The murder trial of Myra Morton should be a good chance to employ the "Oppressed Muslim Woman" defense. Apparently Myra Morton's husband was taking on a second wife, so Myra, the first wife, shot and killed him.
I'm sure she did it because she was hurt, downtrodden, oppressed and miserable (in th...
Seven Reasons Why the New Study on Single Dads' Alleged Neglect of Their Kids' Health May Be Mislead
August 14, 2007
As the new Reuters article Children of single dads get less health care (8/8/07) explains, a new study by Health Services Research claims that single fathers are less likely to take their children to the doctor for routine visits than single mothers, and are also less likely to have health insurance...
August 09, 2007
Elise Passamani's article "Oedipus Child: When Children Are Born Motherless, Problems Await" (The American, 7/25/07), deals with the case of a man, Roberto d.B., who had biological twin daughters through a surrogate mother. She explains, "When the hospital put the surrogate’s name on the children’s ...
August 01, 2007
The Czech story Custody bill aims to protect kids: Kidnapping cases show a vague interpretation of international law (The Prague Post, 7/25/07) [read it here] is pro-feminist mainstream journalism at its finest. The mother is wrong in practically every aspect of this case, yet the article portrays h...
July 26, 2007
Background: In my recent blog post "If You See a Father Holding His Child's Hand, Call the Cops!," I called attention to the man-bashing Virginia Department of Health poster (see it here. I wrote:
"If dad goes for a walk with his daughter and holds her hand, apparently Virginia Department of Hea...
July 26, 2007
Background: In my blog post "She Squanders Her Divorce Settlement, so He Has to Pay Her Again--30 Years Later!" I wrote:
"Get this: Dennis North gets married and has three kids. His wife cheats on him and they get divorced. Dennis buys her a house and investments as part of the divorce settlement...
July 25, 2007
One of the most surprising scenes in the new Harry Potter book occurs in the chapter "The Bribe" (pages 210-215)--a scene which reflects our sharply anti-father political environment. (As an aside, even though J.K. Rowling is an avowed single mother advocate, in the Harry Potter series she mercifull...
July 19, 2007
It's the lie that never dies-- child support collects $4 for every $1 spent on enforcement, so enforcement efforts should be stepped up, and certainly not cut. The latest to push this is Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, as part of his new "Initiative to Strengthen Families" [http://ca...
July 16, 2007
The strict father has been the target of much criticism over the past four decades, which is one reason why we don't have very many strict fathers around any more. (Divorce is another reason). I'm not a particular advocate of strict/hard-line parenting, and it's certainly true that the old, tough da...
July 10, 2007
Milwaukee Brewers star first baseman Prince Fielder, 23, will start in the All-Star game tonight, and is leading the National League in homeruns. There are inevitable comparisons between Prince Fielder and his father Cecil (both pictured), who led the majors in RBI three seasons in a row for the Det...
July 10, 2007
“I'll beat up Blake when I'm drunk...If he says one thing I don't like then I'll chin him.”--U.K. singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse, speaking about her relationship with her new husband
I've noted on many occasions that research shows that domestic violence by women against men is a significant pro...
July 10, 2007
"I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seats...I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights, slashed a hole in all 4 tires..."--from Carrie Underwood's hit single "Before He Cheats."
One of the ways the double standard about dom...
July 03, 2007
Recently my daughter and I were watching her second favorite movie, The Sandlot 3. (Her favorite movie is The Sandlot 1). The movie is the story of arrogant baseball star Tommy "Santa" Santorelli who (warning: plot spoiler ahead) travels back in time to 1976 and relives his boyhood days on the sandl...
July 03, 2007
Several of you sent me this amazing story--Court ordered payout 30 years after divorce. Get this:
Dennis North gets married and has three kids. His wife cheats on him and they get divorced. Dennis buys her a house and investments as part of the divorce settlement, and raises the three kids himsel...
July 03, 2007
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swel...
June 26, 2007
If dad goes for a walk with his daughter and holds her hand, apparently Virginia Department of Health officials wants you to pick up the phone and destroy his life by reporting him as a possible sexual abuser. I would've thought this article about this campaign was from the Onion or some satirical p...
June 26, 2007
The horrendous murder of Jessie Davis, a pregnant 26-year-old mother, allegedly by her boyfriend, Bobby Cutts, Jr., has already begun triggering renewed publicity about the "fatal fathers/maternal homicide crisis" myth. For example, Day Gardner, President of National Black Pro-Life Union, just relea...
June 21, 2007
The Taron James paternity fraud case is one of the most egregious examples of the abuses the child support enforcement system visits upon men. In my co-authored column Defrauded Veterans Have Mixed Emotions on Veterans Day (Daily Breeze [Los Angeles], 11/11/03)[http://www.glennsacks.com/veteran_feel...
June 20, 2007
Not surprisingly, the gay press has fired back at me over my comments earlier this week in my blog post "Nationally-Syndicated Cartoonist: It's Better to Have Two Moms than a Mom and a Dad," [http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=816] in which I criticized the OPUS Father's Day week cartoon "Davie Dinkle ha...
June 18, 2007
This week marks the one year anniversary of Darren Mack's murder of his estranged wife and shooting of a Nevada judge. The event is being recounted in several articles, including "One Year Anniversary Haunts Reno" (KREN, 6/12/07)[www.kren.com/news/7967782.html] and the more detailed "Violence reverb...
June 14, 2007
My new co-authored column, "In this Turf War, Kids Are the Prize" (Tallahassee Democrat, 6/13/07)[read the article here: //tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070613/OPINION05/706130304/1006/OPINION], defends the concept of Parental Alienation against recent attacks from the National Organi...
June 12, 2007
Anne Heche's recently announced divorce/custody settlement with her estranged husband, Coley Laffoon, has some of the marks of the types of custody decisions which I and the fathers' rights movement have often criticized. According to the Entertainment Television story "Anne Heche's Hubby Gets Custo...
June 11, 2007
Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (aka "Berkeley Breathed"), creator of the popular, nationally-syndicated cartoon OPUS, gives fathers a nice kick in the teeth Father's Day week with his latest comic "Davie Dinkle has two moms" (pictured).
In the comic, which appeared in many of America's largest ne...
June 11, 2007
Feminist writer Rebecca Traister and I debated the question "Is America Bashing Its Men?" in the June issue of Atlanta Life Magazine (pictured). Traister is a staff writer at Salon.com who has written for the New York Times, New York Magazine, and others.
Traister and I didn't agree on much of an...
June 11, 2007
There are legitimate arguments on both sides of the immigration debate, but most reasonable people on both sides acknowledge that most immigrants are hard-working, decent people who (understandably) came to the US for a chance at a better life.
Not the National Organization for Women.
In a rec...
June 07, 2007
I've often criticized what one might call the "paternal abandonment script"--the standard assumption that if a father doesn't remain in his children's lives after a divorce or separation, it's because he "abandoned the family" and/or chose to remove himself from his children's lives.
This script ...
June 06, 2007
I debated the Texas frozen embryo case on Fox's nationally-syndicated Morning Show with Mike and Juliet on Friday, June 1. It involves Augusta Roman and her ex-husband Randy Roman--the latest man getting beat up unfairly in the media for not doing what the woman in his life wanted him to do. The cas...
May 31, 2007
(Pictured: The Yates family before Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub)
Background: Gilberta Estrada recently hung her four small daughters, three of whom died, and many are blaming her ex-boyfriend Gregorio Frayre Rodriguez, against whom she had a temporary restraining order. Wha...
May 31, 2007
Gilberta Estrada hung her four small daughters, three of whom died--and it's her ex-boyfriend's fault?! For example, Christian Newswire just issued the press release "Victim of Domestic Violence Hangs Self and Four Daughters" in which they claim:
"Domestic Violence is a destroyer. It is believed ...
May 31, 2007
As I've noted on many occasions, the domestic violence establishment is not telling us the full truth about domestic violence, and many destructive family law and criminal law policies have been based on misinformation.
Research clearly establishes that women are frequently the aggressors in dom...
May 30, 2007
I've no sympathy for William DeCato, a convicted rapist, but I have a real problem with the extended confinement law that is now targeting him. These laws--which allow states to hold people in prison beyond their sentences if they're deemed dangerous sexual predators--are becoming more and more comm...
May 29, 2007
Feminist writer and activist Jessica Valenti (pictured), Executive Editor of
feministing.com, says the new Shrek movie has some feminism in it. Valenti writes:
"Apparently the latest Shrek movie has a tad o' feminism in there:
"Cameron Diaz has admitted she loves the fact her character Princ...
May 29, 2007
Mary Cheney's controversial baby (how could a baby be controversial?) has been born. It's a boy, named Samuel David Cheney, and his parents are Cheney and her lesbian partner Heather Poe.
I believe children need both a mother and a father, so I can hardly be considered a fan of fatherless parenti...
May 29, 2007
As so often happens, the media has missed a crucial aspect of the Anne Heche (pictured)/Coleman Laffoon custody battle. The story below explains that the two are battling over custody of their five-year-old son Homer.
I have no particular knowledge nor opinion of either parent's character or of m...
May 24, 2007
Background: In my May 8 blog post "Cadillac Thinks Humiliating Men Is Great Revenge--and Adweek Agrees." I wrote:
"Another female 'revenge' commercial. In the Cadillac commercial 'Khakis' a female boss revels in humiliating and intimidating her male subordinates--and only her male subordinates. A...
May 24, 2007
Background: Around Mother's Day the National Organization for Women, the Family Violence Prevention Fund, and a dozen other women’s groups signed on to a complaint filed against the United States with the Inter American Commission on Human Rights. The complaint claims that American courts victimize ...
May 23, 2007
"She said she had tolerated the lifestyle because she hoped I would change and threatened to leave if I didn't. I was sleeping on the couch in my own home. I was no longer supposed to be a rock star. I was someone who had to be apologized for."--rock singer Marilyn Manson
I know very little about...
May 23, 2007
New York Yankee star shortstop Derek Jeter often dates beautiful women, and a common story in the media is how "lucky" Jeter is. In November The Onion published the satirical piece Derek Jeter Dating Jessica Biel, Repeatedly Reports Derek Jeter (11/30/06):
"NEW YORK—According to his teammates, ot...
May 23, 2007
I was at first pleased to see the article Looking at female domestic violence (The Laconia Citizen, 5/7/07), which discusses "A talk sponsored by the Family Violence Prevention Council highlighted the issue of female perpetrators of domestic violence." I thought perhaps someone in the government-fun...
May 23, 2007
Policy consultant Michael Robinson of the California Alliance for Families and Children reports that AB 164, a bill which would have denied thousands of California noncustodial parents the right to receive their children's school records, has been pulled off the floor of the California Assembly.
...
April 29, 2007
By Jeffery M. Leving and Glenn SacksSan Diego Union-Tribune
Alec Baldwin’s angry, over-the-top voice-mail tirade at his daughter, Ireland, was clearly wrong. Unfortunately, while we’ve been wringing our hands over how bad Baldwin is, we’re ignoring the case’s central truth – Kim Basinger’s well-d...
April 20, 2007
John Stossel’s Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel–Why Everything You Know is Wrong has a nice section on divorced fathers. Stossel interviewed Sanford Braver, author of Divorced Dads: Shattering the Myths, and says “Braver’s study showed that the majority of divorced dads do t...
November 30, 1999
I've often criticized what one might call the "paternal abandonment script"--the standard assumption that if a father doesn't remain in his children's lives after a divorce or separation, it's because he "abandoned the family" and/or chose to remove himself from his children's lives. One example is ...