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Roger Knight said,
Let the first indictment be handed down against Cynthia Brown, the support enforcer of ill renown.
March 31, 2007 at 3:20 pm
scottkirk said,
The saying “those that live in glass houses should not throw rocks”
comes to mind
If the situation for men continues to decline… i for one am pulling out the stops….and well see whose ashamed….
March 31, 2007 at 9:07 pm
tonysprout said,
April 2, 2007 at 6:47 am
tonysprout said,
Let’s back up a minute. Was Justice done when these men were adjudicated as “visitors” in the life of their children? I say “No. Justice was not done.”
Both parents have a Constitutional Right, absent a lawful conviction, to enjoy the Rights of parenthood, as well as observing the responsibilities. Modern law says men and women (mothers and fathers) are Equal in the eyes of the law, yet family courts are key-holed into stereotyping men as bad, women as good.
“Best interests of the child” seemed to convince judges that since men were bad, women were good, that the child belonged with the good parent.
Yet many studies show that children do better in llfe when both parents are fully involved in their kids’ lives. Seperating children from one parent is akin to child abuse.
Some courts have picked up on an outrageous idea that fathers tend to be more dangerous and violent with their children, yet government studies prove otherwise.
This LINK: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm04/table4_5.htm
from the Dept of Human Services shows that mothers acting alone are responsible for 31% of their children’’s deaths, while fathers acting alone are responsible for 14.4% of those deaths.
This LINK: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm04/figure3_6.htm from the Dept of Human Services shows that mothers acting alone are responsible for 38% of child abuse, while fathers acting alone are resposible for 18.3% of child abuse cases.
While it is realized that mothers by far spend more time with the children, these figures do serious damage to claims that father=bad, mother= good. These figures suggest to me that violence is just human nature. I believe that these numbers of abuse and death can be greatly reduced if both parents are allowed full access to their children, setting up a system of “checks and balances”.
Let’s examine the equality side of this coin. Custodial parents (mothers) who are poor and uneducated receive special benefits from the gov’t in the way of job training, welfare, etc. The non-custodial parent who is poor and uneducated receives NO gov’t benefits, save Bush’s Fatherhood Initiative, which NOW is pot-banging to get a piece of.
Ms. Silverman, when a citizen is accused of a crime they receive due process and a jury trial. Not many people would advocate allowing a judge to force such a life changing event (prison) on any citizen, yet we routinely allow judges to strip / modify parental “status”. This is an event that not only affects the parent’s life, but their childen’s lives as well. Judges are only human, and are biased by social and political pressures. Juries represent a consensus and ae not swayed by social and political pressure.
The adversarial nature of family court must be abandoned. Remove winners and losers from this system, and let the children be the winners. Let’s look after poor fathers that want to be involved in their children’s lives, as well as the poor mothers.
To do otherwise is child abuse.
BTW, there are 64 “deadbeat moms” in that county. Why aren’t their pictures on those pizza boxes?
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April 2, 2007 at 8:15 am