
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Fathers’ group protests images on pizza boxes
By Lauren Pack
Hamilton JournalNews
HAMILTON – A fathers’ rights group picketed a restaurant that is displaying pictures on its pizza boxes of men who are seriously in arrears on paying their child support.
Members of Fathers-4-Justice, a nonprofit volunteer group fighting for “truth, justice and equality in family law,” stood outside Karen’s Pizzeria on Eaton Avenue for hours dressed in camouflage pants and bright purple T-shirts, waving posters and banners stating “Kids need both parents. Families now. Reform now.”
The business began placing posters from the Butler County Child Support Enforcement Agency depicting “deadbeat dads” on its delivery boxes in August. The agency said the effort has let to the arrest of at least one man who owed $21,200 in child support.
Karen Willis, owner of the business, said she doesn’t plan to discontinue the promotion.
“I think the children need the support,” she said.
John Fowler, a member of Fathers-4-Justice, said that before the protest began, he asked Willis to remove the posters featuring the delinquent dads from her restaurant’s boxes.
She declined and about a half dozen people started waving signs about 11 a.m. and urging passersby, with the assistance of a bull horn, to eat elsewhere.
“I said no, absolutely not,” Willis said, when asked what she told the protesters who urged the removal of the posters. “They don’t scare me.”
Read the full article here. For background on the controversy, click here.
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