NOW’s National Conference July 13-15–’Women Victimized in Family Courts’
The National Organization for Women is holding its annual national
conference–”Fast Forward: Women Take Charge”–on July 13-15. One of NOW’s main complaints is the alleged mistreatment of women in family court.
One of their presentations–conducted by Renee Beeker, President of Michigan NOW, and Vickie Masotti, is titled “Women Victimized in Family Courts: How to Make the System Accountable.” NOW writes:
“Many feminists believe that the family courts are in crisis, as the number of women losing custody of minor children to documented batterers and sexual abusers mounts. One woman whose family has suffered as a result of aggressive courtroom tactics by so-called fathers’ rights activists and biased court personnel will tell her story. In addition, there will be a review of data from a national survey of court watches conducted by the chair of the NOW Family Law Ad Hoc Committee. This information is intended to hold the family courts accountable and to enable activists to effectively aid women and children victimized by an unfair system.”
The “woman losing custody to abusive ex-husband” script is one of NOW’s bugaboos. I’ve looked into the three most highly-publicized cases featured by NOW and their colleagues with the Battered Mothers Custody Conference–the Genia Shockome case, the Sadia Loeliger case, and the Bridget Marks case. In each case, we were told that a fit, loving, protective mother was stripped of custody by an abusive father.
When I first started looking into these cases, I figured there probably were some where the mothers really were mistreated. I still think those cases are out there, but I haven’t found them yet. Neither the Shockome case, the Loeliger case, nor the Marks case fit the NOW/BMCC “protective mother losing custody to abusive father” model. None even came close.
In the Loeliger case, it was the mother who had been found culpable of child abuse by a California juvenile court. The father got custody not due to family court machinations, as the mother’s supporters claimed, but because the juvenile court removed the little girl from the mother’s care because of the physical abuse.
In the Marks case, all five judges who heard the case, male and female, concluded that she had coached her little girls into asserting that they had been molested by their father.
In the Shockome case, the mother’s absolute refusal to co-parent with her ex-husband led the courts–eventually, after giving her many chances–to transfer custody of the kids from Genia to her ex-husband.
I explained all of these cases in more detail in my co-authored column Shockome Syndrome.
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July 7th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Unfortunately, it’s the NOW sows who get billions in taxpayer kickbacks for promoting discrimination and hatred based on gender, so on the rare occasion a woman doesn’t get away with abusing her children, we have to have our patience tested with press releases from the baby-killing lesbian lunatics. Remember, to them, the next best thing to an aborted baby is an abused fatherless child. NOW provides all of the evidence the public needs to force the beltway folks to defund these twits once and for all.
July 7th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
“…there will be a review of data from a national survey of court watches conducted by the chair of the NOW Family Law Ad Hoc Committee. This information is intended to hold the family courts accountable and to enable activists to effectively aid women and children victimized by an unfair system.”
It’s interesting that NOW has privy to (any or all) family court findings and judgments with their “court watches”. What exactly are they? If an MRA organization wants to compile statistics for evidence of custody bias in favor of women, then all one of them (eg: ACFC, Fathers 4 Justice, Fathers and Families-Massachusetts , etc.) has to do is stake-out the courtroom with member volunteers or paid observers? And why does an un-elected-judiciary become accountable to a lobby like NOW?Where is the pressure applied?
July 7th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
“women victimised in familly courts”…Its about time women started getting an fair shake in familly courts!!
…feminist bipolar rhetoric…
July 7th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
yeah, this is like worrying Bill Gates is not getting his share of the money.
logic is not their strong point. explains a lot. anybody check out this latest “scientific” group? led by NOW? that sounds factual indeed. where did this data come from? how was it taken? i smell fish.
seriously, this is one of NOW’s old tried and true underhanded tactics. make headlines w/ absolute foolishness, usually something that really is happening to others. the press cards get hold of it, blow it up, and everyone says “oh, poor thing”. poof, when another group says something about it being a problem, it’s yesterday’s news. joe on the street will say “didn’t i see where women were having that problem”? also keeps NOW in the news, like jesse and al. if no problem, heck create one.
funny nobody can actually find any legit. women here. if you put on a show, surely you put forth your best stuff. i wonder….
July 8th, 2007 at 7:15 am
?The Sisters of Now
Within the pigpen
that is our nations capital
there roots a group
of nasty females called NOW
a bunch of greedy
sows who grow ever more obese
with each passing day
as they feed at the public trough
gorge themselves
upon the flow of taxpayer dollars
confiscated by the IRS
yet what goes in their hungry mouths
must come out in time
in the propaganda and the lies
the Now Sows spread
like peanut butter in the media
about the average father
Copyright…DaPoet…July 8, 2007
July 8th, 2007 at 8:25 am
That National Association of Women Lawyers convinced the American Bar Association to create the Family Law section in the courts, then introduced no-fault divorce law in 1960 (cf. Uniform Divorce Bill).
http://www.abanet.org/nawl/about/history.html
That 50% of marriages end in divorce OR, of the approximate 4.4 million people married in 2006, statistically, all of them are divorced by December 2007
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/divorce.htm
That “Today’s young adults are at greater risk for marital failure than any earlier generation in the nation’s history. As a consequence of the thirty years of high divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing, more and more young people are growing up with no personal life experience of successful marriage and little or no confidence that they could be in an enduring marital relationship.” (cf. About the Project)
http://marriage.rutgers.edu
That “Continuing decline of the marriage rate accompanied by an increase in the number of cohabiting couples; a small increase in the percentage of children living in fragile families and born out of wedlock; and a sharp increase among teenage boys in their acceptance of unwed childbearing and a slight decrease in agreement among teenagers, especially girls, that “living together before getting married is a good idea.” – 2004 Social Health of Marriage in America
http://marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/SOOU/SOOU2004.pdf
That 85% of order of protections are awarded to females, 7% of petitions denied.
http://www.eleventhdistrictcourt.state.nm.us/stats/mckinley/dvcumulative.pdf
That 15% of men are awarded custody, unchanged since 1994 (see p. 1).
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p60-225.pdf
That of the 12 million one-parent family, 10 million are maintained by women (group excludes remarriage) (cf. p. 8).
http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/p20-553.pdf
That 84% of child support providers are men.
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/004012.html
That annual support payments of $40 billion paid by 7.8 million seperated parents, 6.6 million are fathers.
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/004012.html
That divorced children raised by mother score lower on average than children with continuously married parents on measures of academic success, conduct, psychological adjustment, social competence, and long-term health outcomes.
http://fatherhood.hhs.gov/charting02/Family.htm#FF5
That, while 40% of children whose fathers live outside the home have no contact with their children, the other 60% had contact an average of 69 days in the last year.
http://fatherhood.hhs.gov/charting02/executive.htm
That 6% of mothers and 3% of fathers self-report having physically abused their children, defined as having hit the child with a fist or kicked the child, thrown the child or knocked them down, choked or burned the child, or used a knife or gun against the child.
http://fatherhood.hhs.gov/charting02/executive.htm
That more than $1 billion spent to police and prosecutors to protect women from men. Since 1995, when a wife feels fearful, it is domestic violence. Divorce attorneys practice leveraging this assault charge into an order of protection to get a man out of the home, physically separating him from children and property.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/about.htm
That our Federal government provides up to $4.1 billion to States that establish support orders, collect on amount due, and create arrearages (See 6B, 6C, & 6D).
http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title04/0458.htm
That In 2005, 57.8% of child abuse and neglect perpetrators were females.
http://faq.acf.hhs.gov/cgi-bin/acfrightnow.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=70&p_created=1001611491
That divorced/separated men commit suicide about 400% more than women (see # 5, 15).
http://www.suicidology.org/associations/1045/files/Suicide2002.pdf
July 8th, 2007 at 8:28 am
“Many feminists believe…”
I have a dream…that one day, the gov’t and the media will stop acting on what feminists believe, and will stick to the FACTS.
“…women losing custody of minor children to documented batterers and sexual abusers…”
I BELIEVE that this documentation is what the law refers to as a formal complaint; NOT a conviction; just a complaint filed with the court. Using this method, I can “prove” that Kim Gandy is a prostitute.
“…How to Make the System Accountable…”
All judges will convict men merely on an accusation. No evidence or actual testimony needed; just a complaint will land a man in prison. (I don’t understand this. They already have this ability. The only thing I can think of is they want to skip a jury trial.)
July 8th, 2007 at 8:41 am
tonysprout said (#7), “The only thing I can think of is they want to skip a jury trial.”
In Illinois, family court abolished jury trials.
In family court, I observed dozens of men sentenced to prison without a jury trial.
You can too. Go to your County’s courthouse between 9 and 11am, Monday and Wednesdays. It’s free and an invitation is not required.
July 8th, 2007 at 8:46 am
DcFather is right! These carpet-lickers are crazy!
July 8th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
daveinga#4…those that initiate an absurd attack control the opposition by controlling the whole dialogue!!!
July 9th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Baby Killing lesbian lunatics…. I just love that!!
The problems is ( according to the feminist) is the those darn farther rights groups are starting to have some effect. Why at one time a woman could lie, cheat and steal and not be a held accoutable. A woman could act totally socially. legally and morally irresponsible and noone batted an eyelash. Now Men… yes I said MEN are winning in court, they get the children and get paid, don’t they know that only women should win and get paid. Why if this keeps up one day those poor women will have to grow up socially. legally and morally. And all those lovely government servants will have to get a real job, assuming they are not prosecuted for what they did. Why the whole Racket….. I mean ORDER OF THINGS( Our way) will come crashing down and we won’t be special anymore!!