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.

“…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.)

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

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

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….

…feminist bipolar rhetoric…

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?