Published Before 2003
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| Roger F. Gay is Director and primary researcher for Project for the Improvement of Child Support Litigation Technology. He is a regular contributor to Men's News Daily and a contributing editor for Fathering Magazine. Some articles are also available from other online and print sources. |  |
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Recent Articles by Roger F. Gay
The Following Articles Were Published Before 2003.
BBC Set to Rerun The War Against Men (12/18/02) [MND] [FM]
The BBC is presenting a warmed over version of anti-father feminist propaganda that is reminiscent of the American war against fathers in the 1980s and 90s.
Additional Scientific Proof that Child Support Awards are Too High (12/11/02) [MND] [FM]
Arizona State University researcher Sanford Braver performed the largest federally funded study of divorced fathers in history. In a new book chapter, Sanford Braver takes on the formulae used to calculate child support.
A Woman's Right to be Criminal (12/06/02) [MND] [FM]
I read a USA Today article on child support by Martin Kasindorf entitled, Men wage battle on 'paternity fraud'. I know from experience that 'paternity fraud' would not have been in quotes unless we were being prepared for some unadulterated bullshit.
Virginia Child Support Panel to Suggest Increase (10/09/02) [MND] [FM]
Special Interest Influence Apparent
The Virginia State Child Support Guideline Review Panel held its last meeting on Tuesday night. The final act of the panel was to vote in favor of arbitrary increases in the state's child support guideline.
Governor Gray Davis: The California Weenie (10/03/02) [MND] [FM] [ESR]
It's the most obvious fault in the huge pork-barrel child support enforcement system; men who are not fathers of the children they have been ordered to support. The California legislature passed a bill that would have allowed men to dispute paternity with a DNA test, but Governor Gray Davis vetoed it.
Funny Thing About Illinois Gubernatorial Race (9/26/02) [MND] [FM]
The child support enforcement scam must be at a turning point when the corruption turns into situation comedy. That happened this week in the Illinois race for governor. One of the contestants, Jim Ryan promised to crack down on "deadbeat dads" in a previous successful campaign for Attorney General. Now, his opponent Democrat Rod Blagojevich is doing the same thing to him.
CSE Advocates: The Liar's Club (9/18/02) [MND] [FM]
The legal definition of insanity is (roughly) the inability to distinguish right from wrong. It occurs to me that child support enforcement advocates are building their defense, anticipating the day when this crude con-game will all come crashing down around their pointy little heads.
Virginia Panel Votes to Leave 'Child Support' Undefined (9/16/02) [MND] [FM]
The Virginia Child Support Review Panel is tasked with assuring that use of the state's child support guideline results in appropriate awards. One might think this job impossible if the term "child support" is not defined. That is exactly what panel member Murray Steinberg thought. Mr. Steinberg has been trying since early June to have the panel agree on a definition of "child support."
California: A Kinder Child Support System? (9/12/02) [MND] [FM]
Let me go one better. Give them their licenses back. Forgive the arbitrary debt the government created and set their child support orders to reasonable levels. If the government of California is extremely lucky they won't sue for reparations. As for the people who took their licenses to begin with – no deals. They belong in jail.
Another Man Down in the War Against Fathers (8/22/02) [MND] [FM]
Catalino Morales is one of many canaries in the child support coal mines. Year after year we watch the canaries die yet the workers are not allowed to leave. Those among us who have the opportunity to communicate are morally obligated to pass the word. This system must be abandoned as quickly as possible whether the masters wish it or not.
Two Strikes for Child Support Collection Company (8/16/02) [MND] [FM]
Following allegations of wrongdoing, a Maryland audit finds significant errors in handling of child support cases by Maximus, Inc.
Comment: Corruption in Connecticut (8/13/02) [MND] [FM]
Connecticut legislators have taken yet another step in denouncing the Constitution and basic human rights.
Tennessee: No Legitimate Purpose Found in Child Support Law (8/12/02) [MND] [FM]
In a decision filed Friday, a Tennessee court of appeals declared unconstitutional a prohibition against considering the support of children of a current marriage when setting the amount of child support ordered for children of other relationships. A three-judge panel decided unanimously that the law violated equal protection.
Introduction to the Income Shares Child Support Guideline (8/7/02) [MND] [FM] [ISF]
The majority of child support orders today, approximately ten million of them, have been set by Income Shares guidelines. This is a long article on an truly important topic. It spans around fifteen years of history related to the Income Shares guideline and exposes a monumental deception.
Tax Laws and Child Benefits: Unequal Treatment is International (7/27/02) [MND]
Two lawsuits against the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in England are demonstrating that fathers and mothers have unequal legal and political status.
Book Review: (7/24/02) [MND] [FM] [FV]
An indictment of Virginia's child support parenting adjustment
Child Support's Wacky Math is a book about the way that Virginia and other states modify child support orders in consideration of visitation and shared parenting. It promises two things; to prove that the formula is grossly in error, and to show how reality gets lost and logic muddled in the overly political process that now dominates the child support system. It delivers on both promises with room to spare.
Book Review: Divorced Dads: Shattering the Myths (7/23/02) [MND] [FM] [FV]
Review of Sanford Braver's landmark book that presents his research on the character of fathers and the true story on gender balance following divorce.
The Child Support Agenda (7/17/02) [MND] [FM]
Yep. This must be an election year. In a July 15 press release Chairman of the House Policy Committee Chairman Christopher Cox (R-CA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) announced yet another bill to encourage divorce and out-of-wedlock births. ... Why does it continue?
Corporate Fraud: It's Clinton's Fault! (7/11/02) [MND]
The connection between the Clinton administration and the collapse of a substantial portion of corporate America is concrete and reaches well beyond the dangers that are currently perceived.
Child Support Visitation Credit Gets International Attention (7/4/02) [MND] [FM] [NWV] [FV]
When states began using fixed formulae for determining child support awards, known as child support guidelines, the door was nearly slammed shut on reducing orders in recognition of divided parenting time. Reopening the case on visitation and shared custody credits is the subject of an article in the current quarterly issue of the international journal IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD(R) Forum.
More Money for Lawyers, Right? (7/3/02) [MND] [FM]
The Special Interest Issue in 2002
This is only a "mid-term" election year when there is no presidential race. For every American however, it is still a season for deciding the balance of power between one group of lawyers and the other.
About NOW's Family Court Report (6/27/02) [MND] [FM]
"After significant research," the report begins, "CA NOW finds the present family court system in California to be crippled, incompetent, and corrupt." The media chose to deliver this message from an organization that has no credibility. We should not however falsely conclude that family courts across the country are not crippled and have not been acting in a way that indicates incompetence and corruption.
GAO Involved in "Public-Private Partnership" Scandal (6/11/02) [MND] [FM] [ESR] [NWV]
On March 29th the United States General Accounting Office (GAO) released another in a series of sensational reports on the child support enforcement program. As Arthur Andersen did with Enron, the GAO is playing the dual role of auditor and policy consultant and supporting an untenable position.
A Knight Defending Fatherhood (5/28/02) [MND] [FM] [TGR] [ESR] [NWV] [FV]
By the early 1990s it seemed commonly accepted that battering women and abandoning wives and children to welfare was a character flaw genetically fixed by every Y-chromosome. Enter Stephen Baskerville -- a knight defending fatherhood.
Focus: Georgia Child Support Guidelines Declared Unconsitutional
A Return to Welfare As We Knew It? (3/20/02) [MND] [FM] [TGR]
The beginning of the end of child support reform
A Georgia court has declared the state’s child support guidelines unconstitutional. The decision bans the use of a presumptively correct formula that produces arbitrarily high awards, a universal practice in the United States since 1990. The consequences of a nationwide ban could extend well beyond allowing courts to set child support awards at reasonable levels.
Two Part Constitutionality of Child Support Guidelines Debate:
Laura Morgan chairs the Child Support Committee of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association. When a Georgia court declared their child support guidelines unconstitutional, Laura Morgan responded immediately and with characteristic intensity. She criticized the ruling and promised two articles in rebuttal. The following two articles response to Laura Morgan's arguments. (Links to her articles included.)
Laura Morgan at the Bottom of the Slippery Slope (4/24/02) [MND] [FM]
The child support laws in Georgia were declared unconstitutional for violating due process, equal protection, the right of privacy, and the prohibition stated in the Georgia Constitution against taking property. The decision does not involve the popular political rhetoric that gave rise to the new child support system. It is not a decision, for example, on whether it is right for "fathers to abandon mothers and children." The decision does not interfere with one parent's ability to obtain child support from another or the state's legitimate power to order child support payments.
The Constitutionality of Child Support Guidelines Debate, Part II (5/22/02) [MND] [FM]
Tens of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money has been used as bribery to implement and maintain policies that are blatantly unconstitutional and private businesses have been granted the privilege of siphoning off a significant share of noncustodial parent income. It cannot be emphasized enough that we know, and therefore cannot allow it to continue.
High Child Support Awards (4/22/02) [MND] [FM] [ISF]
Deny Contact between Fathers and Their Children
Even more surprising was that a decade then passed during which the states themselves did not reform their guidelines to provide appropriate visitation credits. Where have all the people gone who had understood how to calculate visitation credits before the federal reforms had taken effect?
Why Child Support Reforms Need Reform (4/09/02) [FM]
The main point is what Haskins' report was not about. It was not about finding the appropriate amount to be awarded in each child support case. This is an extremely important point.
Confusing The Enemy: W’s Latest Buzz-Phrase Is “Social Entrepreneur” (2/28/02) [MND] [TGR]
Exhaustively, I debated every left wing kook on the internet. President Bush did not refer to the Axis Powers of World War II in his state of the union address. “Axis of evil” is not the same as “Axis Powers.” A simple comparison shows that one phrase has three words and the other has only two. They can’t be the same phrase.
Too Late To Stop National ID (11/29/01) [ESR] [MND] [NWV] [TGR]
Changes in technology have left a nation confused about how the modern national ID system is implemented. Visions of passports with stamped pages need to be replaced with the modern reality of the computer age. Centrally located file cabinets filled with hand written cards have been replaced by interconnected databases in a huge distributed system.
New Wave Pro-Family Advocates Leave Fathers Out of Family (2/15/01) [FM] [TGR]
It is ironic that some conservatives are choosing to alter the definition of the problem now. Evidence is mounting that the past quarter century of welfare expansion has increased and intensified the barriers to family formation.
Fathers Vote Too! (1/01) [FM] [TGR]
Republicans cannot win elections without at least an equal advantage among men. ... Why then have they chosen to throw it all away?
Why Do Current Child Support Guidelines Need Improvement? (03/28/02) [MND] [FM]
A judge sitting on a state panel on gender bias in Virginia put a word in a male activist's ear; that presumptive guidelines produce unreasonably high "child support" awards in order to equal out the difference in income between men and women.
The Alimony Hidden in Child Support (1/95) [MND] [FM] [TCA]
Scientific Proof Exists That Many Child Support Awards Are Too High
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