2008-05-17

This case seems to be a classic Parental Alienation case, with the genders reversed. All the hallmark features–the child’s unreasonable hatred of the targeted parent, the alienating parent’s social world completely revolving around the child, etc. The Canadian courts seem to be taking a tough stand against the alienating father here, and I applaud them.
Judge [...]

2008-05-16

“You’ve never heard complaints about paying child support until it’s a woman who has to pay it.”–Seattle Family Law Attorney Lisa Scott
“Courts almost never allow men to get downward modifications on their child support. I represented a guy who earned $33,000 a month and paid $12,000 in child support. His company went bust and his [...]

“Dear Amy: My boyfriend and I were watching my 5-year-old niece. She came to me and told me that my boyfriend said he was going to punch her in the nose. I know that when my boyfriend is playing with the kids he plays around and says things, but he is adamant that he didn’t [...]

2008-05-07

This article by Rebecca Eckler, author of Toddlers Gone Wild!, is so offensive in so many ways it’s hard to know where to begin.
Here’s one. Rebecca writes:
“On behalf of my four-year-old, who has a Yahoo account in her name, I recently sent an e-mail to her father, who lives in Alberta.
“‘Hi Daddy,’ I typed, as [...]

2008-05-06

I’m looking for a reader or two to volunteer to do a men’s activism journalism project which is long, long overdue, and which will be of interest to those who read this site. Upon completion, the project will become a permanent fixture on my website and will be available for reference by other activists and [...]

In my recent blog post If there were ever a guy in a no-win situation, it’s James Rhoades, I discussed the James Rhoades case. Ned Holstein tackles this difficult case in his new blog post Sanctity of Marriage, or Discrimination Against Dads? Holstein writes:
“James Rhoades had an affair with a married woman, from which a [...]

2008-05-05

Apparently the filming of the new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace is being plagued with problems. While listening to McIntyre In The Morning on KABC in Los Angeles this morning, I was dismayed when KABC entertainment reporter Debra Mark (pictured) lightly and semi-laughingly mentioned that one of the film crew had been “stabbed in a domestic [...]

2008-05-04

Comedian Chris Titus often does funny but powerful routines about family issues. In this clip, he describes how the police react as he explains that he called them because his girlfriend was hitting him. It’s just a comedy clip, but it will probably sound sadly familiar to male DV victims.
To watch, see below.
[Note: If you or [...]

“Well, it might as well be China,
Or the dark side of the moon.
There’s no way I can be there every Friday afternoon.”
Country singer Craig Morgan (pictured) has a powerful song about a post-divorce move-away called Every Friday Afternoon. It captures the way the move-away is often a devastating blow to the post-divorce father-child relationship.
The mom [...]

My recent His Side with Glenn Sacks radio commentary for KLAA AM 830 in Los Angeles discusses a recent legal victory for Michael Shannon, whose two sons were abducted to Egypt.
To listen to the commentary, click here or on the audio button below.
To learn more, click here.
His Side with Glenn Sacks radio commentaries are broadcast daily on KLAA [...]

2008-05-03

Many of you have sent me articles about the Tracy Denise Roberson/Darrell Roberson case. According to the Associated Press, in that case “Darrell Roberson came home from a card game late one night to find his wife rolling around with another man in a pickup truck in the driveway. Caught in the act with her [...]

2008-05-01

“The company pursues decades-old debts barred by the state’s statute of limitations, and inflates those debts by charging tens of thousands of additional dollars as ‘interest,’ even when state law does not authorize the interest charges. The company continues to harass the parent even when non-custodial parents say they do not owe the money, and [...]

“For nearly two years, James Rhoades, a university librarian in Tallahassee, has been fighting to establish in law what science and fact already have shown beyond any doubt: He is the biological father of the boy dubbed J.A.R. He’s got DNA tests to prove it, and videos and loads of pictures of him with the [...]

2008-04-30

A nice, father-positive ad from Rogers TV. Apparently the ad is the Rogers TV type of TiVo. Doesn’t the father-son interaction here look a hell of a lot more like you and your kid than the relentless parade of “dad-as-idiot” commercials we’re subjected to?
To learn more about the problems with the way men are portrayed [...]

Background: In my recent blog post Father of Newborn ‘Did Everything One Would Hope a Man in His Position Would Do’–but It Wasn’t Enough, we discussed the case of an embattled California father, Jorge C., who fought a long, hard and ultimately unsuccessful battle to be a father to his baby boy.
The boy’s birth was hidden [...]

Below is a letter from Bruce, who does not agree with our campaign against Fox’s new reality show Bad Dads. Like many people, he has been misled by the media onslaught about “deadbeat dads.”
Mr. Sacks,
As a non-custodial father, I have maintained a good payment record of child support, and make those payments a priority. I [...]

2008-04-29

Vanity Fair’s new piece Men Evolving Badly quotes numerous authorities on modern gender issues, including Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker, authors Harvey C. Mansfield and Guy Garcia, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, and myself. It’s kind of an odd piece, for a few reasons.
One is that it focuses a lot on Rabbi Shmuley and his [...]

Last night we launched a protest campaign against Fox’s new reality show Bad Dads. By 9 AM this morning, Fox had received over 3,000 letters, faxes and calls. I thank all of you for your participation, and I urge you to call Fox executives by clicking here. For those who have not yet sent a [...]

2008-04-28

Fox recently announced its intention to launch a new reality show called Bad Dads. According to Reuters, in Bad Dads Jim Durham, director of the National Child Support Center, “functions as a sort of ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ for tracking deadbeats…[Durham's role is as] an avenger of penniless single mothers [who] hunts down deadbeat dads [...]

Jeana, a reader, recently wrote me about the new movie Nim’s Island. She says:
“I wanted to tell you to take your daughter to see Nim’s Island. It’s about a widower scientist who lives on a deserted island with his 10 or 11 year old daughter and who becomes separated from her and tries (and succeeds) [...]