2008-08-23
Biden’s nomination allows us to put his VAWA law, and all its family-killing provisions, in a national spotlight. (High-five!)
As many readers know, Sen. Joseph Biden’s office has been in the front of the VAWA debacle. He is running for higher office, and the issue of whether VAWA has done good for people or bad for people is now real.
This is a dynamite chance to state our piece on all the destruction, child depression, [...]
2008-08-12
Restraining orders are about shunning, bullying and relational aggression
The term restraining order is a legal one. It’s a cool term—and if one does not practice law, it sounds bearable. It’s a word like writ or tort or mandamus. Something on a dry and yellowing sheet of paper. When we read the term, if we don’t know the reality, we are inclined to think [...]
Comments (6) Filed under: Vox Populi — John Maguire @ 11:42 am | 437 views2008-08-02
Costner’s “Swing Vote” displays a heart-felt respect and love for “loser fathers”
Maybe the most knowing story of today’s American father—in his sometimes pitiable and lost and degraded life–can be found in the new Kevin Costner movie “Swing Vote.”
On the surface, this movie is a comedy about a presidential election which is so deadlocked that it comes down to the vote of a single man in New [...]
2008-07-21
A note on domestic violence to the head of the ABA
Mr. Neukom,
I know the intellectually honest people who work at RADAR, a group dedicated to truthful reporting about domestic violence issues. You are the president of the ABA. RADAR tells me your ABA Commission on Domestic Violence flyer is full of falsehoods about domestic violence. RADAR says there are 11 falsehoods among 19 claims. I [...]
2008-07-15
Men and women in “3:10 to Yuma” — and now
Alone in my house in the year 2008, I slipped a DVD into the player and looked back through time. I was watching the original version of 3:10 to Yuma. I was seeing how men and women and children were 50 years ago.
The script is from an Elmore Leonard short story, and the movie was [...]
2008-07-07
Let’s use “Hostile Aggressive Parenting” instead of PAS
How do we talk about the terrible things that happen to children after divorces? Calling things by the right names can matter a lot. Get the name right, and we can move forward. Get it wrong, and we’re stuck.
Often the first name is not the best.
Parental alienation syndrome was the first name applied to a [...]
2008-06-25
Three news items
1. We who want to help children are not likely to be heard, because so much of the opposition is mindless. Peter Ferrera dissects the nature of the mindless intimidation form of “argument” as he discusses the Huffington Post.
They want to shower conservatives with name calling, then smear them with allegations that their arguments are [...]
2007-09-04
Memo to legislators: It’s a Dickensian underworld you avert your eyes from
Please, sir, I want some more.
The master was a fat, healthy man; but he turned very pale.
What! said the master at length, in a faint voice.
Please, sir, replied Oliver. I want some more.
* * *
That boy will be hung, said the gentleman in the white waistcoat. I know that boy will be hung.
