"My husband and his ex-wife shared custody of their daughter until he met me. His daughter who is almost twenty, is hurt and upset because we had a child. "When he called from the hospital to tell her that she had a healthy baby sister, her mother snatched the phone and told my husband... »
"'He went in to save her knowing that he can't swim, which is what makes what he did fantastic,' Ms. Nielsen said. 'If there had been anyone else around, you would have imagined they would have gone in. "He's never ever been known to go into the water. He's pretty switched on, he goes... »
I have many readers who are stationed in Iraq or Afghanistan, and some of them have joined our campaign against Dallas Area Rapid Transit's father-bashing domestic violence ads. Some of the soldiers have even called DART to protest--from Iraq! One of them is Gary Christopher, who sent us the following note yesterday: I contacted DART as... »
Over the past three days Dallas Area Rapid Transit has been bombarded with several thousand calls and letters protesting the anti-father domestic violence ads depicted above. Our campaign has received considerable media coverage on television, radio, and in newspapers. Over 60 Domestic Violence Authorities, Educators, and Mental Health, Medical, & Family Law Professionals have endorsed... »
The Family Place, the Dallas domestic violence service provider which paid for the anti-father domestic violence ads on DART buses we're protesting, did something interesting within the past day or two. Before we launched our campaign I checked out The Family Place's website and its words about domestic violence. It was, of course, all woman... »
...her spouse was another woman. There are nearly 2,000 online references to the recent stabbing murder of Jessica Kalish by Carol Anne Burger (pictured), but not one media outlet to date has used either the phrase "domestic violence" or "domestic homicide" in connection with the killing. Kalish was stabbed 222 times by Burger, but I guess... »
Dallas Area Rapid Transit spokesman Morgan Lyons gives some spin on our campaign against anti-father domestic violence ads in today's Dallas Observer. Lyons downplays the campaign, significantly undercounts the number of responses, and says "we had received fewer than a dozen responses to the online customer feedback form." The only reason for that is that... »
"The ad campaign is shocking and offensive on every level. How does it offend me? Let me count the ways. In the first place, the juxtaposition between the fresh-faced innocence of childhood with words that evoke violence and hatred between the sexes is viscerally distressing, because no child should be thinking such thoughts, let... »
"In 2008 in Dallas, Texas, we're running ads on our buses saying that a black man is going to kill his wife...what does this say to young black men? I'm shocked."--David Russell, on CBS CBS in Dallas did a TV report on our protest campaign against Dallas Area Rapid Transit's Anti-Father Domestic Violence Ads. Several... »
Over 50 Domestic Violence Authorities, Educators, and Mental Health, Medical, & Family Law Professionals have condemned DART's Anti-Father Ads and endorsed our campaign. The endorsement statement reads: The undersigned believe that DART's domestic violence ads 'One day my husband will kill me' and 'When I grow up, I will beat my wife' provide a distorted... »
Syndicated Columnist Amy Alkon, whose advice columns appear in over 100 newspapers, wrote a piece today condemning DART's father-bashing domestic violence ads. Alkon explains: Men alone are made out to be monsters on the Dallas buses carrying domestic violence ads for The Family Place, a domestic violence shelter whose executive director is uninformed that men... »
The Associated Press did an article on our protest today--it has run in over two dozen newspapers and TV stations and can be seen here or below. The Dallas Morning News version is here. There is an active discussion board at the Houston Chronicle on the article--to join in, click here. Most of the people are... »
Thousands have responded to our call to action and we've received word that DART executives are meeting to discuss "how to resolve this crisis." Your phone calls to them help--their phone #s are below or on our campaign page at http://www.glennsacks.com/dart/. --thanks, GS DART Executive Staff Gary Thomas President/Executive Director Phone: 214-749-3070 Fax: 214-749-3655 gthomas@dart.org Victor Burke Executive Vice-President, Operations Phone: 214-749-3013 Fax: 214-749-3230 vburke@dart.org Ben Gomez Executive... »
Several hundred Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) buses feature misleading, father-bashing ads purporting to address the serious issue of domestic violence. One ad depicts a happy little girl with the message "One day my husband will kill me." Another shows a smiling boy with the message "When I grow up, I will beat my wife." The... »
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video OK, it's not always the man who's the idiot in the TV commercials. Just usually...here's one with a foolish woman--the stereotypical dumb blonde. Watch above or click here. Thanks to Bernie, a reader, for sending it. »
“The private interest here, that of a man in the children he has sired and raised, undeniably warrants deference and, absent a powerful countervailing interest, protection." Over the past 35 years, our Supreme Court has handed down a number of decisions that affect the rights of parents, and, in particular, fathers. I think these... »
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Feminists often say that "Women Don't Lie" when it comes to rape and abuse. We've recounted countless examples of false rape and abuse claims here on my blog, and detailed some of the research on the issue. In this light, it was interesting to... »
"Siri’s parents are divorced. While living with her mother, she has been able to talk or e-mail with her father just about every day. But her one repeated wish, particularly over the past few weeks, was for her father to come home." The link to the story is here, but the first section of the... »
Some data on child abuse from Child Maltreatment 2006, a report by the Federal Administration for Children & Families Leaving aside abuse by nonparents or by mothers and fathers acting together, mothers committed almost three-quarters of child abuse. »
"Mom was always telling us that dad was nicer to her and to us kids before he remarried. So I resented him and his wife. Now I realize that mom was just mad because he had fallen in love and things fell apart between her and the man she left dad for." Dr. Linda... »
Blogger Dean Esmay had an interesting reaction to my recent post Madonna Plays Victim in Divorce Battle. Madonna is publicly proclaiming that during her marriage to Guy Ritchie he said things that she claims made her feel "worthless, unattractive, unfeminine, insecure and isolated." I'm very skeptical that Ritchie said those things, at least in the... »
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video A recent letter from Dr. Blake Thornton, a longtime reader in Missouri: Dear Glenn, I went to see McCain today in St Charles MO. I was able to ask him: Me: "Is there anything you can do for divorced father to see their kids?" McCain: "Yes sir." Me:... »
A casual, passing by reference to an alimony/child support injustice from the 1960s in a recent Los Angeles Times obituary. The subject is former Times reporter Ted Thackrey Jr. Sean Thackrey, his cousin, writes: Ted was my cousin, much beloved in a sort of irritable way by myself and by my beloved and sort of irritable... »
"Horrifically abusive men, armed with lots of money, use false allegations of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) as a strategy to annihilate their families. "Instead of doing this physically, these abusers are using family court to inflict the damage. The men who claim to be 'alienated' often will repeatedly call in false abuse reports on the mother." The purpose of... »
There's been a resolution of sorts in the Jill Ajao false rape claim case. Below is my blog post from last year, followed by an update: Woman's False Rape Claim Sets off Police Manhunt for Innocent Man December 19th, 2007 by Glenn Sacks First an excerpt from the article, and then a few thoughts. From Rape claim... »
Recently the New York Times published a review of Alec Baldwin's book about Parental Alienation. Henry J. Friedman of Cambridge, Massachusetts, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, wrote a spot-on reply. From Bloodied Relations (New York Times, 10/17/08): As a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has treated many grieving parents deprived of a... »
...or maybe you do. “Ga. Woman with 5 dead spouses leaves jail,” reads the headline at MSNBC. She’s charged with solicitation of first-degree murder of her fourth husband in 1986. Her fifth... »
About as clear an example of the female sentencing discount as you'll ever see, though this is so outrageous the word "discount" seems excessively tame. Perhaps "tame" would be better applied to the sentence--no jail time... From Mother was seduced by 14-year-old boy, says judge (UK Telegraph, 10/14/08): Sharon Edwards, 40, walked away from Teeside Crown Court... »
A couple days ago I posted a letter from longtime reader Daniel, a liberal reader, who asserted that "rampant hatred and bigotry has surfaced just because there is a black man on the ticket." I linked to a couple of videos of Republicans berating Obama supporters at McCain-Palin rallies, and wrote "Liberals can be quite... »
In the article below Tulsa World reporter Jarrel Wade details the way the Oklahoma child support system has ruined the life of Brande Samuels. I discussed the problem of men being "defaulted" into fatherhood in my co-authored column New American Bar Association Article Points to Crisis in False Paternity Judgments (Baltimore Sun, 8/20/06). One interesting... »
Slate's "Dear Prudence" advice columnist Emily Joffe (pictured) did a nice column recently on a man with an abusive, alcoholic girlfriend. Among other things, the girlfriend called police, said the boyfriend had hit her, and he was arrested. Yoffe's reaction was on point. The advice column is done in the form of a video--to watch,... »
Madonna Plays Victim in Divorce Battle It doesn't matter how wealthy, powerful and privileged a woman is, in divorce some women still love to play the victim. Latest case in point--Madonna. Madonna is worth an estimated $850 million. Whatever one thought of her music and her racy image, she is in many ways the model of... »
"The real father of Madonna's adopted son David feels bitterly disappointed that she is getting a divorce - and yesterday he declared: 'I am still a poor farmer with nothing to offer, but maybe he would be better off back with us'... "'It feels like yesterday that Madonna promised me a happy life and good... »
It doesn't matter how wealthy, powerful and privileged a woman is, in divorce some women still love to play the victim. Latest case in point--Madonna. Madonna is worth an estimated $850 million. Whatever one thought of her music and her racy image, she is in many ways the model of the empowered modern woman--a successful... »
"I’m also the child of divorced parents...my life would have been living hell had there been a presumption of joint custody, because to avoid non-custodial child support obligations certainly would have pursued it. "I can say with surety that I would have been a very, very damaged person by the time I... »
"Washington carries his 10-month-old daughter, Taylor, in a Snugli, but not simply for convenience. He fears he will be seized by a shooting pain in his back or arm or suffer the sudden collapse of a knee and drop her -- or, worse, fall on her. "Washington...draws disability payments to help support his family and... »
At 7PM a main hatchway caved in, He said 'fellas it's been good to know ya.' The Captain wired in he had water coming in and the good ship and crew was in peril And later that night when his lights went out of sight came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Does anyone know where... »
ABC in California did a nice news piece on California attorney Marc Angelucci's recent court victory. In that case, the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento ruled that California’s exclusion of men from domestic violence services violates men’s constitutional equal protection rights. ABC interviewed Angelucci and David Woods, the main plaintiff in the case.... »
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Longtime reader Daniel, a liberal reader, writes: It's been a wild ride lately, with the economy and the rampant hatred and bigotry that has surfaced just because there is a black man on the ticket. I am sure you saw the Pennsylvania Palin rally. It's... »
...not to mention funny as hell. A satirical ad from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation--watch here or below. »
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