Fathers & Families Files Lawsuit to Stop New Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines Several years ago Fathers & Families scored a major victory in Massachusetts, getting child support obligations reduced by an average of 15%. This victory has saved Massachusetts noncustodial parents over $1 billion since 2001. Unfortunately, now noncustodial parents are under attack, as child support... »
This morning Fox rebroadcast a debate between myself, Geraldo Rivera, and Dr. Joy Silberg over the issue of Parental Alienation on their nationally-syndicated Morning Show with Mike and Juliet. Rivera puts the blame for post-divorce strife squarely on fathers. Silberg is Vice President of the Leadership Council, an organization which is in the forefront of fighting against fathers'... »
"The death rate for males was almost two times the rate for females, and males had a higher injury death rate compared to females in all childhood age groups." Here's new report from the Center for Disease Control about accidental deaths of children under the age of 19. At first blush it seems to show nothing... »
There’s a great article by Tim Puko in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review of November 20, 2008. Here’s the link: Now, having said that it’s a great article let me add that of course it begins with a “deadbeat dad.” (Is there a law requiring anything about single fathers to include a deadbeat dad? Or maybe it’s... »
And who better to remind us than Britney Spears? Her latest music video features tie-grabbing and that old favorite, crotch-kicking by none other than America's favorite crotch flasher herself. View it here. And lest anyone not get the message, check the glee with which the crotch-kicking is greeted by audience members. You go, girl! But... »
??She seems to think that??boys and girls should be treated equally at school. Read the article here??(Philadelphia Daily News, 12/19/08). It seems Veronica Goss' son Walter Ransome had sex with a girl in the hallway of his school.?? School officials found out about it and suspended Walter for 5 days.?? Then they made it ten.??... »
Holly Collins kidnapped her two children and took them to Holland in 1993, claiming that her husband had abused the children and that she needed to flee to protect them. Jennifer Collins, her now 23-year-old daughter, supports her mother's version of events, and has presented her side of the story on several TV shows... »
In my March post Anti-Father Bias at the Los Angeles Times I wrote: The Los Angeles Times article Next speaker enjoys broad support (3/2/08) details the rise of Karen Bass (pictured with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger), the incoming leader of the California assembly and the first African American woman to be elected to lead a... »
Background: Tim Russert's Wisdom of Our Fathers has hundreds of stories men and women tell about their fathers. It's a remarkable book--to learn more, see my co-authored column America's Father Hunger (World Net Daily, 10/13/06). The story below is "Mr. Strawberry" from Joseph Harrison Kelly of Bordentown, NJ, about his father, Joseph Harold Kelly, a... »
Dr. Helen (pictured) writes: I interviewed State Rep. Stacey Campfield for PJTV on his bill which seeks to petition to the court to disestablish paternity after DNA evidence reveals a baby was not sired by the man on the birth certificate. His bill is going back before a Republican Congress in Tenn. next year and... »
Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling (pictured), a potential Hall of Famer, was very close to his father, and was devastated when his father died in January 1988. Later that year, Schilling made the major leagues, but his father had not lived to see it. Schilling told ESPN: My father was the glue that held us together.... »
This time from Australia. Read about it here (Herald Sun, 12/7/08). "He has never harmed his only child or her mother. He has never threatened them and a court has accepted he is of good character. But last week, after a tortuous 10-year journey through four courts, more than 20 hearings, 12 psychologists and six lawyers,... »
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video One of our family traditions is that every Christmas Eve we watch George C. Scott's A Christmas Carol.?? The movie was?? filmed in an historic English town, and Scott's acting is superb. One of the nice things about A Christmas Carol is the special... »
Bernie Madoff, recently deposed king of the Ponzi scheme, seems to have been everywhere recently. The latest domino to fall in the crash of his investment racket is the JEHT Foundation of Dallas. Read about it here. Why's that important? It provided major financial backing to the Innocence Project of Texas. Now it's closing its doors and when it... »
The woman in this case (KDFW, 12/15/08), Phylecia Humphries, 26, admits raping her foster son, aged 13, five times. And whose fault was it according to her? I'll give you one guess, but you already know the answer. It was his fault of course. And she gets off with 90 days in jail, probation and a $10,000 fine. ... »
Background: Tim Russert's Wisdom of Our Fathers has hundreds of stories men and women tell about their fathers, including the one below. It's a remarkable book--to learn more, see my co-authored column America's Father Hunger (World Net Daily, 10/13/06). The story below is "The Mail" from John Mooy, of Interlochen, Michigan, about his father mailman Nat... »
Background: Tim Russert's Wisdom of Our Fathers has hundreds of stories men and women tell about their fathers. It's a remarkable book--to learn more, see my co-authored column America's Father Hunger (World Net Daily, 10/13/06). ... »
Jesuit priest James Martin has some interesting things to say about St. Joseph and fathers in his new column The Hidden Man of Christmas (Slate.com, 12/23/08): here's St. Joseph? Where is the man to whom, according to the Gospel of Matthew, an angel announced the birth of Jesus? Where is the guy who married Mary... »
The State of Georgia has decided to put up the above billboards to promote marriage and active parenting by both parents. It probably won't change the world, but it's worth doing and should be done more. The anti-dad crowd won't like it of course. They'll tell us that no one should be forced to stay... »
"One woman in the group admitted she recently had returned home to see that her husband had mowed their 3-acre spread - and her only comment was, 'You missed a spot under the tree.' "'I think women are likely to notice so much more easily the things that aren't getting done,' Mrs. Weiner-Davis said. "'If... »
Sadly, this year one of the great joys of Christmas for me will be gone. My daughter (pictured on her first day of school several years ago) no longer believes in Santa, so she and I can no longer track Santa his journey all over the world via the North American Aerospace Defense Command (pictured). My... »
It's still a month before he's even inaugurated, but feminists are already raining on Barack Obama's parade. Writing in the November 28th issue of The Boston Globe, feminist Randy Albelda complained that Obama's economic stimulus plan ignores jobs held mostly by women in favor of those held mostly by men (The Boston Globe, 11/28/08). Women,... »
Great--just what we need, a federal, cabinet-level "Office on Women" to address the "many inequities that women face in our society." The standard feminist line--puff up the disadvantages women face, while completely ignoring the disadvantages men (particularly fathers) face. From the National Organization for Women's 12/22 Action Alert Urge Obama to Establish Women's Office at Cabinet-Level: Imagine... »
Michael, an Orange County, California reader, has been a hairdresser for 20 years and he says he's heard some incredible things from women in the hair salon where he works. He explains: I have heard these same things said over and over for years from women of all walks of life yet I’ve never really heard these... »
Has Texas AG Abbott Finally, Finally Found a 'Deadbeat Dad' with a Good Job? Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott recently got major headlines for nabbing former major league baseball player Troy Neel (pictured) for being a "deadbeat dad." Abbott has launched repeated, well-publicized campaigns against child support debtors, featuring many arrests.After years of harassing... »
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott recently got major headlines for nabbing former major league baseball player Troy Neel (pictured) for being a "deadbeat dad." Abbott has launched repeated, well-publicized campaigns against child support debtors, featuring many arrests. In my co-authored column When Beating up on 'Deadbeat Dads' is Unfair (Houston Chronicle, 1/7/07) I wrote: The... »
"Another passerby, Adrian Paxton - released from prison in October - believes the punishment will help keep the younger Baltimore out of even worse trouble. "'He won't want to do that again,' he said... "Something as simple as a father's involvement could make a major difference in a child's life, Paxton said. "'If my dad had did... »
This is a nice article on a UC Santa Cruz graduate who took a hard road to get to where he is and now mentors others in his position. (UCSC Review, Winter, 2008-09). Thanks to Andy for sending it in. »
A false rape claim and false data about false rape claims, all in one article here (kswo, 10/27/08). Ya gotta love it. The article is about a woman, Trisha Bonney, who decided she needed a day off work so she did what any reasonable person would do - she reported to the police that she'd been... »
In my recent blog post Judith Kleinfeld on Boys & Education, I reported on my discussion with psychology professor Judith Kleinfeld of The Boys Project about the boy crisis in education. Leaving aside the large statistical differences between boys and girls achievement in schools -- differences almost always favoring girls -- I think there... »
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"An FBI investigator testified in Roman's trial that tests eliminated him as a suspect, but a jury convicted him on circumstantial evidence and witness testimony, according to the arrest warrant affidavit for Miranda." This story, courtesy of The Associated Press, would be incredible except stories like it are becoming so common. Miguel Roman has just been... »
...call it "Domestic Violence." Usually when a woman attacks her man (or when a woman attacks her woman) they won't. From Cops: Wife Attacks Sleeping Husband with Meat Cleaver (KTLA News, 11/19/08): VICTORVILLE -- A local mother is accused of attacking her sleeping husband with a meat cleaver. Officials say 33-year-old Olivia Geatian hacked at her husband's... »
A story from a reader about a restraining order proceeding against husband: My husband's ex kept a "log" of all the times he allegedly drove around her house harassing her and the kids. She brought her "log" to court in an effort to get a restraining order. She got on the stand and under oath testified... »
Following up on the piece out of San Jose, CA about hospital videotapes being used to reveal false allegations of child sexual abuse, comes this from the Legal Intelligencer. Amazingly enough, the headline and much of the article are devoted to the excessive fees charged by attorneys in the case. But read... »
Last year, Agustin Uribe’s conviction for sexually abusing a 5-year-old girl was overturned by California’s Sixth Court of Appeals. Why? The San Jose Mercury News reports that the hospital at which the girl was examined maintained a videotape of the examination which showed that no abuse had occurred. Read the story... »
The New York Daily News of Thursday has this piece. This woman allegedly murdered her husband, a NYC police officer. Her excuse? According to her attorney, the guy was sexually pretty far out of the mainstream, so... The guy is dead and you can't libel a dead man, so who knows what he actually did... »
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video We've done several protests over anti-male advertising, and when we do them I inevitably get letters from a few people who say "Commercials aren't making only men look stupid--what about the 'dumb blond' commercials"? As a whole I don't buy this... »
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