I'd ask you to guess the sex of the offender, but I don't want to insult your intelligence. In this case, Paula Michelle Mitchell took her son and moved throughout at least eight states avoiding the boy's father (Las Vegas Sun, 3/24/09). Private investigators finally located her in Oklahoma where the father served her with court papers. But... »
There are three key facts with which few on either side of the aisle on family law could dispute: 1) As of December 31, 2008, Massachusetts had among the highest child support guidelines in the United States. 2) On January 1, 2009, Massachusetts instituted guidelines which ratcheted up child support obligations even further. 3) Massachusetts did this... »
In a recent post on www.glennsacks.com, "Michelle" writes: only a boyfriend/girlfriend thing. My then-17 year old daughter was out of control. Sneaking out her bedroom window not once, but twice in the same night, with two different guys, more than once. Our neighbor finally told us what was going... »
"Observers say women seem to face barriers in the political arena." This article is a bit dated, but the concept, alas, is ever current (Washington Post, 1/23/09). It recycles the old canard that there's a "glass ceiling" in politics. Do women "face barriers in the political arena?" Yes they do. Getting more votes than their... »
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Eri Yoshida, a 17-year-old Japanese girl, just debuted as a pro baseball pitcher. She wasn't good but she wasn't terrible, striking out one and walking one in her brief debut. To learn more, see the Associated Press' Japanese girl, 17, K's 1 in debut... »
Standard Operating procedure for Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. From News 4 WOAI. (After reading the story, please make sure to Compliment News 4 WOAI Trouble Shooter Mireya Villarreal for her good work by emailing her here.) From News 4 WOAI in San Antonio: A San Antonio man has been hounded by the Texas Attorney... »
"ne might ask why the only gender-specific issues that seem to deserve federal attention are ones that affect women. Why not look at the fact that men account for 80 percent of suicides and 90 percent of workplace fatalities (as well as 70 percent of nonfatal on-the-job injuries)? "What about the troubling trend of... »
...I'm not sure if the data actually supports this. In the Toronto Globe and Mail's Gender bias evident in parental alienation cases (3/28/09), we're told: A study of alienated children has found that mothers were significantly more likely to be the parent who emotionally poisoned their children than were fathers. Toronto family lawyer Gene Colman told... »
Dr. Ned Holstein and I spoke at Fathers & Families’ General Membership meeting in Boston a couple weeks ago, and 160 Fathers & Families members and supporters braved the snow and ice to attend. It was nice getting a chance to meet some of the organization’s Massachusetts... »
His continued presence in the Legislature “is an affront to all the women who work there,” said Marcia Pappas, president of the National Organization for Women’s New York chapter. Due Process of Law? Equal Protection of the Laws? Fair treatment by the New York State Legislature? Nah. Not for Marcia Pappas, president of the New York... »
You might think it's the homeless who need a Good Samaritan. But in this case two homeless men played that role themselves and one of them paid for it with his life (Houston Chronicle, 3/24/09). In Houston on the night of March 23rd two men in a small homeless community under a freeway overpass saw a man... »
"Based on all of the evidence, the court finds that Ms. Mills engaged in behavior that alienates the minor children from their maternal grandparents, their aunt, and most importantly their father," Mangum wrote. In this case, North Carolina Judge Ned Mangum ruled that a mother's desire to home-school her three children in accordance with the doctrines espoused... »
Maybe it's all Nixon's fault. Back in Watergate days, I had a good friend who was a singer/songwriter and typically impecunious. When Nixon resigned rather than being prosecuted for his role in numerous crimes, my friend said "If I ever get busted for pot, I'll just tell 'em, 'I'll quit being a folk singer, isn't... »
For over three decades, we've been "educating" ourselves about domestic violence. We've gone from not really being aware of it as an issue to reading articles and seeing TV news about it every day. Countless organizations exist solely because of domestic violence, federal laws with vast funding mechanisms have come into being, DV shelters... »
"I talked about Shared Parenting topic. I saw in the Chair's eyes roll as if to say, 'Oh, not her too.' "I talked about being an adult child of divorce, and leading into my involvement with a single Dad and then too the movement I am a part of. I heard gasps, sighs and... »
One of the judges said sex amounts to rape if the woman is incapable of giving consent. But he added: 'Where the complainant has voluntarily consumed even substantial quantities of alcohol, but nevertheless remains capable of choosing whether or not to have intercourse, and in drink agrees to do so, this would not be... »
"Fathers aren't always looked at as the caregiver for the children in the family," Mans said. "(People) look towards the mother. That's a lot of what our group is focusing on trying to overcome." Here's a good article about a group of men in the Wichita, Kansas area that are helping other men to battle... »
Again, like the "Real Housewives of New York" star Kelly Bensimon's DV of her boyfriend, this case of DV by his girlfriend against Tampa Bay Buccaneer's linebacker Geno Hayes, the media have little to say. Shevelle Bagley allegedly stabbed Hayes with a pair of scissors and, when he disarmed her, grabbed a knife and... »
For a long time now, I've thought that the single best way for men to fight the radical inequalities of the family law/judicial practice system is to control our fertility. To me, the core of the matter is that, in a country in which 40% of births occur out of wedlock, women have no obligation... »
This piece by Emily Bazelon is the latest to question what men are doing around the house now that the recession has put a lot more of them there (Slate, 3/12/09). Bazelon, if you'll recall, is the one who had a highly problematical article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine about a few... »
Perhaps Pierce can help me with this one. In this article, a high-profile case in the Philippines has just been turned on its head (Yahoo, 3/18/09). Three years ago, U.S. Lance Corporal Daniel Smith was convicted of raping a Filipino woman. She claimed, and apparently testified, that the two of them were dancing at a... »
This study purports to disprove the notion that there's a boy crisis in education. It's by Sarah Mead courtesy of a self-described "think tank" called the Education Sector. From what I can gather, it pretty accurately represents the response by those in the educational system who want to ignore the obvious problems boys have in... »
"Parental alienation is a plague. It's rampant out there," says Ludmer, 48, who declined to talk about his own case for fear of upsetting his children. "This stuff has been going on for a hundred years. It's just that now it has a name." This is a good article about Parental Alienation Syndrome, how it's... »
Here's a woman writing a letter to a legal advice column (Boston Herald, 3/15/09). It seems her husband told a divorce court she threatened him and their child. The court gave him temporary custody and required her to pay child support. While the divorce case was still pending, her mother in Brazil got sick, so she quit her job... »
Here's an article from the November 28, 1931 San Antonio Light newspaper. I tried to paste it into the blog software, but the print wasn't legible, so I retyped it word for word. MOTHER SOBS AS COURT HEARS FIGHT FOR S.A.TOT _________ OIL MAN SAYS EX-WIFE LEFT GIRL ALONE AT HOME __________ Judge Holds Fate of Child as Parents Battle for Custody. __________ Unable to... »
Amazingly enough, it took Marine Sergeant Brian Foster 10 years to get his conviction heard by an appellate tribunal. That's 10 years behind bars for allegedly raping his wife, a crime he has always denied committing. The appellate court noted that, at the trial of the case, there was no forensic evidence of rape, Foster... »
This article (DC Examiner, 3/16/09) should be read with this study (Urban Institute, 2006). In the past, I've written about studies that criticize child protective agencies as being too ready to take children away from parents and place them in foster care or group homes. A growing number of studies and commentators point out the fact... »
We've seen this before. Several years ago an Iowa man was driving his car when a young girl stepped out into the roadway in front of him. He screeched to a halt, got out of his car, took the girl by the arm and led her to the curb. There he gave her a... »
Short Version: If you're a Massachusetts Democrat or Independent, click here, go to the bottom of the page and post a comment explaining why you believe the Massachusetts Democratic Party should formally endorse Shared Parenting at its State Convention on June 6, 2009. If words fail you, see the three suggested messages at the bottom... »
"When it came time to discuss the Shared Parenting, I mentioned that Shared Parenting is in the best interest of the children and we would like to have the Democratic Party support this. That started a Q&A session about Shared Parenting and how would it work that lasted probably 25 minutes." We've asked Fathers... »
..."cuts off" the child's contact with the other adoptive mom. I've often discussed the issue of the rights of lesbian “social mothers”–women who agreed to employ a sperm donor so that they could have children with their lesbian partners, who are the biological mothers. I do believe that children fare best when they have both a... »
Lawyers Weekly USA reporter Julia Reischel recently did a piece for the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly on Fathers & Families' highly-publicized lawsuit against the new Massachusetts child support guidelines. The suit has been covered by the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, NPR, Newsweek, Psychology Today, and many others. Massachusetts' child support guidelines... »
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video An ad for the Sun-Herald in Australia. »
"We went from a nation in which 9 percent of children were being raised without dads in the 1960s to today's 28 percent, or more than 20 million kids." Two Fathers & Families supporters, Peter G. Hill and Bill DeTucci Sr., recently had letters published in the Boston Globe and the Salem News respectively. In Panel... »
The new, 10th anniversary edition of Phil Cook's Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence has been released. Cook, an award-winning investigative journalist, writes: The book that started a revolution in how with think about and deal with intimate partner violence ten years ago has now been published in a new expanded second edition!... »
"My personal experience and my professional research reveals--and as the POPIPV and other studies document--that the majority of domestic violence incidents officers respond to are minor incidents or incidents where it is difficult to separate the offender from the victim. "The POPIPV documents that almost two of every three (62%) law enforcement IPV interventions are for... »
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Thanks to Linda, a reader, for sending it. »
The historic "From Ideology to Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Intervention in Domestic Violence" conference sponsored by the California Alliance for Families and Children in February, 2008 featured leading domestic violence authorities from around the world. DVDs from this conference are now available--to view the order form and catalog, click here. Featured speakers include: Donald Dutton, PhD Linda Mills,... »
Without a trace of irony, National Public Radio ran this piece on their Morning Edition show touting DV as an expression of love (NPR, 3/16/09). If you think it's about male on female violence though, you're wrong. To have presented male on female violence as anything but a mortal sin would have violated every imaginable code... »
What's that old saying about a lie travelling half way around the world before the truth gets its boots on? The Parenting.com "Mad at Dad" survey is still whizzing around the globe unimpeded by the slightest scrutiny by the press that parrots its "findings." Glenn and I punctured that survey in the World Net Daily... »
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