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ifeminists October 1, 2002 Sacks & Thompson |
Michigan Reform Plan Fights Rising Paternity Fraud "You play, you pay" is the response often given to men who complain about the financial burden of supporting their offspring. Today, for thousands of Michigan men, the refrain has become "You didn't play? You pay anyway." |
ifeminists July 14, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
Paternity: Innocence Is Now a Defense A California man being forced to pay child support for a child he had not fathered got his day in court when the Second District Court of Appeal of California overturned a paternity judgment against him. |
Reason February 2004 Matt Welch |
Injustice by Default How the effort to catch "deadbeat dads" ruins innocent men's lives. |
ifeminists August 30, 2006 McCormick & Sacks |
New American Bar Association Article Points to Crisis in False Paternity Judgments Child support debtors receive little public sympathy, at times with reason. Yet the victims of false paternity judgments aren't men trying to evade their legitimate responsibilities. They are victims of one of the most indefensible civil rights violations in America today. |
ifeminists November 18, 2003 Leving & Sacks |
Defrauded Veterans Have Mixed Emotions on Veterans Day According to Carnell Smith, Executive Director of the National Family Justice Association, military men are often "preyed upon" by unscrupulous "father shoppers" who can make fraudulent paternity designations without penalty. |
Reason November 2002 Cathy Young |
Dad Blood If DNA tests prove that you're not your children's father, do you still owe child support? |
ifeminists July 5, 2006 Leving & Sacks |
Some Progress for California Fathers, but Still a Long Way to Go The family law system remains stacked against fathers. Most importantly, California law still does not do nearly enough to protect fathers' relationships with their children. |
Salon.com June 9, 2000 Anthony York |
Gray turns green -- with cash Building more prisons, doling out pork and refusing to rethink the death penalty, California Gov. Gray Davis is confounding friends and enemies with his relentless pursuit of the middle. |
ifeminists June 1, 2005 Tony Zizza |
Is Paternity Fraud The Perfect Crime? You know the absolute destruction of "right and wrong" is complete when the global problem of paternity fraud appears to be just a matter of judicial bias and fodder for escapist television shows like Desperate Housewives. |
Salon.com June 21, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Gray Davis goes electric The California governor brings his Bush-bashing act to Washington... |
ifeminists March 14, 2007 Leving & Sacks |
Anna Nicole Dispute Shows System's Flaws Larry Birkhead, Smith's ex-boyfriend, has a legitimate claim to paternity. He has been thwarted for several months by the same legal maneuvers which are often employed to separate fathers from their children. |
ifeminists September 10, 2002 Tresa McBee |
What Price is Right? How much should NBA player Corliss Williamson pay in child support for his 7-year-old son? |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
Fatherhood Guide: Setting An Example The following presents some tips on how to set an example for your child. While much of this piece pertains to young children under the age of 8 or so, the issue itself is germane to kids of all ages. |
Reason December 2007 Radley Balko |
No Money, No Justice Do public defenders deserve scorn, or bigger budgets? Book review: Defending the Damned: Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office, by Kevin Davis. |
ifeminists November 3, 2007 |
Child Support: The Fallacy, The Fraud, And The Failure The Family Law system in the U.S. is a disease-ridden, corrupt socialist system that will ultimately destroy us. |
AskMen.com Michael Estrin |
Paying Child Support 101 Though the laws vary from state to state and each case is different, it's important to know a few things about the general process so you can protect yourself. |
ifeminists October 16, 2008 Tony Zizza |
Teen Motherhood a "Right"? Why is teen motherhood viewed as an absolute "right" while teen fatherhood is just a financial "responsibility."? |
ifeminists April 5, 2006 Carey Roberts |
Child Support Gold-Diggers Laws that protect women from rape, domestic violence, and sexual harassment all rest on a simple assumption: women who claim to be victims are almost always telling the truth. Maybe it's time to revisit that belief. |
ifeminists February 10, 2004 K.C. Wilson |
Paternity Fraud: Female Violence Against Men Any fraud a man commits is called a crime. In forty-six states, the one exclusive to women is protected. |
Fast Company Lydia Dishman |
How Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy Will Impact The Economy And The Gender Wage Gap In a statement yesterday Netflix chief talent officer Tawni Cranz announced the introduction of unlimited leave for new moms and dads. |
ifeminists May 26, 2004 Glenn Sacks |
Powder Attack on Tony Blair Done in Service of a Just Cause English fathers' rights group protests the greatest social injustice in the Anglo-American world today -- the way decent, loving fathers are driven out of their children's lives after divorce or separation. |
ifeminists January 3, 2008 Brad |
Your DNA please, Citizen Ron Paul pushes legislation to eliminate the right of citizenship by being born in the United States. |
ifeminists September 17, 2002 Sacks & Thompson |
High-Profile 'Deadbeat Dad' Raids Won't Fix Child Support System Badly in Need of Reform Reforms are needed that will make the system more rational and workable, and which will benefit both the children owed support and the fathers who owe it. |
BusinessWeek May 13, 2010 Lauren Sandler |
The Mother of All Office Dramas Now that breastfeeding employees have legal rights, will workplace lactation be less embarrassing? Recent years have brought some progress. A third of large corporations now have lactation rooms, according to the Families & Work Institute. |
ifeminists June 14, 2006 Leving & Sacks |
New Report: Foster Care System Disregards Fathers America's child welfare policies are seriously misguided. When a mother is deemed unfit to care for her children, dad shouldn't be just one option out of many. He should be first in line. |
Salon.com July 6, 2000 Cathy Young |
Team players or tools of the patriarchy? Women often are supplying the muscle behind the fathers' rights movement. |
ifeminists June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce. |
ifeminists January 26, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Removing Legal Incentives to Lie The false accusations that impact most people often occur in the process of divorce, in battles over custody and child support. For years, advocates of fathers' rights have accused the family courts of being "anti-male" and of rubber-stamping women's claims. |
ifeminists November 11, 2003 Carey Roberts |
Caped Crusaders Launch Direct Action Campaign For years, people have been predicting that the father's movement was about to explode. That explosion finally took place on December 17, 2002. On that day, Fathers 4 Justice launched its campaign of non-violent direct action. |
Salon.com May 28, 2001 Anthony York |
California reaming While Dick Cheney continues to blame the state's energy crisis on its Democratic governor, President Bush makes a rare visit. Can the oil patch kids ever solve their California problem? |
ifeminists November 11, 2003 Glenn Sacks |
In Defense of Spiderman The mayor of London compares him to Osama bin Laden. He's been dubbed a "menace" holding a city for "ransom," as well as a lunatic and an extremist. What has 36 year-old David Chick done to arouse such anger? He loves his little daughter, from whom he's been forcibly separated. |
ifeminists September 23, 2003 Glenn Sacks |
Convicted Murderess Can Get Custody but Decent Fathers Can't Clara Harris, a Texas woman who was convicted of murdering her husband in March, was just granted joint custody of her twin five year-old boys. The ruling validates what fathers' and children's advocates have been saying for years -- when it comes to children, many courts believe that mothers can do no wrong. |
Salon.com January 27, 2001 Arianna Huffington |
Gov. Davis and the failure of power California's energy crisis is another lesson in the need for campaign finance reform... |
AskMen.com May 19, 2008 Ross Bonander |
Fatherhood Guide: Affection Showing affection is a challenging area of parenting, but this is not uncommon; for many loving and caring fathers, showing their affection represents the most challenging aspect of parenting. |
ifeminists September 7, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Paternity Case Marks Progress for Defrauded Fathers The New Jersey decision is beneficial in granting increased recognition to the plight of paternity fraud. But an obvious problem remains. Two people committed fraud, but only the father bears any liability. |
Salon.com October 19, 2000 Cathy Young |
A man's right to choose Is it fair that women have reproductive rights while men have reproductive responsibilities? |
ifeminists February 18, 2003 Glenn Sacks |
Valentine's Day & the Gender Wars Part of the division between men and women is due to women's legitimate grievances. But much of it is also caused by men's resentment that the very real problems and disadvantages they face as husbands, partners and fathers have been ignored by the media, our lawmakers and by society as a whole. |
ifeminists March 23, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Military Dads Denied Father's Rights A military father pays child support yet is denied access to his son. Other active military fathers face repercussions under The Bradley Amendment. |