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Reason December 2003 Cathy Young	Divorcees and Social Engineers Most people acknowledge that children are better off when they have fathers and when their fathers are actively involved in their lives. But where do we go from there? Fathers face off against the marriage movement.
ifeminists June 9, 2004 Carey Roberts	Air-Brushing Dads Out Of The Picture The rise of fatherlessness in America did not occur because dads decided one day to get up and leave. It happened because they were pushed out.
ifeminists March 5, 2007 Teri Stoddard	Can't Find a Husband? Men who embrace fatherhood are shown their time and influence aren't important. Our government does this by enforcing child support orders while not enforcing visitation orders.
ifeminists April 12, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	'Roe v. Wade for Men' Case Illustrates Family Law System's Inequities The "woman good/man bad" modus operandi of the American family law system has wounded children and the fathers they love and need. The problem cannot be resolved until we acknowledge and address the fundamental inequities of the system.
ifeminists June 30, 2004 Carey Roberts	Divorced Dads' White-Hot Sense of Injustice Noncustodial dads find it incomprehensible that their basic human right to be a parent is being curtailed by a legal system that they perceive to be expensive, cloaked in secrecy, and unfair, spurring their suicide rate to 10 times that of divorced women.
ifeminists July 8, 2007 Michael J. McManus	Taken Into Custody Father's Day was not joyful for millions of fathers who had a divorce forced upon them, whose children were "taken into custody" by the mother who filed for the divorce.
ifeminists October 8, 2002 Sacks & Thompson	Can Abolishing Sole Custody Curb Divorce? Research from American Law and Economics Review indicates the presumption of joint physical custody may serve to keep some marriages together.
ifeminists June 30, 2004 Jon W.	Letter: Civil Disobedience & Fundamental Liberty Rights of Parents There is no sign that the Federal Courts are going to recognize the serious legal mess of the family court system.
Salon.com October 3, 2000 Cathy Young	Dr. Bad News After conducting a massive 25-year study, Judith Wallerstein concludes that children of divorce are hit hardest after they grow up...
ifeminists May 18, 2005 Carey Roberts	VAWA Law Polarizes the Sexes, Weakens the Family The Violence Against Women Act represents a frontal assault on both fatherhood and on the integrity of the traditional family.
ifeminists July 19, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	North Dakota Shared Parenting Initiative Will Help Children of Divorce A misguided collection of federal and state officials, divorce attorneys and women's advocates have all united to oppose a simple proposition: children need both parents.
ifeminists February 13, 2007 Don Mathis	How VAWA Separates Children From Fathers The result of the VAWA is rampant false claims of abuse. This means that children are removed from decent, loving fathers. The Violence Against Women Act must be radically altered or else it will continue to destroy the father/child bond.
ifeminists November 23, 2005 Carey Roberts	Requiem for the Leftist Welfare Utopia Leftists have devised a simple yet amazingly effective formula to engender social discord: break up the family, marginalize fathers, and then blame the whole mess on men. But now people are catching on to the game plan and dads are staging a comeback.
ifeminists June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts	Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce.
AskMen.com June 10, 2003 Douglas Cooney	Why Do Divorce Laws Marginalize Men? It seems that no matter who you talk to these days, someone knows of a man who came out of a divorce robbed and humiliated. And there is no end to how harrowing such stories get.
ifeminists June 15, 2005 Carey Roberts	A Government Program Is No Substitute For a Bear-Hug Why does the US taxpayer continue to subsidize government programs, to the tune of billions of dollars a year, that end up separating fathers from their families?
ifeminists December 7, 2006 Carey Roberts	The GOP's Betrayal of the Pro-Family Agenda When we survey the current state of the family, we see that Americans are half as likely to wed compared to a generation ago, mostly due to a growing shortage of marriage-minded men. How did all this happen?
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.
ifeminists June 14, 2006 Carey Roberts	Playing Politics with the Federal Fatherhood Initiative The Fatherhood Initiative has become an orphan program that the Sisterhood would happily kill off, but the higher-ups know that would be politically embarrassing. So the Initiative now floats in bureaucratic cyberspace with no defined mandate, leadership, operating structure, or budget.
ifeminists September 23, 2003 Wendy McElroy	Do Poor Fathers Deserve Debtors' Prison? What does throwing a "deadbeat dad" in jail accomplish?
ifeminists June 3, 2009 Wendy McElroy	End the gay marriage debate! Privatize marriage Almost half of the adults in America are unmarried and single-person households outnumber married families with children. A glut of books and articles is suddenly declaring marriage to be either obsolete or rediscovered.
ifeminists June 9, 2004 Sacks & Brass	National Fatherhood Initiative's Ad Campaign Insults African-American Fathers While the NFI's goal is laudable, research shows that a major factor in black fatherlessness, which the NFI campaign completely ignores, is the obstruction of fathers' visitation rights by custodial mothers.
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.
ifeminists February 11, 2003 Thompson & Sacks	Undermining the American Family The American Law Institute, which exercises great influence on American jurisprudence, has just released a series of family law recommendations that would exacerbate our problems by trivializing the importance of marriage, encouraging divorce and accelerating fatherlessness.
ifeminists December 15, 2004 Carey Roberts	Long Live the Matriarchy! Until the essential role of fathers is recognized and antiquated laws are changed, millions of American children will be deprived of the steady hand of a loving father.
ifeminists November 2, 2005 Leving & Sacks	PBS Declares War on Dads Breaking the Silence is a direct assault on American fathers, and the minimal, hard won gains they have made in protecting their children's right to have their fathers in their lives.
ifeminists March 29, 2008 Terri Lynn Tersak	Congressional Guidelines for Abusing Women This report examines the many problems the author finds inherent in local and national services and legal protections that are designed to help victims of domestic abuse.
AskMen.com Ethan Marak	How Men Get Screwed In Divorce Everyone suffers during a divorce, but men have a few special issues to deal with. Here are some of the life experiences newly divorced men have to look forward to.
Reason July 2004 Tim Cavanaugh	Defending Divorce A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that easy divorce in America provides some real social benefits, especially for women.
ifeminists March 1, 2006 Carey Roberts	The Feminist Anti-Kid Crusade Despite the fact that kids with involved dads do better, regardless of all the joint custody laws, and in spite of the laughable antics of the M.O.M. brigade, mothers continue to be favored in custody decisions by a 7 to 1 margin.
ifeminists July 14, 2004 Carey Roberts	The Marriage No-Shows When almost one-quarter of single American men in their prime courting years - that's two million potential husbands - declare a Marriage Strike, we're facing an unprecedented social crisis.
ifeminists July 8, 2007 Stephen Baskerville	Welfare and the "Road to Serfdom" As conservatives congratulate themselves on ten years of welfare reform, they need to start looking at the larger picture and all that was left undone.
ifeminists December 14, 2005 Carey Roberts	PBS Propaganda Piece The film Breaking the Silence is a bogus documentary that smears fathers as child abusers, with the aim of keeping dads out of their children's lives after divorce.
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 March 10, 2004 Carey Roberts	The Follies of Child Support: Dead-Beat or Dead-Broke? How can a man be made to pay back child support for a child that's already grown?
ifeminists August 15, 2007 Carey Roberts	Newark Triple-Murder Reveals Need for Fathers Statistics show that 60 percent of city kids grow up without fathers and 70 percent of long-term prisoners grew up without fathers. What does this say about the future of the city kids?
Financial Planning February 1, 2012 Martin Shenkman	Trust, But Verify The estate planning answer for a lot of parents is to leave inheritances in trust for the benefit of their child. But trusts vary widely, and because this is a message many clients miss, planners must reinforce the idea.
ifeminists February 23, 2005 Tony Zizza	New Divorce Bill Ripe For Abuse and Bias The fact of the matter is domestic violence and child abuse do not run nearly as rampant as we're led to be believe, but now with the newly amended divorce bill in Georgia, you can be sure false allegations of abuse will be flying all over the place even faster.
ifeminists June 21, 2006 Leving & Sacks	Illinois Fatherhood Council Recommends New Reforms in Family Law, Child Support Policies based on blaming and punishing dads may make good political sound bites, but they are counterproductive for society, and hurtful to children and the fathers they love and need.
Salon.com October 4, 2000 Jennifer Foote Sweeney	Pluck and circumstance Judith Wallerstein makes a case for marriage, and on rare occasions, a healthy divorce...
ifeminists August 2, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	NOW at 40: Group's Opposition to Shared Parenting Contradicts Its Goal of Gender Equality It's time for the National Organization for Women to re-examine its misguided stand against shared parenting, and to bring its policies into line with its stated ideals.
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.
ifeminists July 1, 2003 Glenn Sacks	New Study, Case May Help California Children of Divorce Retain Bonds with Both Parents One of the greatest tragedies children of divorce in California face is the way courts allow custodial parents to move hundreds or even thousands of miles away after divorce, damaging or sometimes destroying the bonds between children and their noncustodial parents. That may change.
ifeminists May 8, 2007 McCormick & Sacks	Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls Tells an Important Truth About African-American Fathers While no judge or lawmaker can turn a disinterested parent into a caring one, much can and should be done to break down the many barriers which separate loving fathers from their children.
ifeminists November 2, 2005 Carey Roberts	Jim Crow Days For Men Currently the U.S. Congress is mulling the fate of a five-year extension to the Violence Against Women Act, a law that has caused the basic civil liberties of hundreds of thousands of fathers and men to be casually disregarded.
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 June 16, 2004 Carey Roberts	Yes, Fathers Are Essential Despite what the American Psychological Association might say, most persons agree that dads are worth keeping around.
ifeminists August 8, 2008 Teri Stoddard	Equal Custody And VAWA Regarding custody, the Violence Against Women Act is unconstitutional and full of misandry.
ifeminists October 19, 2005 Carey Roberts	PBS' "Breaking the Silence" Not Ready For Prime Time America's rad-fems want to keep the lid tightly sealed on Parental Alienation Syndrome, since it is one of their most effective ploys for excluding fathers. And gaining child custody is a mother's meal ticket to many years of tax-free child support.
ifeminists August 4, 2004 Wendy McElroy	In Defense of 'Deadbeat' Dads It is time for the prison release of impoverished deadbeat dads to become official policy in every corner of North America.