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ifeminists April 5, 2009 Wendy McElroy |
Is Parental Alienation a Syndrome? Parental Alienation has been a hot topic in the Canadian courts of late with a mother losing custody on the grounds of her continuing campaign to vilify the father and distance him from their children. |
ifeminists February 22, 2006 Carey Roberts |
The M.O.M. Squad Capers Be forewarned, M.O.M.s - Mothers Opposed to Men - wield a formidable array of fake statistics, sob stories, and old-fashioned propaganda. |
ifeminists October 26, 2005 Mark B. Rosenthal |
Breaking the Science: Misleading Stories PBS stations around the nation will air a film entitled "Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories". Although protecting helpless victims from brutal abusers is a noble undertaking, distorting the facts to libel an entire class of people is not. |
ifeminists December 7, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
PBS Continues Probe into Biased Film The documentary, Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories is accused of being anti-father, factually inaccurate and politically motivated. But the documentary's message is clear: the family courts must be overhauled. |
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 November 9, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
PBS Film Ignites Fathers' Rights Debate The controversy is broader than one father's protest. Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories argues against what has become a cause celebre in the father's rights movement: Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). |
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 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. |
ifeminists March 8, 2006 Carey Roberts |
Family Make-Over Ponzi Scheme Remember how the Great Society evicted fathers from their homes? That's what the M.O.M. Squad has in mind for the rest of us. It's our families that need to be shored up, and our children who desperately need their fathers. |
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 November 9, 2005 Mark B. Rosenthal |
Breaking the Science: Ostrich Syndrome The PBS film Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories is full of bias and inaccuracy in depicting a world in which the only abusive parents are fathers. |
ifeminists August 8, 2008 Teri Stoddard |
Equal Custody And VAWA Regarding custody, the Violence Against Women Act is unconstitutional and full of misandry. |
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 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 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 November 23, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
PBS Film Controversy Continues Breaking the Silence may well contribute to misinformation on domestic violence and its impact upon children. And that is shameful. |
ifeminists July 1, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
In the Best Interest of the Children... A new legal term is creating debate across North America: the "rebuttable presumption of joint custody." It means family courts should presume that divorcing parents will equally share the legal and physical custody of children unless there is compelling reason to rule otherwise. |
ifeminists June 14, 2007 Leving & Sacks |
In this Turf War, Kids Are the Prize Parental Alienation is child abuse. Courts need to do more to protect children from alienation, not dismiss it. |
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 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 November 30, 2005 Gordon E. Finley |
PBSgate What can PBS do to salvage its reputation? The production and airing of Breaking the Silence is so far from the lofty claims of its website that it is not at all clear that PBS can restore the public trust in its programming. |
ifeminists January 3, 2007 Leving & Sacks |
Dads Finally Get Fair Shake in the Media While the ''Father Knows Best'' depiction of dads was always a distortion, the ''Father Knows Nothing'' media theme of the past couple of decades has been a far greater one. Dads deserve a media rehabilitation -- hopefully 2006 was its beginning. |
ifeminists April 22, 2008 Radar |
Radar Alert A public faceoff between David Levy and Joan S. Meier regarding child custody battles, which can incite domestic violence. |
ifeminists June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce. |
ifeminists November 9, 2005 Carey Roberts |
Purveyors of Deceit: Why PBS Must Yank 'Breaking the Silence' The film falsely portrays one mother as a sympathetic underdog doing heroic battle against a legal system that was biased against women while undermining the fact that dads who go through a divorce often face a hellacious struggle trying to stay involved in their kids' lives. |
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? |
Psychology Today May/Jun 2007 Mark Teich |
House Divided: Hate Thy Father In an era of bitter divorce battles, parents often use children as hammers to bash each other, manipulating not only the legal system but also their children's affections. Can a broken parent-child bond be restored? |
Salon.com June 12, 2000 Cathy Young |
The mama lion at the gate Maternal chauvinism is a dad's greatest obstacle to parental parity. |
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 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 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 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 October 4, 2006 Leving & Sacks |
Are Single Mothers the 'New American Family?' Those who view the traditional family as disadvantageous to women are firing back, defending women who choose single motherhood and depicting fathers as superfluous. |
ifeminists September 24, 2002 Sacks & Thompson |
Shared Custody Could Prevent Abductions According to the US Department of Justice, mothers and fathers abduct their children in equal numbers. What is needed is to reform the child custody system in order to prevent the kidnappings from occurring in the first place. |
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 May 31, 2006 McCormick & Sacks |
Louisiana's HB 315 Says One Parent is Better Than Two Shared parenting is advocated by a growing consensus of mental health and family law professionals, and current Louisiana law has led to an increase in shared custody awards. HB 315 would reverse this progress. |
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 November 16, 2005 |
Letter to the Editor: Feminism and Motherhood What the women's groups now want is control over the next generation of voters. They want to be able to mold the minds of today's children before they are old enough to vote. |
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 September 27, 2006 McCormick & Sacks |
Shared Parenting Initiative Helps Women, Too The North Dakota Shared Parenting Initiative (NDSPI) grants joint custody to both parents unless one is seen as unfit. However, there are certain children's rights group that oppose this proposed law. |
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 March 30, 2005 Carey Roberts |
The Rise of Big Sister-ism Deadbeat Dad myths have become so ingrained in American thinking that basic Constitutional protections are being casually tossed aside. |
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 August 26, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
Going to Extremes The issue of fathers' rights in the U.K. may be entering a more violent phase. If so, this should act as a cautionary tale for North America. |
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 April 19, 2006 David Heleniak |
False Domestic Violence Accusations Can Lead To Parental Alienation Syndrome If the DV restraining order system could be reformed so that only real victims obtained restraining orders and only real abusers were thrown out their houses, then the number of heart-wrenching PAS cases would be greatly reduced. |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
Fatherhood Guide: Discipline This article addresses the fine line of disciplining your child. Discipline relates to children of all ages, but the following article will be most helpful to fathers of children under the age of 10. |
ifeminists December 29, 2004 Harry Crouch |
Domestic Violence Delusions...a PBS Documelodrama The documentary Breaking the Silence, Journeys of Hope is stale, rehashed, and stereotypical pandering propaganda perpetuating the myth of the 95% male domestic violence perpetrator. |
AskMen.com Mr. Mafioso |
Don't Forget Mother's Day Good evening gentlemen. As you all know, Mother's Day is just around the corner. |
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."? |