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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 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 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 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 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 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 December 14, 2005 Mark B. Rosenthal	Demonstration Organizer Removes Evidence of PBS Promoting Private Partisan Event An activist group's webpage shows PBS' support of the group in connection with their ill-fated documentary Breaking the Silence, giving evidence to political partisanship. The webpage was removed, but a cached version shows the truth.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 August 8, 2008 Teri Stoddard	Equal Custody And VAWA Regarding custody, the Violence Against Women Act is unconstitutional and full of misandry.
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 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 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.
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 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.
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 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 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 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 December 28, 2005 Carey Roberts	Winner of the Coveted 2005 Award for Political Incorrectness This past year Phyllis Schlafly took on the federal government's deepening alliance with radical feminism. In the process she debunked many of the Left's pet explanations for family break-down.
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 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 January 4, 2006 Nicole Perry	An Open Letter to PBS The author asserts PBS stepped over the edge by airing the film "Breaking the Silence" thereby taking on the political hot potato of Domestic Violence in this country without verifying facts and calls for a retraction.
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 April 26, 2006 Trudy W. Schuett	Netizens Misbehaving - a Possible Solution You can't control what other people say on the Internet, nor is there any universal Complaint Department to deal with an issue for you. You're pretty much on your own here, but you can avoid being part of the problem by your reaction to various things. Here are some ideas.
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 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.
ifeminists September 15, 2004 Leving & Sacks	Ruling in High-Profile Marks Custody Case: Painful but Correct For too long many American family courts have been kangaroo courts in which perjury and false allegations are not only tolerated but are frequently rewarded.
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 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.
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?
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 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.
ifeminists May 16, 2007 Leving & Sacks	Equal Rights Amendment Yes, 'Women's Equality Amendment' No Unfortunately, the bill's sponsors have changed the ERA's name to the Women's Equality Amendment. There's a major problem with that, because when considering injustices based on gender, today men and fathers can lay claim to many of them.
ifeminists January 5, 2005 Wendy McElroy	What to Do About Daddy? How can courts help to prevent heart-wrenching father-child reunions? They should acknowledge at the very beginning of an adoption proceeding that both responsible parents have an equal voice.
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.
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 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 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 September 29, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Across U.S., Non-Custodial Parents Sue The number of non-custodial parent plaintiffs who sign on to a federal class action cannot be predicted but it could run into millions. Federal law is being asked to trump state practice in custody matters.
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.
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.