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Have we created a Matriarchy that is bankrupting nations, abusing children?

Have we created a Matriarchy that is bankrupting nations, abusing children?

The new feminism (second wave [the radicals]) who have to be a part of
everything male while acting in a misandric fashion are creating a sadistic
Matriarchy across the globe. If Men and women split everything 50/50 and
women get 50% of the man's 50 and 7/8ths of the remaining twenty five
percent as special entitlements that equals 97.25% - maybe that is why
females make the majority of retail purchases.

I can envision men reading this crossing their legs, wringing their hands
uncomfortably almost whining: I hope they read the rest of this, check out
the links, STOP, breathe and then reflect: the truth is in the studies. We
have for decades lazily subscribed to urban myth even though lies have been
proven and dispelled:
<http://dadsofmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/07/warshak-brief-in-lamagusa.html>
Warshak

Apparently the Jewish community is concerned with a dwindling male
membership
<http://dadsofmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/07/end-of-jewish-men.html> The end
of Jewish Men are not the Protestant and Catholic Communities facing the
same situation?

Not all single mothers are sadistic but images of Britney, Lindsey and Casey
should wake us up a little simply look up female violence on You Tube . "`Oh
say it is not true" exclaim the gentlemen twisting in their seats, perhaps,
but this material is not made up <http://antimisandry.com/abuse-dv/>
Bringing Attention to Abuse By Females it is true Google has tried to censor
such material as hate speech preferring homosexual friendly comments (sorry
their editorial preference and a true statement simply ask bloggers).

All mothers probably are not that violent despite the ones we have seen
grabbing their children by the arm in the grocery store, we do know (even if
we are afraid to discuss it) at least some moms utilize the electronic
babysitter, we have been talking about it for decades, but could it lead to
this:
<http://westmichigandad.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/should-parents-of-obese-kid
s-lose-custody/> Should parents of obese kids lose custody?

* We know Fathers petition Courts for custody, joint custody, shared
custody, parenting time, access to their children everyday, and, everyday
leave the Court Room broken hearted despite the evidence demonstrating the
criticality of fathers to their children's development,
<http://antimisandry.com/forums/> Forum

. <http://antimisandry.com/forums/#wisdom-library> Wisdom Library

. <http://antimisandry.com/facts-figures/> Facts and Figures

. <http://antimisandry.com/essential/> Essential There are only
about one hundred and six entries there

You could also try <http://westmichigandad.wordpress.com/research/>
Research there are only thirty-eight hyper-linked references there.

The Public Broadcast System actually airs programming that touches upon
religion, last weekend I listened to a Catholic Bishop lamenting the injury
upon all of those poor families that the current budget debacle will cause.
I am certain the Bishop truly had in mind social injustice to less fortunate
people _ I truly believe the Bishop had no conception at all he really is
lamenting a minor loss in funding for the enabling of single mother homes
whilst depriving children of their fathers.

There is no logic in promoting Fatherhood whilst denigrating Fathers. There
is no logic in promoting a social system that separates children from their
fathers whilst costing America three hundred thirty-six billion dollars
annually <http://dadsofmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/07/sex-money.html> Sex,
money.and national bankruptcies.

Perhaps no one really cares enough to have read this far, or someone is
yawning, or instead of twisting in their seat someone has urinated, can we
seriously imagine grown adults so afraid of women, there are afraid to read
this?

Mothers are sacred, mothers are scary, what am I thinking, well I am not the
happiest camper in the entire world but I am not alone;
<http://westmichigandad.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/mothers-day-2011-not-so-pur
dy-americass-pbs-documentary/> Mother's Day 2011: not so Purdy - Americas's
PBS documentary,
<http://dadsofmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/07/mother-mother-where-are-you.html
> Mother, mother, where are you?, Another Broken Heart
<http://antimisandry.com/father-children/another-broken-heart-40104.html#pos
t266672> truth to tell this is but a minor glimpse of the anecdotal
evidence.

As the men continue to cringe I can imagine someone uttering a derogatory
remark. Do we even know how to educate males STOP, please do not be so sure
about yourself, have you read anything found here:
<http://www.michaelgurian.com/books_dvds.html> Michael Gurian , any of these
<http://dadsofmichigan.blogspot.com/p/books-for-fathers.html> Books for
Fathers .

Do we really know what we are advocating for: In the matter of:
<http://dadsofmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/07/in-matter-of-pornography-v-roman
tic.html> pornography v, romantic fantasies ,
<http://dadsofmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/07/parental-alienation.html>
Parental Alienation
<http://dadsofmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/07/in-our-good-do-we-do-bad.html>
In our good do we do bad

Long letter, nothing is simple, our children deserve their Fathers, our Boys
deserve to be treated for who they are, our Congregations, Synagogues and
Parishes deserve participation from both sexes.

AMERICA’S CHILD by K.M.H

AMERICA’S CHILD

 

I overheard Mommy say

As she spoke on the phone today,

My Daddy can’t see me til Friday. 

He has to stay away.

He better work night and day;

He’s no good and he should pay.

What did I do wrong for the Judgeman to say

I can't see Daddy today; he sent Daddy away?

Me and Daddy love to play.

I miss Daddy, I’m afraid to say;

Cause Mommy doesn’t like it

When I talk this way.

Daddy, Oh Daddy where are you?

I don’t care bout money due.

I don’t want to play without you,

Cause the sky’s not blue

And the sun’s not bright without you.

I love you Daddy and you love me too.

Mommy said you can’t see me tomorrow;

Or maybe, if you find more money to borrow.

You can do it Daddy, you’re my hero!

Oh, I know, I’ll pray before I get in bed.

I'll keel down and bow my head

And close my eyes like Daddy said.

Dear God, please help the Judgeman

Cause he cannot understand like I can;

My Daddy is more than just a man.

Time for sleep Mommy said;

It’s not fun anymore to go to bed—

No Daddy’s kiss on my forehead.

No Daddy bedtime story to dream tonight.

I whisper real quiet every night,

I love you Daddy, goodnight.

2010, AMERICA’S CHILD, K.M.H.

 

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Equal Parenting Bike Trek 2010 - Pedaling 700 Miles in Michigan for Children and Parental Rights!

EXCITING NEWS! 

Summer 2010, the Equal Parenting Bike Trek cyclists will pedal over 700 miles throughout the state of Michigan. 

2007 Equal Parenting Bike Trek cyclists Robb MacKenzie and Robert Pedersen are back! 

Both will be joining former Kent County judicial candidate Bryan Down, Esq.  Attorney Bryan C. Downs has been a dedicated cyclist for the Equal Parenting Bike Trek in both 2008 and 2009.  There are three confirmed cyclists for the 2010 Equal Parenting Bike Trek, with an additional select few who will be joining Robb, Robert and Bryan during the 700 + miles cycling trek for parental rights.

The 2010 Equal Parenting Bike Trek will be departing from Lansing Michigan and will pedal through both the Lower and Upper peninsulas of Michigan in support of a child's right to be loved, guided, nurtured and educated by both fit and willing parents.

Stay tuned for more information on this incredible equal parenting event! 

Please support the Parental Rights Amendment

 

 

"Baaa Baaa Blind Sheep - Do You Have A Clue?"

I admit I have been completely baffled as to the complacency, laziness, and ignorance of the American public in general when it comes to becoming enlightened and educated, on any subject in general.

Case in point-at my place of employment-a unionized shop-recently  a "petition" was circulated.  All union members were expected to sign it.  All it stated was some vague mention of the automotive restructuring plan, and an equally vague mention of saving American workers' jobs.  No specifics at all.

I passed on signing it, and requested to speak with our union president about it-instead, a union committee person came to discuss the petition-the one responsible for circulating it.  I asked her if she  knew any specifics on it at all-basically to verify if the union leadership knew what they were circulating for signatures.  She knew basically nothing of it, except for some news she had heard of "the bailout". 

I inquired as to why the union leadership was circulating this,  since they knew very little of it.  I was told that the "international" president , with his team of lawyers, had asked all locals to get all their members signatures on this matter, and that she trusted them. 

I then asked why she trusted these people, when they were the same ones who advocated voting for Obama for president, Granholm for governor of Michigan, and, in the past, Clinton for president.  Observing all the damage these incompetents have inflicted upon the American public, trusting them would seem a very stupid thing to do, and the last thing that any responsible union leader should want to do.

At that point of the conversation, all I could think of was "baa  baa-another blind sheep".  The committee person was as blind as a sheep headed for its own demise, as are the union members who signed the petition without even knowing what they were signing , or the implications of doing so.

This is, literally, the blind and the ignorant leading the blind and the even more ignorant.

The committee person then asked why I was still bashing former President Clinton.  She and I have had this talk before, but I repeated myself for her convenience.   Former President Clinton, in my opinion, committed two of the worst acts against the people of the United States that anyone could have inflicted.

First, he signed the NAFTA agreement, which has cost hundreds of thousands  of Americans their jobs, and has allowed American corporations to move outside of our borders to profit THEM, at the expense of the American worker.

Second, during his administration, Clinton supported the corruption and perversion of Social Security's Title IV-D.  This program, originally intended to gather support dollars for children whose parents actually abandoned them, was changed to include ALL divorcing parents. This program would never recoup the expenses it cost without including the middle and upper classes in the bureaucracy, since so many of the other parents were unemployed or under-employed. This encouraged the states to label parents as "non-custodial" instead of "abandoning" in order to reap the billions of federal dollars flowing into the divorce industry, and pays them to destroy families and the lives of our children.

It is absolutely amazing that the American public continues to support politicians whose only answer to severe domestic and economic problems is to throw money at them. Many elected officials are guilty of this, but the Democrats are far ahead in doing so, in my opinion. 

Their solutions always seem to be to increase government bureaucracy, line the pockets of whomever advises them of the problem, and then realize that to fund the new program, that taxes must be raised to cover the costs. They care not for the American people-the programs and the bureaucracy are all that matter to them!

So, fellow Americans, for all of our sakes, open your eyes, and see what their actions are doing to us.  Don't blindly follow and believe their false and misleading rhetoric. If you continue to blindly follow along, you are doing precisely what they want you to do.  They are methodically stripping Americans of our livelihood, our ability to pay our bills, they are taking away our fundamental and Constitutional rights, and are PREVENTING us from caring for and raising our children.

For you "sheeple", stop including the rest of us  in your path of self-destruction.  We want no part of it!

Others are awakening to their demise-which will you choose to do-remain a part of the problem(s), or become a part of those seeking the solutions to ending this destruction and abuse?

A Father of Two.  

Support the Parental Rights Amendment

Parental Rights Amendment - House Joint Resolution 42. Support Now Before the U.N. Becomes the Parent to Our Children!

House Joint Resolution 42 is gaining serious momentum with 92 Congressional co-sponsors and counting!  Are you a parent?  It doesn't matter if you are a mother or a father here in the United States because all parents will lose the ability to parent their children if the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is passed in the United States.  "Convention on the Rights of the Child" sounds so innocent and something that all might be fooled to support.  In reality this will strip your ability to parent your children and all in the United States must parent to the UN's demands.

Twenty Things All Parents Should Know About the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child

Why We Need the Parental Rights Amendment

Show support for the Parental Rights Amendment immediately by signing the petition now.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is also a serious threat to our Second Amendment Rights of LEGAL gun ownership.  Read this article by Michael P. Ferris, J.D.on how the UNCRC will impact the rights of private gun ownership in America.  Gun Owners of America already is listed as a supporter of H.J. Res. 42, however sadly the NRA (National Rifle Association) is not currently listed as a supporter.  NRA members contact the NRA now and demand their support of H.J. Res. 42.

If your U.S. Representative is not on the list, please call or email them and urge them to become a sponsor of the Parental Rights Amendment (H.J. Res. 42).  Find your Representative and demand their support as a voter!

Please tell everyone you know about the Parental Rights Amendment and ask for their ACTIVE support.

Thank you Rep. Pete Hoekstra for showing leadership as lead sponsor of H.J. Res. 42.  Rep. Hoekstra is now running for Governorin the State of Michigan and should receive your support from all in the state of Michigan.

Parental Rights in DANGER

 

Rep. Pete Hoekstra on the Parental Rights Amendment

House Joint Resolution 42 - Actual document

Michigan Best Interests of the Child: "...a stable, satisfactory environment...."

Part One    Part Two    Part Three

Continuing with the fourth "best interest of the child" factor, factor (d) reads : "the length of time the child has lived in a stable, satisfactory environment, and the desirability of maintaining continuity."

How can a judge possibly award this factor to a mom who has taken off from the marital home, with the kids (kidnapping), and is hiding in some "domestic violence" shelter while proclaiming all of her lies?

Regardless of where mom has "fled to", whether it be with a boyfriend at his place, her parents, an apartment, or a "shelter" of some sort, how can it possibly compare to the home environment the children have been in?  This should be a no-brainer, but, again, this factor is one that the lawyers and judges can twist around to their liking, and make this factor fit into whatever the predetermined decision their friend of the court conciliator has made.  It's time again for another judicial "rubber stamp".

This is no doubt a key reason so many fathers are tossed from their home if the wife/mother has not "fled for her life" with the false allegations, trumped up lies and concocted accusations at the local women's' safe place shelter.  False allegations are more common than you might think.

A Father of Two.

Think Michigan Child Custody Determinations Are Fair?  Think again!

Michigan Best Interests of the Child: Providing the child with food, clothing, and medical care.....

Part One    Part Two

Best Interests of the family courts budget?  I would now like to continue with section (c), or the third "best interests of the child" criteria as defined in Michigan law.  This reads: "the capacity and disposition of the parties involved to provide the child with food, clothing, medical care or other remedial care recognized and permitted under the laws of this state in place of medical care, and other material needs".

This basically comes down to whether a parent can provide the material things for his or her own child.....and this is the factor that is routinely handed to the custodial parent-AFTER they start receiving child support payments.  It does NOT matter to your judge if the parent is employed, employable, or even is capable of actually taking care of the child(ren).

Another point arises here-exactly WHOM should be able to claim the child(ren) as dependent(s)-and whose dependents are they-it doesn't matter to the courts or to the government who actually PAYS for the actual support-it only matters to them WHO the child stays with OVERNIGHT-hence the reason that the courts keep the amount of time the child(ren) spend with the NCP to the barest minimum they can.

This is also where Social Security's Title IV-D comes in. You can run any good internet search engine and find a wealth of information on Title IV-D, but I will give you a brief and working summary of it.

Title IV-D was originally started as a Federal program to collect support funds from parents who had WILLFULLY and DELIBERATELY abandoned his or her children, and to help establish paternity of these abandoned children when necessary.  Very noble-any parent who abandons his or her children should be tracked down, their wages garnished, and otherwise be treated as the fiend they are. This was implemented to recover the costs of placing the children/family on the old TANF program-TEMPORARY assistance. 

 HOWEVER....

Title IV-D has now been perverted, through the federal financial incentives, to include virtually ALL parents who divorce.  A change in 1996, during the Clinton Administration, changed key wording from the "absent" parent to the "non-custodial" parent.  This opened the door for the states, and their county court judges to make a parent the non-custodial, and rake in the federal grants and incentive bonuses from the feds. 

Because of this greed, MILLIONS of parents, never on welfare rolls, have been forced from the lives of their child(ren) so their county and state can make a profit from that divorce and child custody fight.

Michigan alone collects MILLIONS of dollars yearly for this.  The average yearly total for the states collectively-4.2 BILLION dollars, plus incentives worth another $428 MILLION in 2006 alone.

All of that, to reward  the judges and other bureaucrats for removing a loving, capable, and fit parent from the lives of his or her children.

Of course, the NCP chosen is normally the one who can actually PAY the support-whomever has the larger paycheck is normally chosen.  Yes, the number of mother NCP's is increasing, as the average salary of American women increases.  The larger the support amounts, the more the states get in the financial incentives. The more divorcing  parents they can indoctrinate into the system, the more they collect, and on, and on, and on.....

So, it matters not to the judges who can actually support the children after a divorce-their chosen and anointed one will be handed what (s)he needs, so factor (c) can be awarded to her (usually), just as in my personal case.

A Father Of Two.

Think Michigan Child Custody Determinations Are Fair?  Think again!

Michigan Best Interests of the Child: "The Capacity and Disposition....to give the child love, affection, and guidance....

Continuing with the "best interests of the child" criteria in Michigan law, the second factor, or factor (b) reads: "the capacity and disposition of the parties involved to give the child love, affection, and guidance and to continue the education and raising of the child in his or her religion or creed, if any".

Capacity is defined as "the ability to perform or produce", while disposition is defined as "the power or ability to control, direct, dispose", or "one's usual mood temperament".

An average person would likely read this to mean that, in the parent under question, their usual "temperament" would be to show to their child love, affection, and give them proper guidance.  Sounds good, doesn't it?

The problem is, attorneys and judges can twist this to their own liking.  The average custody hearing lasts less than one hour of actual litigating and testimony.  In that time, the judge will hear false accusations and misleading allegations mixed in with some of the truths.  The attorneys and judges DON'T know you or your kids, and they don't want to.  They want to rush you through the system, with the usual predetermined results.  More on all of that yet to come.

Referring back to my personal matter-if anyone could have seen the looks on the faces of my daughters, after their school musical, when they saw the blank, uninterested look on their mom's face.  Her body language, and her words, expressed that she could not care less what, or how, they performed in the musical.

I believe that it is essential to promote a child's feeling of self-esteem, and build up their self-confidence.  My daughters were literally bouncing off the walls and jumping for joy after their performance, and after my words of praise for them.  Within seconds of being back with their mom, their feet shuffled, and the glee was gone.

The judge in our case figured my ex-wife, and myself, "equals" as far as factor (b) is concerned.

A Father of Two

Think Michigan Child Custody Determinations Are Fair?  Think again!

Michigan's "Best Interests of the Child"; Factors Eight & Nine.

     On to factor (h), "the home, school, and community record of the child".  The only one of the three I have experienced personally so far is concerning my daughters' schooling.

     A little over three years ago, I managed to wrangle a change in my scheduled hours of employment, and I immediately motioned for a "change of parenting time", to spend more time with my daughters.  This was AFTER my oldest was held back, and repeated kindergarten.

     The first hearing, in front of the court referee, resulted in HER REPRIMANDING ME FOR NOT BEING INVOVLED, AND MY DAUGHTER BEING HELD BACK.  Now, keep in mind that it was THEIR ORDER that I NOT have enough time with my children to be involved and active enough with them to be able to effectively help with such things as homework and their education in general.  This  FEMALE referee is absolutely convinced that fathers are worthless, except  as a source of money, and the mom alone should have complete and full control, regardless of the consequences.

     Naturally I objected to her decision, and got in front of a real judge, who again, actually listened to the TRUTH and FACTS of the situation.  I was "granted" the additional time with my daughters.

     Please read that again....I was GRANTED the time with my daughters.  A fit, able, willing, college-educated  and employed father, and I was GIVEN the time by a judge who doesn't know me, my kids, has never met them, and likely never will. 

     Exactly when did judges become God??

     My youngest is likewise having severe difficulties this year.  A repeat of what ensued three years ago is on the horizon.

     Concerning factor (i), "the reasonable preference of the child, if the court considers the child to be of sufficient age to express preference", I have no personal experience as of yet.  From what I understand on this one, the child must be at least twelve, and when interviewed by the judge NO ONE else is allowed in chambers.  I also have learned that the judge will NOT state the  child's actual preference, leaving the door wide open for the family law court system to once again twist these factors whenever and however they please to reach the predetermined conclusion; a non-custodial father who is a visitor in the life of his child and a paycheck only, and a custodial mom who is handed full control of the children, regardless of the consequences. 

A Father Of Two.

The Mental and Physical Health of the Parties Involved

     Further commenting on Michigan's "best interests of the child" factors brings us to the seventh, or factor (g), "the mental and physical health of the parties involved".  This seems to be pretty much straightforward, providing the actual evidence, or better yet, an admission from one of the parties of ill health, is admitted.

     My personal feeling on this one is that the local FOC's investigation of "the relevant facts" here is lacking even the smallest of effort.  In my personal case, my ex-wife lost this factor, due to all of her emotional and mental demons.  The judge actually believed the admitted factual testimony here, but no thanks to the Friend of the Court investigator, who completely (and deliberately) failed to look at the "relevant facts" beforehand.

     All one has to do is to check ANY reputable source-the American Medical Association comes to mind-and look at the real numbers concerning the likelihood of how many moms verses how many dads suffer from emotional, mental, and physical ills.  The National Organization of Women (NOW) will love me for this, but look at the facts.  Just one special notation-women are several times more likely to suffer from depression than men are.  If you have ever lived with a spouse who refuses to deal with her depression issues, you are living in Hell itself.  Take my word for it.

     Women are simply NOT as healthy, mentally, or emotionally,  as men are.  Those are the facts, plain and simple. 

     Straightforward, but yet another of the "factors" that any FOC investigator and any judge will twist to their liking if given the opportunity. 

A Father of Two

The Moral Fitness Of The Parties Involved.

     Factor (f) of the 13 "best interests of the child" criteria as defined in Michigan law says a lot-"the moral fitness of the parties involved".  The problem is, as was true with my personal case, that the judges in many cases do NOT make a decision or ruling on this factor.  Many state they "are not qualified" to decide on this factor.

     Well, at least the judges seem to have gotten one thing right in all of this-how can someone who willingly and very frequently forgets and ignores THEIR OWN OATH OF OFFICE, swearing to uphold and abide by the Constitution of the United States and that of Michigan as well, be fit to decide on the moral fitness of a litigant appearing before him or her?  

     EVERY single time a Michigan family law judge makes a ruling other than joint physical custody, he/she is breaking and violating his/her personal oath of office. 

     Our Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution GUARANTEES parents the right to raise and provide for their children WITHOUT government intereference.

     So much for the judges being of moral or ethical correctness themselves!

     And, what would the ruling on the "moral fitness" of a parent who runs away on false pretenses, armed with only fabricated allegations and false accusations be, if one was actually made?  Why, mom would lose yet another of the "best interests" criteria, if the truth and the facts would be believed.

Father of Two.

The Permanence....of the exisiting or proposed custodial home or homes.

     Factor (e) of the "best interests of the child" criteria under Michigan law reads: "the permanence, as a family unit, of the existing or proposed custodial homes or homes."

     This factor is one in which dads routinely are given the shaft.  In my personal case, this one was figured equally, as I had managed to hang on the marital home, seeing as how the soon-to-be-ex had no claim to it, at all.  She hid in a shelter for about six weeks, and then found a subsidised (and filthy) apartment to rent.  Yet, that place was deemed a "custodial home".  After all, mom can't lose too many of the factors, or she loses the custody battle, and the county and the State of Michigan won't profit from this custody fight.....

     Here, though, if a dad has been tossed from the home, what is he to do for a "custodial home".  Depending on where he has been able to find a bed or a couch even, the biased judges will hold that against him in a flash. 

     We also need to look at the wording "as a family unit".  This is a no-brainer for the system-remove the dad, one way or another, and the "family unit" is mom and the kids, regardless of how loving, dedicated, and active the father was in the lives of his children.

     Heck, even if mom if moving the kids from shelter to apartment to grandma's and then to yet another apartment, that is still a good enough "custodial home" for a Michigan family law judge.

A Father of Two.

Michigan Best Interests of the Child: The love, affection, and other emotional ties existing between the parties involved and the child.....

Sounds nice, doesn't it? That sentence is from the MCL's-Michigan Compiled Law 722.23, which defines the "best Interests of the child" criteria, and is factor "a".  The twelve factors are what Michigan judges currently use, in a child custody case, to decide which parent will be the custodial and which will be the non-custodial.

Why am I writing about this? 

This was one of two factors I "lost" to my ex-wife in our child custody fight five years ago, when our county circuit court judge annointed her to be the best, and fit, parent to raise our only two children.  More on that yet to come.

A few days ago, my daughters participated in their elementary school's spring musical-the first for my first-grader, complete with butterflies and all.  My third-grader, now a veteran at these, took it all in stride.

About 500 folks were in the audience-proud parents, adoring grandparents, siblings, and others.  Quite a task for the youngsters to go out in front of, and sing for. First, the first and second graders took the stage, and following their twenty minute performance, the third, fourth and fifth graders had the stage for their 25 minutes.    After the performance, I went to the school's gymnasium to collect my two girls, where I gave both of them a big hug, a kiss on the cheek, and told them how proud I was of them.

We then went outside, where their mom was waiting for them.  The musical occurred on one of my "parenting time" evenings, the time of which ended during the performance.  Not only did she make no effort to go to the gymnasium and collect them, her only comment to them was, "I guess you did all right".  No hug.  No kiss.  No statement to our daughters of how proud she was of them.  Their maternal grandmother, who always tags along for everything, said and did absolutely nothing.

My point here is this.  Re-read the title to this post-factor "a" of the Michigan law concerning the "best interests of the child" factor.  You try to figure out why ANY impartial and non-biased judge would award that factor to a mom who acts this way towards her children.  No loving and fit parent tells her children "I guess you did all right" after a school performance, do they?

We''ll get much deeper into the facts of how this all works.  FOR THE COURTS, and AGAINST THE FAMILIES AND THEIR CHILDREN.

A Father of Two.

Think Michigan Child Custody Determinations Are Fair?  Think again!

Divorced Dads - To Date, or Not To Date? That Is The Question.

Most everyone seems to have a difficult time getting back into the "dating game" after a divorce.  For those dads among us who have taken an active role in fighting the abuses of the family law court system pertaining to child custody post-divorce, this is even more of a challenge.

The reality of this country is this:  most women seem to resent fathers who want their children-to these dads,  their kids come first, as they should.

From my personal experiences, women, particularly those who are divorced, seem to be looking for one or more of the following:

1.  Mr Movie Star.  The guy had to be physically attractive to get their time of day, or else forget it.

2.  Mr. Moneybags. The guy has to have loads of money to spend on her, or else forget it.

3.  Mr. Pursuit.  This guy has to "chase" the woman.  For some idiotic reason, far too many women seem to feel that they must be "pursued".  Good luck with that, ladies.

I will take my hat off to those of you who failed at the first marriage attempt, and have somehow managed to find "the right one" this time, hopefully, and try it again.  I hope it works out for all of you.

In reality, re-marriage seems to happen fairly quickly, within a couple of years, or not at all.  

Personally, I have been told by several prospective girlfriends that they and their kids would come first, and "to heck" with mine.  I have also been told, by more than one, that she could not possibly stand to have a boyfriend who actually wanted`his' kids at home with him.

In my humble opinion, women, those in Michigan in particular, have a serious attitude problem when it comes to looking for men.  Most men will not fall into one of the three categories above-leaving most people single, which is not a bad thing, but is far from what most of us desire. 

Mr. "average man" has little, if any, chance out there today.  And, if he happens to advocate against the abuses committed by our family courts, he may as well hang it up.  I speak with other father advocates who relay the same message to me-they have given up on dating, much less on ever finding a compatible lady to spend their life with.

It seems to me that if this "forced perception" of divorced fathers was brought back to into the realm of reality, that we all would be much better off. This perception is inflicted upon us all by today's media and the courts themselves.

America, this needs to change.

A Father Of Two

Recommended Reading:

Dating for Dads: The Single Father's Guide to Dating Well Without Parenting Poorly

Robert Pedersen Interviewed on KLT 98.9FM Regarding Michigan's Child Custody Laws

Robert Pedersen was interviewed last week on the Omlette and Finster Show on KLT 98.9 FM regarding the current state of child custody and child support laws in Michigan.   Title IV-D federal incentives were discussed in great detail. 

The website for A Child's Right received a huge traffic spike after the interview concluded.  Equal Parenting advocates should always seek media opportunities to get our message out in public.

Special thanks to Omlette and Finster for this opportunity!

Angelo Lobo, Director of Support? System Down, interviewed on Get Your Justice Live

Angelo Lobo, Director/Producer of the documentary film "Support? System Down", interviewed by Lary Holland on the popular talkshow "Get Your Justice Live".  Robert Pedersen chimes in with his support of this effort.  An excellent interview on this show! 

Listen and find out why Director/Producer Angelo Lobo is so passionate about this film.  Be sure to also watch the four trailers for this shocking documentary film.

Download below and Listen Now!  (Take 20 seconds to download on highspeed internet)

Download AngeloLobo on "Get Your Justice Live!"

It is very important that you help support the success of this documentary film.  Without your support this movie will not reach national distribution - PLEASE PURCHASE THE SNEAK PEEK DVD NOW.  Buying the sneak peek allows you to deduct the cost when the final distribution cut is available.  Do you want this documentary film to make it to the mainstream?  If so buy it now!

Special thanks to Lary Holland for his support of this film.  Visit "Get Your Justice Live" to view previous shows.

Mothers Who Kill Their Children

Why Mothers Kill - A Forensic Psychologist's Casebook

61% of all child abuse is committed by biological mothers.
25% of all child abuse is committed by biological fathers.

(Statistical Source: Current DHHS report on nationwide Child Abuse)

Mother Kills Newborn by Microwaving

Mother Attempts to Flush Newborn Down the Tiolet

Mother Stabs, Posions and Drowns Her Three Children

Mother drinks St. Ides beers and watches television - as her son slowly bled to death in the lesbian couple’s bed

Police Find Remains of Three Newborns - Mother Set Free

Mother Kills Three Children by Dousing With Gasoline and Sets on Fire

Mother Kills 7 Week Old Son in 1999 and Later Kills 9 Week Old Son in 2002

Mother Burns and Dismembers Newborn Son

Mother States Trouble Breast-Feeding and Places Twins Underwater

Mother Leaves Newborn in Trunk of Car to Suffocate

Mother Chokes Newborn to Death

Mother Kills Daughter Over Homework

Mother Kills Two Children and Places in Freezer

Mother Kills Newborn with Heroin and Methadone Tainted Breast Milk

Mother Suffocates Newborn to "Save Her Marriage"

Newborn's Death Was Third Murdered in Three Years by Mother

Mother Drowns Newborn to Hide Pregnancy From Husband

Mother Kills One Month Old Daughter

Police Say Mother Killed Newborn - Grandmother urged mother to dump newborn in trash

Mother Drowns 4 Month Old in Bathtub

Mother Kills Newborn and Only Receives Six Years Prison

Mother Kills Newborn with Plastic Garbage Bag

Mother Kills Newborn in Bathroom Stall - Only has to serve three years prison time

Mother Kills Newborn and Places in Trash

Mother Gives Birth in Woods and Leaves on Trail to Die

Mother Crushed Two Sons Skulls With Rocks on Mother's Day Weekend

Mother Charged with First-Degree Murder of 12 Year Old Daughter

Mother Kills Newborn by Leaving in a Box Near Trash Dumpster

Mother Kills Newborn With Her Thong Underwear

Mother Kills 4 Year Old Autistic Daughter

Hit Squad Hired to Kill 6 Month Old Son

Mother Tosses Son From Highway Overpass

Mother Drowned Her Newborn to Hide Pregnancy From Husband

Mother Planned and Killed Her Two Children

Mother Charged With Killing Son and Attempting to Kill His Twin

Mother Left Son in Car Trunk to Suffocate

Mother Places Son in Trash

Mother Strangles Son to Death - Serves Only Three Years

Mother Places Son at Bottom of Quarry

Mother Kills Daughter and Places in Local Landfill

Mother Runs 11 Year Old Son Over With SUV

Mother Slits Neck of Her Six Year Old Son

Mother Systematically Kills Her Five Children

Mother Shoots and Kills Her Three Sons

Mother Kills Child and Heads to Bar

Mother Kills Autistic Daughter

Equal Parenting Cometh to the 27 Mile Iceman Cometh Mountain Bike Race

A Child's Right members are excited to spread awareness of the benefits of Equal Parenting at the upcoming November 7, 2009 Iceman Cometh Challenge Mountain Bike Race.  Members will not only be racing, but they will be spreading equal parenting awareness throughout this event.  Special brochures are being made for this event and our mountain bikers will be wearing custom made Equal Parenting Thermal Jerseys.

This race will be rather easy for those cyclists who participated in the 758 mile Equal Parenting Bike Trek.  The weather is always unpredictable at this time of year in Michigan.  The Iceman Cometh starts in Kalkaska, Michigan and ends 27 miles later in Traverse City, Michigan.  Below is a picture of the Iceman Cometh map which cuts through the Pere Marquette State Forest.

If you would like to volunteer and help spread awareness at this event please email Executive Director Darrick Scott-Farnsworth.  Support Equal Parenting and already registered for this event?  Join us at this event by contacting the email address noted above.  Look for updates in October 2009 at Cycling4Children.com

Did you know that the state of Michigan PROFITS every time it CREATES a non-custodial parent?  Find out more about Title IV-D federal incentives.

Do you think child custody evaluations are fair in Michigan?  Michigan Friend of the Court worker blows the whistle on the corrupt nature of Michigan family courts.

Protein Wisdom, A Very Popular News Blog, Covers Documentary "Support? System Down"

Obviously we are thrilled that Protein Wisdom decided to post an article about the upcoming documentary "Support?  System Down"!  Thousands of Protein Wisdom's readers will be exposed to the brutal family court system here in America and how it is clearly profit driven under Title IV-D.

If you do not read Protein Wisdom on a daily basis you should visit a few days in a row and you will be hooked.  It is witty, funny, informative and the topics are numerous enough to capture your attention.  Really - you just have to admire the writing at Protein Wisdom!

If you don't think family courts are profit driven and make horrible decisions regarding our children just watch this:

BE SURE TO BUY A COPY OF THE SNEAK PEEK FOR SUPPORT? SYSTEM DOWN. YOU WILL RECEIVE ADDITIONAL MONEY OFF WHEN THE FINAL CUT IS LAUNCHED. ENTER childright FOR AN ADDITIONAL $2.00 OFF.

"Support? System Down" - Documentary to Expose Corruption in America's Family Courts. Ron Paul Activists Must Read!

Government has come into our homes and taken control of our families.  Worst yet the government has attacked the liberty interests of parents in the "care, custody, and control of their children." 

Angelo Lobo, director/producer of Support? System Down, has experienced this first-hand and describes this as a basic human rights issue and an attack on liberties provided by the Constitution!

Defenders of the Constitution, Libertarians, Ron Paul and Campaign for Liberty activists - PLEASE READ CLOSELY!

Ron Paul and Campaign for Liberty activists should be all over this one!!  The first step in destroying a liberty based society is to weaken the family unit.      Read Common Sense Revisited and you will understand my point better.   

I am surprised that the Ron Paul and Campaign for Liberty folks have not picked up on how POWERFUL it would be to point out that the systematic attack on the American family is step one in reducing liberties in a free society.  Let's just hope they see this post and incorporate this in their messaging.

Justice O'Connor, speaking for the Court in Troxel v. Granville, 527 U.S. 1069 (1999):

"The Fourteenth Amendment provides that no State shall 'deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law.' We have long recognized that the Amendment's Due Process Clause like its Fifth Amendment counterpart, 'guarantees more than fair process.' The Clause includes a substantive component that 'provides heightened protection against governmental interference with certain fundamental rights and liberty interest" and "the liberty interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children-is perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interest recognized by this Court."

One of the best tools to expose the corruption of America's family courts and the attack on the American family is an upcoming documentary titled "Support?  System Down.  Most educated people are not aware of the fact that family courts PROFIT by creating a non-custodial parent after a divorce.  They also profit by setting child support at the highest possible level; even if it destroys the non-custodial parent.  Learn the shocking truth of Title IV-D and how the profit-motivated family court systems are attacking our fundamental liberties, our families and the constitution. 

Support?  System Down is a high quality, shocking documentary which outlines the attack on families, liberties, and the Constitution.  Please review the incredible quality of this movie by viewing the four trailers .  My personal favorites are "It's About The Kids" and "Corruption".

Ron Paul, Campaign for Liberty, Equal Parenting and Family Court Reform activists should place their support behind this powerful documentary.  The Director/Producer of Support?  System Down needs to raise additional funds to mass produce the final cut on DVD. 

This can only by done by: 

1) Buying the Sneak Peek DVD or an awesome looking T-Shirt

2) Making a donation at the documentary's website. 

By helping in these two ways, you can help bring this documentary movie onto a mass produced DVD.  It is vital to get this message out to the public and Support?  System Down is a powerful way to do just that.

Buy the Sneak Peek DVD now and be sure to enter the code childright at checkout for two dollars off!  Mail a copy to your elected officials, a judge, a child custody caseworker, your local child support office, etc.

**Ron Paul, Equal Parenting, Campaign for Liberty and Family Court Reform activists please forward this blog post to all that you know.  Even better -  blog about Support?  System Down and link to this post with the two dollars off code**

 

 

 

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Michigan Republican Precinct Delegates - Please Support Jack Hoogendyk for Republican Party Chair

Michigan Republicans were placed on life support after the 2008 November election.  The losses were BEYOND significant.  This wave of party destruction could change significantly if Michigan Republican Precinct Delegates support Jack Hoogendyk for Republican Party Chairman.

Many Republicans at both the state and federal level feel that they no longer have a party to call home.  Ron Paul Republicans look at the Republican Party and wonder how the train wreck occurred over and over again to the core principles that the Republican Party once stood for.

Don't dismiss the significance of Ron Paul Republicans in Michigan!  Ron Paul received 54,475 votes even beating media darlings Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuilani.  In fact, ALMOST beating them both in combined votes.  The Michigan Ron Paul Republicans numbers have further increased since the launch of Campaign for Liberty in Michigan and across the country.  Keep in mind that many NEW Republicans joined the party just to vote for Ron Paul. 

There are growing reports of MANY Ron Paul supporting Republican Precinct Delegates making the decision to support Jack Hoogendyk for Party Chair in Michigan.  This is excellent news and I would ask for their continued support of Jack Hoogendyk.

In comes Jack...

Jack Hoogendyk will truly help unite a Michigan Republican Party.  Jack will  draw support of Republicans across the political spectrum and create the positive change needed for victory in Michigan.  If you review Jack's voting record it will become clear that he will bring the Michigan Republican Party back to it's core conservative principles, which is precisely how success will begin.

I also strongly believe that Jack Hoogendyk will create the same type of passion and excitement that Ron Paul did for this party.  People loved voting for Jack Hoogendyk as state representative because he was not "wishy-washy" or a Republican in name only (RHINO).  You knew where he stands and where he will take this party. 

For example, Jack Hoogendyk was a strong supporter of Michigan House Bill 4564 and did not waiver on his support of equal parenting for fit and willing parents.  To hear Jack speak about HB4564 was truly an exciting experience - his message was simple - to NOT support equal parenting for fit and willing parents is wrong for BOTH parents - BUT MOST OF ALL WRONG FOR THE CHILDREN.  Zero wavering - his position clearly defined in a way anyone could understand.

This is really what Michigan Republicans need to win big once again.  All to often, you hear people state that it is becoming difficult to differentiate between Republicans and Democrats in Michigan. 

So Michigan Republican Precinct Delegates I urge you to support Jack Hoogendyk for Michigan Republican Party Chair.  Visit Jack Hoogendyk's website and voice your support.  Be sure to also visit his blog Core Principles which has been excellent to date.

Let Jack Hoogendyk bring ALL Michigan Republicans together to create passion, excitement and most of all VICTORY!  The economy in Michigan will most likely become even more challenging than it is currently.  EVERY REPUBLICAN needs to understand the changes needed to connect with voters.  These changes and core values are clearly defined in this youtube video.  This is a must see video all the way to the end.  I pray that Michigan Republicans will support Jack Hoogendyk and also LEARN from the wisdom of Ron Paul as documented in the above video.

Fireproof The Movie - Must See Movie for Couples - Stay Out of Family Court

Truly one of the best films we have seen in some time! MUST SEE! Fireproof The Movie is an excellent film about a couple struggling with the possibility of divorce. An inspirational film for all couples to see.

Fireproof your marriage and stay out of the hell known as family court. An excellent point on this movie - it does NOT place blame on just men like so many mainstream movies, it truly does review both sides husband and wife.

One of the greatest threats to marriages that this movie fails to point out is Title IV-D.  However, it makes sense that this was not mentioned because the couple in the story do not have children.

Fireproof - The Movie has already made movie history. Only five times before Fireproof came along had a movie been made on a budget of $500,000 and grossed over $30 million! Proof that Hollywood is missing a serious niche that audiences are demanding.

EXCELLENT film - See it NOW before it leaves the theaters. Below you can click on various tabs to learn more about the movie Fireproof. Be sure to click on "Watch Trailer" below. If you have seen this movie please comment below and tell our readers what you thought of it.

Tis The Season - Holiday Food Drives

  Hello Parents!

Just a note to remind all of you-many schools have food drives going on this time of year.  Even though times are tough for all of us, please do what you can to help these collection drives be successful.

Please remember-families just like yours are having problems putting a proper meal on the table, and many children are not getting enough of the right foods to eat.

The family you help out may be one just down the street-dad may have lost his job due to a layoff or a downsize, and mom may be working part-time still, to try to pay some bills.....

Being a divorced, non-custodial dad, and still unmarried, I am the sole bread winner for myself and my two daughters.  I still managed to get a reasonable bag of canned and non-perishable foods for each of my daughters to add to their class' collection for the schools food drive.

Can you help too?

A FATHER OF TWO

Another way you can help? 

Educate yourself with the destructive nature of family court systems by reading Taken Into Custody by Dr. Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D.  Read this, pass it on and tell at least two people a day about what you learned.

Consequences Of "The System" - Family Court

Many people have a system for something-they can have one at work, or at home.  It likely helps them accomplish some sort of task.

However, bureaucracy also has its systems.  Government bureaucracy, and even other bureaucratic types have their systems. Some are merely annoying. Some can be debilitating, some can be dangerous, while others can be devastating.

Allow me to offer a comparison of how two "systems" can cause harm.

I am a University of Michigan Wolverine football fan. This year, their new coach, Rich Rodriquez, has the Wolverines running what is called a "spread offense", which differs from that the team is used to running, and what the athletes were recruited to run.

This year, the Wolverines have a 3-8 record, with one game remaining.  The Michigan Wolverines have the best record in the history of NCAA football, but their program is in chaos because of Rodriguez' "system".   This season, they have the worst record in their history, and their record streak of 32 straight years with a bowl game birth has been snapped. He could, and should have been coaching a "traditional" offense, so the athletes could have been successful.  Not this coach.  It was his "system" or nothing-the record does not matter to him.  His athletes are demoralized, and play like it.  To this type of bureaucrat, the end result means nothing, as long as he is in charge, and everyone is doing things the way he wants, regardless of the consequences.

Of course, until this coach is fired, which will likely come soon, I hope!!

Michigan's bureaucrats have another "system", the family law court system. 

What can be more devastating to the state of Michigan than destroying its families and tearing children from their parents?  On top of that, Michigan is PAID to do it, by the federal government.

The result here-federal incentives under Social Security Title IV-D, totalling BILLIONS of dollars are paid to each state, to forcibly remove a child from the life of one of his or her parents simply because the parents divorce.

After all, the bureaucrats only care about the system, and those it benefits.

They don't care about the system's victims.

All of the bureaucrats responsible for the continuance of Michigan's family law court system cannot be fired.  Sure, you can vote many, or even most of them out of office, but their replacements will do the same things, resulting in the same devastation of our families and the lives of our children.

Changing the laws, and prohibiting the bureaucrats from continuing this is the only way to stop it.

EVERY DAY in Michigan, more children are forcibly removed from one of their parent's lives, and your elected officials only care about the federal dollars that roll in as their reward, and that the system continues to operate as it is.....

A FATHER OF TWO

Have you joined the Campaign for Liberty?

Obama Fund Fatherhood Now

Now that the Democrats are running DC and most of Lansing we need
to begin to communicate the need for DHS/CAPTA/VAWA/Title IV legislative
change. Looking at what has been proposed during the election we must
strike quickly to get our reform message in their ears. Obama's message of the
need for fathers and families needs to be directed towards legislative
changes that actually encourage the states to keep families intact and both
parents significantly involved with their children.
 

Here is Obama's site let him know what you think:

 

http://www.change.gov/page/s/yourvision/

 

 There is funding available and a drive by President Elect Obama to influence fatherhood so let's get busy.

 

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s1626/text

 

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

 

Congress makes the following findings:

 

(1) The most important factor in a child's upbringing is whether the
child is brought up in a loving, healthy, supportive environment.

 

(2) Children who grow up with two parents are, on average, more likely
than their peers in single-parent homes to finish high school and be
economically self-sufficient.

 

(3) Father-child interaction, like mother-child interaction, has been
shown to promote the positive physical, social, emotional, and mental
development of children.

 

SEC. 107. STATE ASSESSMENTS OF BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT AND FINANCIAL
SUPPORT OF CHILDREN.

 

(a) State Assessments and Reports- As a condition of the continued
approval of a State plan under part D of title IV of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 651 et seq.), each State with an approved such plan,
acting through the appropriate State agencies, shall assess the State
policies with respect to the issues described in subsection (b) and
submit a report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the
results of such assessment not later than March 15, 2008.

 

(b) (5) Identification of any other barriers to healthy family formation
or sustainable economic opportunity for custodial and noncustodial
parents that are created or exacerbated by Federal or State laws,
policies, or procedures, including an examination of the rules of
Federal and State means-tested programs, the operation of the State
workforce system, the availability of financial education services, and
the availability of domestic violence services and child support
procedures to help victims of domestic violence stay safe and obtain the
child support they are owed.

 

(c) Grants to States for Commissions on State Law Improvements in the
Best Interest of Children and Families- The Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall award grants to States to establish or support
commissions to review the State assessment conducted in accordance with
subsection (a) and to make recommendations on ways to improve State law
in the best interest of children and families.

 

Make sure that the Obama administration puts the money where their mouths are.

 

"The federal government spends $99.8 billion dollars every year on
programs - such as child support enforcement and anti-poverty efforts -
that support father-absent homes"

 

https://www.fatherhood.org/research.asp

 

Darrick Scott-Farnsworth

Executive Director A Child's Right

www.achildsright.org

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Marc H. Rudov - Thou Shall Not Disappoint Her

An excellent article, by Marc H. Rudov, that I wanted to share with everyone.  "Thou Shall Not Disappont Her" is a must read article.  One important point to mention is that women seek 70% of ALL marriage dissolutions, motivated in part by the Title IV-D pot waiting on the other side of family court.

Have you read The Revolution by Ron Paul? 

OCKHAM’S RAZOR: A HERMENEUTIC OF TRUTH

Aristotle.  Socrates.  Plato.  Twenty-five hundred plus years is no small amount of history as the foundation for today’s discussion. The three men profiled arguably founded, not only Greek Classical Thought, but also paved the way for thinking in cultures and peoples stretching beyond Europe, Africa and Asia to also Australia, North and South Americas; from as early as 500 BC to the current twenty-first century AD. That forms of thinking- “knowing of what?”- have segregated into various schools of logic remain today is a testament to the brilliance of these three individuals.

The scientific study of interpretation, relegated to its sovereign- truth, is called hermeneutics. Logic is the path to truth, with its vehicle being hermeneutics. The hermeneutic called Ockham’s Razor is the subject for today’s dissection!

Ockham’s Razor has been employed in many contexts with subsequent definitions appropriately affixed. Our working definition will remain as it applies to the law, most especially your case and mine! Our working definition is: "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." Now let’s set our parameters.

Dominative Narrative:

In law, we often refer to the story as the dominative narrative, which contains as its underpinning the paradigm. This is simply understood in the following example:

Sally and Tom get a divorce. Sally and Tom have three children. Sally and Tom decide upon day care arrangements at XYZ Daycare for their children. XYZ Daycare charges $100/ week per child. Sally and Tom split the costs, despite Sally having greater use, as a result of her being the custodial parent and her having greater parenting time with said children.

Subsequently, after five years, both Sally and Tom become re-married, with each having an additional child. Ironically, both newborns are born only months apart. Additionally, as a result of much court battling, Tom is able to achieve a virtual 50/50 split in the parenting time of the jointly shared children. Both families continue to function, utilizing XYZ Daycare, as both new moms prepare to re-enter the work force. Soon thereafter, Sally’s new husband takes a job promotion and this necessitates Sally and her new hubby to move. The move creates a great distance, too prohibitive for Sally to continue to use XYZ Daycare. As such, she decides, with a newborn now a variable in her considerations, to hire a household employee at $500/ week flat rate to care for both joint children and her newborn. After moving, she informs Tom that she no longer will use the monies, she collects from Tom, to pay XYZ Daycare. Rather, she will utilize said monies to pay the new household employee at her home and that Tom will necessarily need to contribute more to Sally for the additional costs, now $500/ week. This now leaves Tom paying in full any costs that he has at XYZ Daycare when he has the joint children. Sally does not even consider that Tom, himself, has a newborn to plan into his equation.

Sally’s dominative narrative echoes her needs as custodial parent. Her paradigm is that of a victim- custodial mother with children at the mercy of a presumptive deadbeat dad who does not want to care for his children’s expenses.

Tom, who is financially broke, without council for assistance, turns to his local parental rights group for advice and proceeds to Court in Pro Se, armed with Ockham’s Razor, to defeat this injustice. Tom waits for his turn to speak, before the judge, and states the following:

“Sally has proffered a false paradigm of herself as a victim, in order to leverage this Court into granting an unfair award for day care expenses. The true paradigm is rather that Sally has herself chosen not in the best interest of our children and she is unwilling to provide her fair share for our children’s care while victimizing both their father and our children. Here are the facts judge!

The New Narrative:

“Sally moved without my knowledge until after the move was completed, so that her new husband could increase his income. Sally’s move re-located our children many miles away from their actively involved father who virtually has a 50/50 parenting time split with their mother. Sally then chose, not a day care equal to what has always been an acceptable day care for our children, but rather, she chose an improved style of care- nanny, with nanny’s subsequent cost increase, which serves not necessarily the best interest of our children, but rather serves Sally and her new hubby’s best interest. Even more so, Sally has wrongly included the cost for her newborn into the equation, while eliminating my costs still accruing for our children when they are with me; she has not considered the inherent increase of my travelling costs due to her moving; and, she has not added the known costs for day care associated with my newborn, if we are to compare both sides equally.

“Sally’s paradigm is false because according to Ockham’s Razor, ‘the answer that explains all of the facts in the simplest terms is the truth!’ Sally has censored many of the facts. Along with, she has insisted the facts she wants the Court to consider should be interpreted through her supplied paradigm as a victim of me, and as a mother with custody. The truth is found in all the facts explained by the simplest statement. Sally has chosen not in the best interest of our children and she has chosen to increase costs for the care of our children in order to extract greater amounts of money from me.

“This is shown by: She has chosen to distance our children from their father and she has increased, unnecessarily, the cost of our children’s day care through moving by creating the need for two day care arrangements and through hiring a nanny, a more expensive form of day care. On top of that, Sally has found that the additional costs associated with her newborn, that I am not the father of, should be shared by me, while the costs associated with my new born should not be equally shared by her. This, while she completely ignores the remaining costs associated with our children’s day care when they are with me and the increased cost of travelling expenses incurred by me due to Sally’s moving for her husband’s job promotion.

The New Paradigm:

Therefore your Honor, the new paradigm, according to Ockham’s Razor is that Sally operates according to her own self-interest which is towards the increase of her financial status at both the financial and emotional expenses of our children and of their father. I ask that the Court input day care costs at the fixed rate of XYZ Daycare. That Sally and I share these costs now almost twice as much as they used to be. That, neither her newborn, nor my newborn, should be considered in the computation of costs. That Sally re-imburse me half of the costs associated with my additional travels for her moving. And, Orally, I Motion this Court to find a change in circumstances under the MI Custody Act (MCL 722.21 Et, seq.) and Order a hearing in order to determine the Best Interest of our Children!

- William of Ockman

 Big Daddy

Shared Parenting By Default

Excellent article by Dr. Malcom Hatfield, M.D. on the deadly Racine County Family Court in Wisconsin.  A very appropriate recommendation of Alec Baldwin's A Promise to Ourselves.

Wife Kills Husband and Feeds Him to Children

A woman jailed for life for stabbing her de facto husband 37 times, skinning him and cooking his body parts as a meal for his children has lost an appeal against the severity of her sentence.

Knight stabbed 44-year-old Mr Price 37 times with a butcher's knife before skinning him and hanging his hide from a meat hook in their lounge room on February 29, 2000.

She then decapitated him and put his head in a pot on the stove, baked flesh from his buttocks and cooked vegetables and gravy as side dishes to serve to Mr Price's children.

Husband Cooker Full Story

When things as horrible as this happen in real life, how can women find a book like the one noted below as being funny?  If the genders were switched would everyone find it to be so amusing?

How to Kill Your Husband:  A Killer Cookbook

Why is kicking a man in the privates portrayed as being funny on TV?  Why do men get slapped on TV shows and most people think nothing of it?

Higher IQ by Spending Time With Father

The findings, published in the journal Evolution and Human Behaviour, show that those children whose fathers spent more time with them had a higher IQ and were more socially mobile than those who had received little attention.

PARENTAL RIGHTS Activist Labeled A "Woman Hater"

Yes, it's true.

A couple of days ago, a female co-worker called me a "woman hater".

Never mind the fact that I have spoken with her on several occasions about the subject of EQUAL PARENTING, and pending Michigan legislation that would mandate our family courts to order joint physical custody.

This particular co-worker is a divorced woman herself, and was a custodial mother.  I have never heard her admit if or how she may have benefitted from the system. Previously, she had always seemed in agreement to the points I made in our talks.

Somehow, my volunteer work as an advocate and activist for father and parental rights has one female co-worker labeling me as a woman hater.

Actually, this is about the tenth time I have been called a "woman hater", right to my face, at my workplace.

This is a prime example of the gender-bias that DOES exist in America, when the subjects of EQUAL PARENTING  or JOINT CUSTODY enter a discussion.

This is a prime example of the ignorance of the American public.  A website for non-custodial mothers, the National Association of Non-Custodial Moms, Inc. , states there are about 2.2 MILLION non-custodial mothers in the US.  A couple of months ago, I heard a new statistic that stated there were just under FOUR MILLION non-custodial mothers in the US.

Whatever the true number, American women need to acknowledge the facts here, and realize that, just because most of us are men, we are advocating for PARENTAL RIGHTS. There are many women in our activist ranks also, step-mothers, non-custodial moms, and others.  Parents still do come in both genders, in spite of how the family courts treat one-half of a divorcing couple with children in this country.

It is far past time that PARENTS are treated like PARENTS, regardless of their gender.

When the truth is told, very few of my female co-workers like to hear anything of EQUAL PARENTING or JOINT CUSTODY.

Ladies, why is this??

And, by the way, my advocacy work has also earned me the "titles" of fanatic, lunatic, and chauvenist at my workplace also, with most of the comments made behind my back, but some made right to my face.

Ladies, what's up with the name calling, when I am working for PARENTS and their children?

Do you not want children raised by BOTH fit, willing, and able parents?

A Father Of Two.

Benefits of Equal Parenting

Welfare for the Affluent 

State of Tennessee sued for seeking child support from wrong man

State of Tennessee sued for seeking child support from wrong man

Illinois resident Joshua Brown is suing the state of Tennessee for sending him a notice indicating he had a child in Tennessee with a female other than his wife.

Brown claims the state sent him a non-custodial parent delinquency notice on March 26 indicating he was responsible for past due child support.

"The Notice was discovered by his wife," states the complaint filed Oct. 7 in St. Clair County Circuit Court. "Mr. Brown's parents and in-laws learned of the Notice from his wife and also inquired."

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Learn more about Title IV-D corruption

Angelo Lobo, Producer/Director of Support? System Down, on the radio show Liberal Arts with Marc Sutton

Angelo Lobo was recently on the radio show Liberal Arts with Mark Sutton discussing his documentary film Support? System Down.  Following is the radio interview:

Watch the four trailers to this incredible film documenting the family court system in America.

Fathers4Justice visit Ohio Governor requesting an investigation into family court corruption and gender bias.

Members of Fathers4Justice in Ohio visit their statehouse requesting an investigation into family court corruption and gender bias. This is something that needs to occur nationwide!

Joint custody awarded to same-sex partner

"To discriminate further against Ms. Kulstad because of her sexual preference in this day and age is no different than telling a person to go to the back of the bus because of her skin color," Judge Ed McLean wrote.

Why are fathers still being told to get in the back of the bus when it comes to child custody determinations?  According to Dr. Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D., author of Taken Into Custody, roughly 80% of sole custody awards are given to mothers nationwide.  When will the gender bias in America's family courts end?

More on this story can be found at Jeanne M. Hannah's excellent blog titled, "Updates in Michigan Family Law"

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Be sure to review "Shared Parenting:  Facts and Fiction" by Dr. Linda Nielsen - Professor of Women's Studies Wake Forest University.

Tell others about the documentary on America's family court systems, "Support?  System Down" is making waves all across the U.S.

Thanks for reading DaddyBlogger.com

Angela

Dr. Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D. Speaks About the 2008 Presidential Election and the impact on Families and Fatherhood

Dr. Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D., author of Taken Into Custody, was in Okemos Michigan recently and spoke at the Battle of Ideas which is produced by John Mangopoulos.  John produces an incredible show!

In the video below Murray B. Davis, President of the National Family Justice Association, asks a question to Dr. Stephen Baskerville about the 2008 Presidential Election and the potential effects on families.  Keep this in mind about Barack Obama, which is not mentioned in the video below.  Barack Obama is the main sponsor for the Responsible Fatherhood Act and the contents of this bill makes it clear that Barack Obama is not good for fathers in America.  In this bill he mentions child support 65 times, but NOT ONCE does he mention parenting time, custody, visitation, or access denial.  There is much more to being a father than just paying your child support!  All this bill does is further stereotype all fathers as deadbeats.  Phyllis Schlafly discusses this.  Honestly, I am not thrilled over either one of our choices this year for President.

If you have not purchased a copy of Taken Into Custody, please do so now and you will have something eye-opening to read.  This is one of the best researched books I have read in a long time and includes over 47 pages of research reference notes.  Here is the Amazon.com description of Taken Into Custody:

Why is the American family in crisis? Taken Into Custody argues that the most direct cause is the divorce industry: a government-run system that tears apart families, separates children from fit and loving parents, confiscates the wealth of families, and turns law-abiding citizens into criminals in ways they are powerless to avoid.

Taken Into Custody explores:

Why the "deadbeat dad" is not only a myth but a hoax, the creation of government officials and lawyers who plunder parents whose children they have taken away.

How hysterical propaganda about domestic violence is destroying families, endangering children, and making criminals of innocent parents.

The real causes of child abuse and how the abuse industry willfully ignores them
What drives the rash of "parental kidnappings".

How family courts operate as if there is no Bill of Rights, denying parents their constitutional legal protections

Taken Into Custody exposes the greatest and most destructive civil rights abuse in America today. Family courts and Soviet-style bureaucracies trample basic civil liberties, entering homes uninvited and taking away people's children at will, then throwing the parents into jail without any form of due process, much less a trial. No parent, no child, no family in America is safe.

Non-custodial Parents - How YOU Can Become Involved?

Every blog post, guest opinion and letter to the editor written by parental advocates bring the same request: "HELP ME." The request that should be asked is: "I want to become involved in this fight.  My family and my children and I have been wronged by Michigan's family law court system.  I want this abuse to stop, and I want to help."

EVERYONE is either personally affected by this judicial abuse, or has a relative, friend, neighbor, or co-worker who is. If you do not, you are in a very small minority.

What can you do to become involved in this struggle?

Become ACTIVE and INVOLVED.  How?

FIRST- TELL TWO PEOPLE, EVERY SINGLE DAY, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOU, YOUR CHILDREN, AND YOUR FAMILY. Tell this to your family members, friends, neighbors, and co-workers.

SECOND-WRITE YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS.  Start with your state representative, state senator, and the governor.  Do NOT just email or call them.  WRITE them an actual letter, and KEEP WRITING them, even after you have received any reply.  You can then move on to your county commissioner.  Do NOT give up after one or two letters.  Be PERSISTANT, and DEMAND answers as to why the abuses continue.

THIRD-WRITE YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER, TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS.  Tell them the abuses inflicted upon your family, your children, and yourself by our family law court system.  Ask them to investigate and report the abuse.  Again, BE PERSISTANT!!

FOURTH-WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR of your local newspaper.  Make public the abuses inflicted upon your family and yourself.  Once you have a letter printed, use it as a building block, and continue writing them.

WHAT SHOULD YOU TELL AND WRITE ALL OF THESE PEOPLE ABOUT?

1. Michigan's family law court system is inflicting child abuse daily by removing a loving, fit, able, and willing parent from the lives of his or her children.

2.  Under the financial rewards and incentives of Social Security Title IV-D, every state receives MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to strip parents from the life of their children. These taxpayer dollars come from the pockets of EVERY taxpayer in the U.S.

3.  Your local Friend of the Court is the first step in the cycle of abuse.  A FOC Conciliator will recommend which parent is to be custodial, and which will be non-custodial.  The facts of the individual case do not matter, and the FOC will choose what, if anything, they truly investigate.

4.  False allegations of domestic violence are commonly used by one party to try to gain an advantage in a custody situation.  The system encourages this, and often rewards a custodial parent for making such fradulent claims, without any proof or evidence.

5.  PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME  is real.  It is NOT a fable. Children ARE being alienated and torn from a parent by the other, to reap the rewards of child custody, child support, desiring to harm the other parent regardless of the consequences to their child(ren), and an insane need to completely control their child's life, regardless of the other parent's necessary and essential input.

These are just some of the issues you can speak with others and write about.  Educate yourself on these topics if you are not already fully informed on them. The truth and the facts are publicly available.

Do NOT continue to sit there, cry, and complain.  Do NOT just try to get some relief from your personal case and then stop your activities-the system will continue, and any relief will be short-lived.

Only with CONSISTANT and PERSISTANT action and involvement will the abuses ever be corrected.

YOU must choose-will you continue to sit idly by, and continue to be part of the problem, or will you become an active and involved paticipant in this fight, and strive to be a part of the solution?

The suggestions I listed above are just a part of what you can do and should be doing.  I have done all of these, and much beyond.

IF I CAN DO ALL OF THE ABOVE, SO CAN YOU. 

A Father Of Two. 

Dean Tong, international forensic trial consultant, has a new book coming in 2009 - Children of the Lie: Survival Guide for the Falsely Accused

My wife and I hired Dean Tong, a forensic trial consultant, for our child custody case.  I can tell you that his advice to date has been brilliant.  Dean Tong's bestselling book Ellusive Innocence is well known and has helped countless people.

In 2009 Dean Tong's new book will be out and I expect that it will be excellent.  The new book is titled Children of the Lie: Survival Guide for the Falsely Accused.  Find out more information on Children of the Lie.

We will keep the readers of DaddyBlogger.com informed on the upcoming release date.

Following is a brief bio on Dean Tong taken from the publisher's website:

Dean Tong, MSc. is an international forensic trial consultant in divorce, child custody, child abuse, domestic violence, child abduction, and child suggestibility cases, with a specialty in unfounded and false abuse cases and parental alienation. Mr. Tong is a highly sought-after speaker and commentator, appearing on the CBS Evening News, CBS’s 48 Hours, ABC’s Primetime Live, CNN’s Talkback Live, MSNBC Live, Dr. Phil, Court TV, Montel Williams, and many other programs.

Mr. Tong holds a master’s degree in Child Forensic Studies in Psychology and the Law from the Universities of Portsmouth and Leeds in the United Kingdom and a B.S. degree in Biology and Pre-Medicine from Northeastern University in Boston. In addition to his legal-consulting career and forensic qualifications, he is a licensed laboratory medical technologist in chemistry, hematology, serology and microbiology, with more than twenty years of experience in clinical lab settings testing blood and body fluids. He is a member of the advisory board member of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, the largest father's group in America; he serves on the board of directors of the National Fathers Resource Center and is a member of the American Society of Trial Consultants and the Academy of Behavior Profiling.

Dave Taylor of the Oakland County FOCAC

Dave Taylor of Oakland County Speaks of the corruption  at the Friend of the Court. He let us know that the Friend of the Court has championed new laws in Michigan that will help create a greater intrusion into the family and larger money stream for them.  Learn about Title IV-D incentives Learn about the benefits of shared parenting.

If you think child custody determinations are fair in Michigan you MUST watch this video with Carol Rhodes speaking on the Michigan Friend of the Court.

Hey Dad, BACK TO COURT!!

With recent events forcing several of my friends, all fathers and fellow advocates for parental rights, back to court to again attempt to right the wrongs dealt to us by Michigan's family law court system, I am reminded of the last time I was forced there.....

A little over two years ago, my oldest daughter had to repeat Kindergarten.  I managed to change my hours at my employer, and filed a motion to increase my time with my daughters.

The initial hearing was in front of the Court Referee, where I was blamed for my daughter failing Kindergarten, because I was "not involved enough".

Try being involved enough while only seeing your children every-other weekend and four hours one day a week.

A Michigan family law court referee actually admonished a loving, caring, fit, and able father for a child failing a grade BECAUSE OF THEIR COURT ORDER limiting my time with my children.

The referee did not grant my motion, so I objected, and got in front of the judge, a COUPLE OF MONTHS LATER.

Yes, I did manage to have the motion granted, despite the furious protests from my ex-wife and her attorney.

Still, I ask, WHY is this necessary?

The Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution PREVENTS and PROHIBITS any state from doing this  to any American citizen.

Still, here they are, and they are still doing it.  They will do it again TODAY.  They will do it again TOMORROW.  They will do it again THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, and THE DAY AFTER THAT.

Still, American media continues to cry out against "deadbeat dads", and "angry fathers".  They continue to ignore the pleas of thousands of parents, showing our judiciary and  bureaucrats the truth and the facts of Michigan's family law court system.

And, again, tomorrow, it will be BACK TO COURT again for another loving, caring, fit and able father, to attempt to right another wrong inflicted upon a family by our family law court system.

Again, people ask WHY?

The bureaucrats and judges just stare back, and dream of all the millions of dollars of federal incentives they will continue to claim under Title IV-D.  Our constitutional and fundamental rights?  They don't matter! 

The Friend of the Court Conciliators will again, TOMORROW, declare more parents as "non-custodial" so they can start the funds rolling in from THAT case too, and it goes on, and on, and on.....

And again, TOMORROW, another father will have to pay out hundreds of dollars for motions, attorneys, court costs, and be admonished by a referee or a judge for not being involved enough.....

And, TODAY, Michigan's bureaucrats still choose to ignore and stall legislation that will again spell out the rights that we parents SHOULD be allowed to enjoy.

The Equal Parenting Bill, House Bill 4564, and House Joint Resolution NN, the "Parental Rights" Constitutional Amendment both sit in limbo......

Our bureaucrats have NO intention of passing these issues.

But, they will happily blame any non-custodial parent for "not being involved enough" with their children.

A Father Of Two.

The Circus Was In Town-I Wonder If Friend Of The Court Employees Took Their Kids....

The Barnum & Bailey-Ringling Bothers Circus was at Grand Rapids' VanAndel Arena from Thursday, September 18 to Sunday, September 21.

My daughters and I did not go.  I could not afford to take them, even with a discount offer on tickets I received in August.

I did manage to scrimp and save enough to take them to a performance last year, but could not this time.  Everything else costs more now, and we have not received a cost of living allowance.

I do wonder if  Michigan Friend of the Court employees, judicial employees and judges took the time to take their own children to a performance. Nah-they were probably too busy tearing other kids away from their fit and able parents, and gloating over the millions of federal dollars they get via the Title IV-D incentives for doing so.

It is such a travesty and a waste-a system that no one asked for(except those who profit from it), no one wants (except the members of the system), and one that commits this level of abuse, and not only gets away with it, they get REWARDED for it!!

If EQUAL PARENTING were the norm, as it should be, many more parents would have the cash available to take their kids to such an event as a circus. Fit, willing, and able parents would be taking care and providing for their own children when their kids are home with them, instead of providing the same standard of living for all of these attorneys, custody evaluators, psychiatrists, social workers, and others. 

I do believe some of them took their children to the circus, and WE paid the bill!! After all, Michigan state employees got THEIR cost of living increases, at OUR expense.

Michigan's family law court system-its actions are in its own best interests,  NOT in those of children of a divorced or otherwise broken home. Yet, they are still here, still  decimating our families, and raking in millions of taxpayer dollars that we could use to make a house payment, put food on the table, or take our children to a special event, like a circus.

Hey, other divorced, non-custodial fathers-did you take your kids to a circus this year?  Could not afford to?  Thank the Michigan legislature for NOT passing EQUAL PARENTING, House Bill 4564.

Thank our family law judges and all the lawyers too.  You keep their standard of living intact, so they can take their kids to  special events, and can bond closer with them.  YOUR children will just have to do without, and the system does not care if you bond with them or not.

A FATHER OF TWO.

Fathers4Justice Duo on 100 Feet Tall Crane Educate 100,000 People During Football Game

Fathers4Justice Duo climb boom crane in front of 100,000 Ohio State and Minnisota football fans. Hanging is a 40 foot banner that was hauled up the crane in the middle of the night without incedent.
The mobile police headquarters was unknowing set up under the crane while the superheros hid on a platform to wait until the crowd below grew from large to huge.

Alec Baldwin - A Promise to Ourselves. New book by Alec Baldwin getting rave reviews!

A MUST BUY book by Alec Baldwin about his experience with family courts, divorce, Parental Alienation, and fatherhood.  Alec Baldwin's A Promise to Ourselves is getting rave reviews and is further exposing the truth of what happens in today's family court systems. 

Please buy A Promise to Ourselves through Amazon.com now or your local favorite bookstore.  Be sure to give Alec Baldwin's A Promise to Ourselves to someone else when you are finished reading it so that even more can hear the truth.  Alec Baldwin's A Promise to Ourselves is now a part of my recommended "Must Read" books, along with Dr. Stephen Baskerville's Taken Into Custody.  Both books are money well spent.  Be sure to educate yourself on Title IV-D to truly understand the problem which ALL tax-payers are funding.  Also, be sure to review the research in support of shared parenting.

Please take the time to thank Alec Baldwin for sharing his personal story in A Promise to Ourselves for the sake of change; to protect our children from the family law industry.  Visit Alec Baldwin's website and leave your message in his guestbook.

Amazon.com A Promise to Ourselves Book Description:

“I have been through some of the worst of contentious divorce litigation,” Alec Baldwin declares in A Promise to Ourselves. Using a very personal approach, he offers practical guidance to help others avoid the anguish he has endured.

An Academy and Tony Award nominee and a 2007 recipient of Golden Globe, SAG, and Television Critics Association Awards for best actor in a comedy, Alec Baldwin is one of the best-known, most successful actors in the world. His relationship with Kim Basinger, the Academy Award–winning actress, lasted nearly a decade. They have a daughter named Ireland, and for a time, theirs seemed to be the model of a successful Hollywood marriage. But in 2000 they separated and in 2002 divorced. Their split---specifically the custody battle surrounding Ireland---would be the subject of media attention for years to come.

In his own life and others’, Baldwin has seen the heavy toll that divorce can take---psychologically, emotionally, and financially. He has been extensively involved in divorce litigation, and he has witnessed the way that noncustodial parents, especially fathers, are often forced to abandon hopes of equitable rights when it comes to their children. He makes a powerful case for reexamining and changing the way divorce and child custody is decided in this country and levels a scathing attack at what he calls the “family law industry.”

When it comes to his experiences with judges, court-appointed therapists, and lawyers, Baldwin pulls no punches. He casts a light on his own divorce and the way the current family law system affected him, his ex-wife, and his daughter, as well as many other families. This is an important, informative, and deeply felt book on a contentious subject that offers hope of finding a better way.

Purchase Alec Bladwin's A Promise to Ourselves now at Amazon.com.

Michigan Equal Parents Week Rally Sept 23 2008

PLEASE ATTEND

Preserve and Protect Our Parent-Child Relationships

Equal Parents Week Rally
Tuesday September 23rd, 2008
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
East Side Capitol Lansing, Michigan

Contact: Darrick Lynn Scott-Farnsworth (269) 209-7144 [email protected]

Dads and Moms of Michigan, the Family Rights Coalition, A Child’s Right, Children Need Both Parents, Fathers for Equal Rights, Fathers-4-Justice and Children’s Rights Council invite you to join us in defense of the traditional American family at this historic rally at our State Capitol during Equal Parents Week.

Over 40% of Michigan’s population is being micro-managed by the family court system with disastrous consequences to our children, families and the state economy. Help transform Michigan from a wasteland of broken families into a promised land of healthy families and community renewal.
House Bill 4564, a bill to ensure equal parental responsibility, will result in a presumption of joint custody for fit parents and equal access for children to both their mother and father. Another hearing on this bill is expected this fall if enough public desire is expressed. 2008-House Joint Resolution NN Fundamental Parental Rights constitutional amendment has been supported by 80 representatives but has not had a hearing. It too will be supported and discussed at the rally and needs your attention. Your attendance at this rally will send a strong message in support of HB 4564 and HJR-NN will serve as a demonstration of our will to be equal and have parental rights to our children.

The Equal Parents Week Rally has been organized to bring to the attention of our legislature, our executive branch, our judiciary and the general public that Equal Parental rights are a civil rights issue whose time has come. America’s success was built on strong family bonds and the recognition that both a mother and a father are essential to raising healthy, moral and well adjusted children.
Rally speakers will include nationally-known family advocates, legislators, VIPs, community leaders and parents.

• Contact your legislator to show your support for HB4564 and HJR-NN.
Primary signs and literature will be provided by the rally organizers.
• Print a map, car pool and plan to arrive before 11:00 am for assembly or 10:00 am for setup if you are bring.
• Bring change for meter parking or consult the maps for the location of a public parking structure.
• Dress for the weather with walking shoes and bring a water bottle.
• Bring personal signs, pictures, and regalia.

Need people to use the Lansing area white and yellow pages and invite people to show up. Also let us know if you know any band who would like to perform some tunes for free. Need you to print out or have printed some parental rights and equal parenting handouts to give out. Does anyone have tables they want to setup for material?

Time Slot Speaker

11 AM State Rep Jones

11:15 State Rep Dean

11:25 State Rep De Roche

11:40 State Rep Kim Meltzer

11:50 State Rep Stahl

12:00 PM State Rep Hoogendyk

12:10 State Rep Candidate David Irons

12:20 Chrissy Chrzanowski Split-n-Two

12:40 Drew Thompson of Dads and Moms of MI

12:50 State Rep Polidori

1:00 David Taylor Oakland County FOCAC

1:15 State Rep Candidate Scott Hudson

1:30 Ingham County Comm Candidate Kerr

1:45 Get Off the Bench Lary Holland

The Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution.

The Fourteenth Amendment is actually quite lengthy, comprising several sections, and addressing  separate topics.

However, the second sentence in Section 1 is of relevance to this post:  "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".

Please read that sentence again.

The Fourteenth Amendment was drafted and ratified a long time ago, and was done for very specific reasons.

Michigan's family law judges obviously cannot read.

Michigan's Friend of the Court conciliators and custody evaluators obviously cannot read, either.

Maybe all of these judicial bureaucrats, elected and otherwise, have forgotten the Oath of Office that they all swore to uphold.  At least, all of them were SUPPOSED to sign and swear to an oath supporting the Constitution of The United States, and that of the state in which they are taking office or appointment.

Why, then, are the 14th Amendment rights of EVERY parent and EVERY child in nearly EVERY child custody hearing in Michigan violated and ignored?

Even the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Troxel  vs. Granville (2000), has upheld the liberty interests of parents.  Justice O'Connor stated, in The Court's opinion, "the liberty interest at issue...the interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children is perhaps the oldest of the fundamental interests recognized by this Court", and "it cannot now be doubted that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children." 

Family law judges have sworn to uphold the Constitution of this country.

THEY HAVE FAILED.

Citizens of The United States of America, are you going to allow this to continue, or are YOU going to take action, NOW?

A Father Of Two.

Child Support is More Than Simply Money, Says Filmmaker Angelo Lobo

Child Support is More Than Simply Money, Says Filmmaker Angelo Lobo  - Reuters

Dr. Stephen Baskerville, author of Taken Into Custody, coming to Okemos Michigan Oct 4 2008

A must attend event in Okemos, Michigan on October 4 2008 10-11:45am.  Dr. Stephen Baskerville, PhD., author of Taken Into Custody, will be at the Okemos Holiday Inn Express to discuss family courts in America. 

There will be a lengthy Q and A session and also a book signing.  Dr. Stephen Baskerville's book, Taken Into Custody, is a MUST READ and a very shocking review of child custody determinations and the family court system.

Angry Fathers?!! Angry Over Child Abuse - Indeed!

Hey, non-custodial dad, have you ever been called an "ANGRY FATHER"?

Do such exist?

They sure do.

HOWEVER, according to Michigan's family law court system and American media, "Angry Fathers" are those who never bothered taking care of their children when they were married, don't care about their kids now, don't pay their child support, don't deserve to have custody of their kids now, and are those who contest the system for taking away their kids.

Well, they got the last one right, anyway.

Yes.  Absolutely.  ANGRY FATHERS do indeed exist.

In fact, I am one of them.

I am angry with the Michigan family law court system, and its entourage of others who presume to think they know what is best for my two daughters, and those who make their living off of destroying our families.

I have been termed an ANGRY FATHER, because:

1:  I know that I am a loving, capable, and fit parent, who wants to raise my children in the proper manner, as they deserve. I demand to do so, and be left alone by our government so I can.

2:  I contest, and fight, the family law court system because they have committed child abuse-on my daughters, and thousands of other sons and daughters in Michigan.

3:  The system has violated our guaranteed, fundamental rights, under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.  The 14th. PROHIBITS a state from doing what they do hundreds of times every day-remove a child from the life and home of a loving, caring, and fit parent. I personally resent this.

4:  My personal income, the very source I need to support my children as well as myself is forcibly taken from me on a weekly basis.  This paid ransom brings in federal dollars, from Title IV-D, to reward Michigan for removing my daughters from the only safe, stable and secure home they will know as children. These federal dollars are taken from EVERYONE'S paycheck, as social security withholdings.  YES-including YOURS!!!

5:  I have been reduced to a "visitor" in the lives of my daughters.

6:  EVERYONE seems to have a vested interest in deciding when I see my children, how long I see them, if I even see them at all, and even used to determine how I saw them. My daughters and I had to endure "supervised parenting time" for six weeks after the custody fight, in which I had to PAY to see my daughters for a one-hour period.

7:  We have a government that routinely turns its head away from us, closes its ears, refuses to listen, refuses to see what is happening, and gives us occasional "lip service" in an attempt to pacify us, withhout any real desire or intent to change the system.

And let's not forget the ones that REALLY PISS OFF THE SYSTEM:

8:  I write letters to newspapers, educating the people of Michigan as to the realities of the Michigan family law court system.

9:  I take part in rallies, meets, and other events.  Some are demonstrations.  Some are protests.  Others are educational in nature.

10:   I write my county commissioners, state elected officials, and federal elected officials, in complaint of what is happening.

11:  Finally, I take whatever further action that I, solo, or in agreement with others, determine will be of benefit to the Equal Parenting cause/movement.

But, let's not forget the biggest reasons why some of us are called ANGRY FATHERS.  It is because we refuse to roll over, refuse to accept what the FOC and judges do, fight handing our income over to bureaucrats as ransom and extortion money, and we actually and actively stand up for ourselves, our rights as parents, and for our children.

The system does NOT like this.

For those of you who are truly an ANGRY FATHER, in the fight such as myself, I applaud you.

In my humble opinion, if everything that has happened to you and your children since the begginning of your divorce/custody case does NOT make you angry, there is something seriously wrong with you.

The next step is to properly earn the title of ANGRY FATHER.

Stand up, become actively involved, stay actively involved, and tell our government bureaucrats NO MORE!

Tell EVERYONE that a child has the right to the love, care, guidance, education and nurturing of both of their fit, able, and willing parents.  To deny a child this is CHILD ABUSE!!

A Father Of Two.

Parents-Divorced, Divorcing, Or Unmarried-An Open Letter To You

Divorced, divorcing, unmarried, or separated parents, YOU have an important choice to make!

You can choose to believe the anti-family and anti-father biased rhetoric from Michigan's Friend of the Court and the rest of the family law court system with its judges, attorneys, custody evaluators, psychologists and social workers...

OR...

You can choose to educate yourself as to the truth, facts, and realities of HOW and WHY there MUST be a "non-custodial" parent chosen by the FOC and courts, AND why a child's time  with a non-custodial is  limited, normally to every-other weekend and a couple of hours one night a week.

Ever heard of Social Security's Title IV-D?

Do you know that Michigan, and every other state too, is REWARDED for removing a FIT, WILLING and ABLE parent from the lives of his or her children?

Perhaps you thought your social security taxes went only to retirement and disability funds....

Perhaps you thought that the mother gets physical custody in about 85% of divorce/custody matters in Michigan because of gender bias, or perhaps you really believe what "the system" and todays media says about American fathers.

Perhaps you can get some answers from your attorney, but usually all he or she does is take thousands of your dollars, and you and your children still lose.

You can, and should, contact the parental and family rights organizations listed below.  Neither can provide attorneys, or legal advice.

What they can provide, though, is essential information, for YOU to become enlightened and educated as to the truth, facts, and realities of what has, and is, happening to you and your children, and WHY!

A Child's Right, PO Box 119, 30 E. Columbia, Ste F1, Battle Creek, MI  49015, www.achildsright.org, (269)-704-5937

Dads And Moms Of Michigan, 6632 Telegraph Rd., Ste. 110, Bloomfield Hills, MI  48301, www.dadsofmichigan.org, (248)-559-DADS (3237).

You have NOTHING to lose, and A LOT to gain, by contacting these folks, visiting their websites, and VOLUNTEERING your time and efforts to help.

This is not just YOUR fight.  Alone, the system will devastate you. Become a part of the TEAM EFFORT to stop the destruction wrought on our families by the Michigan Family Law Court System.

YOU can choose to make a difference, or you can choose to sit there, and cry.  Which is it going to be?

A Father Of Two

Benefits of Equal Parenting

Minister Ronald Smith Has Passed - Parental Rights Legend

A tragedy.  A shock.  Extremely sad news for all who knew this special man.  Minister Ron Smith was one of the best friends I have ever known.  Minister Ronald Smith passed away on Friday September 5, 2008 from a heart attack.  I am still very shook up from this news and will let our readers know more as soon as I get it.  He was such an incredible man and just recently brought the 2008 Million Man March to Michigan.  Minister Ronald Smith was also the founder of the National Fatherhood Summit and was one of the co-founders of the Family Preservation Festival.  Minister Ronald Smith was co-author of the book Cheated.  Minister Ronald Smith was the CEO of Children Need Both Parents, Inc.   Most of all Minister Ronald Smith was an amazing father and husband!

Minister Ronald Smith was actively involved with Michigan House Bill 4564 (shared parenting) and Michigan House Joint Resolution NN (2008) (Parental Rights)

My thoughts are with Ron and his family right now.

Below is a very well known video of Minister Ronald Smith. Incredible speech which I had the pleasure of filming and watching live in Iowa.

God Bless Ron - We ALL love you!  "My brother from another mother"

Robert Pedersen

(Readers can comment in memory/honor of Minister Ronald Smith at the bottom of this page)

From the Family of Minister Ronald Smith

Your Brother in Christ Minister Ronald Smith called Home to be with Yahweh

It is with a heavy heart, and deep sympathy, that I announce to you today that Minister Ronald Smith was called home to be with the Lord. Minister Smith passed away from an apparent heart attack on September 5, 2008.

We are currently making arrangements and would ask you to stand by for further communications with regards to a memorial.

Children Need Both Parents mourns the loss of it's founder and CEO. We praise God that Minister Smith finished all that God charged him with, and is re-united in Heaven with his son Richmond. We vow to press on with the vision God gave him. Everyone here appreciates your love and support through this most difficult of times.

May God continue to shine upon you.

Minister Ronald Smith believed in a proper accounting of God's resources. In our efforts to honor his memory, and honor his principles of stewardship, we humbly request that donations be sent in lieu of flowers. This will enable us to more effectively continue the work God began in him.

Official Announcement from Ronald Smith’s wife, Sherry Shabazz Smith:

Please be advised that there will be two services for Ronald Smith.

Many of you know that Ronald Smith passed away on Friday September 5, 2008.  Thank you for your kind thoughts, considerations  and prayers at this time.

The first service is coordinated by Ron’s sister and mother.  Ronald will be laid to rest in Chicago.  The wake and funeral specifics are listed below.

Minister Ronald. Elijah Smith
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Woodlawn Union Baptist Church
6359 S. Eberhart
Chicago, IL 60637
10:00 -11:00 visitation
11:00 - 12:00 funeral

The second service is a Celebration Of Ronald Smith And His Life. 

This celebration is coordinated by Sherry and will be held on Wednesday September 17, 2008  at 6:00 pm at the:   

Abundant Life Ministries
1725 Division SE
Grand Rapids
Michigan
616-301-2325.

Sherry asks that NO cut flowers be sent.  Live plants are welcome. Most importantly Sherry has asked that in lieu of flowers donations be made to Children Need Both Parents, Inc.  Ronald did not have medical insurance nor did he have any life insurance.  Again,  Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.