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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

2692097144

Online Buzz Increasing for the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek

The 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek is an event worth supporting.  Bloggers know an interesting and unique story.  Over 4 months away and the online buzz is picking up!  The five cyclists truly appreciate any help in spreading the message of this event.  It is not easy to pedal over 758 miles  physically or mentally for that matter.  Special thanks to all bloggers that have picked this story up.

Here is a sample of some of the most recent blogs covering the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek:

1)  Dean's World

2)  Murdoc Online

3)  Family Court Reports

4)  Cycle South Dakota

5)  Angry Harry - UK

6)  Figli Negati Italia - Italy

7)  Gun Pundit

Robert Pedersen and Robb MacKenzie at 43 mph in Pennsylvania during the 2007 Equal Parenting Bike Trek - Max Speed during trek 54 mph!

A Child's Right Executive Director: Darrick Scott-Farnsworth on Child Custody

Review by Economics Researcher: Taken into Custody

Good to see this excellent review of Stephen Baskerville's breakthrough book. I have also seen that people in the divorce "industry" itself, often judges, their government employees in the FOC and lawyers,  are really beat up about the injustice that they realize they are inflicting on fathers. The problem is, as this review points out, no one knows what to do about it. The machine has become too big. It now seems to have a momentum, a life, of its own. This is why we need to continue to inform others and implore them all to become politically active to rein in the power of the Divorce Industry to destroy the lives of parents and their children. Let’s use this review by sending it to your politicians and judges maybe even to some of your local lawyers out of the Yellow Pages along with yet another message to these folks for them to be champions of change.

BY Jennifer Roback Morse
November 25 - December 1, 2007 Issue | Posted 11/19/07 at 3:13 PM

Most Americans have made their peace with no-fault divorce, believing easy divorce to be an enhancement of individual liberty. But a new book by Stephen Baskerville argues that permitting unilateral divorce allows an unprecedented scope for government intrusion into ordinary people's lives. Taken Into Custody has several breakthrough insights.

First, no-fault divorce frequently means unilateral divorce: One party wants a divorce against the wishes of the other, who wants to stay married. This fact means that the divorce has to be enforced. The coercive machinery of the state is wheeled into action to separate the reluctantly divorced party from the joint assets of the marriage, typically the home and the children. Involving the family court in the minutiae of family life amounts to an unprecedented blurring of the boundaries between public and private life.

People under the jurisdiction of the family courts can have virtually all of their private lives subject to its scrutiny. If the courts are influenced by feminist ideology, that ideology can extend its reach into every bedroom and kitchen in America.

Thus, the social experiment of no-fault divorce, which was supposed to increase personal liberty has had the unintended consequence of empowering the state.

I had an unusual opportunity to see this first-hand last summer when I did a Continuing Legal Education workshop for judges. Most of the judges had significant experience with family courts, so they were unusually well-informed. My audiences are usually amazed when I point out that family courts perpetrate greater invasions of personal privacy than any other governmental agency. Not the judges. I had expected some resistance from them on this point. After all, they are the ones doing the intruding.

When I ran through my usual litany of courts telling fathers how much money they have to spend, how little time they get to spend with their kids and who gets to spend Christmas Day with the kids, the judges were all shaking their heads. I asked: "So, do you enjoy that part of your jobs?" The audible moaning said it all: They hate that part of their jobs.

Audiences are sometimes surprised to learn that women initiate most divorces. They are even more surprised when I tell them that women aren't necessarily worse off economically after divorce. After all, "the most quoted demographic statistic of the 1980s" was the claim that women's standard of living falls by 73% after divorce, while men's rises by 42%.

I usually have to take some time to refute that claim. But the judges already knew that. They all started shaking their heads when I flashed those statistics on the screen for the purpose of refuting them.

One of the judges got exasperated. He stood up and said, with obvious disgust in his voice, "These women want me to throw their husbands out of the house, make him pay child support, while she keeps the kids to raise herself without interference from him."

General nods of agreement all around the room.

No fathers' rights advocate could have said it better.

But fathers' rights advocate Stephen Baskerville has harsh words to say about the entire no-fault industry, including the judges. The court-appointed therapists, the domestic violence experts, the visitation supervisors, the teachers of parenting classes, all these experts seem to be there to help divorcing families. But on Baskerville's telling, they simply extract additional payments from the family, and do nothing to save the marriage.

He reports that even mediators find that they are not allowed to try to preserve the marriage. Their role is simply to talk the reluctant party into acquiescing. Baskerville represents all these professionals, including the lawyers and judges, as having a self-interested motive in stoking the flames of personal resentments and maintaining the divorce industry.

What then, of my judges, who were obviously disgusted with the system and their role in it?

I have also talked to many family law attorneys who are fed up with narcissistic and myopic clients. How can it be that all these people are keeping the system going out of their own self-interest, and yet profess disdain for that same system?

I think the answer lies in what economists call perverse incentives.

No one likes the actual outcome of the system, but no one has an incentive or the ability to change it. So people go along, following the rules as laid down, trying to make marginal improvements to the best of their ability, and still being sickened by the whole sight. The incentives are so perverse that it is as if everyone were motivated by a desire to create as many divorces as possible.

Baskerville has done a great service in laying out these twisted incentives in detail. I hope that family law practitioners will read this book with an open mind, and not take it personally when Baskerville accuses them of bad faith. He may be over the top about people's motivations. But his analysis is essentially correct.

The public is getting past the "happy talk" about "good divorces," because the children of divorce are finally telling their stories. We desperately need to get past our fatalism about the inevitability of divorce.

Taken Into Custody makes it crystal clear that the law has created incentives to divorce. Therefore, the law can be changed to reduce those incentives. The publication of Taken Into Custody could be the turning point in restoring some balance to family law. If you care about the condition of marriage in America, read this book.

Jennifer Roback Morse is the senior research fellow in Economics at the Action Institute and the author of Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love in a Hook-up World.

HB 4564 ACTION ALERT by Radical Feminists!

HB 4564 ACTION ALERT

                                                                ...released by radical, angry feminist group.  HB 4564

As predicted this organization which once stood for EQUALITY has NOW been hijacked by radical feminists that are hell bent on control and labeling men as abusers.  Children no longer need to be in a tug-of-war of their controlling agenda.  HB4564

Michigan Children deserve better!  Michigan Children deserve Michigan House Bill 4564 (HB 4564).

Domestic Violence and HB 4564 HB 4564

Sadly, for political reasons and the continuation of gender warfare some opponents state that MI HB 4564 will cause more women to be abused! This scare tactic works well! Domestic Violence is to always be taken seriously.  Michigan House Bill 4564

What the radical groups do not tell you is that MI HB 4564 does NOT change ANY laws related to Domestic Violence. Current laws and protections will stay in place. Apparently they want to convince our lawmakers that all men are abusive and thus all men and children should be ripped apart after a divorce or separation. Their statements also expose their blatant discrimination and bigotry against one gender.  Michigan House Bill 4564

At the expense of children, politics are once again being played and the gender war is being needlessly continued. The statistics that are used to trick our elected officials can easily be challenged if society is ready to acknowledge that BOTH genders can and do commit Domestic Violence! In fact, the APA American Psychological Association President recently admitted that both genders commit domestic violence at almost the same rate. Please also visit: 4564

Breaking Through the Stereotype     HB 4564

Well over 166 studies showing that women and men are equally violent in their personal relationships!

Information on Male Victims of Domestic Violence  Michigan House Bill 4564

The Hidden Victims of Domestic Violence         HB 4564

In Defense of Men by feminist author Sheridan Hill  MI HB4564

Fixing Only Half The Problem   Michigan House Bill 4564

Telling the Truth   HB4564

The Many Faces of Domestic Violence  HB 4564

A Gender Issue  House Bill 4564

Violence Knows No Gender

By a Nurse (yeah!)
Forensic Nurse: Domestic Homicide of Male Spouses by Females: A Review for Death Investigators

Becoming Part of the Solution

An Unbiased Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Myths, Factoids, and Facts about Domestic Violence

Abused Men

Domestic Violence: The 12 Things You Aren't Supposed to Know

                  - Summary

Both Genders can be victims and perpetrators!  Stop the gender warfare and support an organization that does not have a gender agenda.  Support STOP ABUSE FOR EVERYONE www.safe4all.org  We are all members of this organization!  Support them and be sure to visit their Blog as well.  SAFE BLOG

We also encourage our readers to visit:  RADAR

Abused Husband Video - Warning this video contains violence and may not be suitable for all adults. 

This video is not appropriate viewing material for children of any age whatsoever!

Benefits of EQUAL Parenting      HB 4564

Joint Custody Lowers Divorce Rates    HB 4564

Facts of Joint Custody   HB 4564

Dangers of Sole Custody    HB 4564

Shared Parenting is Best for Children  HB 4564

Better Adjusted in Joint Custody  Michigan House Bill 4564

HB 4564 - MICHIGAN HOUSE BILL 4564

A CHILD'S RIGHT:  EQUAL TIME WITH BOTH FIT PARENTS!

MICHIGAN CHILDREN DESERVE BETTER!

MICHIGAN CHILDREN DESERVE TO BE EQUALLY LOVED, GUIDED, NURTURED AND EDUCATED BY BOTH FIT PARENTS!

Support HB 4564

Angela Pedersen, Registered Nurse

President and Co-Founder

A Child's Right

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Make Equal Parenting An Issue

Please take the time to go and vote for Any Dad # 2 video and drive up the public awareness of equal child custody and the corruption of the divorce industry.

http://www.current.tv/watch/22503151

If you have time and the skill maybe you can also produce this type of video and get it out in the public eye.

Federal Act to Allow Children to be Raised by their Parents

Please read the Family Preservation and Reconciliation Act: Download fpra_2007.pdf Then take this to your federal politicians to champion in congress for all of our children. This Act was written by national educated leaders who know what is needed and have put in the time to get it right. The time is now, so let's roll on this.