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Custody and Divorce

Custody and Divorce: Don't walk away from responsibility
One man's journey through the murky waters of divorce and single parenthood after winning custody of his three children.

The Case for Father Custody
Human beings differ from cattle and the difference is created by fathers. Daniel Amneus makes the case for fathers getting custody of their children. "It is fatherhood which makes childhood possible."

Divorce Restraining Order
Don't be caught offguard, plan ahead. Seven reasons divorcing fathers should expect to get served with a Divorce Restraining Order

PAS: Parental Alienation Syndrome
What every father should know about parental alienation. There are countless ways in which one parent can try to poison a child against the other parent.

VAWA: The Violence Against Women Act is Joe Biden's Worst Shame
Introduced with good intentions, VAWA has mutated into a system of repression, power and control, manipulated by the domestic violence industry and exploited by vengeful spouses seeking advantage in divorce and child custody.

Divorce Court: Let No Man Put Asunder
Is our traditional faith in justice being eroded by courts that operate as a child kidnapping and extortion racket?

My Reward, My Punishment... My Son - Sons of Divorce
How divorce destroys father-son relationships. Thousands of alleged deadbeat and apathetic Dads stand in the shadows, wishing they could fulfill the most precious responsibility.

Reclaiming Fatherhood
Fatherhood: fixing man's broken chain of progenisis. A look at what needs to change in order for fathers to be more openly and actively involved in the raising of their children.

The American Feminists' Abuse Industry
Women's shelter staffers know full well that a charge of domestic violence, real or otherwise is virtually indefensible in our politically correct courts.

Why Is Daddy in Jail?
The Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement perseveres in its losing battle to squeeze money out of ejected fathers who more often than not are unemployed, impoverished, imprisoned, disabled, or dead.

The Politics of Fatherhood
Never before have we seen government officials walk so freely into the homes of private citizens who are accused of nothing and help themselves to whatever they want, including their children, their life savings, their private papers and effects, and eventually their persons.

Deserted
Her mother said "Your father left you because he doesn't love you." Now she has learned the truth--her loving father was forced out of her life.

Supervised Visitation Center Dracula
If false sex abuse allegations are the atomic bomb of custody battles, then supervised visitation is the Dracula.

Against Marriage
Remember that after the divorce, she is going to hate you. How much do you think she's going to want you around, after she has re-daddied your children?

Child Custody: Rethinking the System
Todays family law system frustrates maximum dual-parent involvement with children of divorce.

The Tragedy of Lies Told in Divorce Court: My Dad Hates Me
My Dad hates me. That's what my Mom told me, so that's what I told the judge. This is how family court works after a divorce.

Shared Parenting: Making Appropriate Custody and Access Decisions
Actively involved fathers participate in their child's homework, sports, school, and extra-curricular activities. This is only achievable by sharing physical custody.

Triple Murders Show Cost of Ignoring Female Abusers
Many men hesitate to report their wives' violence because they fear that once the police are involved, the wife will accuse her husband of being the perpetrator and it is she, not he, who will be believed.

PBS Declares War on Dads
This is an expanded version of a column which first appeared in World Net Daily and the Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal.

Hate My Father? No Ma'am!
Hate my father? The man who worked six days a week for 25 years yet somehow always had time to spend with me? No Ma'am!

Father Care: The Other Child Care Option
Can fathers do the job? Research says yes. A Yale study found that infants living only with their fathers were two to six months ahead of other infants in personal and social skills, and that older babies in father-care exhibited similar advantages.

Parental Abduction: child snatching by mother
Parental child snatching by mother - one father tells how he successfully got his child back, and got the law changed to make child-snatching a felony offense.

Parental Abduction: My Child Is Missing a Third Time
Parental child snatching - one father tells how he successfully got his child back.

Child Abduction: My Child Is Missing - Again!
Maternal child snatching - one father tells how he successfully got his child back after the mother lost custody and then kidnapped their child.

Child Abduction: My Child Is Missing
Maternal child snatching - most child kidnappings are by estranged parents. Mothers who lost custody and then snatch their children.

Child Custody: Safer with Mommy?
Too many judges still award custody to mothers. John Arlon decided to take his children away to safety rather than leave them within reach of a hostile judge.

Parental Alienation: Family Photo Album
Following a divorce, there is often an intense desire to banish the former mate entirely. A look at the price the children pay.

The Secret Alimony Hidden in Child Support
Scientific proof exists that many child support awards are too high.

True Soap: The Role of Support
Your question on the phone seems to me rather in line with the person who, having put a bellows to a fire, later stops by the scene to ask how things are going.

In the Best Interest of the Child - The Child Custody Evaluation
Today's fathers are more likely to seek custody. Many of them will need to prepare for a child custody evaluation.

Feminism: Beauty or the Beast?
Feminism, brute presumption, deadbeat dads, domestic violence, zero tolerance for abuse, NOW. After a round on the talkshow circuit exposing gender inequities, activist and paralegal Pearle Harbor gives us an earful.

A Grandmother Speaks Out on Fathers' Rights and Debtor's Prison
I am the mother of a son caught in the debtor's prison with back child support payments due. I have been blackmailed into borrowing money to get my son out of an impossible situation.

Long-Distance Daddy
I'm left wondering how many of my values my children will learn through telephone conversations, and how many of their values they'll learn from their mother and their friends.

Caregiver
I refuse to give up the right to raise my child in the best way I know how.

Divorce: Angels and Divorce
Dean Hughson tells how a couple of angels helped save him in those critical hours following his divorce.

Gender Bias in Family Court
A paralegal gives her insider's view of women who make use of the child kidnapping and extortion racketeers in our justice system.

Separated Siblings
How do children deal with the interrupted attachments so common in blended families?

Father from Afar
Fathers from afar must learn how to hear what is not said, feel what is not seen, and say what should be said.

Custody and Divorce 101: Class Dismissed
Has America created a new class of citizens who are excluded from constitutional provisions regarding due process and debtors prison?

Just Let Me Be a Dad
A review of Michelle D. Lovato's book of practical advice for divorcing fathers.

Domestic Armageddon
Divorce and Domestic Armageddon - Who profits from the maternal child-snatching epidemic?

Fathers' Rights Are Fathers' Duties
Why political action is the best thing you can do for yourself, your case -- and above all your children.

Sexual Abuse: Men Are Beasts
Whereas false accusations by women are in fact rare, occurring no more often than do other false reports of crimes, such as bank robbery -- Joint Congressional Resolution 182.

Divorce, Child Support and Alimony: Off the Boat When?
Is 'child-support' just a politically correct euphemism for alimony?

Fathers' Day Reunion
That Robert and I are able to come together to share the joy of our daughters amazes both of us. We're probably the only fathers like us in Cleveland. Maybe in the state, the country, the whole world.

Suggestions for the New First-Time Single Father
Practical childcare tips for the man who has to go it alone.

FatherMag.com | Child-support | Divorce | Child-custody
Divorce, child custody battles and child support are the dark side of fatherhood. A myriad of statistics and research confirm the importance of keeping fathers involved with their children.

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Daddy Oh Daddy, Where Have You Gone?
In order to qualify for most of the free government funds, the women must first physically acquire, in some manner, one or more children.

How the False Claims of the Child Abuse Industry Have Harmed America
Those who profit from the Child Abuse Industry must convince both us and their victims that everything is abuse. News media, therapists, prosecutors, judges, lawyers and sex police. Thousands of jobs depend on maximizing claims of abuse.

Father's Rights Action
Testimony in court. My wife wants to move our children to another state.

Dads Are Important: A True Story of What Fathers Do
Jack Kammer's story shows us how fathers affect the lives of teenage boys.

Un-Constitutional VAWA Law Helped by a Propaganda Ploy
The Super Bowl Hoax, as it was later dubbed, no doubt will become a classic in the propaganda textbooks.

VAWA Law Polarizes the Sexes, Weakens the Family
Has anyone noticed that Constitutional protections of due process are being shredded by this near-hysteria over domestic violence?

Of Statistics, Single Mothers and the Politics of Language
Studies show that, overwhelmingly, children being raised in homes with both a mother and a father enjoy a lot of benefits that children from single parent homes do not.

Children in Single-Mom Households "at Risk" - What do we do about it?
The fact that children raised by single mothers are at increased risk is found over and over again.

How well does New Jersey protect its children?
Examine one investigator's conclusion that New Jersey's DYFS is run as a criminal enterprise, in violation of RICO statutes.

Mutual Custody?
Is joint mutual child custody really what it claims to be?

Father Falsely Accused of Child Abuse
What to do? Win! Advice from The Fathering Advisor with links to resources.

Mother Refuses to Acknowledge Father on Birth Certificate
Do people have a right to know who their father is? This father, like many others, will just be discarded to become another deadbeat dad statistic.

Mother Restricts Father's Time Alone with Kids
Advice from The Fathering Advisor.

Fathers in the News
Items in the news of interest to fathers: links to news items on other sites.

Parental Alienation Syndrome
It's easy enough to find material describing PAS and how devastating it can be. But this book actually proposes effective countermeasures.

The Measure of a Man
Book review. There is no other court in the land where the penalty for perjury does not exist.

PAS: Beyond the High Road
PAS book review. Parental alienation syndrome and the pitfalls of being the good parent.

Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce
More evidence that social breakdown begins at home.

Throwaway Dads:(2) The Myths and Barriers That Keep Men from Being the Fathers They Want to Be
No one could come away from this book without a deep appreciation of the irreparable harm being inflicted on children and society by the scourge of state-sponsored fatherlessness.

Throwaway Dads: The Myths and Barriers That Keep Men from Being the Fathers They Want to Be
Few fathers realize how dangerous the current smear campaign against fathers is until they arrive home one evening to find the children gone and themselves summoned to court.

Father Courage: What Happens When Men Put Family First
One generation cannot fully transform a culture, though those currently in their twenties and early thirties are giving it a solid attempt.

Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child
Pruett manages to grasp the essence of healthy masculine parenting.

A Long Way to Go for a Date
Should you marry an asian woman? One man's search for a traditional wife.

Still A Dad: The Divorced Father's Journey
How can divorce law be geared to fairness when winner takes all, humiliates the loser, and does it all in the name of the child's best interests?

Father and Child Reunion: How to Bring the Dads We Need to the Children We Love
A mother who denies a child its father is committing one of the most documentable forms of child abuse.

From Courtship to Courtroom: What Divorce Law Is Doing to Marriage
A concise, straightforward description of the reign of terror that is now routine in divorce court, told with the authority of a lawyer who has seen it all first hand.

The War Against Parents - page one
Family values from the left? Hewlett and West take on the ravages of child protective services, which routinely confiscate children from parents of both genders for any reason or no reason.

Divorced Dads: Shattering the Myths
One by one, Braver demolishes the myths that have been used to justify judicial child stealing.

The Case for Father Custody
A review of the controversial book by Daniel Amneus that founded the father's rights movement.

How to Fight Sex Abuse Allegations and Win
False Allegations Of Child Sexual Abuse: What You Should Know.

Father-Son Poem: Rage
that spark of me that beats in his heart. hear it pound, too, in mine, my son. it started as a whisper in your mother's ear.

Fatherless Kids More Likely to Suffer Mental Health Problems
There have been several studies finding that children from single parent homes (mostly single mother homes) are more at risk.

Fatherless Home Statistics
The female-headed household is a strong predictor of suicide among young adult and adolescent white males.

Fathers Count Act of 1999
Father count is an important win for fathers, but most of the efforts funded will go towards funneling financial and other support to children already separated from their fathers, rather than reducing the incidence of family separation.

Child Custody Scandal in Los Angeles
According to Insight, Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti halted an investigation of the judges association and ordered an investigator to shred documents he had collected.

Father Custody Gaining in Popularity
Seventeen percent of children living with only one parent now live with the father.

Fatherless Boys Grow Up Into Dangerous Men. Maggie Gallagher in The Wall Street Journal.
A look at how family structure affects serious crime. - excerpted from The Wall Street Journal.

Study Finds Teen Pregnancy and Crime Levels are Higher Among Kids from Fatherless Homes
Children reared in fatherless homes are more than twice as likely to become male adolescent delinquents or teen mothers, according to a significant new study by two economists at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

85% of Youths in Prison Grew Up in Fatherless Home
Source: Texas Department of Corrections.

Joint Custody Discourages Divorce, says The Washington Post
Divorce rates have dropped dramatically in the states that promote joint custody, says the January 25th issue of the Washington Post.

Custodial Fathers Meet the Challenge of Full-Time Parenting
Single parents: The research shows the single father lifestyle to be a viable one.

NOW Action Alert on Fathers' Rights
The National Organization for Women has passed a resolution indicating their opposition to any penalties for the false reporting of child abuse or spousal abuse.

I Want to See My Dad!
Staff of supervised visitation center demoralized by crowd of angry demonstrators.

Social Workers Not Immune from Prosecution
Virginia Supreme Court ruling on immunity from prosecution for social workers.

America's Toughest Family Court Judge Speaks Out
Judge says "The current biased system is run by reality-impaired ideologues."

Executive Order Concerning Child Support Collection
The U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Paula Jones vs. Clinton case.

Domestic Violence Statistics
The Heritage Foundation report: The Child Abuse Crisis.

Fatherless Homes Breed Violence
Eighty percent of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior).

Facing Up to the Complexities of Family Violence
Fathers' Rights Advocates Protest Domestic Violence Hysteria in Boston.

Research on Children's Sexual Abuse
Research repeatedly shows that children often fabricate stories of sexual abuse.

Texas Fathers Win Again!
Social workers and psychologists incest cases group gets foiled in court.

Therapist Loses License and One Million Dollars
Another misandrist therapist gets caught selling sex fantasies to children. Therapists are the enablers of these prosecutor sex zealots, and the news media is their sugar daddy. From the False Memory Syndrome Foundation News Letter.

"Substantiated" Child Sexual Abuse
Wife squirts semen into 5-year-old boy's rectum and accuses husband.

Another Father Fights Sexual Allegations and Wins!
Single father says fathers must fight back and keep their kids.

Supervised Parent/Child Contact
An ideologue exposes her ugly compulsion to deny children's access to their father.

Kansas Mourning
A young father must find his six-year-old daughter, who has been abducted by his former wife.

Child Support Misguided?
What is actually wrong with the current child support guidelines, and where did they originate? In search of a more reasonable approach.

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