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Sacks, Allred Debate New CA. Supreme
Court Move-Away Decision |
| February
6, 2006 |
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| California
Supreme Court Rules Against Dad
in New Move-Away Decision |
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Last
week the California Supreme
Court ruled in favor of a move-away
mom in the Brown vs. Yana
relocation case. In that
case a father, Anthony Yana,
was trying to prevent his then
12 year-old son from being moved
from San Luis Obispo, California
to Las Vegas, Nevada 400 miles
away. |
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I've covered
this issue in numerous
newspaper columns and radio
and TV appearances. A short
history of California move-away
law is as follows:
From 1996 to 2004 move-away
determinations were based on
the Burgess decision,
in which a custodial mother
was allowed to move her two
children 40 miles away from
their father. Burgess
was disastrous for children
because it was interpreted by
California courts to permit
moves of hundreds or thousands
of miles. In some cases, courts
have even allowed children to
be moved out of the country,
as far away as Australia, New
Zealand, and Zaire.
In 2004 the California Supreme
Court decided the LaMusga
case in favor of the father,
Gary LaMusga, who sought to
prevent his ex-wife from moving
his two young boys from California
to Ohio. LaMusga, who is unable
to follow his children because
he operates a small business
and is tied down by weighty
child support obligations, had
fought the move for eight years.
In siding with the father the
court explained that "the
likely impact of the proposed
move on the noncustodial parent's
relationship with the children
is a relevant factor in determining
whether the move would cause
detriment to the children."
Soon afterwards a handful of
extreme feminists prevailed
upon former California Senate
President Pro Tem John Burton
(D-San Francisco) to introduce
SB 730, which would have abrogated
LaMusga and given custodial
parents almost unlimited move-away
privileges. We organized to
fight the bill, and generated
thousands of calls and letters
in opposition, as well as a
lot of media attention. To everybody's
surprise, Burton withdrew SB
730, and LaMusga was
preserved.
Fortunately the new decision
in Brown vs. Yana will
not have the impact of Burgess
or LaMusga--it is more
technical and limited in scope,
and the father's underwhelming
legal effort and behavior hurt
him. To learn more about the
new ruling, see Court Rules
Parents With Custody Can Move
(Los Angeles Times, 2/2/06).
To learn more about California
move-aways and the LaMusga
case, see my co-authored column
(San Francisco
Chronicle, 5/4/04) and
read my LaMusga radio
commentary . To read a feminist
view of the move-away issue,
see Allred's column "
(Los Angeles Daily Journal,
10/3/02).
I discussed how this issue would
be viewed if we switched the
genders in my column (Sarasota
Herald-Tribune, 2/23/04),
and argued in favor of a current
Wisconsin move-away bill in
my co-authored piece
(Wisconsin
State Journal, 12/3/05).
I clashed with feminist law
professor Carol Bruch, who authored
the mother's brief in LaMusga,
on PBS's Los Angeles affiliate
KCET last year--to watch, click
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| Sacks,
Allred Debate New California Supreme
Court Move-Away Decision |
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I debated
Gloria Allred, who won the
Burgess case, on KABC radio
here in Los Angeles Friday evening.
On Friday during the day Gloria
and I were paired against each
other in a KABC TV news piece.
Both times Gloria was....(sigh)
Gloria. She's good at what she
does but at this point I've
debated her on these issues
so many times that I usually
can guess what she's going to
say next.
For example, Gloria often says
that restrictions on move-aways
unfairly restrict custodial
moms from moving, while not
restricting noncustodial fathers.
I answer that in these cases
both parents are free to move
wherever they want--it is the
children who may not
be moved if a court determines
that it is against their best
interests.
Gloria often says that restrictions
on move-aways keep custodial
parents "held hostage"
in their neighborhoods, and
that they should be able to
"move on with their lives."
I respond that both parents
retain responsibilities to their
children after divorce which
are sometimes inconvenient or
limiting, and ask "Would
we argue that noncustodial parents'
responsibility to pay child
support holds them 'hostage?'
Do we condone the behavior of
divorced parents who decide
to drop out of their children's
lives or stop paying child support
because they've decided to 'move
on with their lives?'" |
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| Father
Denounces Move-Aways on KABC-TV |
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The best
part of the radio or TV jousting
was the appearance of Harvey
LaForge, a reader of mine, on
KABC-TV. LaForge's 14 year-old
daughter was moved to Hawaii
against his will four years
ago. He had joint legal and
physical custody of his daughter
and a near equal timeshare but
it didn't matter--mom's desire
for her new squeeze 3,000 miles
away was more important than
this girl having a father. |
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Many fathers
are hesitant to discuss their
cases in the media because they
fear retaliation by their ex-wives,
who hold most of the cards in
family court. When I called
Harvey, he gathered some pictures
of his daughter, jumped in his
truck and drove 60 miles to
meet KABC-TV at my house. Had
Harvey's case been decided under
Burgess instead of LaMusga,
today his daughter would probably
have both of her parents in
her life. |
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| Christian
Author Takes a Stand for Men |
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Christian
writer takes aim
at what he calls a "cultural
prejudice that shames men for
being men in . The forward
was written by Dr. Laura.
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| Comeback
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shows how family courts rob
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a revised Shared Parenting Bill.
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| Could
a Father Be More Proud? |
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I found
in my second
grade daughter's backpack the
other day. It's a letter from
a sad little boy in her class
who is new to the school and
doesn't have any friends. Apparently
my daughter befriended him and
made him feel better.
The boy wrote:
"Thank you for playing
with me when no one would play
with me. You are a good freind.
Talking with me when I was sad.
Thank you for being my freind
when nodotty was my freind.
Eveyone hate's me but not you.
You are a truw friend. Your
friend, Jon." |
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and Children |
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Coalition for Fathers and Children
is dedicated to creating a family
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rights for all parties affected
by divorce. Contact the
ACFC at 1-800-978-3237 or visit
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| Another Bizarre
Father Screwing |
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| According to the article
(2/6/06): |
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"A
man who spent 13 years in prison
after being wrongly convicted
of murder faces a debt of more
than $38,000 in child-support
payments that started accumulating
while he was locked up... |
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"Larry
Souter...was convicted in 1992
in the death of Kristi Ringler,
who was found shortly before
3 a.m. on Aug. 25, 1979, lying
in the center of state Route
37 near White Cloud in Newaygo
County. She died later that
day in a Grand Rapids hospital.
"Through the years, medical
experts disagreed about the
nature of Ringler's fatal injury.
One said she likely received
the wound after being struck
by an automobile; another said
the injury matched the shape
of a whiskey bottle found alongside
the highway.
"In 1991, after one expert
reiterated his belief in the
likelihood of the whiskey bottle
theory, Souter was charged with
murder.
"Prosecutors accused Souter,
who had just met Ringler in
a bar on the night of her death,
of killing her. He was convicted
of second-degree murder and
sentenced to 20 to 60 years
in prison.
"Defense attorneys fought
the conviction and found that
evidence that could have helped
Souter at trial was lost or
missing, including police reports
suggesting Ringler was hit by
a motor home's mirror.
"A federal judge released
Souter last April 1.
"In 1987, before his conviction,
[Larry] Souter was ordered to
pay $100 a week in his divorce
with Christine Souter. He stopped
paying when he went to prison
in 1992 but didn't ask to have
payments suspended until 1995.
"Court documents show that
in 1997, he owed $23,000 in
back support. As of last month,
interest and penalties had pushed
it to $38,082.25.
"Federal law prohibits
judges from retroactively wiping
out such debts...
"David
Sarnacki, an attorney for Souter's
ex-wife, wrote in a court filing
that his client 'has endured
the substantial burden of raising
her two children without defendant's
contribution of child support.'"
I love the quote from his ex-wife's
attorney. Yes, he didn't pay
child support because he
was in prison framed on a murder
charge. I guess we should
be grateful the lawyer didn't
refer to Souter as a "deadbeat
dad." That'll probably
be next. One would also think
that after seeing her ex-husband
rot in jail for 13 years for
a crime he didn't commit, she
would feel so damn sorry for
the poor guy that she would
back off. I guess not.
In the article
(Flint Journal,
1/7/06), Souter had discussed
putting his life back together
and his plans. Now he may be
headed back on the road to jail.
I wrote about California legislation
designed to deal with the problem
of ex-offenders and child support
in my co-authored column
(Riverside Press-Enterprise,
9/21/05). The Bradley Amendment,
under which child support arrearages
cannot be retroactively forgiven,
is the cause of countless bizarre
injustices, and often hurts
deployed military personnel.
In my co-authored column (Army
Times, Marine Corps Times,
3/28/05) family law attorney
Jeff Leving and I wrote:
"[Child] support orders
are based on civilian pay, which
is generally higher than active
duty pay. When reservists are
called up to active duty they
sometimes pay an impossibly
high percentage of their income
in child support.
"For example, a California
naval reservist who has three
children and who takes home
$4,000 a month in his civilian
job would have a child support
obligation of about $1,600 a
month. If this father is a petty
officer second class (E5) who
has been in the reserves for
six or seven years--a middle-ranked
reservist--his active-duty pay
would only be $2,205 before
taxes, in addition to a housing
allowance. Under current California
child support guidelines, the
reservist's child support obligation
should be $550 a month, not
$1,600.
"A reasonable reader unfamiliar
with the wonders of the child
support system would probably
think 'OK, but the courts would
just straighten it out when
the reservist gets back--certainly
they wouldn't punish him for
something that happened because
he was serving.' However, the
federal Bradley Amendment prohibits
judges from retroactively modifying
child support beyond the date
which an obligor has applied
for a modification. Reservists
can be mobilized with as little
as one day's notice. If a reservist
didn't have time or didn't know
he had to file for a downward
modification, the arrearages
stay, along with the interest
and penalties charged on them.
"When the arrearage reaches
$5,000--a common occurrence
during long deployments--the
father can become a felon who
can be incarcerated or subject
to a barrage of harsh civil
penalties, including seizure
of driver's licenses, business
licenses and passports."
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| To learn more, see below: |
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-
Ron Henry's
(Family Law Quarterly,
Vol. 33, No. 1, 1999)
-
(Washington
Times, 4/27/99)
- Read the Bradley Amendment
- His Side:
(4/18/04)
- His Side: (7/18/04)
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| Help,
Resources for Dads |
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The
is a division of
Fathers For Equal Rights, Inc.
(FER), located in Dallas, Texas,
with offices in both Dallas
and Houston. In existence for
over three decades, it has services
and resources for dads nationwide
and is one of the largest and
most active fathers' rights
organizations in the U.S.
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| Couldn't Have
Said It Better Myself |
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From the
editorial
(The Daily Dispatch,
2/4/06):
"When children are abducted,
the authorities scramble to
recover them safe and sound.
"Most of the time.
"When children are kidnapped
from a custodial parent, and
that custodial parent is a man,
sometimes it seems that bringing
the abducting mother to justice
and returning sons and daughters
to their father's home is less
a priority.
"A Friday incident in North
Carolina reminds us of another
case that hits even closer to
home.
"The Associated Press reports
that two girls abducted from
their father by their mother
in Ahoskie more than six years
ago were recovered just this
week after they were found in
a car during a routine traffic
stop - in Lillington, less than
175 miles away...
"...we have to believe
that if it was the father who
took the children from their
mother, a dragnet would've caught
him long ago. The courts wouldn't
simply have issued almost meaningless
orders that are all but ignored
by law enforcement and the courts
themselves until a cop stumbles
across kidnapped children -
again, six years later in the
same state - quite by happenstance.
"Simply put, the law often
fails fathers in custody disputes.
"Witness the case of toddler
Andy Hakes, who was taken from
his father Jacob - son of Henderson's
Molly Hakes - by the boy's mother.
Andy's mother bounced between
relatives' homes in Colorado
and Arizona for six months,
ignoring Virginia court orders
to return her son to his custodial
father. Though the Hakes family
often had leads on where the
boy was being kept, they said
the authorities in those communities
would flat-out tell them that
they didn't want to get involved.
"If Andy Hakes or the Steyne
girls had been abducted by their
fathers, it's far more likely
that those men would've been
hunted down and arrested in
shorter order. When mothers
steal their children from fathers,
it seems at times like nobody's
in any hurry to see that Daddy
gets them back.
"It's wrong to assume children
are better off - or even safe
- with their mothers, especially
when those mothers are committing
a criminal act in keeping them."
To write a letter to editor
Glenn Craven, click .
I've written a few columns about
parental abductions, including
(Los Angeles Daily
News, 5/4/03) and
(Colorado
Springs Gazette, 9/22/02). |
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informs fathers about their
rights during divorce litigation
while providing them with concrete,
practical resources to get results
in the courtroom. is a popular
meeting place for fathers facing
divorce. |
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| Glenn Named
The Conservative Woman's
'Honorary Male Writer' |
According to the beautiful
Marie Jon of
The Conservative Woman:
"We
have ten female columnists.
However, we have made you 'honorary
male writer' because of the
wonderful courageous work that
you do for divorced
men, who sure need
you on their side. It is totally
shameful what liberalism has
done to men, and men with their
children. I hope you'll enjoy
being fussed over by ten babes
for conservatism."
"Being
fussed over by ten babes"--I'd
like that... |
Female-to-English
Dictionary
Dr. Shoveen goes behind the
words that women use to reveal
their hidden meanings and thought
processes.
Help for Boston Dads
Boston family law attorney
Nick Palermo is a shared custody
advocate who believes that divorced
dads are parents, not visitors.
The Law Offices of Nicholas
Palermo is a dedicated and committed
trial law firm which has worked
to make shared custody for all
fit parents the law of the land.
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Column: The Rise in 'Gray Divorce':
It's Always Hubby's Fault
My recent
co-authored column,
The Rise in 'Gray Divorce':
It's Always Hubby's Fault
(Cincinnati Post, Kentucky
Post, 1/30/06, Fredericksburg
Free Lance-Star, 2/5/06),
discusses the way men are unfairly
made to shoulder almost all
blame for marital breakups,
regardless of the circumstances.
Family law attorney Jeff Leving
and I wrote:
"In
both the United States and Japan,
divorce among older couples
is on the rise. The American
Association of Retired Persons
detailed the phenomenon among
American seniors in a study
last year, and Japan's wave
of gray divorce is expected
to swell into a deluge, since
Japanese women will soon be
legally able to claim half of
their husbands' retirement pensions.
"There
are various explanations for
the trend but media commentators
agree on one thing--when the
husband divorces his wife, it's
hubby's fault. When the wife
divorces her husband, well,
it's hubby's fault too."
I've discussed
these types of anti-male double
standards and the way we ignore
men's many valuable contributions
to their families. For more,
see:
Also,
listen to the
His Side shows:
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The Rantings of a Single Male:
Losing Patience with Feminism,
Political Correctness... and Basically
Everything describes the rise
of feminism from the mid '70s
to the present, through Ellis'
personal experiences and is loaded
with outrageous stories.
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Major Network Drops Domestic
Violence Show
Some good
news from Ned Holstein of
Fathers & Families,
one of the leaders of the campaign
against PBS's
Breaking the Silence: Children's
Stories:
"Some
pessimists believe that our
battle against PBS' airing of
Breaking the Silence,
an unbalanced piece of anti-father
propaganda, was at best a tie.
After all, the film was aired
hundreds of times around the
country. There have been private
screenings for judges and legislators.
And despite the findings of
its own ombudsman, PBS has stonewalled,
still claiming that the film
is sound.
"The
pessimists miss the larger picture:
that you can only judge victory
or defeat by what comes next.
For the first time we stopped
a respected media outlet in
its tracks, forced it to reassess
its production, and caused it
to commission a new film this
spring.
"Now comes this news: a
major network has dropped plans
to produce a similar domestic
violence segment on a major
60 Minutes-type show
it airs, even though it has
a sensational and tragic 911
audiotape of a terrified woman
hiding in a closet as her ex-husband
breaks into the house, searches
for her and shoots her. (Something
this awful deserves to be aired,
but not in a format that tars
all divorced men or misrepresents
what the police and courts are
actually doing.)
"This had all the earmarks
of another hack job. The producer
had asked Lundy Bancroft, one
of the domestic violence extremists
who is featured in
Breaking the Silence,
for stories of police who were
unwilling to enforce a restraining
order, and of judges who were
dismissive of a woman's complaints.
A woman who is sympathetic to
fathers' organizations approached
the producer with a true domestic
violence horror story, who was
very interested until he found
out the victim was a man, at
which point he dropped the matter.
It didn't look good.
"Mark Rosenthal and I called
the producer two months ago
to discuss his plans for the
segment, and to try to educate
him about the complexities of
the subject beyond a simplistic
'man bad, woman victim' formulation.
To the producer's credit, he
was willing to engage in a conversation,
but it was hard to believe we
had changed his mind or that
he could resist airing the dramatic
911 tape.
"Now we hear that no such
segment is in preparation. Is
this guaranteed true? Will it
be produced later? Did our offensive
against PBS cause this? We don't
know, but it is hard to believe
that the well-publicized uproar
about
Breaking the Silence
that you created with your letters
and emails had nothing to do
with it.
"I call that a victory."
Ned Holstein, M.D., M.S.
Fathers & Families
nedholstein@fathersandfamilies.org
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Congressional
Candidate Takes Strong Stand
for Noncustodial Parents' Rights
In 2004 Libertarian presidential
candidate Michael Badnarik had
a strong noncustodial parents'
rights
platform. Badnarik
is clearly aware of and sensitive
to the basic problems fathers
today face, particularly the
sole custody norm and the denigration
of noncustodial parents to "second
class parent" status. Badnarik
is running for Congress in 2006--to
learn more, go to
www.badnarik.org.
The Dakapa Handbook
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Some
Vindication for Boy Advocates
My longtime
readers know that I (and others)
have been screaming about the
boy crisis in education for
years. I'm a former teacher
and I've written numerous columns
on the issue. My biggest gripe
is the way our school system
absolutely refuses to meet boys
where they are. The result is
what I call "Boys' Fall
from Eden"--they go from
preschool, where their boyish
energy is (usually) accommodated,
into kindergarten where they
are "bad" if they
can't sit still for long periods
of time the way the girls can.
In my column
Start of School Very Different
for Parents of Boys, Parents
of Girls (Albuquerque
Journal, 9/10/04) I wrote:
"The
educational establishment has
reacted to the boy crisis in
education in a way reminiscent
of Bertolt Brecht's famous poem
about calls to reform or dissolve
the unpopular government of
East Germany: the government
found it difficult to reform
itself, so would instead choose
to 'dissolve the people and
elect another.'
"Similarly,
rather than reform a system
woefully out of touch with boys'
real world natures and needs,
our schools find it easier to
demand that boys be something
other than boys."
The boy crisis
was the biggest reason we launched
our
Campaign Against 'Boys are Stupid'
Products in 2003--to learn
more, see my column
Why I Launched the Campaign
Against 'Boys are Stupid' Products
(Los Angeles Daily News,
2/4/04).
During this
period boy advocates have often
been opposed by feminists who
insist that boys are doing just
fine because most CEOs are male.
Even researchers on the subject
were afraid to accurately report
their own findings for fear
of being labeled anti-female.
I debated a couple researchers
on this in the Los Angeles
Times last year--see my
column
New Study of Youth Shows It's
Boys Who Are in Crisis
(3/20/05).
Now, however,
the boy crisis has no finally
gone mainstream with Newsweek's
new front page article
The Trouble With Boys and
the surrounding public dialogue.
Glenn Discusses Boy Crisis in
Education on Air America's Charles
Goyette Show (Audio
Available)
I discussed
the boy crisis in education
on the Charles Goyette
Show on Air America KXXT
AM 1010 in Phoenix, Arizona
on January 25, 2006.
To listen
to the interview, click
here--the interview with
me starts at 20:27.
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Help,
Support for Noncustodial Parents
MyKidsToo.com is a website
designed to provide safe, peer-to-peer
support to non-custodial parents
and parents finding themselves
in a divorce situation.
Concerned about Financial Issues
in Your Divorce?
If you're concerned about financial
issues in your divorce, contact
Jim DiGabriele of DiGabriele,
McNulty & Co by email
here or at 973-243-2600. |
Outrage Funded by Your Tax Dollars
We've discussed
before the way domestic violence
laws are slanted sharply against
men. As I noted in my co-authored
column
Domestic Violence Lawsuit Will
Help Secure Services for All
Abuse Victims (Los Angeles
Daily Journal, San Francisco
Daily Journal, 12/28/05),
"While police intervention
often works for abused women,
abused men understandably fear
that once the police are involved,
their wives will accuse them
of being the abuser and it is
they who will be believed. Draconian
arrest policies often direct
police to make an arrest, and
police are often pressured to
arrest the man."
Despite this,
a substantial percentage of
those arrested for domestic
violence are women. Feminists
mulishly insist that only men
abuse, so when women are arrested
they claim it's only because--get
this--violent men are manipulating
the domestic violence system
and making false accusations.
Because women never abuse and
can never do wrong, women who
are arrested for DV are called
"victim-defendants."
A particularly
outrageous example of this is
a recent statement from Jeff
Rapkin, the staff attorney for
the
Center for Abuse and Rape Emergencies
of Charlotte County. Rapkin
is one of the many anti-male
domestic violence "experts"
being funded by your tax dollars.
In the article
More male victims of domestic
violence are speaking up
(Charlotte Sun-Herald)
he is quoted as saying:
"Ninety-nine
percent of men who have their
wives arrested for slapping
or hitting them are using the
criminal justice system and
the threat of arrest to make
sure his wife prepares the meatloaf
exactly the way he wants it...Fifty
percent of the women I have
talked to in jail, who were
arrested for domestic abuse,
did not want me to argue for
a bond. They didn't want to
go home. They told me they were
at least free from the abuse
while in jail....The only good
thing about police arresting
the women at domestic calls
is that it takes the women out
of the abusive home for at least
a night."
To write
a Letter to the Editor about
Rapkin's comments, click
here.
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Militant
Grandmas Fight for Shared Parenting
Three Sides to Every Story
is an organization set up by
militant grandma
Bessie Hudgins to help fathers
stay in their children's lives
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And I Thought I Got Nasty
Mail...
Take a look
at some of the hate mail Fox
News commentator/columnist Michelle
Malkin receives
here. (Warning: foul language).
One example:
"You're
just a Manila whore shaking
your ass and waiting for the
Republican fleet to come in,
aren't you? You've even got
the lip gloss about right. Maybe
if you love sailor long time,
he bring you home to big American
house? I don't think so. Just
like in Manila, Honey, they'll
pass you around..."
And another:
"Surely
you are a big put-on. Did some
minor Republican operative purchase
a mail-order bride and train
her to do this?"
And those
are the less repulsive letters.
Most of them were written by
men--what gentlemen...
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Good News for Italian Children
According
to
Joint custody to be Italian
norm:
"The
Italian Senate gave the definitive
green light Wednesday to a new
law that strengthens the access
and custody rights of divorced
fathers.
"The
legislation makes joint custody
of children the norm when parents
split up. This means single-parent
custody - which usually goes
to the mother - will now only
be granted in a minority of
cases .
"'Finally,
both parents will have equal
rights and responsibilities
with respect to their children
when there is a separation,'
said Justice Undersecretary
Jole Santelli. 'And the children
will have the inalienable right
to maintain solid relations
with both the mum and the dad.'"
Apparently
Italian feminists haven't yet
had a chance to explain to Italian
politicians that most fathers
are wife-beaters, child molesters,
and deadbeats whose relationships
with their children merit neither
recognition nor protection.
The ironic part about feminist
misleadership is that for the
vast majority of women, shared
parenting is a good deal. If
and when mom gets over her terminal
vindictiveness, shared arrangements
mean more freedom and less work.
Best of all, her sons have a
much better chance of not ending
up on drugs or in jail...
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An Interesting View of Female
Criminals from a Corrections
Officer
A corrections
officer saw my old column
Female Murderers Seen in a Different
Light: Society Prefers to View
Violent Women as Victims
(Pasadena Star-News &
Affiliated Papers, 7/5/01)
and wrote me an interesting
letter:
"In
regards to your article on this
topic I feel I must put in my
two cents worth. Being a former
Corrections Officer and having
worked as a counselor with abused
children I have to agree with
you as to how the media perceives
this issue and also how the
noted psychologists that study
these women see it...
"[Today] all of these so-called
experts have come up with a
new name for every condition
that men and women experience
and to make it sound like a
large portion of the world population
is a victim in one way or another.
We no longer need to accept
blame nor feel guilt for any
wrongdoing--we just have to
say we are a victim and walk
away. I have heard that term
used so many times in the prison
system that it made me sick
of the term and immune to it.
Everyone was a victim it was
not their fault. They blamed
their family, society, the boss
at work, a co-worker,
their wife or husband, and in
some case their children or
siblings. Not once did I ever
hear anyone say 'Yeah I screwed
up it was my fault and
I deserve to be here.'
"I have
read numerous studies on female
criminals and they all lead
us down the same path,
they were abused, they suffered
from severe PMS or PPD, they
did not have the skills to deal
with a child or a relationship.
I have had female inmates say
it was not their fault, their
husband/boyfriend made them
do it because he always picked
on them for the way they did
or did not do things, therefore
they were psychologically abused
to the point of wanting to kill...
"I have seen female inmates
that when you look into their
eyes there is no life in them
nor any warmth of any kind,
they are cold and dark and at
times even I feared what they
could do if given the chance.
These women had no heart or
soul and they cared for no one
not even themselves. So spare
me, the courts, and the taxpayers
the time and money on theories
and excuses and let the punishment
fit the crime."
Does Glenn Need Some 'Testicular
Fortitude'?
Apparently not everybody
enjoyed my recent comments
here that "Over the
past three decades women and
feminists have locked men into
endless double-binds, where
whatever men do, they're wrong.
However, on a much smaller scale,
men's activists have begun to
lock women into double binds,
too." One activist wrote:
"Let's
analyze the mutually self serving
arrangement. Feminists like
to be bi-sexual. They can satisfy
their hunger for sex with a
man or woman. They conspire
with the Machiavellian corporate
elite types to take over America,
enslave as many men for profit
as possible, "capitalize"
upon created social policies
that facilitate "the creation
of the man criminal" as
they load us all up on the train
to Auschwitz. Never fear--reproduction
is just a suave corporate metro
sexual away, and to make it
fun and exciting, she'll have
2 or 3 of her girlfriends join
her. Then they can be gold diggers
together.
"AGENDA
21 and the Feminist call to
exterminate mass numbers of
men reducing the overall world
population of males down to
10%.
"Hey
the remaining guys won't mind,
that's 9 babes to a guy, and
all will be kings with harems.
"Come
on Glenn, quit acting like a
faux men's commentator, let
the ladies know a good man gets
the door for them, and show
some TESTICULAR FORTITUDE. For
Hitlery Clinton's sake!"
Best
Wishes,
Glenn Sacks
GlennSacks.com
HisSide.com
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