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Rinaldo Notes 1-5-05
 
Stories on Father Rights
 
Women's pages: Next time you read about 'what women want,' check ...
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... the 'opting out' trend treated as news, considering the story has been around for the last 25 years or so," wrote Boston Globe columnist Cathy Young in Reason ...

TN parents pay price for overdue child support
WBIR-TV - Knoxville,TN,USA
More than 6,000 Tennessee parents are losing their professional, recreational and drivers' licenses for failing to pay child support. ...

To save cash, trust people who pay child support
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
The hole in the Department of Human Services budget could get smaller if the government would start out by trusting parents to make their child support payments ...

Destroying family roots: divorce on the rise in Yemen
Yemen Times - Sana'a,Yemen

Women's pages: Next time you read about 'what women want,' check ...
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA

This is an article about what women are really doing with their lives, from the point of view of the autor.

Massachusetts sued on marriage petition
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly "simply got it wrong" in September when he certified VoteOnMarriage.org's marriage amendment for a petition drive ...

Parents who travel must pay child support in advance
Dominican Today - Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic
SANTO DOMINGO. - In the Children Protection Courts are heard daily between 65 and 70 cases against parents who fail to pay child support, situation which has ...

 Family dinner making comeback
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA

THE ARTICLE OF THE DAY

A matter of equity for women in family law
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
... policymakers, they recognize that the fathers are the ones who are discriminated against and disadvantaged. In New York state, 93 percent of custody is awarded ...

 

First published: Thursday, January 5, 2006

 

A matter of equity for women in family law

 

Activists who claim that women don't get a fair shake from the criminal justice system are taking the issue to the public Friday with a protest outside the state Capitol.

The Protective Parents Association of the Northeast will rally between noon and 1:30 p.m. on the issue of domestic violence custody in New York and whether it's a right or a privilege for battered women to protect themselves and their children in family and divorce courts.

The purpose of the demonstration is "to expose the problems ... mothers face in our justice system while seeking to protect themselves and their children from abusive fathers," said Mary Richmond of Schenectady, president of the organization.

The protest is co-sponsored by the state chapter of the National Organization for Women.

State President Marcia Pappas said, "Generally, what is happening in the courts all over the country is when a mother is going for a divorce ... and she wants full custody, there are judges now who are turning the tables on women who are trying to protect their kids and giving custody to the abusive parent."

Fathers are usually the ones who are abusive and the ones with the money, Pappas said. So, "Generally the father wins in court. There are a lot of mothers out there who are fleeing, going underground and taking on different identities," she said.

Richmond said about 75 percent of family court cases nationwide typically involve domestic violence issues, and statistics show that in "two-thirds of the cases, the kids end up with the batterer receiving custody. It's a backlash to the feminist movement."

Richmond, who said she's been involved in a custody dispute for 7 years, said her organization has about 75 members and is growing.

This weekend at Siena College in Loudonville, the third national conference entitled: "Battered Women, Abused Children and Child Custody: A National Crisis" is being held. Mo Therese Hannah, a Siena College psychology professor, organizes the seminars.

Fathers' rights groups aren't buying any of it.

"This is a bunch of nonsense," said Randy Dickinson of Ballston Spa, vice president of the Coalition of Fathers and Families/New York.

Dickinson said his organization feels the Protective Parents Association of the Northeast "is disseminating disingenuous misrepresentations and outright lies and misinformation."

He said the group has made the "ridiculous statement that 70 percent of all men who seek custody are successful, and intuitively we know that is absolutely absurd. For all of the recognition by the media and politicians and the legal community and the judicial community and the policymakers, they recognize that the fathers are the ones who are discriminated against and disadvantaged. In New York state, 93 percent of custody is awarded to mothers; nationwide it's 85 percent."

Contributing was Michele Morgan Bolton.

 


IMPORTANT NOTICE: THE BERKSHIRE FATHERHOOD COALITION is a group that is now separated and distinct from THE FATHERHOOD COALITION.
 
The Berkshire Fatherhood Coalition is an organization dedicated to promoting the Father/Child relationship and promoting gender equality in family law.