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| Feminist
Propaganda on Financial Status of Women
After Divorce |
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The
following thread explains the intentionally
deceptive propaganda spread by feminists
in "books" and media interviews
that are blatantly manufactured statistics.
The fact is the men are driven into
near immediate poverty due to overly
generous child "support"
(child extortion really because it
is far more than the cost of the child,
and not even spent on the child).
The fact is that women earning only
$20,000 working part-time take-home
81% more pay than the father when
he earns double that amount ($40,000).
In fact dad can earn FIVE TIMES
as much as mom and he WILL STILL (by
mathematical calculated proof) have
a standard of living that is about
10% below mom's! This is just a sick
transfer of wealth driven by the government's
financial incentives to drive child
support higher and decades of false
propaganda by extreme feminists with
no intention other than preventing
equal rights for men. |
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| Child
Support Financial Analysis |
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| This is not theory, or even research.
This is just plain simple math base
on the child support guidelines of Massachusetts. |
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COMMON SCENARIOS |
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| Mother's
Income |
$20,000 |
$20,000 |
$20,000 |
$20,000 |
Large incentive
NOT to earn (or disclose) more |
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| Father's
Income |
$40,000 |
$60,000 |
$80,000 |
$100,000 |
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| Child Support
Payments (26%) |
$10,400 |
$15,600 |
$20,800 |
$26,000 |
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| Federal,
State & FICA Taxes (32%) |
$12,800 |
$19,200 |
$25,600 |
$32,000 |
< --- ALL taxes
paid by father |
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| TOTAL PERCENTAGE
OF FATHER'S INCOME: |
58.0% |
58.0% |
58.0% |
58.0% |
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RESULTS |
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| Take-home
Pay of Father |
$16,800 |
$25,200 |
$33,600 |
$42,000 |
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| Take-home
Pay of Mother |
$30,400 |
$35,600 |
$40,800 |
$46,000 |
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| Mother's
Taxable Equivalent Income |
$45,600 |
$53,400 |
$61,200 |
$69,000 |
<== Multiplied
by 1.5 to gross up for a 33% tax
rate. |
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| Standard
of Living of Mother Higher By: |
81.0% |
41.3% |
21.4% |
9.5% |
Calculated by ratio
of take-home pay available to
spend. |
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5X |
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| PROPAGANDA: |
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That the average
divorced woman's standard of living
drops 72% in the 1st year of divorce.
This 'standard of living' decrease
has been
one of the most blatant lies based
on NOTHING factual for years. This,
said this idiotic woman, was because
the woman typically got
custody of the kids (said with a tone
that made it sound like she 'lost'
and therefore had to get custody).
She neglected to mention
that a child support and alimony bonanza
comes with those kids.
Whenever hearing
any numbers like that - demand to
know the full source and to see the
full study.Anyone who uses such a
number without providing a fully detailed
and qualified source of the information
is merely spreading mis-information.
Propaganda. |
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You are correct
that misquoted and in-correct number
appears to be from a Judith Wallerstein's
book that was fully de-bunked as a
garbage number - I think in Sanford
Braver's book, as well as many other
places - but that is still referred
to and spread about
Sanford L. Braver
http://www.public.asu.edu/%7Edevra1/
In 1985, a book was
published that had a profound effect
on how the general public viewed the
economic impact divorce had on women
versus men.
There was one problem. The research
results presented by Author/Researcher
Lenore Wietzman would later prove
by her own admission that the data
presented was dramatically incorrect.
But the tragic truth was understated
to the enormity of the devastation
her erroneous data would brought unto
Americans and their children.
Like a virus out of control, Her inaccuracies
surfaced in an unknown number of reports
where her figures are erroneously
attributed to other sources.
Her incorrect findings began to be
regarded as a store of common knowledge.
Citations of her findings appear in
over 348 social science articles,
250 law review articles, and 24 appeals
cases.
Her conclusions are ranked among the
most cited demographic statistic of
the 1980's.
** This mistake was even included
as factual research data by The U.S.
Census.
But before the blame was placed on
a college intern by Lenore Weitzman
for the mistake in math. The damage
had been done.
As cited from the January 24, 1993
Arizona Republic that Lenore Weitzman's
studies indicated, "An average
ex-husband's income increases 42 percent
on average after a divorce, while
an ex-wife's income declines 72 percent."
Her results were never subjected to
a certified peer review. Which when
applied shows a far different picture
with even a greater long term decline
in the ex-husband's income over the
ex-wife's income.
So now due to the distruibition of
incorrect and suspect data the balance
of justice was unfairly tipped against
Fathers. Making it clear and apparent
that ex-wives with the aid of an ill
informed judical system has been taking
a far greater advantage of their male
counterparts than ever before suspected.
http://www.public.asu.edu/%7Edevra1/
Sanford L. Braver
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Box 871104
Tempe, AZ 85287-1104
(480) 965-5405 voice
(480) 965-5430 fax
(480) 965-3326, main office
(480) 965-7420, PRC office sanford.braver@asu.edu
I am part of the Prevention Research
Center. I am also part of the Social
Psychology Program and the Quantitative
Research Methods Program in Psychology.
TO DOWNLOAD .PDF COPIES OF SOME OF
MY RECENT PAPERS,
CLICK THE RELEVANT LINK BELOW: |
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| Sanford
L. Braver |
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| Arizona
Statse University |
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Box 871104
Tempe, AZ 85287-1104
(480) 965-5405 voice
(480) 965-5430 fax
(480) 965-3326, main office
(480) 965-7420, PRC office
sanford.braver@asu.edu |
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| I
am part of the
Prevention Research Center. I
am also part of the
Social Psychology Program
and the
Quantitative Research Methods Program
in Psychology. |
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| TO
DOWNLOAD .PDF COPIES OF SOME OF MY RECENT
PAPERS, |
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THE RELEVANT LINK BELOW: |
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| Divorced
parents’ financial support of their
children’s college expenses |
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| Fabricius,
W.V., Braver, S.L. & Deneau, K.
(2003). Family Court Review, 41(2),
224-241 |
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| Non-child
support expenditures on children by
nonresidental divorced fathers: Results
of a study |
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| Fabricius,
W.V. & Braver, S. L. (2003). Family
Court Review, 41(3), 321-336. |
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Braver,
S.L. & Stockburger, D. (2004).
Child support guidelines and the equalization
of living standards.
In W. S. Comanor (Ed.). The Law and
Economics of Child Support Payments
(pp. 91-127).
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Experiences
of family law attorneys with current
issues in divorce practice
Braver, S.L., Cookston, J.T. &
Cohen, B.R. (2002). Family Relations,
51(6), 325-334.
Relocation
of children after divorce and children’s
best interests: New evidence and legal
considerations.
Braver, S.L., Ellman, I.M. &
Fabricius, W.V. (2003) Journal
of Family Psychology, 17(2), 206-219.
The
gender gap in standard of living after
divorce: Vanishingly small?
Braver, S.L. (1999). Family Law
Quarterly, 33, 111-134.
Chapter
4 from Divorced Dads: Shattering
the Myths. The surprising truth about
fathers, children and divorce.
Braver, S.L. & O’Connell, D. (1998).
Tarcher/Putnam: New York.
Taking on Myth 3: Standards of Living. |
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| Pasley,
K. & Braver, S. L. (2003) Measuring
father involvement in divorced, nonresident
fathers. In R. Day, & M. Lamb (Eds.)
Conceptualizing and Measuring Father
Involvement (pp. 217-240). Mahwah,
NJ: Erlbaum. |
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| Fabricius,
W.V. & Braver, S.L. (2004). Expenditures
on children and visitation time: A reply
to Garfinkel, McLanahan and Wallerstein.
Family Court Review, 42(2), 350-362. |
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Braver,
S.L., Griffin, W.A. & Cookston,
J.T. (in press). Prevention programs
for divorced non-resident fathers.
Family Court Review
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| Braver,
S.L., Shapiro, J.R. & Goodman, M.R.
(in press). The consequences of divorce
for parents. In M. A. Fine
& J.H. Harvey (Eds.). Handbook
of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution.
Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. |
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| Braver,
S. L., Griffin, W.A., Cookston, J.T.,
Sandler, I.N. & Williams, J. (in
press). Promoting better fathering among
divorced nonresident fathers. In W.M.
Pinsof & J. Lebow (eds.) Family
Psychology: The Art of the Science.
NY: Oxford University Press. |
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Any
comments or questions, contact
sanford.braver@asu.edu
Last
updated February 24, 2004.
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| Divorced parents’
financial support of their children’s
college expenses
Fabricius, W.V., Braver, S.L. &
Deneau, K. (2003).
Family Court Review, 41(2), 224-241
Non-child support expenditures on
children by nonresidental divorced
fathers: Results of a study
Fabricius, W.V. & Braver, S. L.
(2003). Family Court Review, 41(3),
321-336.
Braver, S.L. & Stockburger, D.
(2004). Child support guidelines and
the equalization of living standards.
In W. S. Comanor (Ed.). The Law and
Economics of Child Support Payments
(pp. 91-127).
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Experiences of family law attorneys
with current issues in divorce practice
Braver, S.L., Cookston, J.T. &
Cohen, B.R. (2002).
Family Relations, 51(6), 325-334.
Relocation of children after divorce
and children’s best interests: New
evidence and legal considerations.
Braver, S.L., Ellman, I.M. & Fabricius,
W.V. (2003) Journal of Family Psychology,
17(2), 206-219.
Sanford
L. Braver,
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Box 871104
Tempe, AZ 85287-1104
(480) 965-5405 voice
(480) 965-5430 fax
(480) 965-3326, main office
(480) 965-7420, PRC office
sanford.braver@asu.edu
Dear
Mr. Braver,
I
came across some of your work on a
group list of divorced and divorcing
fathers that provides support and
information.
Though
I have not read all your research
on this topic I have started to review
some. I feel actual mathematical
calculations reflect facts much better
that research and theories. The FACT
is that the average man in my state
is driven quickly into poverty by
divorce and put in a desperate situation
to merely survive. Divorce is the
#3 reason for bankruptcy and about
11 times more fathers than mothers
commit suicide in the years after
divorce. When a restraining order
is obtained (available to any woman
for the asking 40,000 times per year)
Women get 90% of the fathers take-home
income (yes literally) for the entire
divorce process. This creates incentive
for women to spread this out and lawyer
make a fortune off this.
Attached
you will find the mathematical proof
that under Massachusetts child support
guidelines (the highest in the nation
I am told) mothers live at a standard
of living 81% higher than fathers
when they earn half as much. Of course,
any number of scenarios can be created
but these are the most common and
the state's guidelines create these
scenarios by letting mom earn $20,000
without any reduction in CS.
Basically men are criminalized by
divorce in Massachusetts and must
become criminals to survive by working
under the table and purging themselves
in court becuase this system is totally
out of control. Nearly any scenario
will show mom is enormously favored
(as a result of legalized and unconstitutional
kidnapping of children which
has been scientifically proven to
cause great harm to children. See
Dr. Warren Farrell's book Father and
Child Reunion which was the result
of a 13 year meta study of over 200
research projects in this area.)
I would ask you to review this simple
math and incorporate this example
it into any future research papers
you may publish. We all know the massive
disinformation spread by feminists
has cause a horrible, and I would
even say evil system to grow into
a huge for profit industry by destroying
fathers emotionally, financial and
in other ways. The Mass. child
support formulas are available on
line at:
http://www.cse.state.ma.us/parents/cal_CS_order.htm for
your own independent verification.
This
has gotten to the point that it is
simply a crime against society, children
and men. It is driven now, as you
must know, by the federal, Clinton
created (father abandoned him at an
early age), kickbacks that create
incentives for states and judges to
drive child support higher every year
to fund their own courts, staff and
in some states even their pension
funds directly (MI). Putting aside
the fact that this is a direct conflict
of interest for judges which is against
their oath, it is also an incentive
to award physical custody primarily
to mom so dad can be harvested financially
and the state gets a percentage of
every dime collected from dad indirectly
or directly. Dr. Farrell believes
this phenomena to be in great part
due to men's innate, genetic programming
to "protect women", though
obviously there are many other factors
like an unbalanced propaganda and
lobbying campaign for several decades
now.
I
hope your work can dispel the myths
that are destroying our families and
help shared parenting become law nationally.
Sincerely, Father
in divorce who has had his children
kidnapped by a judge for ransom for
no good reason
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