The promo for this week's
His Side--"Father
Fights Adoption Agency for
Right to Raise His Son"--is
below. The show highlights
the case of embattled father
Mark Huddleston. To
reach Mark, click
here.
Because
I will be speaking at the
2005 Men's Equality Conference
July 15 and 16 in Washington
D.C., the July 17 show was
prerecorded--to listen to
Sunday's show, click
here.
Thanks to
Mike McCormick of the
American Coalition for Fathers
and Children and
Jane Spies of the
National Family Justice
Association, both of
whom have been involved
in helping Huddleston.
Adoption Guru Attacks
Glenn
Fathers'
rights in adoption was the
subject of one of my most
controversial columns--my
co-authored piece
Dads Deserve to Know
(Washington Times, 8/22/02).
The day after the column
appeared, my co-author and
I were attacked by one of
the world's leading figures
on adoption, the late William
L. Pierce, then President
of the U.S.A. Committee
of the International Association
of Voluntary Adoption Agencies
& NGOs.
Pierce's
comments give a pretty good
idea of the woman good/man
bad mentality of these agencies.
According to Pierce, in
defending fathers' right
to raise their own children
we were in fact advocating
for "disappearing hit-and-run
lovers" who father
children in "playboy
sprees." Worst of all,
we were "concerned
about equal rights for men,
as if men and women were
similarly situated in a
pregnancy."
Being
"concerned about equal
rights for men"--I
plead guilty.
The Florida law that we
defended as a lesser of
evils solution was attacked
by feminists and adoption
groups, and was later repealed
by the Florida legislature--a
fine example of how low
fathers' concerns rank with
politicians.
Glenn Quoted in Washington
Times on Working Fathers,
Anti-Father Double Standards
I was quoted on working fathers
and anti-father double standards
in the Washington Times article
Custody's high stakes
(7/10/05). Feminist law professor
Naomi Cahn gave the standard
feminist justification for
anti-father family court discrimination--that
because fathers usually are
not their children's primary
caregivers, the pro-mother
bias represents "equality."
In the article I noted:
"'There's a
lot of prejudice against
dads who aren't the primary
breadwinner...[Men] feel
like they're damned if they
do and damned if they don't'
stay home with the children."
As I explained on
Sunday's show, men's
desirability as mates is
determined in part by their
earning capacity and, once
married, men are expected
by their wives to be their
families' primary breadwinners.
According to the International
Labor Organization, the
average American father
works a 51 hour work week.
Yet, when fathers walk into
family court, the fact that
they sacrificed to provide
for their families is held
against them because they
weren't their kids' primary
caregivers. Whatever
a man does he's wrong.
To write a Letter to the
Editor concerning the article,
click
here.
The audio of last Sunday's
His Side--"In Defense
of Working Fathers"--can
be heard by clicking
here.
Glenn to Appear
with Josefa Salinas on Hot
92 JAMZ in LA
I will be discussing paternity
fraud, child support enforcement
abuses and issues facing
working fathers with
Josefa Salinas of Hot
92 JAMZ in Los Angeles at
7 AM PST on Sunday, July
17. To listen to the show,
click
here.
Will I See You at the
Men's Equality Conference
2005?
I will be speaking at the
2005 Men's Equality Conference
July 15 and 16 in Washington
D.C.--to attend, click
here. Also speaking
will be Warren Farrell,
Stephen Baskerville, Jack
Kammer, Carnell Smith, and
Dave Burroughs. The
2005 Men's Equality Conference
will be held 3 blocks from
the US capitol. For
more information, visit
www.TrueEquality.com.
Last year's conference
was exceptionally well-done.
My speech to the conference
last year was
The Future of the American
Father.
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Trial and appellate lawyer
David A. Sibley handles
handle divorces, adoptions,
child support, and child
custody. He normally accepts
only cases where he feels
real injustice exists and
his client is the victim
of the injustice. He handles
both large and small cases.
He often represents the
"small guy" against
the "large guy."
You can contact David Sibley
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your comments and suggestions.
Best Wishes,
Glenn Sacks
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Father Fights Adoption Agency
for
Right to Raise His Son
"Mark Huddleston is the
biological father of a 16-month-old
child he says he wants to
raise. But a judge has ruled
the child should remain with
its adoptive parents, who
have had custody since the
infant was three days old.
Huddleston claims he didn't
know the baby existed until
two months after its birth...the
state said the private adoption
agency hadn't properly notified
Huddleston and that he should
have an opportunity to raise
the child.
"'This child is my
blood,' said Huddleston,
a father of two grown children.
'I couldn't live with myself
knowing there's a child
of mine I have no relationship
with. They don't understand
that.'" (Valencia County
News Bulletin, 6/15/05)
Despite doing everything
possible to be a father
to his son, Huddleston's
baby boy was given away
by a vindictive mother working
hand in glove with a predatory
adoption agency. Sixteen
months and $70,000 in legal
fees later, Huddleston has
no rights to his own son.
Huddleston,
his attorney P.J. Hartman,
and Mike McCormick, Executive
Director of the
American Coalition for Fathers
and Children, will join
Glenn on
His Side with Glenn Sacks
on Sunday, July 17 at 5
PM PST/8 PM EST. For
those who are outside of
our radio stations' coverage
ranges, you can listen to
the show live via our station's
excellent Internet stream
at
Listen Live.
To
learn more, see:
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