Think Things Through – The Newsletter

I discovered the Socratic method many years ago and found it fascinating. When you start asking people questions and digging deeper into what people are feeling and thinking, they tend to either feel cornered or threatened – or realize what they were thinking didn’t make sense after all. With this newsletter, I‘ll share some of…

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Chris Atkins Is Not The Biological Father But Still Has To Pay Child Support

Chris Atkins has proven through a DNA test that he’s not the father of his ex-wife’s daughter. The girl was was 2 1/2 years old when the couple divorced. The truth was not revealed until their daughter was 11 years old. Since his name remains on the birth certificate, he is legally obligated to keep…

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Divorced dads: Family court system is broken -Lisa Ling

You all are so behind this #metoo stuff? Good. Here is another movement we all should rally around. Alienated parents. The ability for fathers to share equally in the rearing of their children. Shared parenting as the default in divorce cases in all 50 states. Ten years ago when I was going through my ordeal,…

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Dr. Warren Farrell – The Boy Crisis

I’m an advocate for the equal treatment of fathers, especially in the family court system. In the past, I have worked with The National Parents Organization to help change the laws in New York State. I’ve written for The Good Men Project, A Voice For Men and have written extensively on my blog The SoCraddock…

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How America’s Child Support System Failed To Keep Up With The Times

From NPR: http://www.npr.org/2015/11/19/456632896/how-u-s-parents-racked-up-113-billion-in-child-support-debt When the U.S. child support collection system was set up in 1975 under President Gerald Ford — a child of divorce whose father failed to pay court-ordered child support — the country, and the typical family, looked very different from today. And as the nation’s social, economic and demographic landscape has shifted, the…

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