Children play in a corridor in Barcelona, Spain on November 21, 2012Children play in a corridor in Barcelona, Spain on November 21, 2012 An excerpt from an article from http://www.france24.com Doctors sounded a warning Tuesday over a rise in ADHD diagnoses, saying some children may be needlessly taking powerful drugs intended to correct a poorly understood…
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Top judge pledges to end culture of secrety at family courts
From The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10442315/Top-judge-pledges-to-end-culture-of-secrety-at-family-courts.html One of England’s most senior judges has pledged to expose family courts to the “glare of publicity” to avoid miscarriages of justice and restore public confidence. Sir James Munby, president of the Family Division of the High Court, said parents of children taken into care must no longer be gagged by the…
Read moreThe best interests of the child from the perspective of the child
An excerpt from : The Voices of Children of Divorce Listening to the real experts on the “best interests of the child” Published on November 12, 2013 by Edward Kruk, Ph.D. in Co-Parenting After Divorce My simple but constant plea to divorce practitioners and policymakers, a mantra, is that we adopt a new standard in the legal determination of…
Read moreThe realities of many non-custodial parents
Legally Obscene: Rape, Statutory Rape, and Child Support
One day we will all see child support for what it really is…a transfer of money from fathers to mothers. It has nothing to do with supporting children. I have been saying this over and over and over again. Here is yet another example of why I feel child support laws need SERIOUS reform. From…
Read moreThe Power Of Dad
Yeah, It’s an Oral-B commercial. I hate these kinds of things, but I posted this because of the message it sends about the importance fathers and the role we play. In this blog, I choose to be the total opposite of most of our media. What you tend to see on TV, print media and…
Read moreNot Lovin’ It: Dad Accused of ‘Unfit Parenting’ for Refusing to Take His Son to McDonalds
This is just another day in the life of fathers all across the country who are involved in silly custody disputes. If this does not expose the nonsense that goes on in family court, nothing will. One day, we will rip the lid off of the roof of these places and expose the rats that…
Read moreChild Support Laws Are In Need Of Reform
An opionion piece by Brenda Manghane-Washington from the Chattanoogan.com Excerpt: …I still believe there’s a need of reform in child support laws. As they stand, there is no distinction between a parent who can’t pay and a parent who refuses to pay child support. By incarcerating non-custodial parents who do not have the means to…
Read moreBroken homes, broken boys
There will be a certain point where the bullsh*t they tell people on cable news will finally end. Everything I have been saying is true, real and is starting to rear it’s ugly head…especially in places like CHICAGO. The nuclear-family meltdown of the past half a century has been particularly toxic to boys. BY KAY…
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