A self-censored chronicle of family court dramas, lived by parents who lost all or some visitation with or custody of a child or children based on perjury and/or other false courtroom evidence
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THE EFFECTS OF FATHER-ABSENCE ON CHILDREN
• 72% of all teenaged murderers grew up without fathers. 60% of rapists wereraised in fatherless homes.Source: Cornell, Dewey et al. “Characteristics of Adolescents Charged with Homicide.” Behavioral Sciences and the Law 5 (1987): 11-23. • 70% of the kids now incarcerated in juvenile corrections facilities grew up in asingle-parent environment.Source: Beck, Allen, Susan Kline, and Lawrence Greenfield. Survey of Youth in Custody, 1987. US Bureau of Justice Statistics. Washington, D.C.: GPO, Sept. 1988 • Fatherless children are twice as likely to drop out of school as their classmateswho live with two parents.
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Survey on Child Health. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1993. • Fatherless children are eleven times more likely than are children from intactfamilies to exhibit violent behavior. Source: Barber, Nigel. “Single Parenthood As a Predictor of Cross-National Variation in Violent Crime.” Cross-Cultural Research 38 (November 2004): 343-358. • Children whose fathers are absent consistently score lower than the norm inreading and math tests.Source: Teachman, Jay, et al. “Sibling Resemblance in Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes: The Role of Father Presence.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 60 (Nov 1998): 835-848 • 75% of teen suicides occur in single-parent families. Source: Jean Beth Eshtain, “Family Matters: The Plight of America’s Children.” The Christian Century (July 1993): 14-21. • Children who live apart from their fathers experience more accidents and a higher rate of chronic asthma, headaches, and speech defects. Source: Harknett, Kristin. Children’s Elevated Risk of Asthma in Unmarried Families: Underlying Structural and Behavioral Mechanisms. Working Paper #2005-01-FF. Princeton, NJ: Center for Research on Child Well-being, 2005: 19-27. • 80% of the adolescents in psychiatric hospitals come from fatherless homes. Source: Jack Block, et al. “Parental Functioning and the Home Environment in Families of Divorce”, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 27 (1988) • Compared to girls raised in homes where both parents are present, the daughters of single parents are 164% more likely to become pregnant before marriage, 53% more likely to marry as teenagers, and 92% more likely to dissolve their own marriages. Source: Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Atlantic Monthly (April 1993) • A growing body of evidence shows a high correlation between fatherlessness and violence among young men (especially violence against women).Source: F.R. Duplantier, The Importance Of Fathers 08-16-1995, HERITAGE FOUNDATION HOME • The absence of a biological father increases a daughter’s vulnerability to rape and sexual abuse by 900%. (Often these assaults are committed by stepfathers or the boyfriends of custodial mothers). Source: 1988 National Health Interview Survey conducted by the National Center for Health StatisticsNational Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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We only support organizations who show an understanding that children need both parents, and that either parent is equally capable of the choice to perpetrate hate or declare peace.
So, the 24/7 Dad asks himself: How well do I know myself? How well do I care for myself? How well do I “Father”? How well do I “Parent”? How well do I relate? Dad, what questions would you add to this list?
We only support organizations who show an understanding that children need both parents, and that either parent is equally capable of the choice to perpetrate hate or declare peace.
I have some thoughts that you need to hear, I am expressing this by and through my United States Constitutional Right to FREE SPEECH.
If anyone reading this has an opinion and would like to comment, that is also YOUR RIGHT, so exercise it!
Now, I wish I could say that you are simply ignorant. I wish I could say that you are being manipulated and coerced into doing what you do. Sadly, I cannot say either. The truth is, you are fully aware of the horse-and-pony show which performs daily in your “courtroom”. I have estimated that your 3 ring circus has almost 10,000 shows a year at each Courthouse in Riverside County. That would be a total 30,000 “hearings” annually in which families’ rights are being violated, perpetrated against, falsely accused, manipulated, coerced, improperly represented, denied their right to confront witnesses (the anonymous caller especially) and denied due process that is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
Most historians agree, he was one of our nation’s greatest presidents – not only for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, but also for holding the union together during the civil war. He was able to help end slavery and unite our states by standing by the fundamental principal that everyone knows in their hearts – slavery is wrong.
Not surprisingly, Lincoln stood by firm principals before his presidency. I’ve always loved what he wrote in preparing to deliver a lecture to lawyers in 1850, as they show that Honest Abe was just that, and consistent. I think some of his words of wisdom are particularly relevant today, and especially in the context of family law litigation. In custody disputes, attorneys should consider themselves in the business of truth finding, not truth hiding. And, we should never “stir up litigation.”
Quoting Lincoln:
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. Who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket? A moral tone ought to be infused into the profession which should drive such men out of it.
There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest…. Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief — resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave.
Abe’s wisdom stands the test of time. I’m one attorney who is resolved to accept his challenge. Happy birthday, Mr. President.
Submitted by Mike Haskell. Mike is a practicing family law attorney from Grand Rapids Michigan. He is a divorced father and shared parenting advocate. Posting of this article is not an endorsement for, or recommendation of, Haskell Law.
In his book Sacred Marriage, Gold Medallion-winning author Dr. Gary Thomas writes,
“Abraham Lincoln was an unusual man of principle simply in the way he approached courtship. He agreed to marry a woman who he hadn't seen in 3 years. When he finally saw his prospective bride, his heart sunk. ‘She did not look as my imagination had pictured her,’ he wrote. ‘I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother. The lack of teeth and the treelike assessment of her age - nothing could have commenced at the size of infancy, and reached her present bulk in less than 35 or 40 years!’
Because Lincoln was a man of his word - although not pleased with this woman - he was determined to marry her. He got down on one knee and... she rejected him. Lincoln made an absolute fool of himself.
Mary Todd Lincoln was a woman of intense impulse and she had a tremendous temper. Lincoln suffered many indignities at the hand of his wife. From her publicly throwing coffee in his face, to chasing him with a knife, to her crazy spending binges of buying hundreds of pairs of gloves at a time, she was responsible for their own marital uncivil war.
When the Lincolns lost their son Willie - Mary's favorite son - her hysterics were difficult to control. It was after losing his son and watching his wife fall apart, Lincoln wrote the speech that would mark him for posterity, The Gettysburg Address.
Lincoln shone brightest when his personal life was darkest. It's important to see that not only did Lincoln's difficult marriage not deter him from achieving greatness, one might argue that it acutely helped prepare him for greatness. Lincoln's character was tested and refined on a daily basis so that when the true test came, he was able to stand strong.”
We only support organizations who show an understanding that children need both parents, and that either parent is equally capable of the choice to perpetrate hate or declare peace.
What happens in Florida when visitation rights are frustrated? NOTHING!!!!
Professional Compliance Bureau (PCB) Major Shimminger conducted an (PCB) investigation on the reporting officer but failed to properly investigate false police report by woman/mother who fabricated an incident of domestic violence.
You won't believe the state of parental rights in America today. Here is just a sampling of all that is going wrong as our families are being invaded all across the country. Read it and please pass it on!
The law is not on your side.In every one of these cases the judge ruled against legally fit parents.
As a result, more and more parents are afraid to even take their child to the emergency room, lest one wrong answer lead to the removal of their child and the loss of their parental rights.
In Tennessee, a dad was arrested trying to pick up his special-needs daughter at the end of the school day. No fighting, no yelling. Just asking for his children and not backing down.
A Georgia Army vet was banned from her child’s school grounds for posting her newly earned concealed carry gun permit online. No threats; no plans to violate the “gun-free zone.” She simply has a permit, and was banned from the school.
The law is not on your side. Laws in a majority of states limit or entirely deny to parents any “right” to be present on school grounds where their child is in attendance. What’s more, some school districts have banned parents from sending a lunch with their child, requiring that they buy school-provided lunch instead. And a bill in New York would require that all parents attend state-provided parenting classes before their child can graduate the sixth grade.
But why do parents need to make decisions in the schools anyway? Surely they can trust the institutions where they leave their children every day, right?
It’s often said divorce brings out the worst in people. This is undoubtedly true, but in many cases well-meaning judges often inadvertently make a bad situation worse.
Two recent cases illustrate this problem. In the first case, a stay-at-home mother in a small town had an extra-marital affair, which led her husband to file for divorce. Their neighbors ostracized the mother to such an extent she decided to move 150 miles away and take the kids with her. The father, who had been an active part of the kids’ lives, understandably didn’t want this to happen since he would now see his children only infrequently.
While the judge was very troubled by the facts before the court, the mother was allowed to move and take the kids with her. Not only will the kids now see their father only infrequently, they also were uprooted from the only home they had known as well as from their schools, friends and extended family. The judge’s decision relied heavily on the fact that the mother had been a stay-at-home mother and, in the judge’s eyes, had historically been the “primary” parent.
In the second case, a military father deployed overseas returned home to discover his wife engaged in an extra-marital affair. He filed for divorce and, even though he had been an active parent, the court awarded sole custody of his children to his ex-wife. He now sees his children only every-other-weekend. The judge in this case also based his decision on the notion that the mother had historically been the “primary” parent.
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The fundamental right to parent without interference is protected by the U.S. Constitution and balanced by the judicially recognized power of the state to interfere to protect the well-being of its children. Factors used in both dependency court and family court proceedings to determine whether children need to become wards of the state and to determine which parent is the more competent custodian may be reasonable. Nonetheless, these rules have not been objectively or justly applied to parents with disabilities.
Protecting the Rights of Parents and Prospective Parents with Disabilities: Technical Assistance for State and Local Child Welfare Agencies and Courts underTitle II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) are issuing this technical assistance to assist state and local child welfare agencies and courts to ensure that the welfare of children and families is protected in a manner that also protects the civil rights of parents and prospective parents1 with disabilities. This guidance provides an overview of the issues and application of civil rights laws, answers to specific questions and implementation examples for child welfare agencies and courts, and resources to consult for additional information.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504)2 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)3 protect parents and prospective parents with disabilities from unlawful discrimination in the administration of child welfare programs, activities, and services.4 At the same time, child welfare agencies and courts have the responsibility to protect children from abuse and neglect. The goals of child welfare and disability non-discrimination are mutually attainable and complementary. For example, ensuring that parents and prospective parents with disabilities have equal access to parenting opportunities increases the opportunities for children to be placed in safe and caring homes.
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U.S. Department of Health And Human Services Office for Civil Rights Administration for Children and Families
U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Disability Rights Section
Listen to Fathers' Rights Attorney Jeffery Leving interview President Obama on the vital importance of responsible fatherhood.
• 72% of all teenaged murderers grew up without fathers. 60% of rapists were raised in fatherless homes.Source: Cornell, Dewey et al. “Characteristics of Adolescents Charged with Homicide.” Behavioral Sciences and the Law 5 (1987): 11-23.
• 75% of teen suicides occur in single-parent families. 
Source: Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Atlantic Monthly (April 1993)
In Tennessee, a dad was arrested trying to pick up his special-needs daughter at the end of the school day. No fighting, no yelling. Just asking for his children and not backing down.
In the second case, a military father deployed overseas returned home to discover his wife engaged in an extra-marital affair. He filed for divorce and, even though he had been an active parent, the court awarded sole custody of his children to his ex-wife. He now sees his children only every-other-weekend. The judge in this case also based his decision on the notion that the mother had historically been the “primary” parent.
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