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Deadbeat Moms
posted by Brad on Friday August 09, @09:56AM
from the Divorce dept.
Divorce Agraitear points out a recent FoxNews article.
"Single dads are sick and tired of being labeled "deadbeats" when it comes to paying child support. And data suggest they have good reason to be upset.

The percentage of "deadbeat" moms is actually higher than that of dads who won't pay, even though mothers are more consistently awarded custody of children by the courts."

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Fox on a Limb (Score:2)
by frank h on Friday August 09, @10:57AM EST (#1)
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Fox is gonna catch some heat from the feminists for publishing this, so I would suggest that you respond positively to their article. There is a "Respond to the Editor" button at the bottom of the article, just as there is at the bottom of Wendy's articles.
No. Thank You (Score:1)
by Ray on Friday August 09, @07:22PM EST (#4)
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MenaActivism:
Emailed them my thanks for the story, and once again thank you for the opportunity.
Ray
MY LIFE'S IN RUINS (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Friday August 09, @06:51PM EST (#2)
This has all been building up inside of me for some time so the fact I’m speaking a little hard some times doesn’t surprise me, but it may you. I’m reminded of all the images of those jets hitting the world trade center towers. It’s amazing when you stop and think about how much video documentation actually occurred of those events. I even saw a release of the one going into the pentagon, with the last frame omitted, obviously for some security reason. So what’s the point of recalling the terror, the horror, the humanity lost in those macabre events?

I guess it’s the magnitude of the tragedy that creates such a strong parallel. The events of that morning were very concentrated and dynamic in the way those enormous structures (twin skyscrapers) and technologies (four airplanes) played a part in the demise of so many innocent human lives.

Nothing so dramatic is evident in the picking off of one childless father, or one battered husband at a time, until you add up all the lives eventually lost and find a human tragedy of a much higher magnitude. Certainly, this greater tragedy than Sept. 11, has been steadily occurring in the lives of innocent men in America as a result of a concentrated campaign of hate relentlessly attacking, and destroying life, after life, after life.

I am reminded of some the words of a song, sung by Bruce Springstein, during that special about a week and a half after the Sept. 11 events. “My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins, come on and rise up, rise up, come on and rise up, my city's in ruins.” It chokes me up even now as I write the words, but I must write on. Change the word city's to life's and you would have the words of tens of thousands of childless fathers and battered men in America today.

How long... What will it take, to bring the end to all the pain I feel every day living in a country where laws exists solely to do evil to me, and other innocent, victimized men like me? How did I feel on the day of that tragic event, when I saw Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton and there bigoted ilk standing on the steps of the capitol, singing, “God Bless America?” Numb, very numb... This is no longer my country in heart, or mind. With every passing day, wherein good people are unable to change the law’s abuses, the number of men like me grows, and grows.

America is no longer a country that fairly addresses grievances under law or dispenses equal justice to all. It is nothing more than a facade of the creation it started out as, now devoid of the principals it once stood for.

Heed my words you radical feminist you have sowed the wind, but you will reap the whirlwind. There’s a storm of righteous law a commin’ on your evil laws and it can’t come too soon. May God bless this end himself, and may good men and women everywhere join together to see it through.
ANONYMOUS

Re:MY LIFE'S IN RUINS (Score:1)
by Ray on Friday August 09, @07:11PM EST (#3)
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Amen
Re:MY LIFE'S IN RUINS (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Saturday August 10, @02:33AM EST (#7)
My heart sincerly goes out to you, "Anonymous".
You're NOT alone.
Not by a long-shot...,

        Thundercloud.
Another Example of Bias Against Men (Score:1)
by Ray on Friday August 09, @10:14PM EST (#5)
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On this Los Angeles County Government web site, http://childsupport.co.la.ca.us/dlparents.htm you will see photographs of 4 men and 2 women posted as "delinquent parents." Clearly the county does not believe in representing the people on their web site according to the statistics Fox News is quoting. It appears they are biased against men. Also, look at the amounts they are delinquent. The least amount delinquent for any man is more than the most amount delinquent for any woman. What can you expect from a county that has a Commission for Women, but no Commission for Men. Once again, no equal justice under the law.
Ray

Re:Another Example of Bias Against Men (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Saturday August 10, @01:41AM EST (#6)
Frankly, I'm quite surprised that they offered *any* pictures of women. At least they're throwing us an occasional bone...

-hobbes
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