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Fathers Flood KABC Phone Lines
posted by Brad on Wednesday December 25, @10:32AM
from the Divorce dept.
Divorce Calls from disenfranchised fathers flooded the phone lines at KABC radio in Los Angeles during the Al Rantel Show on December 23, as Rantel and men's issues columnist Glenn Sacks discussed what Sacks called "the greatest unrecognized problem in America today"--the way divorced fathers are prevented from being a part of the lives of their children.

Disenfranchised Fathers Flood KABC Phone Lines
During Discussion of Holiday Season Access Denial

Calls from disenfranchised fathers flooded the phone lines at KABC radio in Los Angeles during the Al Rantel Show on December 23, as Rantel and men's issues columnist Glenn Sacks discussed what Sacks called "the greatest unrecognized problem in America today"--the way divorced fathers are prevented from being a part of the lives of their children.

Caller after caller spoke movingly about the way they had been driven out of their kids' lives and the pain of spending another holiday season without the children they love. Don said he lives 10 miles from his three daughters and has not been allowed to see them in two years. Dave, a father of two daughters, has fought 15 years to be a part of their lives. Barbara, a second wife, said her husband has not been allowed to see his daughter for four months. Dan fought nine years to be able to see his children. Several fathers explained how their exes had done everything they could to turn their children against them.

Rantel called what is done to these fathers "heartbreaking" and "inhuman." Sacks noted, "upon a divorce we take away everything that a father has loved and has sacrificed for, without even bothering to ensure that he can still see his children, much less remain a meaningful part of their lives. Then we hand him the bill and call it 'justice.'"

For more information on access and visitation denial and the plight of divorced dads, see the following columns, co-authored by Sacks and Dianna Thompson, executive director of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children:

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Not a shock. (Score:1)
by Thundercloud on Thursday December 26, @01:54PM EST (#1)
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It's no suprise that their lines were filled to capacity.
Since we have a "speech code" for men only in America, Canada and Great Britan, where men are not allowed to air their feelings, hopes, dreams, or issues. And can in no way speak openly about their TRUE FEELINGS conserning WOMEN, especialy the truth about DV and female misadry, just to name a couple of things.
So, it is no suprise at all that, when given a "safe" forum, Men will talk openly and honestly about their conserns, issues and frustrations, without the fear of reprisal from the PC. thought-police and the Marx-fems.

    TC.
Re:Not a shock. (Score:2)
by frank h on Thursday December 26, @02:18PM EST (#2)
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I just hope WE are not the only ones listening.
disempowered for the sake of feminist empowerment (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Thursday December 26, @05:51PM EST (#3)
My heart goes out to these Fathers at this time of the year and all year long. They have had the most precious things in their lives (their children) stripped away, then have been totally disempowered by the sexist bigoted legal system to the point that they don't have a penny left for their own needs.

The hope of someday seeing their children again keeps many of these Fathers going, who otherwise lack the funds to try to get a fair shake from our radical feminist minded government.

The men's movement is truly an army of the walking wounded, and it is no wonder that we accomplish only the smallest gains with the greatest difficulty.

Perhaps someday the people who developed the biased, Duluth Model (cycle of domestic violence)will take an objective look at the lives of men and Fathers to see at what great depths their daily cycle of battering exists.

In Western society today, many men's lives are lived out in a radical feminist cement mixer where the only break these hapless men get from their constant battering is when the radical feminist empwered controllers stop the the drum long enough to throw in fresh rocks. After that the pulverizer of radical feminist hate law is turned back on. ...and so men live out their daily lives in that drum of despair know as American society.

At this point you may ask, "Is it really that bad?" My reply would be, "No, it's actually worse than that, because the victims are so disempowered (stripped of finances, hope, etc.) that they have not the power to take back control of their lives from the despotic radical feminist empowered government that daily tyrannizes them."

The virulent infestaton of radical feminism is so deep and destructive that the restoration of men's and women's equal rights will not come quickly or easily, but our only chance of someday leading normal lives again is through our continued adamant resistance. The alternatives are too horrible for any sane man oe woman to contemplate. Please say a prayer for all the battered Dads this Holiday season. We Dads and even us non-Dads need all the help we can get considering all the targets of abuse that constantly get hung on us.

Sincerely,
Ray
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