Rocky Mountain News: "Fathers' rights woefully ignored"

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2008-11-24 19:40

Opinion piece here. Excerpt:

'It’s a sad fact that in political campaigns the truth is maligned and mud is thrown in an effort to discredit the other party. What’s sadder is that this is a reality in divorce. A modern effort to discredit loving parents in the name of revenge and greed.

What defines truth? What makes truth evidence? To what extent does a court accept hearsay evidence as fact? Courts have a demonstrated bias to side with the mother. Why is this? Maybe in the days of our grandparents when mothers were the sole nurturer in the nuclear family while fathers served only as material providers - but not today. Today we see mothers stuffing newborn babies into microwaves or throwing them into dumpsters because their new boyfriend wasn’t interested in someone with a child. Today we see premenopausal women leaving young ones alone at night while they relive their teenage party years. How the paternal families grieve for the loss of these children - children who they had fought for custody of and were denied because the court sided with the mother just because she was a woman. Giving birth does not make someone a mother, it makes them a donor.'

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Many of the deformities in our Family / Divorce court system are a direct consequence of the adversarial nature of the legal process itself.

When a couple is going through a divorce, the first thing they learn is that attorneys profit from conflict and will do everything to escalate and prolong it.

If the courts mandated a period of mediation - typically a much lower conflict attempt to work things out - before battling it out in full open combat, then the lawyers would lose lucrative income.

A divorcing couple can elect on their own to try mediation, and if an agreement can be reached, they can simply go to court (with their respective attorneys) and ask the judge to approve it.

More divorcing fathers should consider mediation, because it's a way to avoid the anti-father bias in Family Court.

Of course, if the break-up is truly hostile or one party is determined to destroy the other, then its gloves off in the courtroom war theatre.

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Submitted by Roy on Tue, 2008-11-25 15:04

manonthestreet

I believe in private property. So there should be no mediation. People should just take what is theirs away with them . The problem is that the courts over rule a many property rights, confiscate his property and give it the the wife. And you in the USA and UK think you are free. That's the point we all need to understand. In no real terms are men in the USA or UK free. So why you keep on going on about it and fighting wars for it just underlines your gullibility.

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Submitted by trotter on Tue, 2008-11-25 18:12