The HORROR of the Family Court

[Percy]

Let NO-ONE be in any doubt that the
Family Court is a modern Feminazi equivalent of a
medaeval torture dungeon.

Truth doesn't matter.

Lies are accepted as long as a woman is the liar.

Assets are stripped from men who have done NO wrong.

Children are wrenched from their fathers and given to mothers who
LIE, CHEAT and STEAL.

The Immoral and Perverted are REWARDED, as long as they are women.

Judges are paid a small fortune from the Public purse to
villify, demean and Jail MEN

http://www.fathermag.com/904/baskerville/

Why Is Daddy in Jail?

--for the crime of wanting to see his child.

by Stephen Baskerville

Someday Hollywood will make a movie of this: A father is sentenced to prison for wanting to take his son to a ballgame. Up against him is his ex-wife, the legal system, and various women's groups, all declaring him a deadbeat and a batterer, all of it untrue.

But as a result, he's in a cell while his ex and her new boyfriend take little Johnny to a Mets game.

Improbable? Only in the sense that Hollywood would ever make such a movie. Unfortunately it's an all too real scenario that is taking place everyday across the country.

The case of a man we'll call Alan is fairly typical. Without warning Alan came home one day to find his apartment cleaned out. His wife and two-year-old girl were gone.

Shortly afterwards Alan was summoned to court and as a "defendant," was ordered to stay away from his daughter most of the time and to begin making child support payments.

His two-hour, thrice-weekly visits with his daughter were supervised and she was not allowed to stay with him overnight, since his wife alleged that he was dangerous and would kidnap her. The accusations eventually proved groundless, and the supervision terminated. After a year Alan was permitted one overnight visit with his daughter per week.

His wife, meanwhile, was never charged with making false accusations nor has the fabrication counted against her in the custody proceedings.

Various experts testified that Alan is no danger whatever to his daughter and that he is a devoted and loving father. All these findings were ignored by the courts.

More than four years after his wife left, the child remains with her. He has spent a $160,000 inheritance on legal fees, not counting about 40 percent of his income for child support, and now lives hand-to-mouth.

Then there's Bruce, who was a truck driver in Boston and who came home one day to find his things on the street, the locks on his doors changed, and his wife's new boyfriend already moved in.

Angry and bewildered, Bruce kicked in the door and began shouting. (He did not strike anyone.) His wife called the police, who arrived and took Bruce away in handcuffs.

She got a restraining order preventing any contact with his three children. When his son was hospitalized with an illness, he was not allowed to visit. Eventually Bruce was allowed to see his children at a supervised visitation center with his wife and her boyfriend present in the next room.


Another man, Tom, tells of how he was living with his wife in California, where they were raising their three children as vegetarians like themselves. He thought she was content until one day, when she told him she wanted to move back to her native Virginia. He agreed to the move. After establishing residency in Virginia, however, she left with the children, and he was hauled into court.

Then, after an injury left him without an adequate income he found himself in jail for failure to pay child support.

Eventually he relocated in the Washington area to find work. Tom now drives three hours each way to get his children from his wife's place in Virginia, twice every other weekend. His ex-wife subsequently gave up her vegetarianism and obtained a court order preventing him from discussing diet with his children. His children are used as informers to monitor his compliance, and their relationship is now strained.

Tom now belongs to a fathers' group that meets in Arlington, Virginia. Almost every member has a similarly painful story. Some have not seen their children in years. The children of a few will no longer speak to them. Others regularly drive hundreds of miles to visit their children in hotels or visitation centers. Several with no previous criminal records have spent time in jail.

The group is currently involved with the case of Michael Mahoney, a father in an Arlington jail awaiting sentencing for criminal contempt.

Mahoney has already lost his job, his home, his savings, his freedom, and most recently his health (he has developed congestive heart failure, severe stomach ulcers, sleep apnea, and has undergone brain surgery for subdural hematoma).

His private life has also been exposed to public view and he himself vilified on "Geraldo" and at least one other nationally televised talk show.

And these fathers are angry. Alan describes the system as a legal "child-kidnapping and extortion racket."

Even more though, they are in shock. Like virtually all men in their position, none realized that such a thing could happen until it did.

Copyright © 1999 Stephen Baskerville. All rights reserved.


Stephen Baskerville teaches political science at Howard University.


This article is reprinted from the Winter 1999 issue of


The Women's Quarterly,


a publication of the Independent Women's Forum


(www.iwf.org).


For information write info@iwf.org or call 800-224-6000.



The Secret Alimony Hidden in Child Support Scientific proof exists that many child support awards are too high. By Roger F. Gay.

Fathers' Rights Are Fathers' Duties Why political action is the best thing you can do for yourself, your case -- and above all your children. By Stephen Baskerville.

Domestic Armageddon Who profits from the maternal child-snatching epidemic? Two book reviews by Stephen Baskerville.

Just Let Me Be a Dad A review of Michelle D. Lovato's book of practical advice for divorcing fathers.

Men Are Beasts Whereas false accusations by women are in fact rare, occurring no more often than do other false reports of crimes, such as bank robbery -- Joint Congressional Resolution 182.

Class Dismissed Has America created a new class of citizens who are excluded from constitutional provisions regarding due process and debtors prison?

Father from Afar Fathers from afar must learn how to hear what is not said, feel what is not seen, and say what should be said.

Let No Man Put Asunder Is our traditional faith in justice being eroded by courts that operate as a child kidnapping and extortion racket?

Angels and Divorce Dean Hughson tells how a couple of angels helped save him in those critical hours following his divorce.

Gender Bias in Family Court A paralegal gives her insider's view of women who make use of the child kidnapping and extortion racketeers in our justice system.

In the Best Interest of the Child Today's fathers are more likely to seek custody. Many of them will need to prepare for a child custody evaluation.

Mother Accuses Father of Child Abuse What to do? Win! Advice from The Fathering Advisor with links to resources.

What Fathers Do Jack Kammer's story shows us how fathers affect the lives of teenage boys.

My Dad Is a Hero ...all of a sudden we were fugitives....Dad, I know you spent fathers' day in jail this year, so no one else has to do what we had to do. You are my hero, dad, I love you.

Deserted Her mother said "Your father left you because he doesn't love you." Now she has learned the truth--her loving father was forced out of her life.

Matriarchy Marked by Tribalism and Violence Feminism reigns when men don't claim their children.

Deceptions of a Gender Equal Society All present and past human societies are patriarchal, in spite of the many feminist lies and half-truths invented to obscure this.

The Family Court MUST be dismantled and destroyed.

The people who work in the Family Court system MUST be punished.

Severely.

[paul parmenter]

This is the sharpest point of active misandry in our societies; the blades of the mincing machine, the most blatant area of discrimination and where the most damage is done directly to men and children. These stories are endless and show up women, governments and the legal system, all at their hideous worst. The family courts seem to be the place where humanity is stood on its head; where the most inhuman are given powers that they promptly abuse for their own reward, and the most human are punished for...well, being human.

No wonder the liars and abusers hide behind closed doors. They must have some sense of shame; pity it does not get any further than a desire to keep their own evil hidden from public view.

A great public cleansing exercise is in order, like the Augean stables of old. There are a number of judges and politicians who need to be stripped naked and given a severe hosing down with boiling water and disinfectant; and the same treatment can be applied to the mouths of innumerable women, to wash out the lies. And it should be done in the public squares of our towns and cities for all to see.

[julie]

Father's day is this weekend.

The crosses will most likely be laid outside of Parliament again in recognition of all the fathers who committed suicide.

[Stan]

I have had that happen to me...false allegations in an "ex parte" (only my exe shows up and makes claims) move for supervised visitation.

It took me 3-4 months and 30K to sort that out. In the end there was no basis, I had to pay 800 a month to see my son as if I was a violent criminal or something.

Were the false allegations punished? NO. Was my son harmed by the matter? YES. Can I get my money back? NO. Can it happen again at any time? YES. If I did not have the money could I have gotten the SV removed? NO.

[shaazam]

the ""Family Court"" despite its evocative name is nothing but a resurrection of the Soviet Star Chamber System

it is a evil that now infects most western countries and as the Soviet prototype done it processes the innocent ( male chauvinistic pig) into a form of ambulatory slavery where the victim is fitted with peonage dues for a very long time based on despicable unethical feminit laws

the perpetrator just complains she ain't go enough being the narcissistic feminit brainwashed ingrate that she is and at all times operates under the "no fault" "opting out" " right to choose about her own body let someone else pay her invoices" privilege bequeathed to her by feminitism

loyalty obligation commitment gratitude to her erstwhile "partner" PFFFFF just words !!!!

[Stan]

Remember how so many people left Europe to come to the New World?

Sometimes I think we need a new frontier, at this point a new planet to tame for mankind. A fresh start.

I wonder though. I see my son so seldom and only under my Exe's watchful eye with her calling all the shots. To me he seems SO feminized. I can really see the benefit for kids having BOTH parents in their lives. It makes them more complete people.

I really don't care for the view he has the mom always gets her way no matter what. I mean he seems to have lost hope that things will ever improve.

I heard from his therapist recently...with no Dad in his life (despite my efforts since 2001) her view is that he is doing fine. She says that she would only "step in" if she felt he was about to commit suicide. In that case it almost seems like her true motivation would be to save her own career?

The whole starting point in these Family Court matters is with the female POV. Most of the individuals you interface with are female. There is a high percentage of divorces amongst them, and a huge percentage of lesbians. it seems like the careers in FC attract certain POVs. I mean I could never work in FC..I'd try to help people and not just women while ignoring kids and men.