Posted on 03/30/2007 7:18:24 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Group Protests Outside Pizza Place
Posted By: Deb Silverman Protesters were outside a Hamilton Pizza Parlor because the owner's working to help track down deadbeat parents.
Members of the national group "Fathers for Justice," are picketing outside Karen's Pizza on Eaton Avenue.
This is one of three Butler County Pizza Parlors putting the County's most wanted deadbeat parents on pizza boxes.
The unique effort by the Butler County Child Enforcement Agency recently made national news.
"What's happening is the kids are seeing this on the boxes it's awful," said John Fowler from Fathers for Justice. "We don't humiliate people that molest children or murder but we humiliate fathers and we think it's ok and it's gotta stop here."
Fathers for Justice say they expect parents to pay child support but putting their faces on pizza boxes is not the way to get them to do it.
They are calling for the resignation of Cynthia Brown, the agency's director who came up with the plan.
She says the people on the boxes have been given many chance to pay up and they have to be caught and punished.
Regardless of the "cause", mixing politics and business when your business isn't politics is bad for your business.
Maybe we should start.
Free national advertising for your small local business is not necessarily a bad thing.
I do find it fascinating that the default assumption of all these "deadbeat dad" stories is that he has the money but refuses to pay up. I'm sure this is sometimes the case, but it often is not.
Now posting pictures of Child Sexual Predators NOW THAT would be a good idea on a pizza box. What a wonderful thing to use for after dinner target practice.
We do humiliate drunk drivers in some jurisdictions.
No, it's the "sobriety-challenged".
They are greatly endangering pizza delivery people. These men are technically fugitives in some cases.
Very often the "deadbeat" dad has been divorced for no fault of his own, automatically loses his kids to his ex, then is sentenced to 18 years or more of poverty via alimony and child support. In my opinion, to be liable for alimony and child support, the "deadbeat" dad must be proven to be at fault for the divorce - otherwise you are punishing the innocent - who often cannot afford to pay the exorbitant sums demanded of them by the legal system. The no-fault divorce system is the quickest way to financial and personal disaster for most men.
Actually, it's called the Ted Kennedy Syndrome.
That really needs to be a tagline.
Here is bunch of teacher child molesters for a start (Predator List)! Put them on pizza boxes. I bet the ACLU and NOW will put a stop to it. But, not the dead beat dad operation.
No...often it's a deadbeat parent who withholds the kids from seeing the other parent....or who plays little games, like....asks the parent to buy junior a 3-wheeler.....instead of the braces....
We don't? Megan's Law isn't a shaming punishment?
Practice for the real thing?
Almost. They're "sobriety-challenged."
The war on fathers continues...
For those interested ?, check-out protest reports(1-5) on
http://www.krightsradio.com/
I'm a member of F4J, Ohio .
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