Posted on 07/01/2002 6:15:50 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
The National Organization for Women reports that America's family courts are "incompetent and corrupt." Family law is rife with conflicts-of-interest and routinely denies due process of law, says NOW.
No one familiar with family court would argue that they are not corrupt. Yet NOW's objection seems to be that family court is not corrupt enough. NOW claims family courts are biased against mothers, but their only evidence is that the courts do not throw enough fathers out of their families.
NOW's assessment is based not on facts but on surveys of its supporters: angry women who have learned they can use the courts to separate child from their fathers. NOW says "women report" that "batterers or abusers are easily able to obtain custody of their children." But NOW provides not a single documented instance of a violent or incestuous father getting custody.
Family courts grew up in conjunction with no-fault divorce. Both were largely the creations of organized feminism. The first principle of family court is to remove the father from the home. Mothers too are sometimes forced away from their children, but NOW seems to regard that as a small price to pay for the power to eliminate fathers.
Though purporting to be a critique of the very real corruption in family Courts, NOW's report is an attack on fathers and a manifesto for removing more fathers from their homes and their children.
In fact family courts are far more destructive and dangerous than NOW alleges.
Family courts routinely confiscate children from parents who have done nothing wrong. Family courts incarcerate massive numbers of parents without trial, without charge, and without an attorney. And family courts routinely ignore and themselves violate the most basic constitutional rights, including freedom of religion and freedom of speech. But because the targets are overwhelmingly fathers, NOW has nothing to say about it.
Perhaps we should take NOW at its word: If NOW is not happy with its misbegotten child, perhaps it is time to abolish family court. After all, we already have courts to deal with those who break the law and legal agreements. We do not need courts whose bread-and-butter derives from dissolving families. But don't look for real divorce reform from the National Organization for Women.
(Stephen Baskerville is a Special Contributor to FCF News on Demand and Notable News Now.)
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No, I look for them to ALWAYS AND CONSISTENTLY do what isn't in the best interest of women. Waddabunchagits.
This is sarcasm right?
I thought it was, and darn funny too.
(...with profound apologies to rats, dogs and pigs...)
These courts have thepower to name a man as "father by default", with absolutely no test to determine if he is in fact the father. They can send and will send notice of trial dates all over the country except where you are actually at. Then hold it against you that you did not show up in court. Then they can and will take a HUGE percentage of your pay, with no regard how that destroys your life. Loss of vehicles, house, possesions, they couldn't care less. They'll charge you current support, "back" suppport, and even "reimbursement and distribution fees" - that's right, they charge you for taking your money from you! They couldn't find you to test you, or give you a chance to fight for yourself, but they can definitely find you when it's time to get that money!
And unless you're filthy rich, no lawyer wants to give you the time of day to help, they know it's a for-sure loser case.
And don't forget, even after they're robbing you blind every week, garnishing your pay, they will still go ahead and report you as a non-pay on your credit report, just to make sure they've thoroughly ruined you for life.
It's the biggest racket going right now. All started when some bimbo wrote down your name as a "potential father", because that is the only way she can get that free welfare check/AFDIC/whatever. It's a travesty for many, many men.
What now and the rest of the feminazis fail to realize is that they are making it more and more profitable to just kill the woman who claims you fathered her child. I mean, you're going to end up ruined anyway, you may as well take the one who ruined you down with you.
Now as a Christian I wouldn't do that, (although I wouldn't be above kidnapping my child and fleeing the country) but many young non-Christian men today would see it as an acceptable answer to the screwing over that they are getting.
We need to eliminate no-fault divorce and make the adultere (or adulteress) the total loser in any divorce case. If your spouse can prove adultery against you, then and only then do o you lose everything, house car, children etc. Make the cost of adultery (or jury provable abuse) so high that no married person will do it.
God Save America (Please)
In one of his more shameful moments, Reagan, while Gov. of California, was the 1st to sign into law no fault divorces.
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