Divorced Dads: Family Champions

Men's News Daily ^ | July 14, 2003 | Roger F. Gay

[texgal]

Please let me know what you find out. I'll be interested to know what happens when one of these finally is ruled on at the federal level.

Will do. I don't know if went to the links referred to in the article but in the Sweat case the process used to obtain child support payments was deemed unconstitutional by a lower court, but the Georgia supreme court reversed the decision saying the lower court had acted erroneously. We believe the law is on the side of the lower court and hope to encourage the Sweats to appeal at the federal level. There is another case in Tennessee, although we have not filed a friend of the court brief in that case, we probably will during the appeals process.

Even though these cases deal with child custody and support issues, all you have to do is change the words regarding custody and support to divorce and the words children to respondent. The constitutional issues regarding denial of due process are the same.

Kathlyn Smith
President
Marriage Our Mission

[RogerFGay]

"Fathers' rights advocates appear to be the sole champions in the battle for political and legal recognition of the fundamental social unit."

For all the talk about the importance of preserving family, the strange thing is that only fathers' rights advocates show serious interest through their words and actions. It is extremely unfortunate that they find it difficult to get attention in the national debate. Their cause is related to family rights and thus preservation of family. If the state does not recognize and respect family relationships, then the marriage license will become about as important as a hunting or fishing license, and perhaps much less important for anyone who depends on hunting and fishing for nutrition.

[RogerFGay]

They'll have to decide whether homosexuals get family rights that have been taken away from heterosexual couples with children.