"Partly we do and partly no. I don't think that NCPs or CPs should be penalized just because they don't contribute. But that the circumstances should be addressed. If their non-contribution is just temporary and with very good reason, I'd rather help them get past the situation keeping them from being able to support than punish. If their non-support is because they simply don't try, don't care, or don't want to, I have no qualms about punishment. "
Which brings us right back to my original point in this conversation, the fact that there is only one group of people in the US who are allowed, by law, to contribute nothing to the financial needs of a child - and that is a custodial parent. While I believe both parents should be equally responsible for the financial needs of a child, I can not support a system that turns 50% of the equation into criminals while the other 50% isn't even breaking the law.
As to supporting Morales, read my first post on this topic - which btw, was directed at you. I hardly support, in anyway the actions of Morales nor do I support groups/people who try and defend what he did.
To: RogerFGay
Since I'm becoming known on FR for being pro-fathers rights and debate child support/fathers issues quite a bit, I have to respond to this article.
I can not condone in anyway violent acts made by even the most desperate men. Though I have seen men stripped of their homes, their possessions, 60%+ of their earnings, their tax returns, their credit standing, their children and their freedom, using violence as a means to an end does nothing to further the cause of fathers rights. It does however give the fathers rights movement a black eye when such behavior takes place.
Aside from being pro-fathers, I am also pro-life. My pro-life position follows the same as my pro-fathers, I can not condone in anyway bombing of abortion clinics or the murder of abortion doctors. While I realize those incidents are actually rare compared to the number of clinics and doctors performing abortions, it does and has happend. In the end all it does is give ammunition to those who look for any reason to call pro-life people/groups nutcases and violent people. The same for fathers who use violence to protest the current unjust, unconstitutional and highly biased family court/child support system.
243 posted on 8/22/02 9:29 PM Eastern by Brytani
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I think you'll look a lot more like a fathers advocate when you start saying that you do not condone the war that's being waged against fathers.