Subject: NY Fathers, Supporters Battle Leading Feminist Attorney on NY Family Law Crisis
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:50:47 -0500
NY Fathers, Supporters Battle Leading Feminist Attorney on NY Family Law Crisis
December 6, 2004
The archive of Sunday evening's show, NY Family Law: Justice or Bloodsport?, can be found here. The show is yet another example of what many of us have maintained for a long time--when fathers' supporters are able to debate the defenders of the current family law system in an open and fair forum, it quickly becomes clear that fathers have many legitimate grievances and irrefutable arguments.
Melanie I. Cummings wrote an excellent letter to the New York Matrimonial Commission taking apart NOW's myth that New York fathers get custody 70% of the time when they fight for it--to read it, click here.
Many New York activists are doing fine work on these issues, and I urge our New York listeners to support the efforts of The Coalition of Fathers and Families of New York--go to www.fafny.org or contact FaFNY VP Mr. Randall L. Dickinson at Dickins895@aol.com / (518) 899-3302 or FaFNY coordinator Debbie Fellows at DAFellows2001@yahoo.com / (518) 381 6948.
A new Seattle Post-Intelligencer article, More thirtysomethings are putting off the marital knot (12/2/04), speculates on the statistical trend towards later marriages. The reporter, Vanessa Ho, focuses on why women are hesitating to marry, ignoring the many reasons why men are increasingly turning their backs on marriage. In a column I co-authored a few years ago, Have Anti-Father Family Court Policies Led to a Men's Marriage Strike? (Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/5/02), we speculated that men's fear of losing their children and financial ruin in divorce were driving men away from marriage. The enormous reaction the piece generated, particularly after Rush Limbaugh read the piece on the air, certainly lends credence to the idea that men increasingly see marriage as a disadvantageous and even dangerous institution.
Vanessa Ho also notes that "Societal pressures to marry before having children also have decreased, driving the unmarried percentage up," leading to a tripling of the rate of out of wedlock births over the past three decades. This problem--and some of the ways family law practitioners are aggravating it--is discussed in my co-authored column Undermining the American Family (Human Events, 1/27/03).
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NY Family Law: Justice or Bloodsport?
The New York State National Organization for Women has declared a crisis for women in family law and made it the theme of their December 4-5 Annual Convention. According to NOW-NYS, the NY family court system "routinely deprives mothers and their children of their human and civil rights. These violations frequently result in mothers losing custody of their children to batterers, even in instances where there are outstanding allegations of child abuse...[the] court system allows batterers to destroy [mothers] financially through years of costly litigation, supervised visits, and related practices."
By contrast, fathers' groups view the NY family law system and its sole custody norm as bloodsport, where parents must fight like gladiators in a ring for custody in a match which is thoroughly rigged against dads.
Between the New York State Matrimonial Commission hearings, a public re-examination of New York's fault-based divorce system, the high profile Bridget Marks case, the federal class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of noncustodial parents in New York and in dozens of other states, the NYS NOW convention, and others, New York family law is under scrutiny.
Pioneer family law attorney Cecile C. Weich has represented women and championed feminist causes for over four decades. Family law attorney Michael Varble helps parents fight visitation interference and gain equal access to their children. Cecile and Michael joined Glenn on His Side with Glenn Sacks on December 5.
To learn more about New York Family Law and family court bias, see:
New York State National Organization for Women devotes conference to "family court system which routinely deprives mothers and their children of their human and civil rights"
Feminist Renee Beeker's The Status of Women in the Family Law Arena, (NOW-NYS Reporter, Fall 2004)
"State panel hears complaints about divorce laws, procedures: Fathers say courts biased against them" (Press & Sun-Bulletin, 10/30/04)
NOW-NYS President Kathryn Lake Mazierksi's testimony to the Matrimonial Commission of the NYS Office of Court Administration (NOW-NYS Reporter, Fall 2004)
Melanie I. Cummings' letter to the NY Matrimonial Commission
The Coalition of Fathers and Families of New York--www.fafny.org.
Glenn's co-authored column Can Abolishing Sole Custody Curb Divorce? (New York Sun, 10/2/02)
Glenn's column Convicted Murderess Can Get Custody but Decent Fathers Can't (Houston Chronicle, 9/19/03)
Glenn's co-authored column Ruling in High-Profile Marks Custody Case: Painful but Correct (Men's News Daily, 9/14/04)
Dr. Kathie Mathis' column Bridget Marks: When Courts Get It Wrong (NOW-NYS Reporter, Fall 2004).
His Side: Allred vs. Tong--Is Parental Alienation Syndrome a Fathers' Rights Hoax? (6/27/04)
His Side: Bridget Marks PAS/Custody Case (6/13/04)
Glenn's radio commentary on the Bridget Marks case: "In Defense of Arlene Goldberg"
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