January 12, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

National Post [Canada]

January 12, 2009

Lorne Gunter: Family court to men - ‘Just shut up and pay’

There is perhaps no area of law in which logic is so distorted as family law. Men are seen as only two things: deadbeats or moneybags.

Consider the case of Pasqualino Cornelio.

Mr. Cornelio is a Toronto man who was ordered before Christmas to continue paying child support to his ex-wife, even after it was proven the couple’s twin girls were fathered by another man with whom the former Mrs. Cornelio had had an extramarital affair while the couple was still together….(Full Story)

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January 6, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

Touchstone - A journal of mere Christianity

January 2009

“We’re from the Government, and We’re Here to End Your Marriage.”

by Stephen Baskerville

The decline of the family has now reached critical and truly dangerous proportions. Family breakdown touches virtually every family and every American. It is not only the major source of social instability in the Western world today but also seriously threatens civic freedom and constitutional government.

G. K. Chesterton once observed that the family serves as the principal check on government power, and he suggested that someday the family and the state would confront one another. That day has arrived.

Chesterton was writing about divorce, and despite extensive public attention to almost every other threat to the family, divorce remains the most direct and serious. Michael McManus of Marriage Savers writes that “divorce is a far more grievous blow to marriage than today’s challenge by gays.”

Most Americans would be deeply shocked if they knew what goes on today under the name of divorce. Indeed, many are devastated to discover that they can be forced into divorce by procedures entirely beyond their control. Divorce licenses unprecedented government intrusion into family life, including the power to sunder families, seize children, loot family wealth, and incarcerate parents without trial. Comprised of family courts and vast, federally funded social services bureaucracies that wield what amount to police powers, the divorce machinery has become the most predatory and repressive sector of government ever created in the United States and is today’s greatest threat to constitutional freedom….(Full Story)

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F4L: Related story:  A history of the decline and fall of the family

A search of the website of Fathers for Life for “the planned destruction of the family” provides more reading on the subject of Stephen Baskerville’s article.

More articles by Stephen Baskerville at Fathers for Life.

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January 4, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

Irishtimes.com

Fri, Jan 02, 2009

Fathers once more the whipping boys of unfair system

Recent finger-pointing at absent fathers ignores a society that deprives men of their rights as parents, writes John Waters

THIS CHRISTMAS, we were again treated to a front-page attack on fathers, this time from a senior member of the St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP). “State must make absent fathers pay” roared the lead headline in a national newspaper over a report of remarks by the SVP’s southern regional president, Brendan Dempsey….(Full Story)
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F4L: That is quite the article, it mentions it all: the State as father substitute whose generosity to match the average father has to earn twice the average industrial wage, that child support is a tax on sperm donations, that fathers are reduced to the role of ATMs, and much more.  The closing paragraph says it all:

A society that makes it almost impossible for men to stay in the lives of their children has no right to judge those who choose footlooseness and alienation rather than insanity and despair.

Unfortunately, as right-on-the-mark as that is, even though it is no more and no less correct than the advice that Stephen Baskerville, author of Taken into Custody, had offered to today’s young men: “Do not marry, Do not have children,” neither John Waters’ nor Stephen Baskerville’s warning will have any effect.

The systematic vilification of fathers and men will run its course and even gather momentum, until the very last family still trying to survive will have become crushed and destroyed.

That is the plan, the implementation of the international agenda for the planned destruction of the family.  It is nothing extremely personal against men, no.  It’s just that unfortunately men are the weakest link by whose breaking the whole family falls apart.

Certainly, it is unfair to children and their fathers, but hey, that is just collateral damage.  We are looking at social evolution in action, at the systematic destruction of the one social institution that evolved for ten thousand years to form a symbiosis with society — civilization — the traditional nuclear family.

It should excite you to see the age-old “patriarchy” finally destroyed, to have it make room for the new, so that out of the social rubble and ruins that litter the desert that our social landscape has become the social engineers that made it all happen can construct Paradise on Earth, the global socialist-feminist totalitarian State.

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January 3, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

Fathers & Families Files Federal Suit to Block New Mass. CS Guidelines

from Mensactivism.org - Men’s Rights News & Info by Matt

From Glenn Sacks; article here. Excerpt:

‘Fathers & Families Files Lawsuit to Stop New Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines….(Full Story)

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