Dad & Things blog-updates back in operation

July 23, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

For about a week now, the online access for F4L was out of commission.

The modem quit working but is now back in operation.  Shaw Cable, the high-speed service provider saw fit to send a new modem through the mail service.  That took a week, even though it would probably have been faster to give one of their service technician a new modem to drop off at our address — given that a technician is in our town virtually every day.

Anyway, that is now water under the bridge and no more than to be expected from a monopoly.

All that remains to be done now is to catch up on software updates.  After that there will be the regular updates (now a bit less frequently than before my heart attack in February).

Sorry for the delay, but things will be somewhat more normal from now on.

–Walter

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Children need families, not 50/50 parenting

February 2, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

What children need - not 50/50 shared parenting but to be raised in the Family founded on Marriage and for the State to stop attacking the institution and instead obey the law and assist it when asked.

By Roger Eldridge
Feb. 2, 2009

I am writing this to Charles, who asked how the Council could help him achieve the presumption of 50/50 shared parenting after a “split.”

If you go to our website http://www.family-men.com you will see our position. Read it all, not just the “About Us” section which was put up seven years ago. It remains accurate but we have moved on.

You won’t find support for “equal custody” on there because we have found after ten years serious research and experience in this that the solution to children suffering from the Family being disintegrated is something else and we know, as men, that once you analyse the problem the solution pops out.

For a start there is no such thing as a “split”. This euphemism is used because it is not politically correct in the feminist state to allocate any reasons for relationship or Marriage breakdown - except that it is caused by men. In fact, under this regime, the fundamental principle of the Courts and government policy is the extraordinary presumption that relationships break down spontaneously by mutual agreement. This allows the State to promote the myth of “no-fault” separation and divorce. The state then claims that it is just facilitating the couple who wish to separate.

The spontaneous and free movement of two halves of formerly integral matter away from each other does not happen in Nature, has never been recorded in Science and does not happen in human relationships.

Until the last fifty years and the advent of feminism with its abhorrence of anything rational, it was accepted that relationship breakdown begins with one of the spouses losing their commitment to the promises they made when they became one flesh.

Like you and many others I was seduced into joining in the victim game and campaigned for many years for the “equality” panacea on the basis that women would not initiate a separation if it meant they would lose time with their children and would not be provided for financially.

Sadly, whilst it would deter some women, it might and probably would encourage many more fathers and mothers by the predictable outcome, to give up on their commitment to the Family they took on when they first opened themselves to the procreation of children.

All the evidence - and there is volumes of it - show that children suffer from EVERY separation, not just the “bad ones” where they are ripped from one parent but from all separations, including those where mercifully one parent is not encouraged and enticed by the corrupt family Law system to destroy the other parent and his relationship with his children.

If you think about it, your duty, whether you are Married or not, is to provide for, educate and protect your child. That means every day until the day you die.

Doing it as much as 50% of the time means you are failing your child the other 50% of the time and they suffer, believe me.

What a child wants and needs is security, stability and predictability in their life. The evidence shows that they don’t care if you and their mother argue all the time and it also shows they prosper better if you stay together despite the rows. They basically want their daddy and their mummy in their life EVERY MINUTE OF THEIR LIVES, not at weekends, not for an hour in the evening three times a week and neither do they want one or two weeks with one parent and then the reverse.

The 50/50 may be good for the parents because they can get on with their life and may be marginally better for children than a lop-sided arrangement but it will never be “good for them”.

As parents - see below the report by the Family Rights Institute of Ireland - we are expected to give our lives for our children and until the last forty years that is what parents did.

Marxism, the ideology of the subversive Statists/Fabians/Feminists, requires an atomised society so that the State can easily control its every move. The Family with its Christian values and extended family “in law” creates bonds that can never be shaken and represents an enormous barrier to their plans. The radical left-wing inflitrators have clandestinely subverted the organs of the State in the Western world and have mercilessly attacked the institution of the Family founded on Marriage.

You can, of course, succumb to their devilish plot or fight them back. We have chosen to do the latter. What aids our position is that we have the Rule of Law and the Constitution on our side. The changes that we all perceive to have taken place are all illusory and merely propaganda put out by their allies in the media. The law has not changed from its founding roots. It can’t so we see our job as restoring the law and ousting the subversives who are side-stepping the democratic process. When was the last time you heard any politician or political party talk about Family law in their manifesto. I guess it is never because they never have.

These so-called reforms were instigated by shadowy persons behind the scenes. Fortunately despite their claims and rhetoric the law can be used to protect Families and children.

We just need a critical mass of the untapped power of men in the Fathers/Family Movement to see the error of being led by the nose towards 50/50 which translates into leaving our kids unprotected and undirected for half their lives and to row in behind the law so that they can again ask a woman to be their wife, safe in the knowledge that the law works as shown below and will defend their right, as long as they conduct themselves appropriately, to properly parent their child EVERY MINUTE OF THEIR LIFE!

If you have any questions please ask

God bless, Roger Eldridge
Chairman, National Mens Council of Ireland, Knockvicar, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
familymen@eircom.net www.family-men.com 07196-67138 086-8180146

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What children need - to be raised in the Family founded on Marriage and for the State to stop attacking the institution and instead obey the law and assist it when asked.

The Family founded on Marriage is the embodiment of Christian teaching in action.

The institution of the Family founded on Marriage existed prior to the State.

The Family founded on Marriage is a unit and by definition has its own sovereignty with its own Constitution and authority.

The State is not a parent.

Therefore the institution of the Family founded on Marriage is antecedent to and morally superior to the State and to all positive law. The legitimate role of the State relative to the Family founded on Marriage must respect the Subsidiarity Principle and be confined to providing assistance - and only where voluntarily required - by the heads of the Family - the Husband and Wife - acting with the joint power and authority vested bin them to carry out their duties on behalf of the Family.

The purpose and intention of parliament in the context of Family Law must be consistent with the foundational principles outlined above.

In practice this means that all primary legislation - in the form of statute, all secondary legislation - in the form of statutory instruments, court rules and regulations and all tertiary legislation - in the form of government policy and guidelines must act, in a moral manner consistent with Christian teaching, to facilitate the better functioning and continuation as a unit of the Family founded on Marriage.

Thus it can be shown that every action of government must be “Married Family Mainstreamed” - it must form the basis for all policy planning and decision making. Currently “Gender Equality mainstreamed” controls all such policy formation despite it being inconsistent with and repugnant to the Common Good, which allows for policy to discriminate positively, as it must, on the basis of a person or group’s capacity and social function.

For all these reasons the institution of the Family founded on Marriage possesses rights which are inalienable and imprescriptible and superior to all positive law. This simply means that these rights can not be ceded or transferred to third parties and can not be superseded and regulated by the State through its organs, including the Courts. The single exception to this is where the parents have failed for moral or physical reasons and the State is obliged to step in to replace the parents - but only until the family can be rehabilitated.

On Marriage (from the French word meaning to take a Husband - “mari”) the couple become wedded and form “one flesh”. From that point they are obliged to act as one and this is acknowledged in the Law where it recognises that the heads of the Family jointly control all the assets that they have accrued together during the lifetime of the Marriage since their wedlock. These assets necessarily include the Family Home, any land or other property, all material goods and savings. The most important asset however is any children they are blessed with.

The Married Family, like all institutions has its own Constitution and authority where its sovereignty is given expression. It necessarily must have a structure and a hierarchy of responsibility and government. The heads of the Family are a committee of 2 which must make all decisions jointly that involve a third party, especially any organ of the State. Each of them individually, if they believe the children’s welfare and safety requires their intervention, also have the right, at any time, to veto any prior decision jointly made but can not unilaterally initiate the involvement of a third party.

As one would expect, where Marriage is the daily theatre in which we act out our Christian faith and teaching, the most important duty of a spouse flows from the covenant made with God in the Marriage ceremony where we vow to “love” each other and any children we might receive by the Grace of God.

This “love”, what we call unconditional love, is the authentic Christian love that was shown to us by God sending his own son Jesus Christ to sacrifice himself so that we might be saved. In the same way spouses are expected “for richer, for poorer, for better for worse, in sickness and in health” to sacrifice their own comfort, their own welfare and safety and in fact their own lives for the benefit of their spouse and children and the Family Unit as a whole.

Jesus reminds us that the two most important of God’s commandments are that we should love Him above all else - that material and selfish desires should be resisted - and that we should love our neighbour and our enemy as we love ourselves. This second commandment directs that the most important duty of a spouse, apart from the duty to self-sacrifice for the rest of the Family that flows from the first commandment, is to be open to reconciliation in these troubled times when it is all too easy tfor the other spouse to be painted as “the enemy”.

It is falsely stated that the primary duty of a spouse is to co-habit. Plainly, whilst for practical purposes it is usually the case that the Family all live together, the principles of family law do not support it as being critical. Many families exist and function well whilst the members of the Family reside in different locations. For example where the Husband may be in the services or in the merchant navy etc.

The genuine key principles that distinguish a Marriage are:

The spouses act jointly as a single unit in decision-making involving any third party;

The spouse act selflessly for the benefit of the Family as a whole and subordinate their own individual needs and wishes;

The spouses are continuously open to reconciliation.

The act of living together, ie merely co-habiting, has been falsely promoted as a defining duty of spouses precisely to create the potential for any pairing of two people - of opposite sex or same-sex - to co-habit in a Marriage-like manner and so blur the real requirement for the love - self control, submission to regulation and openness to reconciliation - characterised by the authentic Family founded on Marriage.

Family Rights Institute of Ireland, Knockvicar, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
familyrightsinstitute@eircom.net 07196-67138 086-8180146

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In order to pay the wages and make a profit the media has learnt that their clients - readers, viewers, listeners, must be good consumers or else the advertisers will go elsewhere. The best consumers are overwhelmingly women - Maureen Gaffney of the National Economic and Social Forum estimates that at least 90% of financial decisions and purchases are now made by women - so to survive and be successful editors everywhere must fill the spaces between the ads with content (what in the old days used to be called “News”) labelled WAWMAA - stories that reinforce what women like to hear - ones that say Women Are Wonderful, Men Are Awful.

It’s not that editors like women and dislike men, it’s just good for business.

The mantra of big business is growth so their strategy has to be always to maximise profit through sales. For every cent they pay to a woman they know they will get it back immediately in sales. For them to hire women rather than men, wherever it is feasible, suits their purpose.

It’s not that managers and company directors like women and dislike men, it’s just good for business.

Since the seventies governments have acted exactly like big business. They now claim taxes from virtually every purchase made so, if they want to expand their empire, they have a vested interest in ensuring consumerism is maximised.

That means it makes sense for government, like the media and big business, to have policies which use WAWMAA to justify the transfer of control of the Family income from the man to the woman. Hence the built-in bias in the governments family Courts - both in Custody and Domestic Violence cases - and Child Support laws and decisions.

It’s not that governments like women and dislike men, it’s just good for business.

God bless, Roger Eldridge
Executive Director, Family Rights Institute of Ireland, Knockvicar, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
familyrightsinstitute@eircom.net 07196-67138 086-8180146

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Scotland - Children’s Rights Demo - 2009 03 04

January 31, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

(Update 2009 02 02: Note that the date and time for the Children’s Rights Demonstration have been changed to March 4, 2009, 11:00 a.m.)

Demonstration protesting against Social services (SS). Adopting children to strangers when grandparents and extended family with a little help could have coped adequately, keeping children in a stable home environment.

A foreign national left this on the Daily Mail comments section.

“…what is wrong with you people in this country that you allow your government to get away with this?”

That comment got to me and inspired me to organise this demo. .

We are holding a demonstration on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 11:00am
At George Square Glasgow.  Everyone invited. “bring yer ain piece”.

Reason:-  To highlight the terrible treatment of children and their extended families at the hands of our “out of touch Social Services departments “. and to demand  fairer treatment of our children and  families and that policies, more in line with the children’s welfare and the public’s wishes are immediately adopted by all Social Service Departments, who now appear to be wholly incompetent or to be acting as a law unto themselves with complete disregard for the children’s “Best Interests ” and the UN convention for the rights of the Child.  Further, we ask that the government incorporates the New Proposals by Grandparents Apart UK for greater inclusion for grandparents and wider family members.

Article 8

1.  States Parties undertake to respect the right of the child to preserve his or her identity, including nationality, name and family relations as recognized by law without unlawful interference.

Heartless SS snatch children, alienate them from their family - usually telling them their family does not want to see them again, then adopt them out without the consent of the children’s rightful parents or custodians.

To increase their field of takers the SS now adopt to gay and single people completely against 90% of the publics wishes, the latest being a girl who was afraid of men was adopted to two gay men. (What will that do to her?) whilst extended family are classed as “not relevant “.  This  is in complete disregard of the UN Convention, which the United Kingdom  has signed but continues to flout with impunity.

A beautiful business plan for commodities, but children and families are not commodities, they are human beings and need to be treated with love, respect and kindness for them to grow into decent citizens and family units.

Children who are separated from their entire extended family lose all stability and identity and are very often low achievers in society end up turning to gangs as a substitute for family comfort and to find the stability that was torn from them by incredible decisions made by Social Workers . They can become the thugs of tomorrow or, worse yet, suffer years of state-sponsored abuse. They lose all respect for anybody. Possibly the reason citizen’s and older people are afraid to go out alone at night.

Last year a petition was lodged with the Scottish parliament petitions by Grandparents Apart UK, asking the petition’s committee to urge the government to investigate if professionals that deal with children were actually working in the child’s best interests or their own. This petition was altered by the Scottish government, to read differently, and closed.

The Government of this country knows full well the feelings of the general public but choose to ignore or cover up the shambolic and criminal state of our Social services and their out of kilter policies. It is no longer time for petitioning and being ignored, when it comes to our children only protesting will get attention.

Cowardice asks the question ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question ‘Is it politics?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”

Contact :-

Jimmy Deuchars

Grandparents Apart UK
22 Alness crescent

Glasgow G52 1PJ
0141 882 5658

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F4L: The concerns addressed by the demo are over the Scottish SS having waged a two-year-long court battle, thereby exhausting the resources of a Scottish couple, the grandparents of two children, a five-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister, in their care.

They spent two years involved in court cases over the children, whose 26-year-old mother is a recovering heroin addict, and finally agreed to adoption when they were faced with mounting legal bills.

The 59-year-old grandfather, who has seven children of his own, told the Daily Telegraph: “There is no way we’d have allowed the children to be adopted if we’d known they were going to a gay couple….(Full Story)

It is a sad and grievously wrong situation when two loving grandparents are being crushed and robbed by the State of the grandchildren whom they were raising in a loving family.  There is no excuse for that abuse of power!

This is what it is all about:

“Human rights” laws are Orwellian doublespeak for giving “rights” to some people and taking them away from others.

– Henry Makow Ph.D.; January 28, 2009

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Spanish feminists use dirty tactics to take out opponents

January 30, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

URGENT: 3-2-2009, Judicial Political Case of Persecution of Spanish Man

By A. Javier M. M

Ever since the year 2001, many men and women in Spain have been fighting against the Gender Agenda. Not one of them got a penny for their efforts.

One of those men lives in the Spanish city of Burgos.

He knows a lot of laws on the procedure of civil courts, because for over 30 years until now (Year 2008,) he has been working in a financial company as legal adviser.

He has fought against feminist groups that kidnaps children from their homes and take them to feminist bunkers [women’s shelters], not only without anyone’s permission but without any supervision from any court.

This has been happening in Burgos, a city in Spain, since 2004 .

Not one judge has ever answered to inquiries on this issue that Mr. Jesus Ayala is fighting for.

Today, tomorrow or at any time any children from the city of Burgos city and area could become victims of feminist kidnappers.

The fathers of the kidnapped children not only are not being asked, but if they assert their paternal rights they are liable to become prosecuted by the courts.

Laws on privacy of information have been contributing and aggravating factors.

The feminists who infest Spanish politics routinely publish in newspapers the names and the addresses of men who are only alleged by women to have committed crimes, but have not yet been proven guilty after a trial in court.

Mr. Jesus Ayala has taken action on this, based on the Spanish agency for private information protection, and he managed to obtain a decision from that agency that found the feminists are guilty and need to be penalized .

Another issue pursued by Mr. Jesus Ayala led him to expose the practice by the European Union to channel money transfers to the Spanish government so that their friends in Spanish women’s associations will receive it instead. Furthermore, it was found that those women associations take women into care without court orders, and that, in doing, they prevent the establishment of a proper audit trail.

When such a woman has denounced a man (signed a criminal charge against a man for gender violence), the association reward her by giving her money.

As soon as the woman signs before the police criminal charges against the man for gender violence (since 2001, psychological and “structural” violence - for instance, not giving her enough money for “her needs” - are included in our penal-code), only with that, without trial in any court, the Women’s Association of Spain grants her the status of victim.  On the strength of that she is then included in economic programs, economic subsidies, preferences to have cheaper houses specific for women, preference (over other women) to get a job, etc..

Obviously, she is also included in the statistics on abused women, and so, the women associations have more ground to request next year more money from the European Union.

The feminists cannot take Mr. Jesus Ayala out of the game through clean and honest methods.

So, back in the year of 2005, in the city of Valladolid, Spain, a women that holds a high position in the Spanish, feminist-dominated and controlled government administration (Mrs Rosa Valdeon Santiago, then in charge of Family Politics in
the local government of Burgos and Valladolid) said in a newspaper (Diario de Burgos, 13-7-2005) that “they would prosecute” all those men of  affiliated with “any specific [men’s] association…”, “for their activities.”

What happens next?

On 3-2-2009, Mr. Jesus Ayala will have to attend a trial on the City of Valladolid, following an accusation against him, launched not by any familiar, but by a fiscal (very close to a national political party, Partido Popular, an agency that has the power to manage a lot of money from European Union for women’s campaigns and gives it to friends that are affiliated with “women’s associations”), to declare Mr. Jesus Ayala legally incapacitated.

This is not happening in the Soviet Union, in 1950. No, this is happening here and now, in Spain, in the City of Valladolid.

I urge you to contact (please, be polite ) not only the Court of Valladolid, but also your representatives.

Greetings,

A. Javier M. M.
Study Group Fathers and Children
Madrid, Spain.

Contact the Court that will hold the trial of Jesus on 3-February-2009.
Phone: +34.983-22.81.01 , +34.983-22.81.02
Fax: +34.983-22.81.34.

(The international phone code prefix for Spain is 34)

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F4L: Canada experienced similar attempts at persecuting those men whom the feminists designated to be guilty of hate crimes against feminists.  It is a modern witch hunt.  As of now, those attempts have not gone very far (see Canada’s declaration of war against pro-family- and pro-male activists). However, one Canadian Fathers Right activist sued over that and lost, even though the judge handing down that decision agreed that the FR activist had a case.

Although Canada’s system of democracy is being subverted (to progress more and more towards a system of socialist totalitarianism), things have not yet progressed as severely as they did in Spain in such a short time. Perhaps that is a misperception, as the trend here, having begun in the 1960’s, with Pierre Elliot Trudeau, then Canada’s Prime Minister, imposing the active promotion of feminism as Canada’s state-religion, was much more gradual and may well have reached (at least with respect to the progress of the implementation of the agenda for the planned destruction of the family) similar proportions as it did in Spain within about a decade.

Spain experiences a feminist revolution and take-over.  Ours is a more gradual subversion by feminism, environmentalism and multiculturalism.  Ultimately both our countries, as do all developed nations, will suffer identical fates.

Look for instance at President Obama’s declaration of the need for pay equity for women.  Women’s lower earnings exist primarily because they work on average about 20 percent fewer hours at lower-paying jobs, a matter of personal choices. (See Pay equity for women doesn’t exist?)  In reality, to pay women less than men are being paid for equal work done is a crime, by law.  Why would one wish to promote laws to enforce laws, if nothing other than to appear to be catering to women and thereby to consolidate one’s political power?

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Antonio Gramsci must be laughing and dancing in their graves.

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VAWA: Out of Control

January 12, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

RADAR ALERT

RADAR Launches New Campaign - VAWA: Out of Control

2009 01 12

Today RADAR launches a new campaign “Violence Against Women Act: OUT OF CONTROL” The campaign will highlight that despite spending billions of dollars over the last decade, VAWA-funded programs lack accountability and effectiveness, and are destroying families. Case in point are the advertisements that were run on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit last Fall that featured messages promoting harmful and false stereotypes.

During the next few months our campaign will highlight how the Violence Against Women Act has gone out of control. We will be asking you to help get out the word to your elected representatives and the media how the Violence Against Women Act is out of control, as well as how to reform VAWA.

Successfully reforming VAWA depends on your participation. Last year we have succeeded in stopping four out-of-control bills: I-VAWA, ABA earmarks, gun confiscation, and a House resolution. Please familiarize yourself with how the Violence Against Women Act is “Out Of Control” at http://www.mediaradar.org/how_is_vawa_out_of_control.php

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Date of RADAR Release: January 12, 2009

R.A.D.A.R. – Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting – is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of men and women working to improve the effectiveness of our nation’s approach to solving domestic violence. http://www.mediaradar.org/.

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Conferences on Parental Alienation Syndrome

January 12, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

Thanks to Chris:

FYI,  A reminder about upcoming Professional Conferences about PAS.
1) Ontario Bar Association Conference, Mon Feb 2 - Tues Feb 3,
Toronto.   A wide ranging conference with a day-long session on Family
Law includes address by acknowledged PAS expert, Dr. Richard WARSHAK,
author of “Divorce Poison”.   For more info, go to
http://www.oba.org/En/pd_en/institute2009_en/main_en.aspx
2) Cdn Symposium on PAS, Fri March 27 - Sun March 29, Toronto. Many of
leading PAS spokespersons will be at this (reasonably priced) event
including Pam RICHARDSON, author of “A Kidnapped Mind” - the story
about her son Dash, who became so troubled after being alienated by
her ex–husband that he sank into drugs and depression and committed
suicide.  For info goto http://cspas.ca/index.shtml
Please let me know about any Event on PA that you want to promote.

Regards,
Christopher JONES

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SAT April 25 2009 is next PAAD (Mark your Calendar Now!)
ALBERTA Parental Alienation Awareness Organization
#228, 10654-82 Ave Edmonton AB T6E 2A7 T(780)914-0157
Local: http://groups.google.ca/group/albertaPAAO

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SOS: “Taken into Custody” could go out of print

January 3, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

A very important appeal by Stephen Baskerville:

Cumberland House Publishing is being sold, and unless action is taken soon, Taken Into Custody will go out of print.  This is serious for two reasons:  First copies will no longer be available.  Second, if this book does not succeed, no other book on the abuses of family court and the divorce industry will be published for a very long time.  Publishers make decisions based on what sells.   If you want your own book published, please help with the success of this one.

This is urgent, as it could go out of print in a matter of days.

Two things must be done:

First, we need to sell as many copies as possible while the book is still in print.  Now is the time to buy copies and urge others to do so.  To order, go to the TIC page on Amazon here.

Second, if you have any media contacts, now is the time to use them.  I need more radio and TV exposure to keep the book alive.

To assist you, Mike Seeber and Molly Olson have produced the following terrific 2-minute video, which is now up on YouTube.  Please distribute this to your media contacts and local officials:
Baskerville Speaks – Family Court Puts Profit Over People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA6_ZGa7jbc&feature=channel

TIC now has 54 5-star reviews on Amazon.  Few books have comparable ratings.  All published reviews have been highly positive.  (See the list of reviews and jacket quotations below.)

Thanks for all your support and assistance in the past.  And hang in there.

Stephen

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Are huge charities worth the money we give them?

December 21, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

Are huge charities worth the money we give them?

By Jimmy Deuchars

The big children’s charities are struggling to survive due to the credit crunch and are hitting out at the government and local authorities on child care. Are they pointing out today so strongly the authorities cannot cope or to justify their own worth?

Now is the time to examine how we donate to charities nowadays and wonder “does charity start at home?”  The big wealthy charities spend a fortune on graphic advertising using the problem of child abuse to motivate you to give a gift at Christmas or subscribe to them monthly, they use every opportunity to get you to give more and more.

The majority of your money goes on fat cat wages, advertising, staff wages, premises and training and countless other expenses. Is that how you want your money spent? How much is actually going to help the children?

What is their basic function of these big charities? A helpline like our own to refer abused children directly to social services a government organisation you pay for already. Why Social Services?  (not that they are perfect either)  but because  they are the only organisation that has the legal right to interfere in family life. The governments already have a national helpline that is very widely known and paid for by your taxes.

The bet way to protect children from neglect or abuse needs someone close to stop the abuse before it causes real damage, someone that has a very special interest in children and knows the family intimately by knowing their shortcomings.  Someone that is so close the children know them well and can find comfort in them.. This special someone believe it or not does not even have any legal right to the children. Who are they?  They are Grandparents!

“Think about it, these wealthy giants can only help after the damage to children is done.” Grandparents on the other hand have an earnest desire to protect their grandchildren before they are damaged or worse Which will cost you nothing!  Just ask your local MP MSP or member of the Welsh assembly to raise “Grandparents early detection of child abuse” in parliament, and you will be saving thousands from abuse or worse, giving them a right to a future.

Jimmy Deuchars

Grandparents Apart UK
22 Alness crescen
Glasgow G52 1P
0141 882 5658

(http://www.grandparentsapart.co.uk)

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International Men’s Day

December 8, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

It is too late now to celebrate International Men’s Day (IMD) in 2008, on Nov. 19, but it is not too late to get ready to celebrate it in 2009.

This year the Australian organization Dads 4 Kids joined Save Indian Family in promoting IMD. It appears that IMD has not yet been declared to be officially recognized by any country in the world. However, some men’s- and fathers rights organizations throughout the world are working hard to get that done.

There is a video of an announcement by Warwick Marsh of Dads 4 Kids, Australia, urging organizations and anyone throughout the world to become involved in joining and promoting the celebration of IMD. I found that video at http://www.internationalmensday.com/, a website that is owned by Warwick Marsh. (Here is a comparable 2007 statement by Save Indian Family, on YouTube.)

Warwick Marsh explains that the day for celebrating IMD, Nov. 19, is fortuitous, as that day is also the day of remembrance of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney.The HMAS Sydney, a light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)), sank on Nov. 19, 1941, “with the loss of all 645 hands, which represented the greatest loss of life in an Australian warship, and the largest Allied vessel to sink with all hands during the war.” (Source: Wikipedia)

Therefore it may be a good reason for Australians to celebrate IMD on Nov. 19. However, internationally, the date is not yet quite fixed.

The sinking of ships is rare. Voluntary sacrifices by men are far more common. It is the nature of men to sacrifice their lives to save women and children or — far more common yet — to die to merely keep women and children safe and comfortable. Still, it may be appropriate that, in celebrating IMD, a date should be chosen to commemorate a single instant of voluntary sacrifices in massive numbers made by men during the sinking of a ship. The sinking of the Titanic comes to mind, 1912 04 15, at 02:20 hrs.

The behaviour of the men on the Titanic is an example of what men do when the lives of women and children are in danger. In such circumstances, even in peace times, men eagerly and without much hesitation selflessly and voluntarily sacrifice their lives to save those of women and children. Moreover, the sinking of the Titanic has less of a national and more of an international nature of men’s magnanimity in saving women and children.

Women and children are not usually present on ships of war, as it would be uncharacteristic of men to demand that women and children risk their lives in the service of others to the same extent men do that. The deaths of the men on the HMAS Sydney were due to enemy action (the enemy in that case being comprised of German sailors who killed Australian sailors). The sinking of the Titanic had nothing to do with war, winners or losers.

In the sinking of the Titanic, 1,352 men, 96 women and four children lost their lives; 338 men, 316 women and 57 children were saved. (The Men of the Titanic Disaster)

The circumstances and current status of International Men’s Day in various nations were once well explained at Wikipedia (here is a ghost of that, the archived Feb. 27, 2008 entry of the definition), but now no longer so. World-wide, and if all men wish to say “me too”, then great efforts should be made by many men to have that day of celebration, so many decades after the world’s women got their International Women’s Day. How are men to do that? At Wikipedia, no man but men like Michael Flood, a manhater, gets permanent attention.

Feminism is socialism’s primary tool for re-engineering humanity and civilization. There are many forms and varieties of feminism, but the unifying thread that runs through virtually all of them is that when one examines their ideological roots, one always arrives back at the “gospel” according to Marx and Engels and their primary object of attention, the Status of Women. Marx and Engels were the first to popularize the term “status of women”. Ever since then, self-respecting feminists, especially of the Marxist or radical or socialist variety, religiously adhered to and promoted any and all dogmata pertaining to the well-being of the Status of Women.

Mothers Day wasn’t good enough for the feminists. They needed not only a day to celebrate women with children, they needed in addition to celebrate women, whether those women had children or not. They needed the worship of the uterus. Therefore it should not surprise anyone that International Women’s Day began like this:

Started as a political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries (primarily Russia and the countries of [the]former Soviet bloc). In some celebrations, the day lost its political flavour, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love to the women around them in a way somewhat similar to Mother’s Day and St Valentine’s Day mixed together. In others, however, the political and human rights theme as designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner.

The IWD is also celebrated as the first spring holiday, as in the listed countries the first day of March is considered the first day of the spring season….

The first IWD was observed on 28 February 1909 in the United States following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Now, we all know what has happened since then. To elevate someone to a pedestal causes discrimination. In the case of IWD, the discrimination became a war against men and the traditional nuclear family, and that is exactly what the socialists wanted, to cause dissent between the sexes and to create a rift between them. That rift already existed in the early 20th century and steadily deepened ever since, but a rift is not all. From the chivalry of the Victorian Age and its voluntary serfdom to women, men were made to jump into the mandatory slavery demanded by feminists and their fellow travellers.

Men’s average life expectancy, after being about the same as that of women in the developed nations at the beginning of the 20th century, fell more and more behind that of women. Now it is on average five years less than that of women, and as much as close to 14 years behind that of women in some of the developed nations, depending on for how long and how severely socialism has been at work in a given nation.

So, there is no doubt in my mind that International Women’s Day, given its origin as a political event (that was and still is its purpose), has done men a lot of harm and grief but not only men. Married women and their children who stick by their men and fathers suffer as well, as do even more so the vast majority of those who were enticed by easy divorces that followed and their children. Divorced women and their children wanted it all, and unless they went through a succession of new “husbands”, found instead that they had to do it all. It seems to me that the celebration of women on International Women’s day is not truly that but a wake for the traditional nuclear family.

Do men now want to fight back by having the governments of the world launch a day of celebration that will have a comparable impact on women, their husbands and fathers of their children? Is that why men now say, “me too”?

The reality of it all is that for good reasons no two legal-aid lawyers work on opposite sides of the same divorce or child custody case. For similar reasons it causes all governments problems to elevate women and men onto pedestals. If money and efforts are to be wasted, let the women do it — quite a few of them are good at it, as many a man can tell, especially those who were expunged from their families and need to pay child-support extortion (a.k.a. alimony in disguise) for their “right” to have been robbed of their children.

Such days of celebration don’t produce the results that the masses are made to expect, but they serve the politicians and the bureaucracy well, in as much that anything of that nature that the government gets its finger into, to promote and control, gets invariably fouled up (and that always being good for an expansion of the bureaucracy). That is what caused the fall of the Roman Empire, and it most certainly is causing our fall right now.

Instead of having government-sponsored and -promoted days of celebrating one or the other sex, let’s have more power for parents and more of the teaching of respect for them in school and at home, as well as the teaching of mutual respect between the sexes. Government-sponsored days of tax-payer-funded celebrations for one sex or the other won’t create even once a year for one day what we need to have all year around. What the government makes a duty will soon be perceived to be a chore by many who will not ever get to see it as their obligation.

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Australia: International Men’s Day

November 6, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

From John Flanagan:

Hi to Everyone

Warwick Marsh from the Fatherhood Foundation has called for the recognition of International Men’s Day on 19 November 2008. Please see the media release below.

The Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) and the Fatherhood Foundation support both men and women. For example, a very large number of our valued members in the Party are women. However we feel that it is also very important to recognise this particular day for men.

As such, we will be attending a Conference at the NSW Parliament House, Sydney. This will be held on 19 November 2008. It is being organised by Warwick and Alison Marsh. The main speaker will be Dr Elizabeth Celi.

By coincidence, it was on this day in 1941 that the HMAS Sydney was lost during the Second World War.

Regards

John

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Media Release

International Men’s Day - 19th November 2008

International Men’s Day will have its inaugural celebration in Australia on 19th November 2008.

Russian President, Mikhail Gorbachev, first called for an international day to celebrate men in 1999 at the United Nations in Vienna . International Men’s Day is celebrated on many different dates around the world with varying degrees of success.

To help standardize International Men’s Day and increase its success the Indian ‘Save the Family Foundation‘ launched an international campaign and called for the celebration of International Men’s Day on 19th November along with Pakistan , Trinidad and Tobago.

Australia is joining with India, which has the second largest male population in the world, to call other countries around the world to make 19^th November 2008 a day to honour men for the contribution they make to their family, friends, work, community and nation.

Warwick Marsh, from the Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation said, “We contacted the leaders of the Save the Family Foundation in India , the leading advocates for International Men’s Day, before sharing the vision with several leaders in the Australian men and father’s movement at the National Shared Parenting Conference in Gosford, NSW on 14th June 2008.

The response in Australia for an International Men’s Day has been really positive. Already in Australia we have watched the phenomenal expansion of Movember, which promotes men’s health, so it’s great to see all these things happening for men in the month of November. Movember is exploding in influence around the world.”

Mr Marsh continued, “The 19th November is historically a day of great significance for every Australian. In 1941 it was the day that the HMAS Sydney II was lost. The 19th November 2008 commemorates the loss of 645 men when the HMAS Sydney sank off the coast of Western Australia, the greatest  loss of men’s lives on any one day by Australian forces in World War II.“

“The theme for the International Men’s Day 2008 is ‘Honour and Sacrifice’. This commemorates what our Aussie men, sons, fathers and grandfathers, both past and present, have sacrificed for their families, communities and nation,” Mr Marsh said.

“We call on other countries to join in solidarity to celebrate, on International Men’s Day, Wednesday 19th November 2008, the positive contribution that men make to the world.”

For more information please contact:

Warwick Marsh
Dads4Kids
Fatherhood Foundation
0418 225212
02 4272 6677
info@fatherhood.org.au
www.fatherhood.org.au

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Comment by F4L: It is perhaps a sign of a fractured international men’s movement that there is no consensus amongst nations as to on which day of the year the International Men’s Day should be celebrated.  Still, it is more likely that the differing dates for celebrating a men’s day and the lack of such a celebration in many nations (e. g.: USA, Germany and many other developed nations) is a consequence of the disdain in which many countries in the world hold men.

In contrast, International Women’s Day is being celebrated in almost all nations in the world.  Moreover, the celebration of International Women’s Day are being held on March 8 throughout the world.

Canada celebrates International Men’s Day on November 25.

One gains the impression that men’s sacrifices to society are so commonplace that they are being taken for granted, while it took nothing more than relatively and extremely rare disasters, such as the March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York that killed 146 garment workers (most of them women), to get an International Women’s Day off the ground.

Comparable plights by men, such as that more than 100,000 men died in mining accidents throughout the world during the last century and that they still die by the thousands each year in such accidents don’t need to be noticed, not to mention the more than a hundred million men who died through military actions throughout the last century in the world — all for nothing less than to save home and country.

No, why worry about men? Men are beasts of burden.  Moreover, it is women who must suffer when men die, right?  That is men’s fault, and why should it be celebrated that men are permitted to abscond by dying on average so many years sooner than women do?

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