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Divorce causes family decline. The decline of the family now affects virtually every American and seriously threatens not only social order but freedom and constitutional government.
The Free Lance-Star
March 29, 2009 1:14 am
An unmarried husband: Unwelcome reality
By Stephen Baskerville
–The decline of the family now affects virtually every American and seriously threatens not only social order but freedom and constitutional government. G.K. Chesterton once observed that the family checks government power. He was writing about divorce: Despite other threats to the family, divorce remains the most serious.
Americans would be shocked if they knew what goes on in the name of divorce. Divorce today licenses unprecedented government intrusion, including the power to seize children, loot family savings, and incarcerate parents without trial.
The full implications of the “no-fault” revolution have never been publicly debated. Divorce today seldom involves two people simply parting ways; 80 percent of divorces are unilateral. Under “no-fault,” divorce becomes a power grab by one spouse, assisted by judicial officials who profit from the ensuing litigation: judges, lawyers, psychotherapists, and social workers. Involuntary divorce involves government agents forcibly removing innocent people from their homes, seizing their property, and separating them from their children. It requires long-term supervision over private life by state functionaries, including police and jails….(Full Story)
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Stephen Baskerville responds to lawyer’s criticism of his article.
A lawyer has contested my article in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star and maintains that all the produres are fair and good:
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2009/042009/04042009/456490
My article is here:
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2009/032009/03292009/454512
To send a reply or letter to the editor, go to:
http://fredericksburg.com/Feedback/sendLetterForm
It is important to answer this nonsense. All the points are documented in my book (below), and some are demonstrated in my Touchstone magazine article.
Stephen
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Stephen Baskerville, PhD
Associate Professor of Government
Patrick Henry College
1 Patrick Henry Circle
Purcellville, Virginia 20132
Now Available from Cumberland House Publishing:
Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fatherhood, Marriage, and the Family
Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family
http://stephenbaskerville.net/Book_Taken_Into_Custody.htm
STEPHEN BASKERVILLE, PhD
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For more than 80 articles and studies in mainstream publications on the abuses of the divorce industry, see http://www.stephenbaskerville.net .