Child Custody: Maternal Preference in 19th Century American Law
Under both “patriarchal” and feminist cultures, the presumption of equal custody has never existed. Tom James examines the historical records.
Child Custody
The NFL, male suicide, and lost opportunities
Head injuries play a role in why footballers commit suicide, but there are larger issues that contribute, and affect men everywhere.
Why Ted Hsu Voted Against Equal Parenting
Pro-mother Ted Hsu talks about why he voted against the presumption of equal parenting after divorce.
The 53rd Hour…
For single dads receiving visits from their kids on limited occasions only, the leftover evidence from the visit becomes a special reminder – the unfinished drink on the table, the toy they were playing with in the garden, a dirty handprint on the wall, the indents in their pillows…. these are sacred keepsakes to be cherished until the next visit.
Parental child kidnapping: already a common occurrence by 1856
The social problem called “parental child abduction” began to get a great deal of media attention beginning in the 1980s. Yet the history of the phenomenon is at best poorly understood and at worst is deliberately misrepresented by politically correct historians. Here is one of many installments that will help to shed light on this unknown history.
Love in Chains – 1952
Philip Chain is the earliest known example of a father who used picketing to attract attention to his plight as a parent who had been denied access to his child by a malicious mother.
The father who wouldn’t give up – 1930
After spending 4 years and all his money, James E. Welch won a long and brutal battle against two countries to his quest to regain custody of his daughter. An inspiring true story.
William Evans’ rebellion – 1936
Gonzo Historian, Robert St. Estephe has returned with a story that will seem very familiar to many fathers today. In 1936 William H. W. Evans was jailed for kidnapping his daughter based on accusations by his ex-wife; he went on a hunger strike to protest as he had a written agreement to share custody. The only difference to today? That written agreement actually mattered to the Judge. He was cleared of all kidnapping charges.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Richard Farnum’s Homecoming – 1957
I didn’t even know she was divorcing me, I called the day she was getting married and told her I was buying her a house. She didn’t say a thing.
(Don’t) Fuck the Police
When human beings are brutalized in a society which lacks a legal framework for redress, a population will develop alternative forms of redress. Retributive violence is, in my opinion, a very bad option – to be avoided – but it is a probable outcome of the dysfunction and abrogation of legal and political redress of grievance.
