Fathers Canada

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is unconstitutional on its face, just as it would be if we were to pass a "Violence Against Whites Act".

VAWA blames all domestic violence on men. It funds assistance only for women and radical feminist "public educational programs", with over $4-billion spent since 1999. There is no counterpart funding to help men who have no choice but to deal with a violent spouse (who may likely be abusing drugs or alcohol), often with their own two terrified hands.

VAWA is perhaps responsible for more predatory divorce than any other antifamily law in America today.

In her 1985 book, "The Divorce Revolution," Lenore Weitzman claimed women's standard of living drops 73 percent after divorce, while men's rises 42 percent, based on a 1977 study. This study became the foundation for child support orders in most states, as incorporated and cited in the Williams model.

When other researchers wanted to view the data in the late 1980's, Weitzman claimed it had been lost. It was later accidentally found in the basement of a University where she had worked. A re-analysis done in 1996 uncovered a tremendous computational flaw, which Weitzman blamed on a "computer foul-up".

In his 1999 book "Divorced Dads: Shattering the Myths," Arizona State University researcher Sanford Braver found that among typical divorced couples with two children, both parents' living standards decline slightly (which matches my analysis).

Urban Institute scholar Elaine Sorensen reported that only 4 percent of fathers are able to get a judge to reduce their child support payments when their earnings drop by more than 15 percent, and when they do, it takes up to six months -- while arrearages mount.

Fact: Child support tables have still not been adjusted to account for corrections caused by the "Weitzman Fallacy" and the average divorced father is left to face criminal incarceration if he cannot absorb the double burden.

Approximately 55% of husbands today have been unwillingly divorced and separated from their children, under threat of felony conviction for failure to paying support even if they cannot possibly earn it.

There is no excuse for debacle of divorced reservists who fought the War in Kuwait, who endured substantial decreases in pay, who were immediately incarcerated on criminal nonsupport charges upon landing in Georgia at the end of the war.

The owner of this website had a bill introduced in the Missouri legislature in 1991 which guarantees reservists a modification of child support to match military pay. It passed both sides of the legislature in six weeks. The statute is located at http://www.moga.state.mo.us/statutes/c400-499/4520416.htm .

Missouri is the only state in America which protects its reservists from being criminalized at home while risking their lives overseas, and if we go into Iraq, many heroic men will be destroyed right here on the home front.

But all other men, especially those who are laid off from work in downturn fields of employment such as I.T., or those who have small businesses subject to the vagaries of the marketplace, are subject to horrendous abuses -- losing a battle trying to pay support orders often totalling more than their total incomes.

The American Association of Blood Banks reported in 1999 that nearly 30 percent of 280,000 paternity cases evaluated excluded the alleged father as the biological parent.

In paternity cases, fathers are often forced into signing paternity papers under threats of criminal prosecution, without legal representation or DNA testing, and in all but a handful of states DNA evidence cannot later clear them of paternity fraud financial abuse.

Perhaps 25% of fathers are now being forced to support children that are not even theirs, in a system of paternity fraud sponsored by the U.S. Government.

The "Vagina Monologues", a highly-promoted lesbian-feminist work popular on cable TV and college campuses poetically pretends that women having sex with little boys is a beautiful thing.

There is no public outrage over this. There is plenty of public outrage over real or imputed abuse of children by Catholic priests, but there was little outrage over Mary Kay LeTourneau.

The National Organization of Women litigated and lobbied on behalf of Mary Kay Letourneau to get her off the hook for admittedly and repeatedly sexually abusing a 12-year-old student and having two children with him.

One of the babies was conceived while Letourneau was out on leave while serving time in prison on her first conviction. N.O.W. orchestrated a photo published in many newspapers. It is a photograph of LeTourneau clothed in a Shirley Temple dress, a white bow-tie in her freshly-curled hair, with a sweet little smile on her face, innocently sitting on the floor pregnant as a whale.

Would anybody support or believe in a men's group who actively defended an admitted male sexual predator and tried to turn it into a public relations photo-op? Would any convicted male sex offender even know the address of his former victim, much less be let out to do it again on temporary release?

N.O.W. actively defended Andrea Yates, who was convicted of murdering her children. N.O.W.'s strategy was to blame it on "postpartum depression". When that didn't work, they blamed it on her husband, and almost had half the nation wanting to see him prosecuted for it.

Please recall here that under V.A.W.A., there is no funding to help men who are living with dangerous women.

Actor Phil Hartman was brutally murdered by his cocaine-abusing wife, who then committed suicide. It was discovered that he had been experiencing difficulties coping with her for some time. Despite all his money, there was no legal structure in place for him to force her into treatment, and little legal structure for him to seek protection from her.

If our federal domestic violence laws were not sexist, Phil might be with us today, and his wife might have a new start on life without drugs.