The future: Set adrift on a sea of fatherless children
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Ask anyone who has had the loving intentions toward parenting
their children destroyed by the state and they will tell you: "State
child protective services and the courts go out of their way to make
sure that, in child custody cases before them, the worst possible
outcome for the child, the outcome desired by child protective services,
becomes a court order. It has been our experience that destroyed
families and children are preferred by bureaucrats who have no incentive
to solve the problems they are paid fat salaries to administrate. We
have only ourselves to blame.
Americans have become so incapable of solving their own
interpersonal problems honorably, the state gets called in to mediate
them for us. We give the state authority over our lives and the lives of
our children because we are too incompetent to manage our own affairs in
a dignified manner.
therefore, is only capable of making decisions that benefit the state.
The state is not destroying our families -- we are. By demanding that
the state meddle in our most personal affairs, we have allowed it to set
the future adrift on a sea of fatherless children.
As you will see from the figures below, our current culture of
institutionalized interpersonal idiocy will pay a high price over the
next few decades because we are producing generations of emotional
basket cases.
Children from fatherless homes account for:
63% of youth suicides. (Source: US Dept. of Health & Human
Services, Bureau of the Census).
71% of pregnant teenagers. (Source: US Dept. of Health & Human
Services)
90% of all homeless and runaway children.
70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from
fatherless homes (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept
1988)
85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders. (Source:
Center for Disease Control).
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger. (Source: Criminal
Justice & Behavior, Vol. 14, p. 403-26, 1978).
71% of all high school dropouts. (Source: National Principals
Association Report on the State of High Schools).
75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers.
(Source: Rainbows for all God's Children).
85% of all youths sitting in prisons. (Source: Fulton Co.
Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992).
The State of Fatherhood
37.9% of fathers have no access/visitation rights. (Source: p.6,
col.II, para. 6, lines 4 & 5, Census Bureau P-60, #173, Sept 1991.)
"40% of mothers reported that they had interfered with the
noncustodial father's visitation on at least one occasion, to punish the
ex-spouse." (Source: p. 449, col. II, lines 3-6, (citing Fulton)
Frequency of visitation by Divorced Fathers; Differences in Reports by
Fathers and Mothers. Sanford Braver et al., Am. J. of Orthopsychiatry,
1991.)
"Overall, approximately 50% of mothers 'see no value in the
father's continued contact with his children....' (Source: Surviving the
Breakup, Joan Kelly & Judith Wallerstein, p. 125)
Only 11% of mothers value their husband's input when it comes to
handling problems with their kids. Teachers & doctors rated 45%, and
close friends & relatives rated 16%. (Source: EDK Associates survey of
500 women for Redbook Magazine. Redbook, November, 1994, p. 36)
"The former spouse (mother) was the greatest obstacle to having
more frequent contact with the children." (Source: Increasing our
understanding of fathers who have infrequent contact with their
children, James Dudley, Family Relations, Vol. 4, p. 281, July 1991.)
"A clear majority (70%) of fathers felt that they had too little
time with their children." (Source: Visitation and the Noncustodial
Father, Mary Ann Kock & Carol Lowery, Journal of Divorce, Vol. 8, No. 2,
p. 54, Winter 1984.)
"Very few of the children were satisfied with the amount of
contact with their fathers, after divorce." (Source: Visitation and the
Noncustodial Father, Koch & Lowery, Journal of Divorce and Remarriage,
Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 50, Winter 1984.)
"Feelings of anger towards their former spouses hindered
effective involvement on the part of fathers; angry mothers would
sometimes sabotage father's efforts to visit their children."
(Source: Ahrons and Miller, Am. Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol. 63. p.
442, July '93.)
"Mothers may prevent visits to retaliate against fathers for
problems in their marital or post-marital relationship." (Source:
Seltzer, Shaeffer & Charing, Journal of Marriage & the Family, Vol. 51,
p. 1015, November 1989.)
In a study: "Visitational Interference - A National Study" by
Ms. J Annette Vanini, M.S.W. and Edward Nichols, M.S.W., it was found
that 77% of noncustodial fathers are NOT able to "visit" their children,
as ordered by the court, as a result of "visitation interference"
perpetuated by the custodial parent. In other words, noncompliance with
court ordered visitation is three times the
problem of noncompliance with court ordered child support and
impacts the children of divorce even more. Originally published Sept.
1992
Child Support
Information from multiple sources show that only 10% of all
noncustodial fathers fit the "deadbeat dad" category: 90% of the
fathers with joint custody paid the support due. Fathers with visitation
rights pay 79.1%; and 44.5% of those with NO visitation rights still
financially support their children. (Source: Census Bureau report.
Series P-23, No. 173).
The following is sourced from: Technical Analysis Paper No. 42,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Income
Security Policy, Oct. 1991, Authors: Meyer and Garansky.
Custodial mothers who receive a support award: 79.6%
Custodial fathers who receive a support award: 29.9%
Noncustodial mothers who totally default on support: 46.9%
Noncustodial fathers who totally default on support: 26.9%
Percentage-wise, there are MORE deadbeat moms, than deadbeat
dads.
The courts are cannibalizing our children. We need to stop this
carnage. We need to put an end to these modern-day human sacrifices!
Unfortunately this will not happen until we all read and study what true
"separation of powers" and "checks and balances" our founding father's
had intended for us in our Constitution. This why the social engineers
of government (lawyers primarily) and the intelligentsia have been able
to promote Feminism and other false doctrines actually created to tax
50% of the population and force children at earlier stages into
government run schools. With the intent to destroy the family unit
essentially creating the American Family Holocaust.
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