Back in November 2004, the BBC aired a program alleging that some members of British fathers rights group Fathers 4 Justice had been denied access to their children in part because they had a history of violence against their former spouses. At that time, Fathers 4 Justice founder Matthew O’Connor complained that the BBC’s […]
Category Archives: Fathers' Rights Movement
Avoid Deadbeat Parent Problems by Enforcing Visitation Orders/Joint Physical Custody
September 3, 2002 – 12:00 am
The Christian Science Monitor’s Marilyn Gardner wrote an interesting article about ‘deadbeat’ dads that acknowledged the problem with parents failing to pay child support but balanced it with a look at the obstacles that stand in the way of noncustodial fathers and mothers.
One of the interesting statistics Gardner cites is how the likelihood of […]
If You Disagree with Rob Okun, You’re Not a Good Father
November 15, 2001 – 1:00 am
Some feminists and feminist organizations have had a long standing animosity to the Father’s Rights movements, culminating with National Organization for Women’s 1996 press release claiming the movement was “using the abuse of power in order to control in the same fashion as do batterers.” That animosity was on full display recently in an […]
Cathy Young on Women in the Fathers’ Rights Movement
July 6, 2000 – 12:00 am
Salon.Com recently printed an excellent article by Cathy Young on the role that women play in the fathers rights movement:
Team players or tools of the patriarchy? Women often are supplying the muscle behind the fathers’ rights movement by Cathy Young