Family Court Injustices to Men

Townhall.com ^ | July 21, 2009 | Phyllis Schlafly

[the invisib1e hand]

That's a contradiction, homeboy. A "good girl," in my lexicon, is that one-in-10,000 who wouldn't dream of holding anyone over a barrel because it's not what good people do.

All-that-glitters alert.

[the invisib1e hand]

And it is men who pay it.

Talked to a women who's had an abortion, lately?

[arthurus]

Oh, you are talking about needles in haystacks. Such a ratio renders the argument for the good girl as fantasy. The average conscientious guy has little chance of meeting one such or marrying one. I work at a beach resort and have lived in the area off and on for many years, continuously only for the last 20. I have seen the changes in attitude of both sexes. Most young men no longer contemplate marriage at all. They see it as dangerous and totally unnecessary for the preferred lifestyle and for frequent gratification.

[captwgn]

I have hope that when gay marriage is the law of the land the resulting confusion in the courts, caused by the lack of gender bias, will effect a change in, or better the abolishment of Family Courts.

[RinaseaofDs]

Let me get this bit of logic straight:

Your pro-choice, because statists have set up a separate system of justice for men that is so biased and bereft of Constitutionality, that a military tribunal would actually afford more due process?

So, we are going to kill children because live statists have created a version of gulag justice in America?

Am I following this right? Oh, and its all Palin’s fault for backing such a wacky scheme as taking the ‘self-evident’ right to life away from the very crowd who benefits from this same system of injustice.

The logic of allowing a baby to come to term and be put up for adoption is tenuous, but the logic of sentencing a man who is scientifically proven not to be the father to jail indefinitely is plain.

The mind boggles.

[RebelTXRose]

there are a lot of STD’s out there that last a lifetime!

[Texas resident]

Jerry Reed had a song called “She got the gold mine, I got the shaft”. Ex husbands are cash cows.

[the invisib1e hand]

I certainly agree that the pickings are slim. That's the way it is.

There are other awful truths in this matter. Women often emulate men -- when a man is a conniver, well, guess what? Such is the nature of the man-woman relationship. Also, people often get exactly what they want.

And, finally, in a twisted and perverse way, justice does happen. There are lots and lots of real deadbeats out there, in and amongst the the decent guys that the system eats alive.

The system is wicked, through and through. Any justice that it enables is coincidental to its real purpose, which seems to the be exorcising of the collective misery of all women of all time by punishing men. Call it the Bitch State.

[Verginius Rufus]

Hatley's case isn't the worst example. At any rate he had an affair with the mother and initially thought it was his kid (presumably not realizing that she was two-timing him). Other men have been named as fathers by women they never even met, and been forced to pay child support.

Phyllis Schafley had a column a couple of years ago about a more outrageous case, where a man in Michigan whose wife (pregnant by her boyfriend) falsely accused him of marital rape and of child abuse. There was no evidence beyond her say-so. Because of the latter accusation his funds were frozen so he couldn't pay for a lawyer, but because in theory he had money, he didn't get a court-appointed lawyer, so his constitutional right to the assistance of counsel was violated. The prosecutor was running for election and was determined to have him found guilty to please the feminists. The guy was found guilty but couldn't appeal the conviction because he had no money. I don't know if he is still in prison or if he finally got help after Schlafley's column publicizing his case.

[arthurus]

The attitude toward those STDs among those who have do not yet have them as well as among those who have them already seems to be ah, well, that is an inevitable part of life. They see it as a price for living because promiscuous sex is absolutely required in life.