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Too stupid to marry. GMTV interview with Kerry Robertson

Fife Social workers told a bride to be that she was too stupid to marry. GMTV and... more

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Ireland Saves mum - Radio Europe Interview - Part 2

Ireland saves mum from UK social workers snatching her child. Excellent interview on... more

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Ireland saves Mum - Radio Europe Interview - Part 1

Ireland saves mum from UK social workers (Devon Social Services) The story is beyond... more

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Struggling CAFCASS team - Yorkshire and Humberside

CAFCASS in Yorkshire and Humberside. OFSTED official review reads like a Monty... more

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Book Trailer Dean Tong First Cut . 25 Years of blood, sweat, and tears

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Group established after child protection report

By Calum Ross Published: 10/02/2009 A TASKFORCE of councillors is to be... more

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Should it cost money to be equal??

Joel Lombard carries a stack of photographs, half an inch thick, in his billfold. In... more

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Court Awards Sole Custody to Father Due to Mother’s Parental Alienation

Earlier this month a court in Toronto, Cananda, transfered full custody of three... more

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Boy missing from adoptive home for ten years

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Child Support: How much is too much?

On Jan. 1, Massachusetts adopted new child-support guidelines that will likely raise the amount paid by non-custodial parents, usually fathers.

Are the new guidelines excessive and unfair, as a lawsuit charges? Or were the old guidelines too stingy? How much child support is enough? How much is too much?

Fathers & Families, a Boston-based advocacy organization, says the payments under the new guidelines are excessive. Non-custodial parents, usually fathers, who must now make increased payments could be forced to work long hours or move to a distant community to find housing they can afford.

They will have less time to spend with their children, and may be left with a much lower standard of living than the custodial parents.

Fathers & Families immediately filed a lawsuit challenging the new guidelines.

In a press release announcing the guidelines, Massachusetts Chief Justice for Administration & Management Robert A. Mulligan said that the guidelines "address the dual goals of predictability and simplicity," and "will ensure the well-being of children across the state."

The issues raised in Massachusetts are echoed in other states, where child-support guidelines often seem, to fathers, to be unrealistically high. And to others, unrealistically low.

Dr. Ned Holstein, a physician and public-health consultant and the founder of Fathers & Families, says the guidelines will likely create a castle-and-a-shack situation-with the custodial parent living in relative comfort and the non-custodial parent struggling to afford minimally adequate housing.

"We believe that what's best for children is a two-condo solution, instead of a castle and a shack," Holstein said when I called to ask him about the lawsuit. In other words, the custodial and non-custodial parents ought to have similar standards of living. And both homes should be comfortable for the children.

Holstein's lawsuit-thrown out of federal court earlier this month, and now headed for state court-makes technical arguments about whether the adoption of the new guidelines was legal.On Jan. 1, Massachusetts adopted new child-support guidelines that will likely raise... more

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2009 DC Rally

DCRally2009/Family Preservation Rally is a culmination of parents, grandparents, and... more

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Mom allegedly coached girl in sex case

CALGARY - Cops wrongly charged a Calgary dad with sexual abuse after his ex-wife... more

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Man fighting to gain parental rights to toddler he says he fathered with married woman

(WHAS11) - A father says he's been stripped of his parental rights and now he's taking... more

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Fathers & families takes child support challenge to new court

The new Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines went into effect January 1. They are... more

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Desperate dad in rooftop protest

A MAN staged a rooftop protest on top of Ashton police station to campaign for the... more

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CPS to steal yet another child......

Comments 144| Recommend 64 Investigators: Trial could lead to loss of... more

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Relatives say missing Butler County boy was abused

On Super Bowl Sunday in 1999, the year Adam Herrman went missing but no one reported it, one of his aunts says she saw the 11-year-old chained to a bathtub faucet at his Towanda mobile home.

It looked like he had handcuffs on, said his aunt, Kim Winslow. Winslow, now 48, said it was the last time she saw Adam.

Other close relatives of Adam's adoptive mother, Valerie Herrman of Derby, say they saw her abuse him over the years and that he was forced to sleep in a bathtub. In at least one instance, a relative reported alleged abuse to authorities.

Butler County sheriff's officers plan to bring in search dogs and ground-penetrating radar to help solve the mystery of what happened to Adam Herrman.

The Wichita-Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Child Unit received a tip about a month ago that the child had not been seen for nine years.

Detectives are investigating the case as if Adam were dead, even though they can't rule out that he is still alive, Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said at a news conference Monday.

Warner Eisenbise, the Wichita attorney representing Herrman and her husband, Doug Herrman, Adam's adoptive father, said, "I firmly believe that they are innocent and had nothing to do with his death, if in fact he died."

But Eisenbise conceded that it is possible that the parents could be charged with failing to report a missing child.

Murphy released a fourth-grade picture of Adam, who authorities think disappeared from Towanda in the summer of 1999 when he was 11 or 12. Murphy asked the public to call with any information.

Relatives say Valerie Herrman, who is in her early 50s, had told them over the years that Adam was taken back into state custody. Recently, the adoptive parents have said through their attorney that Adam ran away and they did not report it.

Law enforcement agencies are bringing in search dogs from other states, Butler County sheriff's Detective Sgt. Kelly Herzet said.

"We're asking for all the resources we can ask for on this case," Herzet said.

Family members' accounts are in the linkOn Super Bowl Sunday in 1999, the year Adam Herrman went missing but no one reported... more

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Search starts for Kansas boy now missing 10 years

EL DORADO, Kan. – The Kansas parents who failed to report their 11-year-old adopted son missing nearly a decade ago are "people of interest" as authorities search for him nationwide, a sheriff said Monday.

Investigators only recently learned Adam Herrman was missing and are focused on finding him, Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said. Adam was 11 when he disappeared in 1999 from a mobile home park in Towanda where he lived.

Authorities would not say whether they believed Adam, who would now be 21, is alive. "We are working it as if it is a death — but we are not leaning one way or the other," Murphy said.

Doug and Valerie Herrman adopted Adam at 2 1/2 years old, and he had been in foster care before that. The parents have not been arrested or charged with any crime, and Murphy said no charges would be filed while investigators focused on the search.

The family's attorney, Warner Eisenbise, said his clients did not harm the child. He said the Herrmans are innocent of any wrongdoing other than not reporting their son missing, which is against Kansas law.

"He was a problem child. He ran away frequently to the point of exasperation," Eisenbise said. "My clients feel very guilty that the last time he left they didn't make an attempt to locate him. Every other time, the police were called or he wandered back. They assumed he found one of his siblings or went back to his biological parents."

Murphy said investigators have not confirmed whether Adam had a history of running away. The family has cooperated with investigators, he said.

The Herrmans now live in the Wichita suburb of Derby, in neighboring Sedgwick County.

Adam was homeschooled when he disappeared, Eisenbise said.

Murphy said a search of the empty lot where the family's mobile home once stood gave investigators one answer they sought, but he did not elaborate other than to say no human remains were found.

Murphy's office did not receive a missing persons report until contacted recently by Sedgwick County's exploited and missing children's unit. He declined to say who tipped them off. It was not clear exactly when they learned of the boy's disappearance.

Investigators have not found any confirmed data on Adam's whereabouts since 1999.

Murphy asked the public for help and issued a plea to the missing boy himself: "If Adam Herrman is alive out there — and he would see this — I would ask him to contact us immediately."EL DORADO, Kan. – The Kansas parents who failed to report their 11-year-old adopted... more

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UK govt statistics on DV

(1) One in six men will be a victim of domestic abuse in their lifetime. One in... more

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IMMUNITY BROKEN

IMMUNITY BROKEN ABSTRACT This article was written to address the immunity claims... more

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Too stupid to marry. GMTV interview with Kerry Robertson

Ireland Saves mum - Radio Europe Interview - Part 2

Ireland saves Mum - Radio Europe Interview - Part 1

Struggling CAFCASS team - Yorkshire and Humberside

Book Trailer Dean Tong First Cut . 25 Years of blood, sweat, and tears

Group established after child protection report

Should it cost money to be equal??

Court Awards Sole Custody to Father Due to Mother’s Parental Alienation

Boy missing from adoptive home for ten years

Child Support: How much is too much?

2009 DC Rally

Mom allegedly coached girl in sex case

Man fighting to gain parental rights to toddler he says he fathered with married woman

Fathers & families takes child support challenge to new court

Desperate dad in rooftop protest

CPS to steal yet another child......

Relatives say missing Butler County boy was abused

Search starts for Kansas boy now missing 10 years

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