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WHY RESPONSIBLE FATHERS BOYCOT CHILD SUPPORT

Page 40 of The Law and Economics of Child Support Payments By William S. Comanor addresses the phenomenon of the 'Deadbeat Dad'; starting with a welfare scenerio, showing that since dads pay money to the state, and AFDC pays the mother there simply is no incentives for fathers to pay support thru the system, because $1 paid to the state provides $0 benefit to the child, and only payments under the table directly to the mother or child have any real benefit to the child.

Many non custodial parents [NCP] argue that all parents have a responsibility to care for thier child, but that making these payments thru the state is the least responsible course of action, because the only real support a NCP gives a child is the time and money actually spent with, and directly on a child.

The book by Comanor explains Child Support Civil Disobedience for higher income levels thru an analysis of the difference between individual and collective consumption preferences. Child support payments raises the income of the custodial [CP] parent thus raising the individual consumption preference of that parent, so that only a portion of the Non Custodial Parent's child support payment is now allocated to the child. So, like in the welfare baby moma scenerio, the $1 dollar of NCP pays in support payment is no longer $1 going to the child, but rather a fraction gets apportioned to the child, with the remainder enhancing the consumption of the CP due. The NCP views 'under the table' and 'off the books' support payments as a dollar for dollar contribution to the child, while forced state child support schemes are viewed as contributing little or nothing to the child.

Often a CP must enroll a child in daycare, hire a babysitter or other activity after divorce, to replace the child caring role of the NCP previosly held in the marriage. In this scenerio litigations ensue to minimize NCP contact in order to maximize the child support payments to the CP, which do nothing to benefit the child. but simply transfer both the income and the role of the NCP to a third party, often against the wishes and preferences of the NCP. When a NCP shares in the care of a child, he may have preferences to care for the child say 50 hours a month, and spend say $500 a month on the child, and the child directly benefits $500 and quality parent involvment. When forced out of the family by the state, the $500 a month support payment paid by the NCP may only pay for the 50 hours of supervision at say $10/hr, and while the NCP 'out of pocket' expense is still $500, the child recieves $0 benefit from this transfer and both the chilld and NCP are denied other benefits of care and companionship.

In the case of a high conflict divorce at higher income levels, reasonable parents may conclude that $0 of thier child support payments does anything to support thier child, and it is just another name for payment directly to the corrupt court that is paid to remove the NCP from thier children. The Wall Street Journal published a recent study showing the average legal fees for divorce to be about $78,000. In other words a $500/month child support payment by the NCP to the CP would take 13 years to payoff typical legal fees needed to win the custody battle and resulting child support payment. Thus, $0 dollar benefiting the child compared to an alternative resolution without legal fees leaves that amount to benefit the child. Parents may simply view the forced orders for custody payments as Lawyer Support; and Lawyer Support Civil Disobedience has a much nicer ring to it. Corruption across Family courts could be easily measured by comparing data on legal fees, child support amounts, and allocation of parenting time... if the courts were not so corrupt and made this information readily available for analysis.Page 40 of The Law and Economics of Child Support Payments By William S. Comanor addresses the phenomenon of the 'Deadbeat... more

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16 days ago

FUNDING GRANTS TO PROMOTE RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S 'RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD' BILL, is likely to be passed soon after inauguration. Father's rights advocates should take special note of the following aspects of this bill, and be professionally prepared to apply for funding for research and programs related to 'Responsible Fatherhood'.

Just as feminsts, NOW and 'women's studies' graduates have been well funded for decades to promote programs for women and mothers, we in the fathers rights movement must be prepared to step up to the plate to promote programs for men and fathers. It would be very sad if Obama's Fatherhood plan lacked any real substance and diversity but instead failed to include Father's Rights advocates at the table, and only continued the hollow male bashing of typical feminst demgoguery such as the bloated and over funded VAWA which may be one of the greatest causes of fatherless in our society today.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:

(1) The most important factor in a child's upbringing is whether the child is brought up in a loving, healthy, supportive environment.

(2) Children who grow up with two parents are, on average, more likely than their peers in single-parent homes to finish high school and be economically self-sufficient.

(3) Father-child interaction, like mother-child interaction, has been shown to promote the positive physical, social, emotional, and mental development of children.

SEC. 107. STATE ASSESSMENTS OF BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF CHILDREN.

(a) State Assessments and Reports- As a condition of the continued approval of a State plan under part D of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 651 et seq.), each State with an approved such plan, acting through the appropriate State agencies, shall assess the State policies with respect to the issues described in subsection (b) and submit a report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the results of such assessment not later than March 15, 2008.

(b) (5) Identification of any other barriers to healthy family formation or sustainable economic opportunity for custodial and noncustodial parents that are created or exacerbated by Federal or State laws, policies, or procedures, including an examination of the rules of Federal and State means-tested programs, the operation of the State workforce system, the availability of financial education services...

(c) Grants to States for Commissions on State Law Improvements in the Best Interest of Children and Families- The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall award grants to States to establish or support commissions to review the State assessment conducted in accordance with subsection (a) and to make recommendations on ways to improve State law in the best interest of children and families.PRESIDENT OBAMA'S 'RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD' BILL, is likely to be passed soon after inauguration. Father's... more

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20 days ago

FATHERS ARE THE MOST VALUABLE THING A CHILD CAN HAVE

National Fatherhood Initiative Research National Fatherhood Initiative conducts research on fatherhood-related topics and on... more

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20 days ago

Corrupt Army targets and kills innocent civilians for vacation, promotions and perks.

The story tagged to this posting is about an army unit in Columbia, who needed to produce rebel 'kills'. The soldiers... more

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20 days ago

Livin the Big Lie

The legal system in the USA is the 'Big Lie' of our generation, a lie that is so big, and so terrible, and so horrible that most can not, or will not attempt to 'get thier heads around it' or face the cold hard reality that the legal system in our country is a fundamentally corrupt racketeering fraud, which is orchestrated by corrupt judges, and serves to enrich armies of unethical lawyers and other fiendish ghouls. Fools that stumble around America in a delusional stupor that this nation is still a democracy, that rule of law exists, and that justice and integrity can be expected from our courts or our political leadership are Living the Big Lie.

The fact that the police state may steal your children at any time, for the most frivilous, false or fabricated reason is too horrible for most people to imagine, so they simply prefer to believe the 'Big Lie' that the courts act in the 'best interests' of children. In reality, the courts and other agents of the state are the most prolific child abusers on the planet, and the alienation of children from a parent, and severing parental attachments in young children are some of the most terrible forms of child abuse that causes lifetimes of misery for children, parents and other family members. Corrupt courts and thier fiendish cronies grow fat from collecting government incentives to shred families and steal children, and in the process destroy parents and children financially, emotionally, and often physically.

There may be some law abiding citizens who realize that the courts and legal system are corrupt, but choose to justify this in thier mind with the feeble belief that it only happens to those "other" people, you know, the kind that have problems with the law.. etc.. Little do these sheople know that the absolute corruption of the courts has NOW reached advanced levels that no one, and no group, immune to attacks and destruction that corrupt courts rountinely inflict upon parents and children.

We have all heard the old story about Germans who did not care or say anything when the NAZI's came for the jews, or the gays, or the gyspies, or those who spoke up and spoke out, they did not care, because 'they' were not one of 'us' they explained... until the time came when the NAZI's came for them, or thier nieghbors, or thier family, and by that time there was no one left to speak up or to ask for help. We parents have reached that time, it's our turn now, we are now the ones who now stand before the butchers, and like so many that have come before us, we plead for justice and mercy and to return our children. But the corrupt and oppressive and tyranical courts now routinely attack and destroy fit law abiding parents, and steal our children, and bankrupt us with sham litigations that should be reserved for the most henious of crimes.

In the eyes of corrupt courts there is no difference between families, children, parents and criminals ... all are kindling for thier destrutive fire of injustice, fraud and evil conspriacies to profit from stealing children from thier parents. The family courts are a fire kept blazing by dragging as many innocent children and parents into the inferno as possible, to serve as fuel for the corruption of the courts and lawyers that feed off the carnage.
The legal system in the USA is the 'Big Lie' of our generation, a lie that is so big, and so terrible, and so horrible... more

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1 month ago

Autocracy, Idiocracy, Kleptocracy and Bureaucracy

We now live under Kleptocracy , Autocracy, Beauracracy, and Idiocracy.

'Autocracy' is a form of government by dictorships or oligarchies with excessive control, manipulation, propaganda and is well illustrated by George Orwell's book '1984'. If you do not have a basic understanding of that book, this blog won't make much sense. If you do understand '1984' then you should be able to easily find the connections with propaganda relating to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which replaced the 1990's era 'war on drugs', which followed the 'Cold War' era which ended in the 1980's, begging the question why our propaganda driven society seems focused on the perpetuation of a constant state of war, as if our nation would become unfrayed by peace.

Parents face a similar version of autocratic tyranny in the form of flippant government intrusion into the care and custody of our children. The corrupt and incompetant family courts distort thier destruction of the family, by rewarding and fueling high conflict custody litigations and sole custody decisions is somehow in the 'best interests' of the child, when in reality all they are doing is pilaging the family's savings, harming the child's future, and engaging in the deliberate, methodical emotional abuse of the child, thru parental aleination, violent parental detachment, and other means.

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself and in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.

Thus we see the natural progession of child care in a Bureaaucratic process will seize control from those seeking to help children, ie: parents, to give power and control to those seeking to enhance the beaucracy, ie: the courts, lawyers, experts, etc.

The following video clips provide a quick overview of the basic Orwellian themes:

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2805606

The overt fraud, corruption, and bungling incompetance of beauracracies, is illustrated by Kafka's nightmarish story 'The Trial'. Overt government corruption and greed describes the Kleptocracy government model, or rule by thieves. Kafka correctly identifies the incompetance and absurdity that often follows Kleptocracy in a form of beauracracy that can be described as Idiocracy. [form of government in which a country is run by fools]. The following video do not really capture the essence of 'Kafka', so you may need to watch the entire movie, either the old version with Anthony Hopkins and Orson Wells, or the newer remake. The book is very difficult to comprehend, and 'Kafka' is confusing. An important concept to grasp from 'The Trial' is that it warns of the coming tyranny of fascism, being written in 1925 Germany. More importantly it illustrates the corruption, incompetance, greed, and absurdly irrational nature of beauracracies that comprise the unjust and oppressive state of tyranny.

Orwell's '1984' envisions a Autocracy that is a brilliant conspiracy of a few genious arch villians controlling the ignorant masses. Kafka nails it better by illustrating the petty, greedy, incompetant, stupidity at the lowest levels on up that engage in beauracratic rituals aimed at strenghening thier own positions within the abusrd and corrput machine. The satirical Idiocracy described by Kafka makes no sense, which is exactly the point, and his works are often described to be more like an abstract nightmare for this reason.

When Kleptocracy and Idiocracy themes merge together, we have a lucid explanation of what is happening in America today, including the criminalization of America:

We now live under Kleptocracy , Autocracy, Beauracracy, and Idiocracy. 'Autocracy' is a form of government by... more