This case has been making waves in the Australian news media for days now (Nine MSN, 5/15/12). The tone of outrage in the various articles and on the part of the mother and her supporters is remarkable. What … Read the rest
Aussie News Coverage of Child Abduction Case Blatantly Anti-Dad
May 16th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.MI DHS Takes Children from Undocumented Guatemalan Dad
May 16th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.The State of Michigan will soon begin advertising for adoption three children of an undocumented Guatemalan father. There’s been no finding of unfitness on his part, but, because he’s been deported, the state refuses to return his children to him. … Read the rest
UK Lawyer/Psychotherapist: Sanction Mothers for Violating Contact Orders
May 14th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Here’s British psychotherapist and former family attorney Charlotte Friedman writing in the UK version of the Huffington Post on the widely-anticipated reform of custody laws in the U.K (Huffington Post, 5/11/12). She nails it. That’s not surprising because … Read the rest
Divorce Attorneys See More Women Paying Child Support, Alimony
May 14th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.According to a new poll of divorce lawyers in the U.S., more women are paying child support and alimony than ever before. Read about it here (Daily Mail, 5/10/12). Some 56% of the lawyers polled said they’d seen … Read the rest
Houston Chronicle Celebrates Mother’s Day With ‘Worst Moms Ever’
May 13th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Since it’s Mother’s Day, we’re not surprised to see the many tributes to mothers in both the broadcast and print media. Indeed, we’ve seen much of that sort of thing in the days leading up to Mother’s Day, and rightly … Read the rest
Happy Mother’s Day!
May 13th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Today’s the day we remember and honor mothers. Mothers and fathers are the ones we rely on to do humanity’s single most important job – raising children. No one any time, anywhere has yet figured out a better way to … Read the rest
The New Yorker’s Take on Current State of Parenting in the U.S.
May 11th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.The cover of the May 7 issue of The New Yorker magazine is either a landmark of some sort or wants to be. It’s a cartoon by Chris Ware entitled “Mother’s Day” and you can see it here albeit … Read the rest
Victory in Minnesota!
May 10th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.At the 11th hour, the Minnesota State Senate passed a bill requiring the presumption of shared parenting with minimum parenting time for each parent of 35%. That 35% falls short of the House bill that provides for a minimum of … Read the rest
Queen Weighs in on Side of Fathers and Children
May 10th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Everyone else repudiated the Norgrove Report, so why not the Queen herself? According to this article, that’s exactly what happened in the Queen’s address to Parliament yesterday (Telegraph, 5/9/12). The Queen it seems, thinks that greater contact … Read the rest
Child Advocacy Group: ‘Culture of Secrecy’ Hinders Efforts to Reform CPS
May 9th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Now it’s Oklahoma’s turn to be criticized for the secrecy of its child welfare agency when dealing with the deaths of children. The Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego Law School has released its ratings of states’ … Read the rest
