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Read Robert Franklin’s Latest Blogs on National Parents Organization Website

Friday, May 31st, 2013 by Rita Fuerst Adams

His posts are now exclusively on National Parents Organization.

Also, be sure to add NationalParentsOrganization.org to your contacts so our emails get to your inbox.… Read the rest

Social Worker: British Children’s Services ‘Stalinist’

Monday, April 22nd, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

Not long ago I did a couple of pieces on a particularly silly and out-of-touch article in Salon.com by Mary Elizabeth Williams.  In her article Williams cited with approval an MSNBC talking head, Melissa Harris-Perry, who had recently unburdened herself of … Read the rest

Study: Children Witnessing Domestic Violence ‘Not Particularly Important’ By Itself

Thursday, April 4th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

One small niche in the generally anti-father discipline known as social work has been developing over the years.  It’s a subset of the larger and much more prominent area of domestic violence studies in which the preference has been … Read the rest

Wisconsin Governor Wants to Cut Interest Rate on Child Support Arrears

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

Some things just boggle the mind.  Even after years of fighting the countless battles for common sense and fairness in family courts, years in which I often feel like I’ve seen it all – some things still simply amaze.  Here’sRead the rest

Report to Canadian Chief Justice on Family Court Reform: No Change in Custody, Parenting Time

Thursday, March 28th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

Canada’s Globe and Mail has obtained an as-yet-unpublished copy of a report by a special committee to the country’s Chief Justice of the Supreme Court calling for a radical overhaul of the family law system.  Read about it hereRead the rest

More Shocking Data: Do Some Massachusetts Probate and Family Court Judges Incarcerate Men at Excessive Rates?

Thursday, March 21st, 2013 by Ned Holstein, MD, MS, Founder and Chairman of the Board
Ned Holstein
Ned Holstein, MD, MS
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Incarcerations of Men vs. Women in Massachusetts

Last week, we reported the data gathered by Fathers and Families member Terry Brennan on the number of men and women incarcerated Read the rest

Head of Bar Standards Board: Fatherlessness a Bigger Problem Than Smoking, Drinking, Global Warming

Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

Marriage is as important to the future of the  nation as climate change and poverty, a senior family lawyer said  yesterday.

And about time, I say.  Baroness Deech, who is head of the British Bar Standards Board made her … Read the rest

Update: Lori Handrahan Fired by American University

Thursday, January 17th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

Remember Lori Handrahan?  She’s the dangerous mother who managed for about two years to convince a family court in Maine that she really wasn’t crazy and her husband, Igor Malenko, was abusing their then four-year-old daughter.  Handrahan’s problem though … Read the rest

Slate’s XX Blog Wrong, Wrong, Wrong on Single Motherhood

Sunday, January 13th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

It’s Oscar season, so I guess I should give one of my own, particularly since the recipient is so obviously deserving.  So, without further ado, may I have the envelope please.  And the Oscar for Most Intellectually Dishonest Statement … Read the rest

‘Child Abuser’ Label Keeps Men from Teaching, Childcare Occupations

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

It’s no secret that men, particularly fathers, are being marginalized in the lives of children.  One of the main culprits in that crime against society is, of course, the family court system that finds ever more inventive ways of … Read the rest