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Written by Harriet Sergeant
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Mothers paid by the state to have babies with men they barely know. What HAVE we done to the British family?
It's the most destructive crisis of our age - a generation of violent, illiterate, lawless young men living outside civilised society.
The Mail asked a leading investigative journalist to spend nine months exploring their world.
Here, in the second part of a fascinating series, she reveals her chilling findings - and exposes how the benefit system is breeding boys condemned to a life of crime and despair because they've never known the benefit of a loving family. . .
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Written by YLE
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Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen does not believe that relations between Finland and Russia will suffer over a Finnish-Russian child custody case.
Anton, aged five, was brought to Finland with his Finnish father in the car of a Finnish consular official in St. Petersburg. About a year earlier, boy had been taken to Russia by his Russian mother.
Vanhanen says that he heard about the case on the evening that it happened. It was only after the fact that he learned that a Finnish consular official was involved.
“These are very emotional questions. Everybody understands that both the father and mother have strong emotions toward their child,” Vanhanen says.
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Written by Glenn Sacks, MA
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 Levi Johnston, the teenage father of Bristol Palin’s 4-month-old son Tripp, has fought to be a father to his child, taking his case to the media via the Today Show, Larry King Live and others. Johnston claimed (and the Palins backhandedly acknowledged) that his access to his son was restricted, and that the Palins weren’t allowing him to take his child out of their home for visitation, effectively requiring all visitation to be supervised by them.
Now People magazine and others have reported that Bristol Palin has changed her mind, saying, “I’d love for Levi to be a part of [Tripp’s] life,” and following through on her commitment. Todd Palin, Tripp’s grandfather, says, “They’re working out a schedule…I know both of them will love and care for their son together.”
Bristol Palin should be commended for her decision–research shows that father involvement is critical for children.
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Written by Monica Brady-Myerov
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| Jim Feeney lost his job in January. He petitioned the court to pay less child support but has to wait until July for a trial. Until then he's required to pay the same amount as when he had a job. (Monica Brady-Myerov/WBUR) |
BOSTON — When someone loses a job, the bills don’t stop coming. Mortgage or rent, car payments, health insurance and, for non-custodial parents, child support. That’s why more parents are asking the courts to lower or increase their child support.
Paula Carey is the chief justice of the Probate and Family Court and oversees judges who make decisions about child-support agreements.
“My judges are telling me that, yes, the modification complaints have gone up and yes the complaints for contempt have gone up,” Carey said.
Modifications are when either side asks the court to increase or decrease the child support order. Contempts are when the non-custodial parent isn’t paying.
Carey says many judges are telling her it’s because of the economy. The Department of Revenue is seeing about an 8 percent rise in the number of requests for child support changes as compared with last year. Nationally, 39 percent of attorneys in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers are seeing an increase in modification requests.
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Written by Denise Koch
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WESTMINSTER, Md. (WJZ): How do you ask a 9-year-old to save Daddy's life? One Westminster family recently struggled with this very difficult question.
Denise Koch reports when the family's little girl said "yes" she became the youngest donor in a history-making procedure at Hopkins.
In July 2008, life as the Glicks knew it turned upside down.
"I was diagnosed on July 7 and was lucky to be alive on July 8," said Larry Glick.
The Westminster family learned Larry Glick had a very rare and very advanced type of leukemia.
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Written by 24-7PressRelease.com
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Phoenix/Mesa law firm of Gibson Ferrin & Riggs, PLC helps divorcing couples understand joint child custody - can it work for them?
PHOENIX/MESA, AZ, May 19, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- When joint legal custody is suggested during a divorce it is vital for both parents to understand what that entails and how it may work for the best interest of their child.
"Joint custody deals with parents' ability to make mutual decisions regarding the general areas of education, medical, extracurricular activities and religion," says attorney Paul C. Riggs, one of Gibson Ferrin & Riggs' founding partners.
Riggs, who has been practicing law since 1988, says although these areas are extremely important in a child's life, for parents to make mutual decisions pertaining to them may sometimes be the difference in getting along as husband and wife.
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Written by Kerry Picket
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Strong families need strong fathers, but American television has come a long way from the 1950s series "Father Knows Best."
Now Lifetime TV, a network known for its movies about women being endangered by men, has sunk to a new low - a reality program called "Deadbeat Dads."
In the beginning of gotcha TV, viewers enjoyed watching the police bust down a door and haul away the bad guy on a show like "Cops." That same format migrated over to Animal Planet, where the cops bust down the door and arrest the man who has been starving his dogs or kicking his cats. Now Lifetime is doing the same thing to divorced fathers.
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Written by Colin Fernandez
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A wealthy financier's former wife has been banned by a court from seeing her three children for three years after she was found to be turning them against him.
The woman was ruled to be an 'overindulgent' parent.
The highly unusual ban came after social workers concluded she was prompting her children to make allegations against their father.
She was even jailed for a month when she approached one of the children in the street and told him she loved him, in defiance of the ban.
She could now be jailed again this summer for posting a video about her situation on the internet.
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Written by Glenn Sacks
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I posted a piece about Frank Gonis on April 22nd (See, "Canadian Man's Daughter Found After Two Years.") He's the Montreal man who was embroiled in a custody dispute with his ex-wife. The Quebec court awarded custody to him and she took the girl and fled. Two years later, the girl, now ten years old, escaped from her mother's care in Vancouver, walked several miles to a train station and called the police.
So the father had custody by court order and the wife committed a crime by kidnapping the girl. There's a criminal warrant out for her in Quebec and authorities are working on getting British Columbia to enforce the warrant.
Now here's the latest (CBC, 5/1/09).
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Written by Roseann Moring
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JEFFERSON CITY -- A bill headed for Gov. Jay Nixon would set up a special court, similar to a drug court, to address child support issues. And another bill would make it easier for men to contest paternity.
The child support bill would give courts the authority to sentence nonviolent parents to probation if they haven’t paid child support, said the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis. Existing St. Louis County and city family courts do not have such provisions.
Under the bill, Smith said, the court could send a scofflaw parent through programs such as job training or drug rehabilitation. The bill would also make it a crime to miss 12 child support payments over the course of a lifetime, rather than consecutively.
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