'Bad Dads' Reality TV Show Stirs Controversy
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Glen's protest doesn't meet the "smell test"
And I suppose that this reprobate slimebag private investigator using tactics that should get him a restraining order tattooed on his head does somehow pass the smell test. And oh yeah, this guy also takes about 38 percent of the cut of "child support". Never thought that I would meet somebody who actually made the CSE look honest and upright.
I agree Fox Should air "Bad Dads"
The election of Bill Clinton made Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity into household names. And the proposed Fox TV show "Bad Dads" could do the same for men and fathers rights advocates like Glenn Sacks and David Usher.
And more importantly it will finally expose the child support collection system in America for what is really is. And that is an anti-father, extortion and revenge based system for women that were never quality marriage material in the first place.
And so as a men and fathers rights advocate myself I welcome a close examination of the child support system in the United States. Because the devil is in the details, not the premise.
And if you look at the details what you will find is that in the vast majority of cases child support payments are based on the wealth of the biological father. No matter what wicket and/or deceptive acts the mother committed to conceive the child. To prevent this with law the child support system could be reformed to a (non-profit 50-50 flat rate system) where both parents would pay 50% of a flat rate equal to the amount that the state pays to foster parents that includes no access profit for ether parent.
And to all the demagogues that would question this type of arrangement I would ask why are foster care children and their parents worth less than women who lie about birth control pills and their children born out of wedlock? And why children born from sperm banks are not entitled to child support at all? Or even the basic human right to know who their biological fathers are?
Of course I'm no fool and I clearly understand in the end the child support system will not be reformed to anything like the "pie in the sky" "equal justice under law" system I outlined above until men gain the political leverage to force the issue. And that will only come when they find an antidote to all these visually undetectable and easily to manipulate female contraceptives like the pill and the patch. And the only antidote for that is the long overdue and (scientifically proven) male contraceptive pill that is being kept off the market because of the threat it poses to feminist who set up the child support system and those who profit from it.
But this bias attack on working class men and fatherhood in general proposed by Fox could serve to raise the public awareness. Maybe to the point that enough men may start to connect the dots between their inability to control their sperm in monogamous relationships and the injustices they face in the family court system.
why not bad parents
This is sexist propaganda that preys on those who are to be crucified publicly in the name of profit -there are bad moms-and moms who abuse this current system there needs to be better fairer laws. The antiqued justice system's idea that men cannot raise children helps perpetuate the fall of the American Family. The better interests of the child are not served when the child becomes the battlefield- To be a poor father is criminal under this system.
The Non-Moving Men's Movement Is The Problem
What were men doing when women's groups created bills that became child-support laws? Mostly nothing. Here in Massachusetts, we once had Minutemen. Now we have minute (MYNOOT) men. They are meek, media ignorant wimps. That is the truth. I went to endless meetings of men's groups and all they did was talk. They took no actions, made no noise, refused to enter the battlefield against feminists. Then they acted shocked, shocked that they not only lost the children they refused to protect, but got saddled with onerous support orders. There's little difference between the bounty hunter going after males and men's groups who did (and do) nothing to protect males.
If you told men the World Series would be delayed a week there'd be riots in the streets. If you tell men you're going to take their kids and make them pay much more than when they were married, guys will shrug. At best they will for a pity party with other men and call it a movement.
Yes, I'm angry. Livid actually. I watched these so-called leaders to nothing for decades. Most of the groups, in fact, are shams. They claim to be "national" yet never say how many members they have. The offices they claim to have in Washington, DC, etc. are mostly just P.O. Boxes. They claim to help men but mostly fleece needy males for dues, then do nothing. For actual help, distraught males are told to hire lawyers…who mostly cash the checks and end up losing to feminists (usually after doing little but filing useless motions). The bitter joke for divorced dads is that they’ll have to cough up $30-100,000 to contest custody, then they’ll lose and still have to pay outrageous sums.
Most insulted groups fight back. Not modern men.
So who knows? Maybe it’s GOOD that women get custody. Do we really want men raising another generation of weak-kneed males good only for mule-work on feminist financial farms?
Passing the smell test...
If the government agencies would do even an adequate job of collecting child support, custodial parents wouldn't have to hire people like Durham to collect money on their behalf. The custodial parent is owed the money, end of story. If all things were fair in the world, the costs should be passed on to either the government agency that isn't doing its job, or the deadbeat that is causing the expense.
As for the name of the show, we live in a capitalist society. That kind of name will draw in viewers.
Yes, the men's rights movements are largely a sham. They are feel good organizations that lets everyone moan about how bad they perceive their lives to be. It gives them all the opportunity to blame their ex wives for all that they see wrong with their lives whilst they portray themselves to be "holier than thou." The divorces are never their fault. They never did anything to even remotely cause the divorce. Everyone is anti-male - with a big thanks to the feminists.
Only after reading the drivel on the mens rights boards do I realize that I am an endangered species in America and have absolutely no rights, or very few rights at all. Then I step back and look at my own life and realize that those posting on those forums all seem to have some emotional and psychological deficiencies that seem to preclude them from living in society harmoniously. In other words, they are seemingly "unable to play well with the other children in the sandbox."
Let the show air. Let the world see the damages that deadbeats do to their kids and society.
to MerelyMortalMan
You are right, the men are not doing enough to stand up for what is right, and for their kids. But, may we ask, What did you do? Have you heard about John Murtari, who is putting himself on the line, and calling others to do the same. He has posted suggestions and a check list for non violent civil disobedient action at www.akidsright.org/checklist.htm.
WELL?
The above posts pretty much sum it up don't they??
Title IV-D Social Security Code/Cooperative agreements
I have protested the show but perhaps Larry Brown has a point. If the fathers nationwide know the issues, when these slim-bags approach with cameras, why don't they mention Title IV-D of the Social Security Code and Cooperative agreements between the clerks of the court and the department of human services among other bureaucratic interests within the counties and the state who use our children as a financial instrument and extort use under the pretense of best interest of the child. Indeed, why should a father be ashamed when approached, no matter his status? It cannot compare to the rank injustice and private gain sought by the state and the Federal Government. The shame is upon them for they not only work the divorce but they facilitate it for further ends which do not benefit the common good---the very charter of legislation for a polity. So, let them air and see what curiosity it peaks in the minds of sleeping Americans.
Show some respect
Divorced dads, are mostly good dads, who want desperately for nothing more than more time with their children and who largely pay their child support obligations. The problem is after going through the hell of divorce (70% of divorces are brought by women) they are treated contemptiously by society in much the same way that Vietnam veterans were treated when they returned home. It's time that society at large showed respect for the men who work all week, pay their child support, who live independently on whats left of a middle class income and take their children for the weekend. Go to McDonalds on saturday morning or the local breakfast joint in your town, you will see them being dads with thier children, and loving every minute.
Bad Dads is a cheap shot and discriminatory. What if we had a show "Dangerous Young Black Men", "Cheap Jews" or some other group and reinforced a stereotype of this group.
Fox - Cheap Shot
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MEN
This is another type of stronghold that the radical feminist groups would like to
portray about Good Men and Fathers and give women and mothers a free pass
to do what ever " the little miss inocents" want. They preach on equality, But
they dont want equality, But total control, and power, and using Good Men and Fathers to get what they want. There has been alot of false allegations of child support, that DNA has proven that the Father, is NOT the Father, and the women,
get off scott free without purgery, for falsifying records. But does the state give the money back to the Fathers? NO!! So, really, it should be called the "DEADBEAT STATE". Put an end to radical feminism, and then you will see a BIG difference in
our world!!!
