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Landers’ Baseless Attack on Shared Parenting and Child Support Reform, Part 2
May 11, 2015 by Robert Franklin, Esq, Member, National Board of Directors, National Parents Organization
(This continues yesterday’s post.)
As to his brief that mothers shouldn’t have to produce evidence of their claims of abuse, what can I say? Does Landers really want to simply jettison that bedrock principle of due process of law? Does he seriously believe that we should allow naked allegations of abuse to control custody decisions? Is he aware that, as many researchers have found, “false allegations of abuse are prevalent in child custody disputes, as spouses in high-conflict divorces routinely make false or exaggerated allegations in an attempt to gain a tactical advantage?” (Quoting Edward Kruk in “The Equal Parenting Presumption) Read more…
Jeff Landers’ Threadbare Argument Against Shared Parenting, Reasonable Child Support Reform, Part I
May 10, 2015 by Robert Franklin, Esq, Member, National Board of Directors, National Parents Organization
The most recent erroneous and illogical attack on shared parenting appears here (Forbes, 5/7/15). It comes to us courtesy of Jeff Landers who is something called a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst. His piece is objectively wrong in almost every detail. But his claims aren’t just wrong; they’re also sexist and opposed to children’s welfare. Other than that, it’s a fabulous article. Read more…
Adam Swift Again: ‘Equality’ at the Expense of Children, Science and Law
May 8, 2015 by Robert Franklin, Esq, Member, National Board of Directors, National Parents Organization
Picking up from yesterday’s post, we’re back with two Australian philosophers who’ve decided that the best way to bring about social equality (and presumably financial equality) is to hamstring good parents, making them more like bad parents (ABC, 5/1/15). Really. To briefly recap, Adam Swift and Harry Brighouse recognize that children from healthy, functional and usually intact families strongly tend to do better than those from broken, dysfunctional families. That contributes to inequality. So, instead of considering positive alternatives for kids in less than ideal families, their approach is to make good families worse. Read more…
Aussie Philosophers Call for Worse Parenting to Combat Inequality
May 7, 2015 by Robert Franklin, Esq, Member, National Board of Directors, National Parents Organization
Kurt Vonnegut always had a certain genius for seeing humanity accurately, harshly and yet with a certain charm and humor borne, I think, of forgiveness. Whatever the reason, Vonnegut’s books and stories always had a sting to them. Read more…
Words of a Foster Mother
May 6, 2015 by Robert Franklin, Esq, Member, National Board of Directors, National Parents Organization
I write a fair amount about child protective agencies and foster care. My general take on foster care is that it should be a last resort for kids whose parents are truly dysfunctional, unfit to care for them and possibly dangerous to them. I favor reuniting children with their biological parents if at all possible. I report on studies showing that foster care is more dangerous for kids on average than parental care even when parents are somewhat abusive. Read more…
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