by Pearle Harbour





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Our legal pendulum swings to yet another extreme. Gender bias runs rampant

in our family court system. In the 1960’s women, fought hard to get laws

passed to protect women against domestic violence. It took many painful years

for our legal system to recognize women as victims of domestic violence.

Domestic violence, stalking, and sexual harassment laws were passed and enforced to protect “true victims.”

Many women

lived through domestic violence; many died. Some went to jail for homicide;

some were later pardoned. We, as women, finally got society to recognize

violence against women.

Shame on all those women of the 1990’s who now use these laws to their

advantage in family courts to bring men to their knees; and to erase fathers

from the lives of their children! False allegations by women of child

abuse, domestic violence, and stalking are almost never

questioned by judges for fear of being politically incorrect.

Important UPDATE! See VAWA: Joe Biden’s Shame.

Women who feel justified in punishing men use these false charges

indiscriminately. Children are forgotten and have become our newest

victims with full cooperation from our Family Court system. Children need

fathers too. A recent US Department of Education study, “Fathers Involved

in Their Children’s Education” (free for a phone call – 1-800-424-1616,

option 3) will bear out these truths.

Women have become educated in the ways of our legal system. A new study

purports women are filing 70% of divorces today. The first person to file usually wins.

The unfortunate person against whom false allegations are charged must prove their innocence while a plaintiff proves nothing.

As a paralegal and a woman, I am no longer proud of those of female gender who abuse our legal system.

An innocent father involved in a nasty contested divorce from a woman who

vows vengeance is helpless in Family Court. Important child support laws

enacted are now strictly, and sometimes unfairly enforced. There are

stories of fathers who lost their jobs from downsizing and/or circumstances

beyond their control. When the mother of his children insists on back child

support, he is thrown into jail. Child support is based on his “earning

ability.” Debtor’s prison has become our most recent politically correct

means to control men. Here again, our Family Courts condone whatever

women allege, accuse, and dictate to control men.

Should a husband make the mistake of remarrying, further angering his

ex-wife, a second wife’s income is used as “a way to show ability to pay.”

The mother of their children, on the other hand, can marry another man. The

“other man’s” income is never used to lower child support. Court’s

rationale – “they are not his children, not his responsibility.” Since when

did a mother bear no responsibility for her children? Today’s women are

earning more, and are becoming a majority in our workforce. The stay at home

mom of the 50’s rarely exists today. I knew of a man who ended up paying so

much child support (plus child expenses) he had to move back home with his

parents. Yet his ex-wife earned more than he did.

False allegations of child abuse by a vengeful ex-wife devastates not only

children, but fathers. The wife files first to take advantage of all

laws passed to protect true victims of abuse and violence. The wife charges

everything from domestic violence to stalking to child abuse. Courts almost

always believe a woman over a man today.

I know of a man who was falsely accused of child sexual abuse. By the time

he was found innocent, he lost his job, his reputation, and everything he

owned. Recent statistics do show women are becoming our primary child

abusers, and yes, even killers of our children. Yet our Family Courts

consistently believe, “the mother always makes the best parent.”

Some mothers today emotionally blackmail and intimidate their children into

fabricating abuse by their father. I know a man who fought two years to get

custody of his son from a proven mentally ill mother who abused their son.

Each time the court insisted “the mother is the best parent.”

A large number of children are ordered to see a child

psychologist when divorce is filed. Counselors and psychologists are encouraged

by our system to give bad reports against a father. Fathers are

automatically presumed

capable of abuse before any mother.

Mothers are intentionally denying visitation to loving, child support

paying fathers, who then spend money and time in court trying to get

visitation enforced. I know a man who hasn’t seen his son in 14 years, but

religiously pays his child support. He stopped pursuing visitation in court

when the mother threatened harm to the son. Is this fair? Why is there no

press on “intentional denial of visitation”?

One of the saddest true stories I know of is a little nine year old boy who was

put in a mental institution by his mother until he stopped saying, “I want to

see my daddy.” There are too many stories of children committing suicide. I

personally know of a woman who kept her teenage son up night after night

crying about her divorce, repeatedly telling him “children ruin marriages.”

Her son turned to drinking, drugs, and dropped out of college.

Divorce is a reality. It is currently a billion dollar a year business.

Contested divorce is guerilla warfare whether people want to

acknowledge it or not. Everyone wants fuzzy warm answers to harsh reality.

There are none unless we all recognize the gender bias against males perpetuated in

Family Court today, and the undeniable damage it does to our children.

Years ago women had a disadvantage in our domestic courts. Now they can

feel quite happy knowing most women win. They can manipulate child support

into “backdoor alimony,” deprive their children of their fathers, and ruin

their husband. Truth no longer exists in our legal system.

Yes, we have come a long way. Women can be proud of the laws

they fought hard for 30+ years ago. I am personally grateful for

these laws. Let us not blaspheme those women who died for the very laws that many women are

abusing today. We must stop abusing these laws, or one day our legal pendulum will

swing back and our true victims will not be believed again.

You think you are beating men? You are beating yourself; destroying your

children; and making the racketeers in our legal system rich. You are creating a generation

of children who think love is conditional and possessive; who learn that violence by proxy and

misuse of the law will make you a winner.

I will never be associated with any “feminist” movement which advocates false allegations,

destroying children, and eliminating good fathers.

Let’s remember that it is children, not women, who are the real victims of the gender bias in our family courts.