Let Fathers be Heard on Fathers Day: Allow Children
to Have Both Parents
June 14, 2003
Allow children to have both parents and fathers will be allowed to be fathers, and children will be allowed to have fathers in their lives. In separated families of contested parental rights, fathers must fight to be in their children's lives. However, they are persecuted and punished by the court system when they do seek equal parental rights to mothers.
Many parental/fathers organizations have the motto "Children need both parents.” These organizations and pro-father public sentiment exist because children are not allowed to have both parents in their lives by no choice of their fathers. This is due to common prejudice against men in society that results in a prejudice against fathers.
Many fathers can’t afford an attorney to go to court or adequate defense to fight in a court system already biased toward mothers and thus, completely lose out on contact with their children, and children suffer from the loss of contact with their dads. And other fathers who do go to court are caught up in a quagmire of legal procedures that defeat the whole purpose, with a set of tools and rules readily available to be used against fathers, such as false allegations of abuse, with protective orders that aren’t even derived through due process, but by hearsay. Even if not guilty, this delay allows the mother to have custody until the issue can be resolved, which often takes years! An automatic default often goes to the mother anyway in the "temporary" process. This status is then used by the court system to determine permanent custody, based on who has had the child! It’s an automatic set-up and predetermined arrangement forced upon men by the judicial process from the beginning. A father can’t get this precious time back and neither can his children, which negative is used to support more negative results for both fathers and their children. This time not only separates fathers and children, but is also used to aileinate the father from his children. Child support, offering incentives for mothers or even potential mothers, is assessed based on the father’s absence, with mothers receivinmg the most when the father is not presnt - standard minimum visitation (a mere weekend every 2 weeks) is the “best” most fathers can get through the court system. Men are merely dollar signs to everyone else but their children. As children know, love is not measured by money. Excessive child support is also common, in which case a father’s support is often not assessed by actual income, but by what he should be able to make - taxation without representation. And due to the prejudices against fathers, government agencies are allowed to violate constitutional rights without consequence and ruin the lives of many by extorting their money. A constitutional violation of one American is a violation of all Americans.
Allow this day to be in memory of the victims of father/male persecution: The Last Will and Testament of A. T. Renouf Markham:
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Last Friday (13-October) my bank account was garnished. I was left with a total of $00.43 in the bank. At this time I have rent and bills to pay which would come to somewhere approaching $1500 to $1800. Since my last pay was direct deposited on Friday I now have no way of supporting myself. I have no money for food or for gas for my car to enable me to work. My employer also tells me that they will only pay me by direct deposit. I therefore no longer have a job, since the money would not reach me. I have tried talking to the Family Support people at 1916 Dundas St. E. their answer was: - "we have a court order," repeated several times. I have tried talking to the welfare people in Markham, since I earned over $520.00 in the last month I am not eligible for assistance. I have had no contact with my daughter in approx. 4 years. I do not even know if she is alive and well. I have tried to keep her informed of my current telephone number but she has never bothered to call. I have no family and no friends, very little food, no viable job and very poor future prospects. I have therefore decided that there is no further point in continuing my life. It is my intention to drive to a secluded area, near my home, feed the car exhaust into the car, take some sleeping pills and use the remaining gas in the car to end my life. I would have preferred to die with more dignity. It is my last will and testament that this letter be published or all to see and read.
Signed, A.T. Renouf
Monday, June 02, 2003
Body in truck possibly suicide
KENDALLVILLE - Police this morning were investigating the death of a man in a truck in the Nelson Estates apartment complex this morning as a possible suicide. At 5:09 a.m. police were called to the 1800 block of Raleigh Avenue in the apartment complex off Sawyer Road west of Kendallville to investigate a truck with a person inside, the engine running and a hose extended from the exhaust pipe. Police were still assisting the Noble County coroner in the investigation late this morning. The man's identity was not made available this morning. It will be up to the coroner's office to determine the cause and manner of death, police said.
Dear Ancpr Attn:Lowell Jaks
On June 2, 2003, James Betzner of Kendellville IN. commited suicide. He was a father of 3 children, two of whom are grown and out of the house and one of middle school age. The reason he left us the way he chose, is becuase of the strain the Courts of Indiana placed upon him. He fought hard to win his youngest son in court, infact he filed over two dozen counts of contempt of court against his former wife for violation of visitation.....none of them were honored. Even when our Codes claim such violations are a class D misdemeanor. He was forced by the courts into psychological evaluations with a doctor that claimed to be a stringent feminist whose office was located over 150 miles from where the court presided, at his cost ofcourse. He had spent over $18,000 in lawyer fees only to be abdonded by each attorney he hired. Ofcourse the story goes on....as we all know. However to make this short.... He lost his home, his children, his money, his rights as a human being and his dignity as a man.......and now we have all lost his life. All becuase his wife of over 20 years decided unilaterally to call it quits. Go to www.kpcnews.com and read about a body they found in a truck. I worked with Jim for the last 4 years, I know his story. I shared the same struggles through my own divorce and custody fight. Last weekend he was supposed to have his son for a birthday party, and he did not get him because the ex decided against it. I listened to him crying about the unfairness of the courts, his ex wife and world in general not 4 days ago. I wish I had the advise for him and wisdom then, to act like I want to now.....however I cannot. Please feel free to investigate this story and contact me. Jim was a wonderful man, passionate about God, lived for his children, brilliant, gentle, educated and talented, however he grew confused daily by a supposed legal system that honors due process. Are not those the same things that drove men to a Revolution over 220 years ago on the same soil we walk? How many more does it take before our cries are heard?
Matt Johnson
Stop persecuting fathers - its a disgrace to our country, justice and humanity!
A family without a father is like: - a country without a president - faith without God.
