Here’s an article that should be required reading for every family court judge (Psychology Today, 5/15/12). In fact, they should be tested over the material and, if they don’t pass, replaced by someone who knows it better.
It’s … Read the rest
Shared Parenting Reduces Conflict, Benefits Kids
May 18th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.WSJ: Men ‘Proving Themselves to Be Rock-Solid Fathers’
May 17th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Here’s the best article in a long time about the current state of fathers and fatherhood in America (Wall Street Journal, 5/12/12). It’s got the salient facts that give a pretty good description of where we’re going as … Read the rest
Aussie News Coverage of Child Abduction Case Blatantly Anti-Dad
May 16th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.This case has been making waves in the Australian news media for days now (Nine MSN, 5/15/12). The tone of outrage in the various articles and on the part of the mother and her supporters is remarkable. What … Read the rest
MI DHS Takes Children from Undocumented Guatemalan Dad
May 16th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.The State of Michigan will soon begin advertising for adoption three children of an undocumented Guatemalan father. There’s been no finding of unfitness on his part, but, because he’s been deported, the state refuses to return his children to him. … Read the rest
UK Lawyer/Psychotherapist: Sanction Mothers for Violating Contact Orders
May 14th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Here’s British psychotherapist and former family attorney Charlotte Friedman writing in the UK version of the Huffington Post on the widely-anticipated reform of custody laws in the U.K (Huffington Post, 5/11/12). She nails it. That’s not surprising because … Read the rest
Divorce Attorneys See More Women Paying Child Support, Alimony
May 14th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.According to a new poll of divorce lawyers in the U.S., more women are paying child support and alimony than ever before. Read about it here (Daily Mail, 5/10/12). Some 56% of the lawyers polled said they’d seen … Read the rest
Houston Chronicle Celebrates Mother’s Day With ‘Worst Moms Ever’
May 13th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Since it’s Mother’s Day, we’re not surprised to see the many tributes to mothers in both the broadcast and print media. Indeed, we’ve seen much of that sort of thing in the days leading up to Mother’s Day, and rightly … Read the rest
Happy Mother’s Day!
May 13th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Today’s the day we remember and honor mothers. Mothers and fathers are the ones we rely on to do humanity’s single most important job – raising children. No one any time, anywhere has yet figured out a better way to … Read the rest
The New Yorker’s Take on Current State of Parenting in the U.S.
May 11th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.The cover of the May 7 issue of The New Yorker magazine is either a landmark of some sort or wants to be. It’s a cartoon by Chris Ware entitled “Mother’s Day” and you can see it here albeit … Read the rest
Victory in Minnesota!
May 10th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.At the 11th hour, the Minnesota State Senate passed a bill requiring the presumption of shared parenting with minimum parenting time for each parent of 35%. That 35% falls short of the House bill that provides for a minimum of … Read the rest
