Round 3 of the Campaign Begins
Round 3 of the Campaign--Going to the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPS)
We are now launching Round 3 of the campaign by
taking our case to the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting. To date, we have generated over 6,000
calls and letters to PBS protesting Breaking the
Silence--I want it to be 10,000 by next week. I
want all of you to join our campaign by
clicking here.
If you've participated in Rounds 1 and/or 2, we
still want you to participate in Round 3--remember,
CPB has not heard from you yet.
There have been many indications of progress,
some of which I cannot publicly disclose at the
present time. Breaking the Silence, which aired on
some PBS affiliates on October 20 and will air on
many others in the coming weeks, is a direct
assault on fatherhood. The film portrays fathers as
batterers and child molesters who steal children
from their mothers. We want PBS to allow both sides
of this issue to be heard by giving fatherhood
advocates a meaningful chance to respond on the
air. Houston
PBS did this last week.
Again, I want all of you to join our campaign by
clicking here.
FOX News Picks up PBS/Loeliger Story
Fox News columnist Wendy McElroy just wrote a
column on our PBS campaign and the Loeliger
revelations--see PBS
Film Ignites Fathers' Rights Debate (Fox News,
11/7/05). McElroy noted "a spokeswoman for PBS,
Director of Corporate Communications Jan McNamara,
says the accuracy of Breaking the Silence is under
'official review.'" McNamara first contacted us
about this two weeks ago. After I released the
Loeliger revelations last week I called her back
and suggested that the PBS review team might want
to consider them in their review also. We'll see
what happens.
PBS Pennsylvania Affiliate to Air Fathers'
Views
To its credit, WVIA, the PBS affiliate in the
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton Pennsylvania region,
will be airing opposing views of Breaking the
Silence: Children's Stories on its show State of
Pennsylvania on Thursday, November 10, at 7 PM EST.
Guests will include members of Fathers' and
Children's Equality of Pennsylvania, myself, and
others.
WVIA TV covers 22 counties in Northeastern
Pennsylvania, including the Pocono region. Like
most PBS affiliates, WVIA aired Breaking the
Silence: Children's Stories on Thursday, October
20.
PBS Takes a Small Step Back
From our campaign website:
"To its credit, PBS took a small step back from
its film Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories
on Wednesday, November 2. As Round 2 of the
campaign began, PBS changed its response letter.
The new letter now reads 'The stories profiled in
Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories document a
statistically small but serious problem in our
family court system.'
"Yes, very statistically small, and we're glad
PBS noticed. As we noted at the beginning of this
campaign, the producers of Breaking the Silence:
Children's Stories 'cherry-picked a few highly
unusual cases and pretended that they represent a
widespread problem.' And even among the few cases
of alleged injustices that the producers
highlighted, at least one is a lie. A Tulare County
Juvenile Court concluded that Sadia
Loeliger, portrayed as a heroic mom in the
documentary, had
committed eight counts of child abuse, and
adjudged both her daughters as dependents of the
Juvenile Court in August of 1998.
"The PBS admission follows on the heels of the
column 'Critics
of Child Abuse Film Miss the Point in Rush to
Defend Fathers' (Los Angeles Daily Journal, San
Francisco Daily Journal, 11/1/05), co-authored by
Sol Gothard, a retired judge featured in the film,
and two others. Most of the 1,500 word piece is
devoted to attacking columnist Glenn Sacks and the
campaign against the film. However, the column
inadvertently contained an interesting admission.
The authors wrote:
"'Over the last two decades, it has been
reported that hundreds of children across the
country have been placed in the custody of the
parent they disclosed had sexually and/or
physically abused them.'" Sacks replied:
"'Hundreds? Over two decades? In a country of
300 million people? Sounds like a woman has a
greater chance of being struck by lightning than
she does of losing custody of her children to an
abuser.'"
ACFC Sends Detailed Letter to PBS Regarding
Breaking the Silence
Stephen Baskerville, president of the American
Coalition for Fathers and Children, has penned a
detailed letter signed by 20 individuals and
organizations concerning Breaking the Silence:
Children's Stories. The letter is a useful,
detailed analysis of the issues raised in the film.
The ACFC has worked with us and supported our
campaign. Read the ACFC
letter here.
Glenn Discusses PBS's Breaking the Silence on
the Dennis Prager Show
I discussed our campaign against PBS's Breaking the
Silence on the Dennis
Prager Show on Monday, November 7 at 11 AM
PST.
Syndicated Columnist Condemns Breaking the
Silence
Conservative commentator Phyllis Schlafly, whose
syndicated column appears in more than 100
newspapers, criticizes PBS's Breaking the Silence:
Children's Stories in her
newest column. Schlafly writes:
"The recent PBS program called Breaking the
Silence is an example of feminist propaganda that
men are batterers and women are victims.
Among the falsehoods in the film was the
assertion that 'one-third of mothers lose custody
[of their children] to abusive husbands'
and that if a divorcing father seeks any form of
child custody, he's most likely a wife-beater.
"In fact, divorced fathers win child custody of
their children only 15 percent of the time, and
U.S. government figures show that the majority of
perpetrators of child abuse and neglect are female.
Yet the Mary Kay Ash Foundation paid a half million
dollars to film and publicize PBS's war on
dads."
PAS and the American Psychological
Association
There has been considerable controversy over the
American Psychological Association's position on
Parental Alienation Syndrome. Both in Breaking the
Silence: Children's Stories and in the press
releases surrounding it, the film's supporters
contended that the APA had condemned and criticized
Parental Alienation Syndrome.
An APA spokeswoman said this is a misstatement
of the APA's position--see American
Psychological Association Says Breaking the Silence
Misrepresents Its Position on PAS.
A few days later the APA made another brief
official pronouncement on PAS. Fatherhood advocate
Les Veskrna, MD has written a column explaining the
APA's history with PAS. To read the APA's statement
and Veskrna's column, see PAS
and the APA.
Richard L. Davis on Breaking the Silence
As we mentioned before, Sol Gothard, a retired
judge who was featured in PBS's Breaking the
Silence: Children's Stories, devoted a top of the
page, 1,500 word piece to attacking me and the
campaign against the film in two California
newspapers last
week--"Critics of Child Abuse
Film Miss the Point in Rush to Defend
Fathers" (Los Angeles Daily Journal, San
Francisco Daily Journal, 11/1/05)(subscription
only).
Domestic violence expert Richard L. Davis wrote
an interesting reply to the charges made by the
judge and his co-authors. The column is Dear
PBS: To Break the Silence, You Must Tell the Whole
Truth (MensNewsDaily.com, 11/6/05).
Two New Columns: 'Alito and the Rights of
Men'
Column #1: Alito and the Rights of Men
My new column, "Alito
and the Rights of Men" appeared in the
Los Angeles Times (11/1/05), the San Francisco
Chronicle, Newsday, the Houston Chronicle, the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and a couple dozen
other papers last week.
The National Organization for Women and Planned
Parenthood have blasted Samuel Alito's nomination
to the US Supreme Court, saying that Alito has
shown "callous disregard of battered women" because
he voted to uphold a section of a Pennsylvania law
which required women (with many exceptions) to
notify their husbands of their intent to have an
abortion. I noted:
"I do hate to interrupt the ladies while they're
enjoying a good lynching, but Alito's defense of
the Pennsylvania law is quite defensible, and bears
little resemblance to the hysterical claims being
made against him."
The Los Angeles Times already has printed a
couple of hostile responses to my column--click
here
to read. To comment on the piece to some of the
papers which printed it, use the information
below:
Los Angeles Times (11/1/05), "Alito
and the Rights of Men." letters@latimes.com
San Francisco Chronicle (11/3/05),
"U.S.
Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito Jr.: Supporter
of Men's Reproductive Rights." letters@sfchronicle.com
Newsday (11/4/05), "As
Alito said, men have rights in abortion cases."
letters@newsday.com
Hartford Courant (11/4/05), "Don't
Fathers Have Rights?" letters@courant.com
Fresno Bee (11/4/05), "Reproductive
rights not just about women." letters
Houston Chronicle (11/6/05), "Alito
is correct: Husbands have reproductive rights,
too." viewpoints@chron.com
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (11/6/05),
"Men
have reproductive rights, too." opinion@tribweb.com
Kansas City Star (11/6/05), "Another
Setback for Women? No: Alito's ruling was for men's
reproductive rights" letters@kcstar.com
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (11/7/05),
"Double
Standard drives feminist attacks on Alito"
letters
To write to the other papers printing the
column, see the websites for the St. Petersburg
Times, the Canton Repository, the Akron Beacon
Journal, the Duluth News Tribune, the Wilmington
Delaware News Journal, the Youngstown Vindicator,
the Centre Daily Times, the Myrtle Beach Sun News,
the Madison Capital Times, and others.
I have written about men's reproductive issues
on many previous occasions. Some of my columns
include: Do
Women Really Want a Male Birth Control
Pill? (Newsday, 4/11/05) and 'Sperm
Theft' Ruling a Step Forward for Men's Reproductive
Rights (Houston Chronicle, 3/6/05)
(co-authored with Jeff Leving).
We've also discussed this issue on His Side with
Glenn Sacks--to listen to the audio, click on
Schwyzer
v. Alkon: Should Men Have Reproductive
Rights? (3/20/05) or Masculists,
Feminists Rumble Over Choice for Men
(10/19/03).
I've also discussed the
"fatal fathers"/maternal homicide myth that
lies behind NOW's and Planned Parenthood's claims.
To learn more, see my columns New
Report on Maternal Homicide Crisis: Myth-Making and
Manbashing (Lexington Herald-Leader,
1/3/05) and Domestic
Violence Series Substitutes Emotion for
Facts (San Francisco Chronicle, 4/8/05),
or listen to the His Side with Glenn Sacks show
Congress
to Vote on Renewing Anti-Male Violence Against
Women Act (VAWA) (7/3/05).
Column #2: "Domestic Violence Treatment
Policies Put Abused Women in Harm's Way"
My other new column is Domestic
Violence Treatment Policies Put Abused Women in
Harm's Way
(Daily Breeze [Los Angeles],
11/7/05). It discusses the way that the radical
feminists who control the domestic violence
industry have created and mandated
ideologically-driven batterers' treatment
strategies which don't work.
To write a Letter to the Editor of the Daily
Breeze, a 100,000 circulation newspaper in the Los
Angeles area, about Ideology
impedes cure for batterers, write to
letters@dailybreeze.com.
Debating Glenn Sacks' Dubious
Character...
Does Glenn Sacks believe women are subhuman? A
couple ladies on Hugo Schwyzer's popular blog
apparently think so. After seeing my column in the
Times, Hugo, a feminist Women's Studies professor,
blasted me but also added that he considers me a
"friend." Some of his feminist readership didn't
take too kindly to this, and a big debate on my
dubious character resulted. Mercifully it's
apparently over now, but you can read it here.
Several prominent members of the Sackson Horde
came to my defense (thanks guys) and
demanded--gasp--that my enemies actually provide
specific quotes to buttress their view of me.
Needless to say, not a one was produced.
Hugo's defense of me was even better--he wrote
"But does the fact that he's a troglodyte with
profoundly objectionable views on men and women
mean that he can't also be a helluva guy?" Gee,
thanks...
Round 2 of the Campaign
Begins
PBS Portrays Known Child
Abuser as Hero: Juvenile Court, CPS, Family
Court Records Detail Mother's Physical Abuse
Sadia Loeliger, one of the central characters in
Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories, is
portrayed by the filmmakers as a heroic mom. The
filmmakers spotlight and applaud her fight to gain
custody of her daughter Fatima, who is also
featured.
After the film's debut I was contacted by Dr.
Scott Loeliger, Sadia's ex-husband, and we are now
revealing, for the first time publicly, Sadia's
long, documented history of child
abuse--a history which the film's
producers chose to ignore despite repeated
warnings.
We are launching Round 2 of our campaign against
Breaking the Silence today--read the shocking
Loeliger revelations here and then return to this
E-newsletter for instructions on how you can
participate.
Round 2 of the Campaign
Begins
To date, we have generated over 4,000 calls and
letters to PBS protesting Breaking the Silence.
Round 2 begins now--I want all of you to join our
campaign by clicking here.
There have been many indications, some of which
I am not at liberty to discuss, that our protests
have concerned PBS. The film, which aired on some
PBS affiliates on October 20 and will air on many
others in the coming weeks, is a direct assault on
fatherhood. The film portrays fathers as batterers
and child molesters who steal children from their
mothers. We want PBS to allow both sides of this
issue to be heard.
Again, I want all of you to join our campaign by
clicking here.
Our Side Gets Chance
to Speak on Houston PBS
To its credit, Houston
PBS followed through on its commitment
to allow our side to air its view of Breaking the
Silence: Children's Stories and Parental Alienation
Syndrome on its round-table discussion show
The
Connection on Friday, October 28 at 8 PM
CST and again on Sunday, October 30 at 5 PM
CST.
The show featured Dr. Reena Sommer, an expert on
Parental Alienation Syndrome, as well as Andy
Sperling, director of Fathers for Equal Rights in
Houston. The opposition was represented by Thomas
H. Burton III, General Counsel for the nonprofit
organization Justice for Children.
Burton labeled Parental Alienation Syndrome
"junk science" and his group's website calls claims
of PAS an "unethical, immoral" tactic.
According to Barbara Sweet of Help Stop PAS Inc,
our side's points came across loud and clear.
Thanks to Sweet, who has done a lot of good work
on this issue, as well as to Sommer and
Sperling.
Also, I suggest you commend Ken Lawrence, the
Director of Programming for PBS of Houston, for his
evenhandedness--to write him, click here.
To read a more detailed description of the
Houston broadcast, click here.
I'm disappointed and a little surprised at the
position Justice
for Children is taking on PAS. I had one
of their leaders, Donnalee Sarda, on His Side with
Glenn Sacks earlier this year, and while Donna and
I certainly don't see eye to eye on everything, she
seems much more reasonable than what is posted on
their website.
I receive a steady stream of letters from target
parents of PAS, and I told some of the stories I
was able to investigate in the first part of my
co-authored column PBS Declares War on Dads (World
Net Daily, 10/20/05). To deny that alienation
exists, or that children can buy into the
alienation and align themselves with the alienating
parent against the target parent, seems to me to be
an intellectually untenable position.
However, this is certainly not to say that
claims of PAS are not misused--in my co-authored
column PBS' Breaking the Silence: Family Law in the
Funhouse Mirror (Albany Times Union, 10/20/05,
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 10/24/05) I noted:
"To be fair, it is true that there are fathers
who have alienated their own children through their
abuse or personality defects, and who unfairly
blame their children's mothers by claiming PAS. Yet
parental alienation is a common, well-documented
phenomenon. For example, a longitudinal study
published by the American Bar Association in 2003
followed 700 'high conflict' divorce cases over a
12 year period, and found that elements of PAS were
present in the vast majority of them."
To hear Sommer and Judy Jones of Help Stop PAS
Inc on His Side, see The Lohstroh
Case: Alienating Mother Pushes 10
Year-Old Boy to Kill Father (10/31/04).
More News on Breaking
the Silence Protests
Mental Health Professionals Condemn PBS's
Breaking the Silence, Endorse Campaign
Last E-newsletter we announced that the American
Psychological Association Says Breaking the Silence
Misrepresents Its Position on PAS. Over
two dozen mental health professionals have now
endorsed our campaign. To read their statement,
click here.
Breaking the Silence: More Credibility
Problems
American Psychological
Association Says Breaking the Silence Misrepresents
Its Position on PAS
A spokeswoman for the American Psychological
Association says that PBS's new documentary
Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories distorts
the APA's position on Parental Alienation Syndrome.
The film criticizes PAS, which arises when one
parent tries to turn his or her children against
the other parent during a divorce or
separation.
In the documentary Joan Meier, a professor of
clinical law at George Washington University and
one of the film's chief spokespersons, states that
PAS "has been thoroughly debunked by the American
Psychological Association." Connecticut Public
Television, one of the film's producers, put out a
press
release promoting the film which stated
that PAS had been "discredited by the American
Psychological Association."
However, according to Rhea K. Farberman,
Executive Director of Public and Member
Communications of the American Psychological
Association, these claims are "incorrect" and
"inaccurate." Farberman says that the APA "does not
have an official position on parental alienation
syndrome--pro or con." She adds:
"The Connecticut Public Television press release
is incorrect. I have notified both Connecticut
Public Television and their PR firm of the
inaccuracy in their press release."
To learn more, click here.
PBS Internal Memo Tells
Affiliates to Stonewall Protesters
A source at PBS sent us this confidential
internal memo 
on Friday. The memo is an instruction sheet that
PBS's national office has dispensed to their
affiliates to instruct them as to how to deal with
the thousands of people who have called or written
them to protest Breaking the Silence. As you'll
notice, the common theme of this memo is to
stonewall protesters.
Reader's Take
Action
Over 2,000 Protesters Call, Write PBS over
Anti-Father Film Breaking the Silence
Within the first 48 hours of our
new campaign ,
over 2,000 people called or wrote PBS to protest
their anti-father film Breaking the Silence:
Children's Stories. The film, which aired on some
PBS affiliates on October 20 and will air on many
others in the coming weeks, is a direct assault on
fatherhood. The film portrays fathers as batterers
and child molesters who steal children from their
mothers.
Glenn
Sacks
launched the campaign in order to provide popular
support for efforts by Fathers
and Families
,
Help
Stop PAS Inc
,
the American
Coalition for Fathers &
Children
,
and the Coalition
of Fathers and Families NY, Inc.
(FaFNY)
to help PBS resolve the problem to get PBS to allow
both sides of this issue to be heard.
What We Want You to
Do
As you will see in this section, we have gained
PBS's attention
as well as that of the National Organization for
Women and other feminist groups. Progress is being
made towards resolving the problem. However, the
final outcome of this is still very much in doubt,
and feminist groups are rallying their supporters
to contact PBS to counter us.
I urge you to join us and take action--to do so,
click here
.
Our objective is simple and reasonable--we want
PBS to provide fatherhood and shared parenting
advocates a meaningful opportunity to present our
side. What PBS's
Houston affiliate
is doing is an example of what we want.
Again, we urge you to join us by clicking
here
.
Houston
PBS Affiliate
Agrees to Air Opposing Views on Breaking the
Silence
To its credit, Houston PBS has agreed to air
opposing views of Breaking the Silence: Children's
Stories and Parental Alienation Syndrome on its
round-table discussion show The
Connection
on Friday, October 28 at 8 PM CST and on Sunday,
October 30 at 5 PM CST.
Dr. Reena Sommer, one
of our columnists
and an expert on Parental
Alienation Syndrome ,
will be appearing, along with guests of various
views. To write to Ken Lawrence, the Director of
Programming for PBS of Houston, to commend him for
his evenhandedness, click here
.
Sommer is an articulate voice on PAS. She and
Judy Jones of Help
Stop PAS Inc
appeared on His Side with Glenn Sacks last year to
discuss the tragic Lohstroh PAS case--see The
Lohstroh Case:
Alienating Mother Pushes 10 Year-Old Boy to Kill
Father (10/31/04).
Leader of Domestic
Violence Shelter Which Helped Fund Breaking the
Silence Criticizes Film
Calling Breaking the Silence imbalanced and focused
on extreme cases, Pam Kallsen, executive director
of the Marjaree Mason Center, a domestic violence
shelter in Fresno, California, contacted her local
PBS affiliate and told them she was distressed that
her shelter's name and logo were associated with
the program.
Kallsen had been a staunch supporter of the film
project, even helping to secure funding for it, but
says she changed her mind after seeing the
film.
To learn more, click here
.
The National Organization for
Women Attacks Our PBS Campaign, Urges Followers to
Contact PBS
The National Organization for Women's national
office and several other feminist groups have
sounded the alarm over our campaign. According to
the MND Newswire story PBS
Bombarded by Protests over Father-Bashing Show
:
"The National Organization for Women sent out an
Action Alert urging its members to fight 'bogus
'fathers' rights' activists' and support the film.
Irene Weiser of Stop Family Violence urged
supporters to counter the protests by calling PBS
and urging them to run the program. Toni Troop of
Jane Doe Inc./The Massachusetts Coalition Against
Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence warned against
the protesters, saying that film angers the 'mad
dads whose tactics and efforts to further the abuse
through the court systems are exposed.'"
MND Newswire Story Gives
Overview of Campaign
For an overview of campaign events, see MND
Newswire's piece PBS
Bombarded by Protests over Father-Bashing Show
(MND Newswire, 10/20/05).
Two New Leving/Sacks
Columns Criticize Breaking the Silence
Family law attorney Jeff Leving and I have
co-authored two opinion columns on Breaking the
Silence.
PBS' Breaking the
Silence: Family Law in the Funhouse Mirror
Jeff Leving and I debated Breaking the Silence
supporter Betty Wade Coyle in today's Norfolk
Virginian Pilot. Breaking the Silence airs tonight
in Norfolk. The debate was called "Two Views on
Parental Child Abuse Rulings" and featured Coyle's
column, "Our Courts Just Don't Get It" and ours,
"Family Laws in the Fun House Mirror." Neither is
available at the Virginian Pilot's website, though
ours can be seen on my website here
.
To write a Letter to the Editor to the Virginian
Pilot, a 225,000 circulation newspaper in Norfolk,
Virginia, click
here .
Our column PBS'
Breaking the Silence: Family Law in the Funhouse
Mirror
(10/20/05) also appeared in the Albany Times
Union.
Albany is a battleground for this issue. The
previous Sunday the Times Union had printed Bob
Port's long, sympathetic word piece Custody
fight: Documentary sheds light on system that lets
children suffer at the hands of abusive fathers
(10/16/05). Much of Breaking the Silence was filmed
in Albany, including many clips from the Battered
Mother's Custody Conference
in January.
One of the themes of Breaking the Silence is
mothers losing custody of their children for making
accusations of child sexual abuse. The two most
famous cases of mothers losing custody for false
allegations--those involving Bridget Marks and Dr.
Amy Neustein--were both in New York.
In addition, the New York chapter of the
National
Organization for Women
and the Coalition
of Fathers and Families NY, Inc. (FaFNY)
often do battle at the state capitol there.
Some of you may recall that I debated Marcia
Pappas, the president of New York NOW, on Fox News'
Day Side with Linda Vester earlier this year. We
discussed comments by a New York judge that
family
courts are biased
in favor of women. We invited Marcia to continue
our debate on His Side with Glenn Sacks but she
declined our invitation.
To write the Times Union, a 100,000 circulation
paper, about our column ("Film
gives distorted view of family law" ),
click here
.
PBS Declares War on
Dads
Our other co-authored column, PBS
Declares War on Dads
(World Net Daily, 10/20/05), focuses more
specifically on Parental Alienation Syndrome. World
Net Daily is one of the largest websites in the
world--to write a Letter to the Editor, click
here
.
What appears on World Net Daily is a shortened
version of a much longer column. The full length
version, which contains a lot of different
material, appears on my website here
.
Focus on the Family Radio
Covers PBS Campaign
I discussed Breaking the Silence and our campaign
on Focus on the Family radio on Monday, October
24.
Glenn Discusses PBS
Campaign on American Family Radio Network
I discussed Breaking the Silence and our campaign
on American Family Radio Network on Thursday,
October 20.
RADAR's Rosenthal Analyzes
Breaking the Silence
Mark B. Rosenthal of Respecting
Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting
wrote a good analysis of Breaking the Silence--see
Breaking
the Science: Misleading Stories from PBS.
Feminist Professor
Criticizes Campaign
Dr. Hugo Schwyzer, a feminist professor at Pasadena
City College and the inventor of the name "Sackson
Horde," criticized our campaign--see MRAs,
documentaries, "assaults"
. I like Hugo, but like many he didn't pay enough
attention to what we are doing and wrote that we
tried to "get the documentary pulled off the air."
In reality, we have never made that demand. We
instead wrote:
"We believe that the misguided individuals who
made the documentary should be able to put forth
their views. We also believe that PBS has a
responsibility to present both sides of the issue.
We want PBS to provide fatherhood and shared
parenting advocates a meaningful opportunity to
present our side."
To his credit, Hugo put in a correction
later.
Breaking the
Silence Directly Contradicts PBS's Mission
Statement
Because PBS is a publicly funded institution, its
conduct is of concern to all citizens. PBS's
Mission Statement
states that one of the central aims of its
programming is to "provide multiple viewpoints" and
"treat complex social issues completely." Breaking
the Silence misses the mark by a wide margin.
There was no attempt to "provide multiple
viewpoints" in the film whatsoever. One of the
film's biggest supporters, Bob Port, noted this in
his pro-film column Custody
fight: Documentary sheds light on system that lets
children suffer at the hands of abusive fathers
(Albany Times-Union, 10/16/05). Port stated that
the film "will not try your patience with he-said,
she-said debate between couples or among experts."
Port's correct--there certainly is no debate or
opposition permitted in the film.
The film does not "treat the issue completely,"
but instead gives only one side of the story, a
side which cherry-picked a few highly unusual cases
and pretended that they represent a widespread
problem. Our campaign's demand--that fatherhood and
shared parenting advocates be given a chance for a
meaningful on air response to the film--is entirely
consistent with PBS's stated goals and aims. In
fact, it is far more consistent with them than
Breaking the Silence is.
Have You Been the Victim of
a Child Support Error?
If you feel you have been billed for child support
payments that you believe you do not owe, or if you
believe you have experienced a questionable
practice by a child support agency, Jane Spies and
the National Family Justice Association are
conducting a study on this issue and want to hear
from you. Click here
for more information.
Glenn Quoted in Philly
Daily News on Paternity Fraud
I was quoted on paternity fraud in Jenice
Armstrong's column Who's
your daddy?
in the Philadelphia Daily News (10/5/05). Mike
McCormick, executive director of the American
Coalition for Fathers and Children is also
quoted.
Attempt to Shame
Deadbeats Visited upon the Children
Jane Spies
of the National
Family Justice Association
often tells me that public humiliation of alleged
"deadbeat parents" (as recently occurred in
Kentucky and Virginia) harms children because it
humiliates them. This letter from Nicki Joynes
about Virginia's recent public humiliation campaign
is a good example--see Attempt
to shame deadbeats visited upon the children
(Roanoke
Times, 10/4/05).
To learn more about the Virginia events, see my
co-authored column Virginia
Declares War on Deadbroke Dads (Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot, 8/30/05).
Leving's Divorce
Magazine
Family law attorney Jeff Leving, my frequent
co-author, has just introduced a new online journal
for men--Leving's Divorce Magazine. The magazine
looks great and has a lot of useful
information--find it at www.levingsdivorcemagazine.com
Source: www.glennsacks.com/pbs
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