CONFESSIONS OF A FAMILY LAW REFORM ACTIVIST

Sad that this was written many years ago (by an attorney with integrity and a soul, Lisa Scott) and the unconstitutional family court is even more abusive and destructive as ever. Our elected representatives, year after year, session after session, do nothing but spit in the face of fathers and children and let this illegal racket continue while pandering to the DV Industry thugs and the Bar association. Shame on you Senator Hargrove and your law making cronies.

CONFESSIONS OF A FAMILY LAW REFORM ACTIVIST

an excerpt;

Women who wanted an easy way of out a marriage, and to assure custody of the children, eagerly signed up for "victim's benefits." All the woman had to do was say she was abused, and the domestic violence advocates eagerly welcomed a new customer. Never mind that the wife was playing fast and loose with the real facts: she was routinely abusing the husband and children, had mental or substance abuse issues, and/or was having affairs with everyone from the milkman to the soccer coach.

It became clear to me that the Parenting Act had been hijacked by the domestic violence industry. The good intentions of the Act's progenitors had been overcome by single-issue extremists. Every factor determining the children's residential time with each parent could be trumped by one nearly irrefutable claim: domestic violence. And even if domestic violence were not determinative, fathers were still losing. The Parenting Act, although written in gender-neutral terms, was usually being interpreted to favor mothers receiving primary residential care, even when both parents were substantially equally involved in parenting.


. . . and the beat goes on.