"If you can carry an M-16, then you can also carry your own child on your shoulders with the same dignity and responsibility. "

Fathers rights groups in Israel pray that Israeli society will one day in the very near future recognize that if you can carry an M-16, then you can also carry your own child on your shoulders with the same dignity and responsibility.

"We have learned much from the nonviolent, highly visible and friendly campaigns of Fathers4Justice* in England, the US and Canada," said Joel Leyden.

"We are here to gather support, not alienate anyone. Having Superheros such as Batman, Spiderman and Superman representing us offers a warm touch to both the children for which we have been separated from and the public which needs to learn that most dads are loving, caring and responsible fathers who love their children no less than the mothers do.

When the courts and child welfare departments in Israel separate father from child they are inflicting a devastating blow to that child's emotional and mental development.", said Michael Krongauz, a spokesperson of the Israel Children's Rights organization Children Need Both Parents.

For more information go here .
* There is no Fathers4Justice in Israel.

Justice is coming!

Incomplete

When I tell people about my work on behalf of family rights, many people just don't "get it". They understand the injustice, but they don't understand the suffering, the devastation, the heartbreak.

I want people to know that this is happening in America, as it is all around the world. We need to solve this serious problem. If we don't respect and honor family, then what do we have? What are we teaching the next generation?

Please listen to this song called Incomplete by The Backstreet Boys. Even though a few words don't fit, (I have never heard any parent say they are trying to forget their child), the overall message is there.

This is how my friends, Superheroes and others, feel when they've been removed from their children's lives.

Click here for music and video

"Incomplete"
by The Backstreet Boys

Empty spaces fill me up with holes
Distant faces with no place left to go
Without you within me I can’t find no rest
Where I’m going is anybody’s guess

I’ve tried to go on like I never knew you
I’m awake but my world is half asleep
I pray for this heart to be unbroken
But without you all I’m going to be is incomplete

Voices tell me I should carry on
But I am swimming in an ocean all alone
Baby, my baby
It’s written on your face
You still wonder if we made a big mistake

I’ve tried to go on like I never knew you
I’m awake but my world is half asleep
I pray for this heart to be unbroken
But without you all I’m going to be is incomplete

I don’t mean to drag it on, but I can’t seem to let you go
I don’t wanna make you face this world alone
I wanna let you go (alone)

I’ve tried to go on like I never knew you
I’m awake but my world is half asleep
I pray for this heart to be unbroken
But without you all I’m going to be is incomplete

Incomplete

"I haven't seen my children for two years."

"If I am here climbing a bridge, it's because I have no other alternative," Leroux said in the interview. "The family courts don't recognize our rights. I haven't seen my children for two years."

"Fathers are often denied access, have no hope of having custody of their children and are treated as nothing more than a wallet," said Steve Osborne, the spokesperson for (F4J's) Canadian chapter, which was founded last year. It has 700 members.

"In most cases, the family courts still give sole access to the mother and often fathers are cut off from their kids."

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Happy Anniversary Burnaby Batman.

Happy Anniversary Burnaby Batman.

May 22, 2004
Thank you, for a year well done.

Love, Teri

Justice is coming

Greetings from Vancouver BC Canada and the Burnaby Bat.

Thank you Teri with all my heart...........

Its been a whole year already. It seems like only yesterday........ For me a whole year of solid packed actions.

On that note May 27/05 I have my first court appearance in Victoria BC for climbing the Victoria Legislature buildings on March 25/05. The same court that had its doors chained shut, a huge banner hung from it and 600 crickets delivered to it.

Should be interesting. What do you figure the chances of them being nice to me are? lol.

Best Wishes to you Teri,

Rob Robinson - Batman -

A real life happy ending

A friend sent me this true story-

"A few years ago I received a call from a girl I knew in HS who had fled with her daughter across country when her daughter was about 2. Her now 16 yr old daughter was wanting to contact her father and did I still know how to contact them? I did.... ... Mom thought daughter wanted to ream him...... ..she still held onto some old anger and seemed pretty pleased about it. I had been in contact on and off with dad and heard both sides. Well, bits and pieces of both sides and it wasn't pretty. Knowing I didn't have the full story and was always friends with both, I refused to take sides.

I was happy to leave a note at his parents house. I still knew were they lived. A few months later I received a tearful call from Dad thanking me for taking the time to leave that note. A note which was on the back of my business card and had fallen off the screen door, yet somehow they found it. Through his tears he had told me he had prayed and prayed for this day to come. He had thought about hiring a PI over the years but decided not to, thinking that might interrupt her life. He had been in contact with her via phone.... they were catching up.... she choosing a college and doing fantastic. She was NOT angry with him, just had a lot of questions. They were planning a family reunion and he would be honored if my son and I could make it. The reunion was fantastic. I was able to meet his wife, and see the bio moms family. That single call brought everyone together. The bio mother had cut off her side of the family living on this side of the country as well when she took off. Dad made sure he contacted every one of his ex's family members who had been taken from this little girls life for this reunion.... It was fantastic to see people I hadn't seen in close to 20 years. Even better to see everyone get together and let bygones be bygones. He never had to say a single word about what happened. His ex's family did all the explaining. No one was prompted, her family simply told...

I think her dad came up with one of the classiest lines I've heard. He told his daughter, "We can't make up for the years we were taken away from each other, but the games still young. We're at the 25 yard line and we have another 75 to go."

So while your heart might be breaking, know it's not forever. If by chance you don't win your battle now, there will come a time your child is an adult and is able to make decisions for him or herself. Childhood is a precious part of life, but a small part of life when
we count the years.

Hugs....and keep the faith.

Michelle & Joey"

Announcing a name change-
EgalitarianFeminist4Fathers
(same location, different name)

Has CPS been involved in your custody case? Were your rights violated? One of our fellow activists will be working with the Citizens Commission on Human Rights and she wants your stories. Please write to Kathy at powerbeonme@surewest.net
Justice is coming

A father is planning his suicide

How can people be so cruel? How can the family court system be so unjust that a father would chose to die than to live under their terms? How many more fathers must die before the authorities start to care? I sit here in tears, after reading a friend's plan to leave this world because he has been cut out of his children's lives.

He has this to say:

"I can't help my feelings and I am sorry for causing kaos on the groups but my days on this planet are few as I am destined to be just another done over father who goes down the hole.

Police stormed my house last night. I am prison bound for my last time as I am going to come off my heart medication and refuse all food and water as I have lost my will to live.

My two girls used to love me so much but now because of false allegations and PAS they are to scared to see me. Please don't get upset Teri as the world is unfair but with people like you and others thru their noble actions can help change the insidious cruel system. My days of fighting with police and looking into the eyes of evil judges are coming to an end. I just want to go to sleep and never wake up.

I will always be with you guys & girls in spirit.

In solidarity-dad4justice
Peter"

UPDATE ON PETER:

I can assure you I am genuinely sorry for freaking everyone out as suicide although painless would be selfish and heartbreaking for my 4 children. I must learn to endure this injustice. I can't understand this horrible PAS, it's heavy shyt. I must learn not to get emotional but its hard when you get told your 2 girls don't want to see you again.

I state again thank you Teri and all the many others who have flooded my inbox with messages of support. I will not let the team down again with talk of suicide.

Sorry,
dad4justice, New Zealand

ANOTHER UPDATE:

I have come to terms with the fact my young daughters aged 12 & 10 have been affected so badly by the vile PAS they want to continue the estrangement from their Daddy .This time 4 years ago I was idolised and very much loved by them in a happy family situation. Today I understand the loss is more than sadness, and I a normal to feel angry, lonely,numb, forgetful, tense,shaky, aching, scared, guilty, betrayed, lost, empty, depressed, exhausted and other physical miseries. However I will never give up my fight for my most precious girls who mean everything to this DAD. dad4justice

Please take a moment of silence

Another child has lost her father. Another father has lost his child.

Accusations of abuse are not common in family court. But they are devastating. Studies show that half of all accusations are false. Do the family courts care? No. They are so quick to cut the hearts out of loving fathers. They might as well use a knife. At least that way everyone would see the bleeding, the pain, and everyone would have to stop denying the suffering.

One of my dear friends has this to say:

"I am destroyed and stunned and empty! A great part of my heart has been cut out and left bleeding infront of my eyes. A vision of horror that will never leave me, not ever!

This pen of, 'so called,' Justice, is mightier than the sword, because it cut me so deeply, that it will leave a bleeding wound that will never heal, till the day I take my last breath on this earth!

I now cannot see my daughter again, only birthday cards and maybe a letter at the mothers discression. If I admit to my, 'guilt,' and come out of, 'denial,' and get therapy, I will eventually see my daughter. This means I will never see her again, because I will never admit to something I did not do.

I am in a dead zone and I know I am strong enough to eventually get my self together, but the heartache will never leave me. this I know.

I did not get Justice this time! But I will continue to fight for it, for others, as I am more knowledgeable now and this heartbraking experience has hardened me to these (censored)s."

Artur x. .............Justice is coming............

THEY COULD HAVE JUST USED ONE OF THESE.

Forgiveness

"You may resist learning the lesson of forgiveness because sometimes it feels good to blame people for their mistakes. It makes you feel superior and righteous when you can look down your nose and hold a grudge toward someone who has wronged you. However, harboring resentment consumes a lot of energy. Why waste valuable energy on prolonged anger and guilt, when you could use that energy for far greater things?" 

from  If Life Is A Game, These Are The Rules

thanks Menstuff.com

Women For Shared Parenting

We are a group of women, and men, who believe that children need and deserve fully functioning, natural, loving, dedicated relationships with both of their parents, equally, in and out of marriage. We think divorce is tragic enough without children losing one of the two most important people in their lives. We are, or care for, parents, mothers and fathers, and children, who have been devastated by unjust and outdated child custody laws. We support laws that keep fit loving parents from losing all physical custody of their children in a divorce. We support laws that treat unmarried fathers and unmarried mothers equally. We offer the tools for shared parenting here Shared Parenting Works. We hope you'll take a look, and that you'll join with us to stand up for children, that you'll help us be their voice. After you take a look please join this group to receive updates. Family Rights Network

Spiderman Dad

I'd like to share with you a new web site devoted to David Chick, the UK's Spiderman Dad spidermandad.com

Thanks to Glenn Sacks at hisside.com

This doesn't add up.

This doesn't add up. The radical gender feminists tell us that men are poor care-givers, that only women know how to do hands-on parenting. They say that men never do their fair share of child care while in the relationship, so why should they get joint custody after the relationship breaks up. Hmmm...

I guess they didn't read the State of Mom Report Card done by ClubMom, also called the 2005 Voice of Mom Survey. It clearly states that, "46 percent of moms say they divide the responsibility of child-rearing equally with their partner".

It was murder, pure and simple.

It is with a very heavy heart and mascara-tainted tear stains on my cheeks that I have to tell you that AB 1307, California's shared parenting bill, was murdered today. I now understand exactly what the fathers have described when they write about sitting there listening to the opposition lying. It was obvious that their first witness hadn't even read the bill. If she did she was hoping the legislators hadn't. I heard all of the old lies that I read on the radicial feminist websites. I'm more and more embarrassed to be female. And I really don't like feeling this way.

I won't give up. I can't stop. Every day I find more people who want to join us. In the ladies restroom of the Hyatt today I met some college students who were at the capital lobbying for educational funding. After a 30 second conversation they wanted information so they can post flyers at their college. Whoever it was who said that college students care.... he was right. And these were girls. One girl said her generation is the first raised by sole single moms, and they know that it's not the best option.

This liberal father-loving feminist grandmother has just begun to fight!