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Congratulations! to Blogcritics for their great accomplishment...10 million visitors! Wow.


Please consider downloading and listening to "Where is the Love?" by the Black Eyed Peas and Justin Timberlake

And if you get a chance, listen to "Change" by Tracy Chapman.

I think these two songs have valuable lessons.

Peace. Please.


Real Fathers 4 Justice protestor gains TV stars' support.


While Simon Cloverdale was perched on a crane more than 250 feet above ground with his huge banner, Simon Gregson (who plays Steve McDonald) and Kate Ford (who plays Tracey Barlow), both actors on the Coronation Street TV show, came out of the Granada Studios to sign a Real Fathers 4 Justice poster and to show their support for fathers' rights.

Simon Cloverdale has been released from custody.





Thank you Real Fathers 4 Justice.









The original Fathers 4 Justice is alive and well in South Africa.

The Original Fathers 4 Justice is back at it again, this time in South Africa. Dr. Steven Pretorius, aka Batman and founder of the new branch, scaled an unfinished bridge to hang a banner to go with the one Ryan Plunkett hung from a second story window on the Cape High Court building. Two Spidermen, Batman and Robin, Captain Thunder and a Superdad protested with hand-held smoke flares. Leon Saaiman, member of the Original Fathers 4 Justice's National Advisory Council, said "We are against fathers who don't pay maintenance or who beat their wives. We stand for fathers who want to play a meaningful role in the children's lives." The original story is here ...Thank you Original Fathers 4 Justice.


Now some sad news. Vasilica Iulian Grosu, the 36-year-old Romanian father who set himself on fire to protest his inability to get back custody of his son, or even just to see him, has died of his injuries. His parents and sister continue the fight to find 6-year-old Andrei in Spain so they can gain access to him by phone. More information here



What this is all about

Sometimes people ask me why I keep fighting this fight. They know I'm misunderstood and criticized by people on all sides, including the people I'm trying to help. I have to admit, when that happens I ask myself the same question. But then I get emails like this one. My heart melts, and I get right back in the line of fire.

Bill Sharp used to spend 3 weeks every summer at this location with his kids. The court order now only allows for 2 weeks. Still, he makes the most of it. How can anyone turn their back on a father who writes this about his time with his children:

"Oh, and the rotting log was full of black carpenter ants. As soon as the water level rose to the level of the log and started to fall over it, the ants started to evacuate to the nearest dry land. My kids watched them for hours. Watched them scout out paths that weren’t flooded. Watch them build escape routes when alternatives vanished. Watched them cart out eggs to safety. And watched some of the colony somehow survive when there didn’t seem any plausible way to do so.

My son, cracked me up this year. He said, “We’re building stuff Dad; not the kind of building you do at work, building and re-arranging Powerpoint charts and going to meetings; we’re really building stuff.” … you would have thought we were building a moon mission."