"They have failed her," Tony Pierce says of Contra Costa County's effort on behalf of his supposed daughter. "If they're in it to feel good about themselves and to go to heaven because they're fighting for women -- no, they're going to hell, because they have not found this woman's father, and they have tried to fuck me over....What they should have said right away is, 'Hey look, this isn't the guy; let's get the [right] guy.'"
Every child support official I talked to was sensitive to the criticism and eager to discuss many past and future reforms aimed at reducing the number of default judgments, humanizing the system, and even (in the words of Contra Costa County's Kelly) eliminating the word deadbeat from their vocabulary. "This is a tough area," California DCSS's Gerhenzon says. "When you have bad results in these situations, they are tough on everyone involved in the process: the parents, the legal parents, the child, the system. It is to everyone's benefit not to have these cases come up."
But as long as state and federal laws remain as they are -- with low evidentiary thresholds for issuing paternity complaints, no proof of service required, the presumption of guilt in default cases, a series of short legal deadlines beyond which paternity becomes extremely difficult to challenge, and financial incentive for the government to keep naming dads and extracting money -- these cases will continue to come up. "I can see how so many men could be totally screwed right now," Pierce says. "You know, I was educated, I had a good job, I'd never been involved with the cops before, I had nothing to fear, nothing to run from. But still, I got tied into it....I can see where this stuff could create many victims."
Victims like Taron James, who lost at least two jobs while putting his life on hold for eight years so he could fight a judgment that should have never been made. "I'm a veteran -- I fought for and defended my country," James says, sitting in a Torrance, California, park down the street from his great aunt's crowded house, where he lives with his girlfriend and splits his time looking for work and driving to Sacramento to lobby legislators. "To be treated like this is ridiculous....Right now, I'm fully disgusted with California and the United States for allowing this to go on after I put my hind end on the line."
Note: The print edition of this article incorrectly stated Raegan Phillips' name and one detail about Taron James.
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margaret|6.14.10 @ 12:29AM|#
Thank you!! I wish more pople knew about what is realling going on!
Factory|8.20.10 @ 1:17PM|#
This article goes MUCH too easy on the thieves and tyrants in the Family Court and CS system. These injustices barely scratch the surface of the wrongs done to men in the name of 'equality'.... up to and including actual physical torture.
Even worse, this whole system does this while making no bones about the fact that it's only able to happen because we deny men the same rights we give women...in this case, Reproductive and Parental rights.
Again, in the name of 'equality'... Orwellian Doublespeak perhaps?
The Government, and all these 'caring' professions are earning a truly terrible reputation...and when I say 'earning', I mean it in the literal sense.
These people do not deserve one iota of 'sympathy', I do not believe for a minute that one tiny detail of this is 'an honest mistake'. If I could ensure every last one of them spent the rest of their miserable lives in abject poverty, I would do it without a moments hesitation... I view them as subhuman monsters...who else could do this stuff and still sleep at night?
This is deliberate, and the people involved deserve to have their blackened names associated with these Human Rights abuses.
As for Feminists 'understandably' being reticent...I say MY @SS they are 'mistaken'. Again, this was deliberate. Anyone who pays attention will see this is so.
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I have the perfect solution. Have a mother desperate for money claim a family court judge to be the father of her child.
Watch how fast the Paternity Fraud issue get placed in the fast lane, the idiot judges/defendants will get an example of how they ruin other men's life without any evidence and outright extortion by the Federal and State governments.
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Marc|11.14.10 @ 11:57AM|#
I agree with Factory. These officials and feminists know exactly what they are doing. None of it is a "mistake" or an "unfortunate side-effect".
They use words like, "deadbeat dad" and say things like, "...And I side with the kids; I don't really care about this guy." That PROVES that they don't give a rat's ass about any of these men, most of whom are poor.
I also think jbofsc is right when he suggests that these situations would be resolved once some family court judge gets screwed by the system. Hypocrites - all of them!
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The way to stop this happen is to have a few high profile people named as fathers.
What if someone named Barack Obama was named while he was not in the US?
What if a few judges suddenly found their wages being garnished?
Michael Steane, author of The Rape of the Male Mind available on Amazon Kindle
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A number of people have suggested naming judges as fathers and getting default judgments. This is a serious suggestion. Not only will any money they have to shell out not be repaid, but it might actually mean the law gets changed. Furthermore, their fat salaries mean they can afford rather large amounts. A good windfall for any mother with the balls to do this.
Michael Steane, Author of The Rape of the Male Mind, available on Amazon Kindle.
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