WELCOME TO THE FATHERHOOD MOVEMENT
Our organization came into being because the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has declared war on the fathers in this state. You have been drawn here on purpose. You may be a father who loves his children, a relative who is concerned about the state of families in today’s society, or someone with the power to influence the making and amending of divorce law in this state. On this web site, the men who represent the fathers of Massachusetts will reveal the nature of this war, and show how it will be brought to a successful conclusion.
Today in Massachusetts, a father’s rights to life, liberty, property and most importantly, to his children, exist at the whim of his children’s mother. Today, a wife who murders her husband will most likely avoid any meaningful time in prison. Yet today, a father can be jailed without a jury, without a lawyer, without a trial, and without even committing a crime, merely by falling a few hundred dollars behind in court ordered payments to the mother of his children. Our state government has made fatherhood a crime. Because of the destruction of their civil and human rights over the last thirty years, fathers are uniting, organizing and fighting back. This web site will show how the men in this state intend to change the laws and end gross injustices suffered by fathers and to stop the incalculable harm inflicted on our children by our state government.
The Fatherhood Movement is a recent phenomenon resulting from the evolution of divorce and family law over the last several decades. These changes were initiated by a consortium of radical feminists, lawyers, and unprincipled politicians. Through relentless effort, these activists have insured that fathers are routinely separated from their children without due process of law. Massachusetts Probate and Family Court judges now have unlimited discretion to encumber fathers with ongoing fines called child support and alimony, fees for unwanted services of professional pseudo-psychologists, fees for opposing lawyers, fees for visitation centers, costs for children’s college tuition, and on and on.
The United States currently has the largest prison population in the free world, and a large percentage of the inmates are fathers who have not committed a crime. Routine domestic interactions have become criminalized. Police forces are trained to arrest the father, automatically and without cause, when called by the mother. Fathers are denied the presumption of innocence and are being put on probation without a trial. They may be jailed without any of the Constitutional protections routinely granted to common criminals.
Today, when a father - married or unmarried - is brought into a Probate and Family Court, usually against his will, he has no chance of retaining custody of his children and little chance of maintaining a meaningful role in their lives, unless the children’s mother grants him these rights or is herself undeniably incompetent. In about 90% of the cases of divorce and separation, the mother is granted legal custody and the father is then forced to pay so-called child support, with the courts getting a kickback from the Federal government for every dollar assessed. Family courts routinely allow mothers to move the children away without their father’s consent.
Fathers have little chance of remaining in their homes or even affording to live in their own towns. To facilitate the process, restraining orders have become ubiquitous. Fathers may be removed from their homes and separated from their children through a blatantly unconstitutional process whereby these orders are granted in civil courts with no standards of evidence, and enforced in criminal courts. The laws allowing this destruction of father’s civil liberties were enacted incrementally by the legislature with no appreciable public support or awareness over the last three decades.
Now it is the father’s time. The victim pool has reached critical mass. Fathers, grandparents, siblings, second wives, children - 85% of the voters – want the war on fathers to end. We in the Fatherhood Movement are leading the way. We welcome you to join us. You may have no choice.