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Michigan's Top Cop Tells Kids:
Denounce Your Daddy
Politically
savvy Michigan Attorney General
Mike Cox has found a good way to
ride to a higher office—beat up
on "deadbeat dads." Cox has led
a highly-publicized campaign
against Michigan fathers which
has included prominent
billboards boasting of jail time
for fathers struggling with
child support obligations.
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However,
according to a recent Family
Independence Agency study, 87
percent of all Michigan child
support arrearages are owed by
those earning less than $10,000
a year. |
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This week Cox
took his campaign to a new low
by announcing a contest to
encourage custodial mothers to
have their children draw
billboard designs critical of
noncustodial fathers who have
allegedly not paid child
support. According to the
contest's rules:
"Entries must
be original submissions produced
by the child him/herself. The
Attorney General encourages
parent involvement in discussing
the issue and assisting in
crafting the message and
visual representation but the
production of the image must be
from the child alone. Entries
must be electronic or
hand-crafted visual
representations that clearly
convey the message of
encouraging the payment of child
support." (Emphasis added).
In other
words, custodial mothers are
encouraged to coach their
children to make designs
critical of noncustodial parents
behind on child support. And it
doesn't take much imagination to
figure out which noncustodial
father many mothers will be
encouraging their children to
denounce. In family law that's
called "Parental Alienation."
Many divorce decrees
specifically instruct parents
not to denigrate or badmouth the
other parent in the presence of
the children, and here the top
law enforcement official in the
state of Michigan is holding a
contest which encourages parents
to do this!
Glenn discussed the Michigan anti-father
campaign on
His Side with Glenn Sacks
on October 3.
Glenn also discussed other topics,
including: the boy crisis in
education; Alec Baldwin's
custody battle; a lesbian
custody fight; the Kobe Bryant
case; some recent comments by
David Blankenhorn; and others.
To learn more
about Mike Cox's assault on
Michigan fathers, see:
To learn more
about the Boy Crisis in
education, see:
(Washington Times,
9/12/04)
Why Males Don't Go to
College
(She Thinks,
11/13/02)
The Boy
Crisis in Education--and
What Can Be Done About It
(9/14/03)
Christina Hoff Sommers Criticizes Modern Schools' Anti-Boy
Culture (4/20/03)
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