Bridget Marks PAS/Custody Case
For the first segment of the show I discussed the Bridget Marks
PAS/Custody Case. For background information, see "TUG-OF-LOVE
ENDS IN AGONY" (New York Post, 6/1/04). The New
York Daily News and New York Post seem to have given it
the most attention.
Read Glenn's
commentary "In Defense of
Arlene Goldberg"
Mailing address Marks case judge:
The Honorable Judge Goldberg
60 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10013
Contact NY newspapers about
the Marks case:
New York Daily News
New York Observer
New York Post
New York Sun
New York Times
Some of the other topics we discussed included:
1) Chad Taylor, a New Mexico father who was reported to New Mexico's
Department of Children, Youth and Families and reportedly threatened
with loss of custody and criminal charges for child abuse for taking
his son off of Ritalin. The boy's teachers preferred that he remain
drugged. For more information on the case, see
ABCNEWS.com : Dad Investigated for Taking Son Off Meds (6/7/04).
Also, see my columns
The 'Boy
Parent Dilemma', (Los Angeles Daily News, 9/6/02),
Boys: The New
Underclass in American Schools (Los Angeles Daily Journal, San
Francisco Daily Journal, 4/15/02), and
Mysterious Decline-Where Are the Men on Campus? from
Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and
Establishment Lies published by
The Disinformation Company
(May, 2003) (co-authored by Phil Cook).
2) The Campaign for Our
Children's billboard campaign which depicts a live chicken in
tennis shoes with the text, "What do you call a guy who makes a baby
and flies the coop?" To see a picture of the billboard ads, click
here and scroll down. I see
the issue in the context of men's lack of reproductive rights. To
learn more, see my columns
30 Years
After Roe v. Wade, How About Choice for Men? (Mail &Guardian,
1/27/03) and
Pennsylvania Abortion Case Raises Question of Choice for Men
(Newsday, 8/7/02). The latter was coauthored by Dianna Thompson of
the National Family Justice
Association (NFJA).
3) A caller asked me about the largely mythical "wage gap" between
men and women. For more information, see my ancient column
Is Pay a Function
of Gender Bias? (Los Angeles Times, 5/12/01).
4) Another caller, a divorced dad who is the target parent in a
parental alienation campaign, said he made the mistake of citing
His Side during his custody
trial to substantiate his position on Parental Alienation Syndrome
(PAS). Apparently the alienating mom's attorney didn't take too
kindly to this. To learn more about PAS, see our show
The Heart of Darkness:
Parental Alienation Syndrome (2/8/04). Guests included Jayne A.
Major, Ph.D., of
Breakthrough Parenting and family law attorney
Jeff Leving.
5) Two people brought up the LaMusga move-away case. One was a
caller who is trying to prevent her husband's ex-wife from moving
his boy from California to Colorado. Another is a step dad who is
trying to move his wife's daughter 2,500 away from the daughter's
father. I hope my on-air response to him was not excessive. For
background on LaMusga, see my columns
Is a Pool More
Important than a Dad? (San Francisco Chronicle, 5/4/04),
(co-authored by family law attorney Jeff Leving) and
California
NOW Spits on My Wife (Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 2/23/04), as well
as the His Side show
Gloria Allred vs.
LaMusga's Attorney on Move-Aways
(5/16/04).
