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- From: boe@SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Robert Boeninger)
- Subject: Action proposals
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- Reply-To: boe@SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Robert Boeninger)
- Organization: SLAC
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:57:57 GMT
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- As many are doing in the dads-rights postings, I also support the idea of
- using this group to strengthen the dads' rights movement in this country
- in order to effect real change in the family laws for the protection of
- mens' rights (people's rights). Various ideas have been proposed recently,
- perhaps earlier also, which I would like to recommend as many of you men and
- other sympathetic NCP's out there to actively support.
-
- These proposals include:
- .An increased letter-writing campaign using various template letters
- as a starting point.
-
- .A model court case charging the courts with sexual discrimination
- against men.
-
- As I am sure others have proposed earlier, I would like to suggest that we
- attempt to gain the support of feminist groups in this effort, as odd as it
- may sound at first. Some claim they are generally in opposition to mens'
- rights in divorce/custody issues and contribute to the unjust state of
- affairs now prevailing in the courts. I personally know so many womens'
- rights people where this is not the case. They agree that men are getting
- a terribly raw deal, for the most part. Why don't we tap into this
- potential source of support as a means also of either dividing or perhaps
- entirely winning over the supposed opposition? It would also help lawmakers
- and the courts to realize that it is not really a matter of men versus women
- but of basic human rights that everyone supports.
-
- Concerning particulars of what issues and proposals should be addressed in
- connection with the above action items, I would like to suggest the following
- be added to whatever points are to be made:
- If one of the parents following a divorce/custody case is given
- primary physical custody of the children involved, that action has
- to recognized as a grievous infringement on the basic, inalienable
- human right of a parent to be with their children. If the court
- nevertheless sanctions such action, the NCP must be compensated in
- some way. The form of compensation can be worked out. The important
- thing is for the courts to recognize the grievous nature of such
- action and not just ignore it as something inconseqential, as seems
- so often the case now.
- The compensation of the NCP could, just as an example, take the form
- of rapidly decreasing financial OBLIGATION of the NCP to support the
- family. This is not to say there couldn't be VOLUNTARY support.
-
- Something else that could be done is to communicate these proposals to
- as many dads' rights groups currently already existing (which may not be
- hooked into netnews) as possible in order to facilitate organizing and
- coordinating.
-
- Bob Boeninger, e-mail boe@slac.stanford.edu
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