Comments on: Iehl and Baskerville: Vilsack has chance to emerge as family-issues candidate http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/ Fathers, Family and Divorce in America Sat, 17 May 2008 01:09:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Washington Shared Parenting » Blog Archives » Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack for President? http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-38 Washington Shared Parenting » Blog Archives » Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack for President? Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:39:34 +0000 http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-38 [...] http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/ [...] […] http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/ […]

]]> By: siblingsseparated http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-37 siblingsseparated Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:57:47 +0000 http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-37 It is all well and good enough for us to talk about, debate about, complain about and report the extreme injustices being dealt out daily to loving parents from our family courts. However, if we actually want to DO SOMETHING about it, we need to organize, unit and display our solidarity come election day. We need members !! Steering Committee Member People for Equal Parenting of Illinois It is all well and good enough for us to talk about, debate about, complain about and report the extreme injustices being dealt out daily to loving parents from our family courts.

However, if we actually want to DO SOMETHING about it, we need to organize, unit and display our solidarity come election day.

We need members !!

Steering Committee Member
People for Equal Parenting of Illinois

]]> By: siblingsseparated http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-36 siblingsseparated Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:55:29 +0000 http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-36 It is all well and good enough for us to talk about, debate, complain and report the extreme injustices being dealt out daily to loving parents from our family courts. If we however want to actually DO SOMETHING It is all well and good enough for us to talk about, debate, complain and report the extreme injustices being dealt out daily to loving parents from our family courts. If we however want to actually DO SOMETHING

]]> By: KRS http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-35 KRS Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:50:30 +0000 http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-35 What we really need in shared parenting bills is to tie judges' hands, like mandatory prison sentencing does. The best legislation would leave very little room for judicial discretion, while making the standard of proof for denying 50/50 joint physical time extremely high. Objectivity, not subjectivity, is the key. And then if a judge usurps those objective standards, there would be immediate grounds for appeal. What we really need in shared parenting bills is to tie judges’ hands, like mandatory prison sentencing does. The best legislation would leave very little room for judicial discretion, while making the standard of proof for denying 50/50 joint physical time extremely high. Objectivity, not subjectivity, is the key. And then if a judge usurps those objective standards, there would be immediate grounds for appeal.

]]> By: wls1 http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-34 wls1 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:38:47 +0000 http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-34 Reagan more than any other president also gave us child support as we know it. Richard Nixon introduced Title IV-D as the way to end welfare, but not much happened until Reagan's administration, which initiated deadbeat dad rhetoric, license suspensions, tax-refund interceptions, hiked-up guidelines, enhanced wage assignments, liens, and levies, etc., etc. By reports Reagan was never himself that much of family man or parent: his relationships with his children were often strained and he appears to have been at best an indifferent, detached father. The problem with the Iowa joint custody statute appears to be that the presumption is too easily rebutted by a court finding of conflict between the parents. Although the court is supposed to account for the reasoning behind its finding, the law gives a disenfranchised parent no handle to force reconsideration or reversal on appeal. Reagan more than any other president also gave us child support as we know it.

Richard Nixon introduced Title IV-D as the way to end welfare, but not much happened until Reagan’s administration, which initiated deadbeat dad rhetoric, license suspensions, tax-refund interceptions, hiked-up guidelines, enhanced wage assignments, liens, and levies, etc., etc.

By reports Reagan was never himself that much of family man or parent: his relationships with his children were often strained and he appears to have been at best an indifferent, detached father.

The problem with the Iowa joint custody statute appears to be that the presumption is too easily rebutted by a court finding of conflict between the parents. Although the court is supposed to account for the reasoning behind its finding, the law gives a disenfranchised parent no handle to force reconsideration or reversal on appeal.

]]> By: mruffolo http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-33 mruffolo Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:59:05 +0000 http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-33 Oddly a pro-famliy conservative Republican signed into law no-fault divorce. "California's no-fault divorce law was drafted by Assemblyman James A. Hayes and signed into law in 1969 by then-Governor Ronald Reagan. The rest of the nation quickly followed California's lead. By 1974, forty-five states had passed no-fault statutes of their own. By 1985, every state in the union was a no-fault state. According to Judy Parejko, author of Stolen Vows: The Illusion of No-Fault Divorce and the Rise of the American Divorce Industry, Assemblyman Hayes "was responsible for doggedly pursuing [the no-fault divorce] bill because he was facing a divorce and he didn't like the rules at the time. Nowadays, his actions would be called a conflict of interest."' "And why did Ronald Reagan, the pro-family conservative, sign such a law? I believe that some of his reasons were personal. Notice that Dad signed the no-fault divorce law some twenty years after going through his own divorce. His wife, Jane Wyman, had divorced him on grounds of "mental cruelty." Even though listing grounds for divorce was largely a formality, those words were probably a bitter pill for him to swallow. He wanted to do something to make the divorce process less acrimonious, less contentious, and less expensive." http://www.stolenvows.com/TwiceAdopted.htm The best government governs not at all. Oddly a pro-famliy conservative Republican signed into law no-fault divorce.

“California’s no-fault divorce law was drafted by Assemblyman James A. Hayes and signed into law in 1969 by then-Governor Ronald Reagan. The rest of the nation quickly followed California’s lead. By 1974, forty-five states had passed no-fault statutes of their own. By 1985, every state in the union was a no-fault state. According to Judy Parejko, author of Stolen Vows: The Illusion of No-Fault Divorce and the Rise of the American Divorce Industry, Assemblyman Hayes “was responsible for doggedly pursuing [the no-fault divorce] bill because he was facing a divorce and he didn’t like the rules at the time. Nowadays, his actions would be called a conflict of interest.”‘

“And why did Ronald Reagan, the pro-family conservative, sign such a law? I believe that some of his reasons were personal. Notice that Dad signed the no-fault divorce law some twenty years after going through his own divorce. His wife, Jane Wyman, had divorced him on grounds of “mental cruelty.”
Even though listing grounds for divorce was largely a formality, those words were probably a bitter pill for him to swallow. He wanted to do something to make the divorce process less acrimonious, less contentious, and less expensive.”

http://www.stolenvows.com/TwiceAdopted.htm

The best government governs not at all.

]]> By: DcFather http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-32 DcFather Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:59:30 +0000 http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-32 While Vilsack did refer to the Iowa Shared Parenting bill as "the most important legislation I've signed all year", and does actually seems to have a clue about the children's lives and fundamental liberty routinely sacrificed in exchange for Bar Association money, Iowa has been and continues to be a shithole state to be a divorced father from just like all the rest. While Vilsack did refer to the Iowa Shared Parenting bill as “the most important legislation I’ve signed all year”, and does actually seems to have a clue about the children’s lives and fundamental liberty routinely sacrificed in exchange for Bar Association money, Iowa has been and continues to be a shithole state to be a divorced father from just like all the rest.

]]> By: Roger Knight http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-31 Roger Knight Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:23:58 +0000 http://stephenbaskerville.mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/21/iehl-baskerville-vilsack-has-chance-to-emerge-as-family-issues-candidate/#comment-31 You know how Tom Vilsack can get my vote? Scream for the enforcement fo the Peonage Law! That would close the sale with me. You know how Tom Vilsack can get my vote?
Scream for the enforcement fo the Peonage Law!
That would close the sale with me.

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