Barack Obama Attacks Non-Custodial Parents
Senators say men must take responsibility for raising their children.
Back on Father’s Day, Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama made what was supposed to be inflammatory comments against absentee fathers, notably African-American ones. Barack Obama, like many Democrats, seems to have plenty on his mind that he isn’t saying clearly.
Democrats are sponsoring an effort through Senators Barack Obama and Evan Bayh to intensify child support enforcement. On the surface, this appears to be a good idea. However, what is not said is that major areas of child support law are absolutely unconstitutional, sponsored by Democrats and others as far back as the Bradley Amendment in the 1980s. None of the federal law has been repealed.
The country has a national epidemic of absentee fathers. This much may be true as statistics reveal, but Senators are looking at a symptom rather than a cause. However, creative Democrats have designed “The Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2007 as their latest social engineering effort.
The legislation claims to offer support for fathers trying to do the right thing while cracking down on men that avoid “parental responsibility”. The bill is designed to provide fathers with “innovative job training” and other nameless economic opportunities while using a typical social engineering tool called the “Earned Income Tax Credit.” Hillary Clinton favored the same kind of tactics. The idea is to “help” non-custodial parents to support their families.
Combined with the unconstitutional Bradley Amendment and other similarly-styled state laws, the idea is designed to encourage the idea of outright slavery to government authority in the name of doing the right thing because, after all, the government is always there to help honest men. The track record of politicians since the Clinton presidential daze has proved otherwise as feminists took advantage of opportunities to oppress men in the name of child law, welfare reform and rightful propriety.
The “Bayh-Obama legislation” is designed to strengthen violence prevention services, once again looking at symptoms rather than causes. The proposed law is supposed to ensure that money paid for child support goes “directly to children and their mothers”, without loss of food assistance for eligible families. The same old stinking thinking that mothers are without cause in the whole process of divorce and child-rearing is offensive. The fact that politicians want to green-stamp domestic violence by supporting negative parental attitudes, including sexual immorality is even more reprehensible. Women and men are not saints and law needs to stop treating them like saints.
Senator Evan Bayh stated, “Fatherlessness is an issue many politicians would prefer to avoid, but elected officials have a moral obligation not to sit idly by while communities crumble because of the epidemic of absentee fathers. I am not naïve enough to believe that government alone can solve this problem, but together we can play a constructive role in crafting policies that attack the root causes of this epidemic.” Unfortunately, government tactics of the past have not and do not encourage family-building, but rather societal destruction.
It can be argued that the welfare system and even child support measures are a wonderful thing for many. However, the cost to the country cannot be unconstitutional state and federal laws that are supported by politicians. For example, the federal Bradley Amendment along with a flotilla of state laws that support the violation of a number of Constitutional Rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution.
Currently these Constitutional Rights are actively violated as well as other civil rights:
1. violation of due process under the 4th, 5th and 14th Amendments
2. deprives equal protection under the law
3. violation of state sovereignty under the 10th Amendment
4. violation of natural human rights under the 9th Amendment
In a typical multi-pronged attack, the U.S. House of Representatives has companion legislation that is being introduced by Democrats Julia Carson and Danny Davis. Earmark spending is certain to follow as the legislation is crafted and agreed upon between the two legislative bodies.
Last year, Congress passed legislation based on a proposal introduced by Senator Bayh that provided up to $50 million each year for the next five years in funding for responsible fatherhood programs nationwide as part of a spending reconciliation bill to prepare for future legislation that is on the board now.
Does this political scene sound like the new politics of hope to you?
November 6, 2008 at 6:35 pm
What about the custodial parents who use children who no longer live with them to collect child support or arreages and do not let the non-custodial parent know the whereabouts of the child ? Yes, my stepdaughter is 19, has at least 2 children we are told. However, we do not know her whereabouts whilr the custodial mother continues to collect child support. She last lived with her mother in 2003!!!
This problem is not obscure. What about the 17 year old daughter that was supposed to be living with her mother, but instead was living with the family of a friend, closer to the high school of her choice and only a few blocks from her father without his knowledge? Same problem.
December 5, 2008 at 7:59 pm
here are the biggest scamers where are they getting their information from?
goto the link and see this scam !
http://www.childstats.gov/
January 13, 2009 at 12:57 pm
I am not understanding why the responsibility is left on to the non-custodial parent. I believe that the problem is not the absentee father the problem begins with the mother. There are so many options for a woman and not any options for a man. The system is backing men into a corner and they are running. In many states, the system is setting up the fathers to where their only voice in the entire process is money. Where are the father’s rights? Think about it, if your rights are taken from you and you are forced to give money to someone who you are sure do not deserve it, what would be your decision? It’s a problem that only can be solved by looking at the problem itself. The problem is the blaming process. We should not blame fathers for absentee fathers but the system. There are mothers who bare the children with the intent to collect money from the father. This is a way to gain money. There are also women who bare children with men who they will not allow to be fathers. There are also women who want the fathers to be apart of the childrens’ lives legitimately, but those are so far fetched that the men who believe in the system often will dissappear before trying to voice their rights. The courts are on the side of the mother, the laws and our legislature. The mother has the right to decide on whether she wants to keep a child, whether or not the father wants to.. and in many states she has the right to put a child up for adoption without the father’s consent. What would you expect from men? I could expect nothing less. More often than not, I am seeing fathers struggling to pay for child support, because the system has to make up for those that do not pay. Where is the family? I was always under the assumption that to support a child takes more than financial responsibility. I also believe that we need to put more of the responsibility on the mothers as they are given choices and rights that men aren’t given. I believe that the caring of a child should be 50% from both parents to include, financial, emotional, religiously and morally. If someone was to birth a child that you did not want there is one choice for you as a man. Give your money. Fatherhood, no longer represent being a father… it represents being a bank. As a daughter of a father who provided financially, I would much rather have my father there for emotional support and fatherly love than any amount of money that Child Support Enforcement could have stipulated for him to pay and remain absent because he couldnt afford anything else.
February 21, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I AM VERY IMPRESSED BY WHAT I HAVE READ. IT AMAZES ME THAT SO MANY FATHERS ARE GOING THROUGH SO MUCH WITH THIS CORRUPTED SYSTEM. SO MANY NON CUSTODIAL PARENTS DO OR TRY TO DO WHATS RIGHT FOR THEIR CHILD/CHILDREN, ON THE OTHER HAND THEIR ARE MANY WHO DO NOT (ITS A GAMBLE) MOST FATHERS WANT TO BE THERE FOR THEIR CHILD/CHILDREN BUT THE PROBLEM IS THE MOTHERS WANT LET THEM AND THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM. SO MANY CUSTODIAL PARENTS KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND USING THE SYSTEM AS A WEAPON THEREFORE LEAVING THE NON CUSTODIAL PARENTS BACK AGAINST THE WALL, SOME FATHERS DO FLEE AND SOME CHOOSE TO STAY AND FIGHT AND DO THE BEST THEY CAN TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR CHILD/CHILDREN. HOW CAN THIS HONESTLY BE JUSTIFIED, HOW CAN WE FATHERS HAVE A VOICE, MORE IMPORTANTLY WHO WILL LISTEN? I AM CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH A ROUGH TIME, JULY-16-2008 WAS MY LAST DAY OF STEADY WORK, COULD NOT FIND A JOB WITHIN MONTHS. THROUGH ALL OF THIS MY CHILDREN WERE MOVED TO ANOTHER STATE, I HAVE NO WAY OF CONTACTING THEM. BEFORE ALL OF THIS THE MOTHER NEVER INCLUDED ME IN ANY SCHEDULED EVENTS AND I WAS PAYING CHILD SUPPORT. ITS JUST CLEARLY NOT RIGHT TOWARDS ME AS THE FATHER. THIS IS A MONEY GAME FOR MOST CUSTODIAL PARENTS. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS I CAN TELL YOU BUT THE WAY IM FEELING. ITS A NO WIN SITUATION FOR FATHERS BUT WHATEVER YOU DO KEEP YOUR HEAD UP AND DO THE BEST YOU CAN FOR YOUR CHILD/CHILDREN. I KNOW THIS IS NOT EASY BUT REST ASSURE ONE DAY THIS MESS WILL TURN AROUND AND OUR VOICES WILL BE HEARD, WE WILL RECIEVE FAIR TREATMENT AND OUR RIGHTS WILL BE JUSTIFIED.
April 11, 2009 at 10:30 am
I take serious offense to being called a dead beat dad!!! If I prove I’m there for my child and trying to work with this unfair system! And I still my to take away my constitutional rights. Than I shouldn’t be called dead beat dad, but called 2nd class citisen !!!! Because thats what they made me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 11, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Fathers need to start asking for joint PHISICAL custody. Or love your children enough to sign over all parental rights and walk away! Make them (mothers and the goverment) choose to make you 50% equal. the current system that they give you is just that (no parental rights, no support)
If you have a good attorney, he or she will carefully explain (if you have the presence of mind to remember during the crisis) that custody and support have no relevance or direct tie to the other. You do not have THE RIGHT to sign all parental rights away under the majority of circumstances. Those are the facts as they are generally distributed to the public at-large. JOINT PHYSICAL custody is a stopgap cure for parental rights, but not a solution to the Bradley Law.~E.M.