Dr Stephen Baskerville, foremost academic, and author of the book “Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family,” has started a blog: http://stephenbaskerville.blogspot.com:80/

Work and Pensions secretary James Purnell, will this week announce a new crack-down on absent parents. He intends to give officials of CMEC, which replaces the Child Support Agency, the power to ban parents from driving or travelling abroad if they do not pay child support.
Since my 3 children were taken from me 8 years ago, I have meticulously paid child support, much as it has galled me to do so. The payments are, after all, not made to my children, but to the person who took my children from me. Nevertheless, …

Issued 17th February 2007
Amidst the concerns of escalating gun violence among young teenagers in south London, it has passed as an unchallenged statement of fact that black fathers are abandoning their offspring.
No-one can deny the link between the absence of fathers and youth crime, but can it be assumed that these fathers simply walk away and want nothing to do with their children?
There is little government funded research in this area, but what information we do have suggests a different explanation. Around 2 in 3 divorces are initiated, not by …

Issued 22nd February 2007
Today, 3 men dressed as the Flintstones climbed on top of Stonehenge.
Such actions have become so familiar over the last 3 years, that no-one need ask what the protest is about; climbing, dressed in comic outfits, has become an icon of disenfranchised fathers. Dads protesting about access to their children and the sense of injustice they feel as a result.
Of course, Stonehenge is a national archaeological treasure which no-one wishes to see put at risk by stunts such as this, but the protest begs one …

Issued 26th February 2007
While survey after survey shows that children who are raised by two married parents fare better in life than children raised in other types of family unit, the present government continues doggedly to ignore this simple fact, and to praise the benefits of single-parenthood.
This week-end we heard Harriet Harman, whose own record suggests she is driven by the rights of mothers rather than the welfare of children, telling GMTV on Sunday: “Often it’s two parent families, not just one-parent families, where things are going wrong.” Meanwhile, …