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Ask Dr. Helen: Fighting for Men’s Rights

October 8, 2007 - 1:00 am - by Helen Smith
Nancy Sanders
2007-10-10 05:24:55

As a single mother of one son, I do know for a fact that men are getting a raw deal in the courts and on the domestic violence issue.

The state of Texas, meaning police departments, family courts, child protective services, and court appointed home study workers are biased against the man and will go to extreme lengths to protect the female and “a mother’s right to her child” To heck with the Father’s right to his child.

We have laws that say courts are not to consider gender, but what good does the law do when the courts continually ignore that Mommy dearest can and will be abusive. What good are domestic violence laws when police will not listen to witness statements if the witness tends to be from the males family. What good is Childrens protective services if they fail to follow their own rules and regulations when it comes to mommy being the accused. CPS in the state of TEXAS will delay investigations, Has stated there is no law that says you can’t whip your child with a broom stick, says it doesn’t matter what mommy calls her child as long as she says it in a loving voice, one worker stated the mother would have to have the child on the floor kicking his head in and the child be in immenent danger of losing his life for him to consider the mother an abusive parent. Another worker, failed to make contact with the mother for over three months after a report of abuse was filed with the local police dept. and when called upon for not doing a timely investigation, she came back on the reporter (the non-custodial paternal grandmother) and in a vidictive act, after she was removed from investigations filed a ruling of physical neglect against the grandmother and exonerated the abusive mother, not to mention the child had not even been in the grandmother’s home in over 6 months(since the time of the grandmother reporting the abuse to police).

In the state of texas, a woman is allowed to lie to law enforcement, welfare, court officials and all involved about the paternity of her latest, yet when time comes to put up or shut up with a dna test, all of a sudden it becomes her right to refuse one, (after she has smeared the man’s reputation and besmirched his character with all concerned) and she can even tell the judge that she knew it wasn’t his kid in the first place and the judge will overlook her lies.

I can go on and on about my own son’s personal nightmare in trying to have some sort of life, be a father to his child, that at the moment he doesn’t even know where he is, and the hell we have been put through just trying to protect the child from being abused.

Nothing will do any good though til enough children die at the hands of mom, and the judges in our courts get some cahoneys to stand up and rule by the laws that are on the books already. Men please do not take this abuse lying down any longer. Join Forces and stand up for your rights and save your children.