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Abusing parental rights.(Letter to the editor)
I just read your article about the Texas state removal of the FLDS children ("Whose Children Are They Anyway," June 23). I absolutely agree with the author. Particularly with these comments: "If the state can take children without due process from this religious group, then it can take them from anyone whose religious or personal beliefs are disfavored by the state. This episode should be a warning to all families that an arbitrary attack by the state against a family can happen to any of us and that a court will likely not protect the family from overreaching state social workers or false reports of child abuse."
Unfortunately, as the author suggests, this exact scenario does actually happen every day in individual cases that land in "family" court. Here is an example: based on nothing but hearsay evidence, Pennsylvania "family" courts routinely remove children from their parents and award custody to grandparents. The courts sometimes award them full custody or "shared" ...
- Homosexuals struggle for parental rights. (NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL NEWS SERVICE)
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 30, 1987 700+ words
...HOMOSEXUALS STRUGGLE FOR PARENTAL RIGHTS NEW YORK, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire...visitation rights as non-custodial parents often are strictly curtailed...gay men's and lesbians' parental rights is based on four fears: homosexuals...
- More Custodial Parents Receive Full Amount Of Child Support, Census Bureau...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 11, 2000 700+ words
...PRNewswire/ -- The proportion of custodial parents receiving all the child support payments...Census Bureau. Another 27 percent of custodial parents received partial payments in 1997...two-thirds (67 percent) of custodial parents due child support in 1997 received...
- Custodial Parents See Progress in 2002 Toward Greater Child Support Enforcement...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 22, 2003 700+ words
...enforcement options available to custodial parents looking for help. A report on private...united voice. More than 5,000 custodial parents across the country have joined the...closing the door on one out of two custodial parents, they have a responsibility to ensure...
- Rell Cancels Fee: Custodial Parents Were To Be Charged $25 Annually.
- Newspaper article from: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) September 25, 2007 700+ words
...of child support checks going to custodial parents. The state agency was set to begin...25 annual fee from about 15,000 custodial parents who have turned to the state's...coffers because charging fees to custodial parents makes no sense. "Making ends meet...
- BILL WOULD EMPOWER NON-CUSTODIAL PARENTS
- Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) PEGGY O'CROWLEY, Staff Writer December 4, 1995 700+ words
...04-1995 BILL WOULD EMPOWER NON-CUSTODIAL PARENTS -- CALLS FOR ACCESS TO CHILDREN...as well. A bill that grants non-custodial parents access to their children's school...most public schools, to allow non-custodial parents access to records. The main intent...
- State Hits Custodial Parents With Fee: $25 Subtracted From Support Payments.
- Newspaper article from: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) September 24, 2007 700+ words
...child support checks that are paid to custodial parents like Zawisza. "This money is used...states where the fee is levied on custodial parents, such as Virginia, some are turning...5,000 a year the state helps custodial parents collect in child support. Zawisza...
- Imperial Bank Expands Supportkids Relationship; $11.8 Million Credit Line...
- Press release article from: Business Wire June 5, 2001 700+ words
...continue its mission of working with custodial parents to recover unpaid child support...of phone and Internet contact from custodial parents seeking assistance in enforcing their...what Supportkids is doing to aid custodial parents benefits our society as a whole and...
- NON-CUSTODIAL PARENTS LAX IN CHILD AID.(MAIN)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 15, 1995 700+ words
...collection is heightened by the relatively low number of custodial parents who have gone through the legal process of securing a child...whose children live with them, who make up 14 percent of custodial parents. The bureau also changed its methodology in collecting...
Source: HighBeam Research, Abusing parental rights.(Letter to the editor)