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| 235 | New Jersey bill would end permanent alimony; provide more consideration for hardship and financial struggles. | Progress | zandyman | /r/MensRights | 03/09/14 03:44 PM |
| 8 | Child support enforcement office adventures. (also titled 'blatant sexism from a state office...) | zandyman | /r/MensRights | 26/07/11 10:46 PM | |
| 5 | Reality of male sexual abuse actually seen on TV! | zandyman | /r/MensRights | 06/04/12 02:22 AM |
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| 25 | At what age do boys stop receiving unconditional love?dad was too busy working to support 4 kids on a single income. That's often how dads show love, because we're not good at showing it other ways. If he worked hard enough to make sure 4 kids were supported when mom flaked... | /r/MensRights | 21/04/23 07:56 PM |
| 2 | Man gets paid child support from this ex, is this happening more often now? Where?Depends on where and the case. I got full custody of my daughter and $75/mo in child support. It's over $7000 now, and I've gotten $10 so far, but you can't get blood from a turnip. | /r/MensRights | 04/08/20 04:31 AM |
| 3 | Does "happy father's day to all the single moms" bother anyone else?I agree. I was only responding to "people would never say happy mother's day to single dads." | /r/MensRights | 22/06/20 08:14 PM |
| 5 | Does "happy father's day to all the single moms" bother anyone else?I was a solo dad for years and got wished a happy mother's day all the time. Common FB post from my friends (which included many single dads) was "happy mothers day to all the moms out there and the dads doing double duty." I didn't really think it was necessary, but it didn't seem worth getting my knickers twisted over. | /r/MensRights | 22/06/20 03:49 PM |
| 6 | Raise a glass to equality!Were it true, that would be $1675/mo more than I was awarded when my ex-wife split... | /r/MensRights | 27/05/20 05:39 AM |
| 1 | If you’re financially distraught due to Coronavirus and owe child support, your check will go to your exChild support laws, custody laws, and a painfully biased family court system are men's rights issues. They treat women and men differently. Tax returns and stimulus checks pay the parent that is owed (regardless of sex) by intercepting the check from the parent it is paid to (regardless of sex.) The stimulus interception feels biased because of the broken other things. No argument from me that the other things are broken. | /r/MensRights | 05/04/20 07:34 AM |
| 0 | If you’re financially distraught due to Coronavirus and owe child support, your check will go to your exIt'll absolutely get subtracted from the amount owed, just like an intercepted tax return would be. | /r/MensRights | 05/04/20 05:06 AM |
| -5 | If you’re financially distraught due to Coronavirus and owe child support, your check will go to your exCoronavirus pandemic hits man loses job I know women that have lost jobs. This doesn't seem sexist. man cannot pay child support Also happening to women that owe child support. man goes into arrears Or woman... man doesn't get $1200 coronavirus stimulus cheque because he's in arrears Again, or woman. Look, custody system is broken. No argument from me, I'm a rare win for men having gotten full custody. I feel like the stimulus isn't adding new problems and isnt implemented in a way that's anti-m… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/20 05:05 AM |
| 1 | If you’re financially distraught due to Coronavirus and owe child support, your check will go to your exWhile it is true that more men pay child support, I dont think this is a men's rights issue. I'm a man with custody and owed child support. If she gets a check (which i doubt, but that's beside the point) it'll pay back child support to me. A man. That seems... equal. Isnt that what we're aiming for? | /r/MensRights | 05/04/20 05:01 AM |
| 1 | I.e. that thing you need to get to your job.I conceded that custody and legal system are a problem. I also think that the child support enforcement is done pretty fairly. No one at the child support enforcement office has the ability to fix the legal system or the broken custody systems. | /r/MensRights | 21/12/18 08:26 PM |
| -3 | I.e. that thing you need to get to your job.My ex-wife hasn't paid me the child support she owes me, and she can't renew her license, get an alcohol server's permit, or a passport. Legal system, custody, etc. May be a men's rights issue. This.... Really kinda isn't. I see it enforced across the board regardless of what sex the deadbeat parent is. | /r/MensRights | 20/12/18 09:56 PM |
| 2 | Father arrested for not paying child support, because he was a hostage for 5 monthsThat's nearly 23 months for my ex-wife. What had paid nothing. Ever. | /r/MensRights | 19/09/18 10:17 PM |
| 10 | I guess we can't listen to male doctors anymoreThe doctor is referred to as "him" so... his gender isn't really a guess. | /r/MensRights | 22/12/17 08:42 PM |
| 2 | "Decolonizing” school curriculums by dropping works by men has paid dividendsgood bot! | /r/MensRights | 06/11/17 04:28 AM |
| 2 | Male privilege on display during vegas shooting (man saves wife's life at the cost of his own)In situations like this, individuals choose to sacrifice. There's no law, there's a social compulsion, but if any man there wanted to run, he ran. There are no real external consequences for not taking a bullet for a woman or a child. I don't see what men choose to do as a 'rights' issue. It when we don't choose.... To be circumcised, to be drafted, to be alienated from our children, to be on the hook for 2+ decades of support with absolutely no say in the matter, the be vilified around children… | /r/MensRights | 03/10/17 11:02 PM |
| 1 | Male privilege on display during vegas shooting (man saves wife's life at the cost of his own)Actually, my son's only 8 and a little bit off... he probably would. | /r/MensRights | 03/10/17 05:06 PM |
| 2 | Male privilege on display during vegas shooting (man saves wife's life at the cost of his own)I personally know a woman who charged a grizzly bear with a stick because it had knocked down get boyfriend in the Washington woods. (They're married now.) I"d take a bullet for my wife or my daughter or my son... I like to think that's because I love them, but I suppose it could be because I don't know I've been brainwashed by society to believe my life is worth less than theirs. I'm going to believe it's the former. | /r/MensRights | 03/10/17 01:53 PM |
| 3 | Male privilege on display during vegas shooting (man saves wife's life at the cost of his own)I very much misunderstood, then, and I apologize. I'd delete my reply, but then yours would look weird, so I'll just leave it. (I thought we were commenting on how a man would be 'expected' to do this... The "women and children first" thing seems to prompt bitter rage around here, and it maybe should, I thought this was more of that.) | /r/MensRights | 03/10/17 06:27 AM |
| 9 | Male privilege on display during vegas shooting (man saves wife's life at the cost of his own)Just no. So many real problems... Even as this tragedy gets turned into a discussion of violence and masculinity... A man dying protecting his wife isn't a men's rights issue, it's just a person sacrificing for a person they love. Men and women are allowed to do that. This subreddit is turning into everything it claims to hate. EDIT: typo. | /r/MensRights | 03/10/17 06:07 AM |
| 2 | So there was no one...Im interested in the opinions of people who clearly have zero understanding of how mental illness can lead to situations such as this. I am, for the record, intimately aware of how mental illness can lead to situations like this. I'm also aware of how mental illness can lead to divorce. What I don't like to do is blame things that are caused by mental illness on divorce. | /r/MensRights | 28/09/17 08:45 PM |
| 2 | So there was no one...No, it's not their fault. Depression is very real, can be truly devistating, and, I realize, can be extremely difficult or impossible to overcome even with qualified treatment, it's why I put the word 'probably' in my first sentence. However, I was responding to "this is what divorce does" in the original post. In the case of severe depression, it's not what 'divorce' does, it's what a legitimate and heartbreaking medical/emotional problem does. It's also what alcoholism can do, I've seen it, an… | /r/MensRights | 28/09/17 05:29 PM |
| -3 | So there was no one...That sucks, but if he has nobody, that's probably on him. Divorce is tough, family can be awful, but even without my wife and kids I've got 20 former co-workers that are now friends, 3 different sets of neighbors, church buddies... Anyone that alone either choose to be or is way damaged somehow. People are communal by nature, it's how we survived. | /r/MensRights | 28/09/17 03:43 AM |
| 4 | Can't imagine if a guy didn't pay child supportThey just wanted to zero it out and cancel it altogether. I didn't let them out of principal, $75/mo isn't a game-changer for me and my daughter. | /r/MensRights | 01/07/17 08:13 PM |
| 3 | Can't imagine if a guy didn't pay child supportSorry. Child Support Enforcement Division. | /r/MensRights | 01/07/17 08:11 PM |
| 65 | Can't imagine if a guy didn't pay child supportCSED had been pretty aggressive with my ex-wife in New Mexico, they've yanked her drivers license and her server's card, but she's not earned a penny legally in the 5 years since she left, so there's not much they can do. They also took down this sign https://i.imgur.com/yImS1.jpg when I complained. They did try to zero her balance and cancel child support while she was in prison, which I didn't let them do. I'm not sure how many men would get that, but overall it seems to vary by state. New Mex… | /r/MensRights | 01/07/17 06:09 PM |
| 1 | Not funny Jimmy John'sSo many legitimate things to get upset about... Family court, patenting perception, genital mutilation, lifelong alimony, suicide rates, educational bias.... I'm with you, I don't have the energy to get upset over a funny sign. (Well, supposed to be funny sign.) | /r/MensRights | 25/06/17 03:32 AM |
| 31 | It offend me when during Father's Day, some women in social media will make it about them by mentioning women who raised children by themselves. If single Fathers did the same during mother's day could you imagine the backlash?It kinda happens on Mother's day too. I was a solo Dad for 6 years, and while I tried to just downplay mother's day, my facebook feed had me mentioned many times as "and all the Dads who are standing in for Mom." | /r/MensRights | 18/06/17 04:58 PM |
| 1 | Circumcised males: How do you feel?I'm with you, I don't know that I would have chosen it, but I've no complaints with how it is. I've got an amazing sex life, things get where I need them to go every time, gets my wife where she needs to when that's the plan. When I'm by myself, that's good too. Never had any medical issues or sensitivity issues... I'm don't advocate for getting it done, but I've never wasted any time being unhappy that it was. | /r/MensRights | 13/06/17 05:48 PM |
| 2 | Arizona governor launches campaign to shame "deadbeat dads" by posting their photos, name, and sum of owed child support to social media with the hashtag #deadbeatThat's disappointing. One thing I have to give New Mexico credit for is that in the past 4 years, I've seen "deadbeat Dad" purged from posters and signs, and even from Ms. Martinez's speeches. She promised about 6 months ago to go after deadbeat parents; I listened to the whole speech, didn't hear a gender-specific phrase once. CSED actually seems to be trying for me, as well, but... can't get blood from a stone. Hopefully AZ will take a lesson from it's neighbor. | /r/MensRights | 13/01/16 06:12 PM |
| 13 | A rare victory for my friend Doug.I got the same deal, but I was ordered (don't ever get) child support... and it's as bad as you're suspecting. Meth, got the kids taken away while she had them based on emergency custody by cps, shacked up with a DV felon/addict, living in her car, and hospitalized for mental problems. Attorney was still worried going in... | /r/MensRights | 07/11/15 02:56 AM |
| 8 | Manspreading: why does the 'man' prefix always mean something awful?How can manscaping be a crime? | /r/MensRights | 27/08/15 04:19 PM |
| 4 | Just Girly ThingsI don't even think it's a civilians vs. combat veterans as much as a "teenage girls are idiots" thing. And, to be fair, so are teenage boys. At least I was when I was a teenage boy. | /r/MensRights | 03/04/15 04:43 PM |
| 2 | Are moms less likely than dads to pay child support?my ex-wife has had her license, server's permit, and passport revoked for non-payment of child support. It happens. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/15 06:23 PM |
| 1 | The importance of dadsI was a solo Dad from when my daughter was 2 through 7... both ends of the spectrum happen surprisingly often, though I saw the effuse praise "oh, it's so sweet that you two are spending time together! Is it date night with Daddy?" even though I had her 24/7/365 by myself. It was very rare that I was challenged, more often just scrutinized. Yea, good to know both sides happen, though... | /r/MensRights | 17/02/15 05:09 PM |
| 1 | Dad needs custody - What can I do?You should also consider calling CPS, which can also be done anonymously. In a split-custody situation, unless CPS believes that the other parent is involved with the challenges in the primary home somehow, they'll just over-rule custody orders and place the child with the other parent pending an investigation, so the risk to the kids is minimal... if you believe these children are in danger, call the anonymous tip line, give as much info as you can, and let them handle it. In spite of occasiona… | /r/MensRights | 12/02/15 09:14 PM |
| 2 | When a divorced woman received £120 million from her millionaire husband, it was fine. But when that happens to a man, we need to abolish these archaic laws!My state doesn't require you (in most cases) to maintain the standard of living, only to return them to the standard of living from before the marriage. In my case, that was great, because she was unemployed and living with her mother when we got married, so... the fact that she left, moved in with her mother, and refused to get a job made that all line up. In longer marriages, it can be handled differently, but I think that should be included in your plan, too... which I like very much. | /r/MensRights | 02/02/15 03:44 PM |
| 1 | Ohio law amended to keep female rapists from having custody of childrenDepends on the state. In some states, when children are taken and put in foster care, the Mom (and Dad, I assume, if known) will be charged child support. Honestly, though, in cases where parental rights are involuntarily terminated, I think they don't get paid real often... | /r/MensRights | 30/01/15 11:50 PM |
| 4 | That moment when a woman physically assaults you and everyone defends her. I’ve been thinking about it for a while…I am now a Men’s Rights Advocate.It's sometimes more effective to change the system from within. Everyone onboard is an ally. | /r/MensRights | 16/12/14 02:01 AM |
| 30 | That moment when a woman physically assaults you and everyone defends her. I’ve been thinking about it for a while…I am now a Men’s Rights Advocate.I see that, but "Next, on Fauxnews -- 8 years ago, this document shows that democratic candidate mrnowthrowaway was involved in a bar fight, and we found the bartender who saw him hit our next guest, 5'3" Nikki Everygirl." You're assuming that the truth would come out... politics isn't about the truth, it's about spin, and you never, ever allow something that can be 'spun' to look bad, even if it's not true. The 'little' lies are much more dangerous than the outright fabrications... when they ca… | /r/MensRights | 15/12/14 08:15 PM |
| 48 | That moment when a woman physically assaults you and everyone defends her. I’ve been thinking about it for a while…I am now a Men’s Rights Advocate.pressing charges for assault generates negative publicity and down-the-road ammunition for political opponents. He should be able to, but i understand why he can't. | /r/MensRights | 15/12/14 08:00 PM |
| 1 | The CIA rapes detainees, calls it "rectal feeding"I'm not saying it's not horrible, I'm personally aghast. I'm just saying rallying public support that this is "rape" against "innocents" isn't likely to be effective because most people have drunken the red white and blue kool-aid. | /r/MensRights | 14/12/14 04:44 PM |
| 1 | The CIA rapes detainees, calls it "rectal feeding"Public reaction over ISIS's rape and enslaving of prepubescent girls doesn't seem to be more than annoyed Facebook posts, so... Hard to say. | /r/MensRights | 14/12/14 03:47 AM |
| 3 | The CIA rapes detainees, calls it "rectal feeding"I'm not sure you're going to get unilateral support, even from the men's rights community. This isn't simply "men were abused," it's muddied significantly by wartime politics, national defense, patriotism (real or imagined) and a host of other things. Probably better examples and more pure challenges than this one... | /r/MensRights | 13/12/14 11:03 PM |
| 17 | Halle Berry wants child support payment cut because ex has stopped workingI don't remember the media being this sympathetic when it was Jon cryer's ex that didn't want to work..... | /r/MensRights | 16/10/14 08:43 PM |
| 2 | Best drugstore paternity test?Don't stress the copying, its necessary for various reasons. Don't have an answer, just bagging the bot. | /r/MensRights | 07/10/14 02:45 AM |
| 1 | My son's school had 'take your dad to school day' today. This was the literature they handed out. [x-post from /r/daddit]Were watched them, she liked them, their just not as cool as mlp to her. I tried. | /r/MensRights | 02/10/14 01:13 AM |
| 3 | My son's school had 'take your dad to school day' today. This was the literature they handed out. [x-post from /r/daddit]I wish i was that cool. My little one is way girlie, so.... Can't get her to dig star wars. We're watching Inuyasha together, though... She may not dress as a Japanese schoolgirl for Halloween. | /r/MensRights | 01/10/14 04:01 PM |
| 36 | My son's school had 'take your dad to school day' today. This was the literature they handed out. [x-post from /r/daddit]I'm a solo dad, I'd have called them on it, right then and there... | /r/MensRights | 30/09/14 10:08 PM |
| 5 | Man wrongly imprisoned for 10 years granted only $500,000 compensation.I wouldn't say "never." Bernie and Martha come to mind with no real thinkin' effort. | /r/MensRights | 30/09/14 04:52 PM |
| 1 | New Jersey bill would end permanent alimony; provide more consideration for hardship and financial struggles.You sir, are negative, cynical, unstrusting, and 100% correct. Reform is on its way for (and only for) this reason. | /r/MensRights | 04/09/14 01:02 PM |
| 9 | New Jersey bill would end permanent alimony; provide more consideration for hardship and financial struggles.Far from perfect, but a good, solid, legal step in the right direction.... | /r/MensRights | 03/09/14 03:45 PM |
| 1 | My wife committed drug felonies, abuse, and other despicable acts. She still got my son and everything I had.Never mind, I can read. | /r/MensRights | 21/08/14 12:14 AM |
| 3 | My wife committed drug felonies, abuse, and other despicable acts. She still got my son and everything I had.She lives off men, or friends, or wherever she can find. She'll trade sex for a couch... get things from freecycle and sell them on craigslist, steal what she can get her hands on and sell drugs when she can. She's very, very good at playing the poor little girl that's been abused by the world, and she can always find some good-hearted sucker to use (burn) for a few days and then she moves on, it usually takes people a couple days and some missing silver to realize that this poor girl that's bee… | /r/MensRights | 20/08/14 05:25 AM |
| 3 | Went to a hospital clinic today in London, UK and was routinely asked by the doctor: "had I been subjected to domestic violence?". As a man, I was happy to be asked!A standard question with all of my doctors for several years now has been "Do you feel safe in your home and personal relationships?" I laughed the first time they asked me that because it was me and my 3 year-old daughter, so... no, not really. Anyone with a toddler knows the amazing amount of damage they can do for their size. Of course, me laughing got a whole bunch more questions, in spite of me trying to explain. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/14 05:11 AM |
| 3 | My wife committed drug felonies, abuse, and other despicable acts. She still got my son and everything I had.She's left the state, cross-state enforcement is a challenge. She's not worked, either, though, and there are active warrants for her arrest. She only owes $75/mo anyway. That part of the system is broken worse than the custody system. At least I'm in a rare-alimony state. I didn't end up paying her anything. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/14 04:24 AM |
| 6 | My wife committed drug felonies, abuse, and other despicable acts. She still got my son and everything I had.This is horrible, but it's not the norm... my ex did 1/10th of this kind of crap and I walked with full legal and physical custody, child support (not that I've seen a dime) And she doesn't even get visitation. Through networking and just being a solo dad I've met many, many others that the legal system has granted total custody to, and I'm not even in a state that's particularly father friendly. Not downplay it, it sucks and shouldn't have happened, but it's a failure of individuals. The system… | /r/MensRights | 20/08/14 02:32 AM |
| 2 | Yes, Katy Perry, Babies Need DaddiesHang on... I'm a solo dad raising a little girl for drama-filled reasons that aren't really relevant. I've been raising her since she was 2, she is now 7 and we're fine. Perfectly, completely fine. The single most offensive thing people say to me is "you need to find that little girl a mommy..." you know what, no I don't, because I'm a capable man, a loving dad, and a very very dedicated (not perfect, granted) Dad. That's part of what has drawn me to this community, the constant barrage of incom… | /r/MensRights | 16/08/14 04:56 AM |
| 26 | xpost from r/picsThis is a woman who is about to learn what it's like to be unjustly vilified by feminists.... | /r/MensRights | 10/01/14 03:23 AM |
| 1 | PIV is always rape, ok? - Diana Davison puts a beatdown on radfem argumentsWow.... Whoosh. From the late greek 'sarkazein' (literally "to tear the flesh" but also "a jest or a sneer") to the latin 'sarcasmus' we ended up with the English word "sarcasm." It means "the use of irony to mock of convey contempt" or, more appropriately "the use of words to convey the opposite of the literal meaning of what you say." Welcome to reddit. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 07:59 AM |
| 4 | PIV is always rape, ok? - Diana Davison puts a beatdown on radfem argumentsDon't go confusing the issue with facts... that never helps... | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 04:14 AM |
| 1 | Please help, I'm a father who is struggling...Seems unlikely that "rick's penis" would be someone's name, but.... I guess I've seen worse. | /r/MensRights | 30/12/13 10:55 AM |
| 29 | Couple perform oral sex on video at Ohio University, girl regrets it, alleges rapeI don't think HE gave it to anyone, there were bystanders who took the video, I assume THEY passed it along. | /r/MensRights | 16/10/13 09:04 PM |
| 2 | How to make school better for boysA former congressWOMAN from New Mexico just posted this on facebook with the comment "This article suggests that the loss is more telling for boys than for girls." I'm stunned. Of course, she lost her re-election bid... | /r/MensRights | 13/09/13 06:25 PM |
| 2 | The fact that my child support enforcement office has no gender neutral paperwork is proof enough of institutional discrimination.What backwoods state is this? | /r/MensRights | 15/08/13 06:22 AM |
| 67 | The fact that my child support enforcement office has no gender neutral paperwork is proof enough of institutional discrimination.I put this all in a thread somewhere a while back, when I sat down, she looked at me and said, "how far behind are you?" Took me three tries to get the idea that I'm OWED child support, and when I finally got her to understand, she said, "Oh, don't worry, we have deadbeat dad laws that can help you!" A year later they called me to see if, since they hadn't managed to collect a dime, they could just close the case and zero her balance. I have never ONCE heard that offer made about a man that was … | /r/MensRights | 14/08/13 11:32 PM |
| 93 | The fact that my child support enforcement office has no gender neutral paperwork is proof enough of institutional discrimination.Hard to believe it was 2+ years ago when I started this fight. So far I've collected $0 from my daughter's mother. You'll like the poster I got to stare at while I was waiting. http://imgur.com/yImS1 | /r/MensRights | 14/08/13 10:02 PM |
| 7 | UPDATE: I'm about to give up. I'm not sure I can keep this up for another 10+ years. (She started a website)It's truly terrifying that the crap my ex-wife dragged me through before I ended up with 100% custody was really just amateur hour. I barely made it through her garbage. | /r/MensRights | 12/07/13 08:44 AM |
| 1 | Single Father on 4Chan (SFW)child welfare doesn't usually involve "reasonable suspicion." It hinges one down the ladder on "clear and pervasive" | /r/MensRights | 27/06/13 07:40 AM |
| 17 | Single Father on 4Chan (SFW)It happens. All the damn time. I've been solo dadding it for 4 years now, I've been pulled over twice for speeding and had to do a 15 minute story on where her mother is, I've been told that I make the mothers uncomfortable at Mommy and Me tumbling. I've been questioned by well meaning strangers, nosy strangers, and worried strangers. I've been accused of 'loitering' at parks. You get used to it, you go on with your day. | /r/MensRights | 27/06/13 02:04 AM |
| 10 | Mom's who walk away from responsibility lead to a rise in single fathers.I don't get any assistance, so no idea what that takes. For child support enforcement, It took 3 appointments, staring that this poster (which I posted her in a thread a while ago) until I wanted to scream and rip it off the wall. Meanwhile, I endured ugly looks and glaring from the women in the CSED office waiting room. When I finally got called back, the first question I was asked by the woman that works for CSED was "How far behind are you?" And it took me 3 tries to get her to understand tha… | /r/MensRights | 06/05/13 11:47 PM |
| 3 | Mom's who walk away from responsibility lead to a rise in single fathers.Rant all you like, were a small subset of cases than most organizations don't take seriously. Pm me if you want to rant with more detail. People just don't seem to be able to process when a mom doesn't want to be a mom anymore... mine just simply said, "my life isn't any fun..." and took off. She did TRY to take or daughter, but failed so badly as a parent she had no chance of keeping her... | /r/MensRights | 06/05/13 11:37 PM |
| 2 | Mom's who walk away from responsibility lead to a rise in single fathers.To make my opinion even less valid, my mom remarried a fucking awesome man who became my dad in every way I could need. Raised me right, taught me to be a man, and never once made me feel like anything less than 100% his, so... Yea, I probably don't count and should have just kept my mouth shut and agreed with you... | /r/MensRights | 06/05/13 08:03 PM |
| 14 | Mom's who walk away from responsibility lead to a rise in single fathers.The $75/mo she was ordered to pay was insulting as hell, (especially given the fact that my interim short while I had our daughter during the divorce was just shy of $2k/mo) but the fact that she's never paid a dime is even more frustrating as a matter of principal than an actual financial hit. To their credit, once I finally got them to pay attention to me, child support enforcement has been pretty aggressive. Her alcohol servers permit and her driver's license have been suspended, at least. I … | /r/MensRights | 06/05/13 07:37 PM |
| 33 | Mom's who walk away from responsibility lead to a rise in single fathers.I'm one of those 2 million dads who have sole custody because mom just walked... have been for 4 years now. I disagree that society is tougher on her than a dad who does the same. People say things all the time to me like, "it must be so hard for her mom to never see her daughter" and "wow, she must really have some problems to have just walked away." Most people make excuses for her, a few even go shoo far as to suggest that I found a way to make her seem crazy so I could have full custody. And… | /r/MensRights | 06/05/13 07:13 PM |
| 1 | Mom's who walk away from responsibility lead to a rise in single fathers.I'm glad as hell my parents divorced. I got to know my father as an adult, seen how he interacts with his kids from his new family, and I can't come up with a single way my life would have been better with him in it... Of course, I'm an anecdotal sample of one... so not statistically significant. | /r/MensRights | 06/05/13 07:08 PM |
| 1 | I did it.15(ish)% of custodial parents are Dads here but in a study I can't find that I read a few weeks back, 2/3 of those cases were uncontested... (I'll look for it later and update) so 5-6% of cases where both parents fight for custody end up with Dad getting primary custody. Hard numbers to be sure one, to be honest. [Newsweek](http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/12/14/not-your-dad- s-divorce.html) says 5%, NYT says 50% of fathers who seek primary custody get it. (But, we all know that many m… | /r/MensRights | 09/03/13 12:06 AM |
| 1 | I did it.Statistically, you're (we're) about the 6%, at least in the US and looking at only the past few years. In the past few years of being soloDad, I've met a whole bunch more than I figured I would. 3 kids in my daughter's kindergarten class of 19 live with Dad and don't see Mom at all. One more has weekends with Mom. | /r/MensRights | 08/03/13 06:50 PM |
| 2 | I did it.I had a female judge too, and I was glad of it. When my ex tried to pout, bat her eyes, and tell her little story where she's just a pretty girl who keeps running into bad luck and being taken advantage of by mean people, the judge laughed at her. I'm not so sure an older man would have seen through her so well. | /r/MensRights | 08/03/13 06:47 PM |
| 3 | I did it.That really depends on who "both parents" are. My daughter needs 'none' of her mother. | /r/MensRights | 08/03/13 06:45 PM |
| 2 | I'm a woman that frequents MensRights and..I think that's different. Being a Christian is a choice, and some people who claim to have made the same choice and me are being colossal asshats, so I DO apologize for them. Being a woman wasn't so much a choice, so being tied to them isn't something she can control. Hence, less apology. | /r/MensRights | 06/03/13 10:36 PM |
| 5 | I'm a woman that frequents MensRights and..For what it's worth, you're probably not anti-feminist. You're most likely "post-feminist" or the up-and-coming subgenre "fourth-wave feminist" Post-feminists tend to be critical of feminism, particularly second-wave feminism, but also, in part, third wave... and many women who identify as 'post feminist' deny any current need for feminism in developed countries. Fourth-wave feminists are struggling to set an identity, as it's a somewhat fragmented group of women who are actually either seeking … | /r/MensRights | 06/03/13 07:06 AM |
| 1 | My experience with my short marriage, and pending divorce. A lesson in why I need Mens RightsDepending on the state (and we don't even know if this is US) annulments are usually only granted in specific cases under pretty strict conditions. Sadly (I lived in Vegas for a while) "we were drunk" doesn't usually qualify. | /r/MensRights | 16/02/13 07:36 PM |
| 9 | My experience with my short marriage, and pending divorce. A lesson in why I need Mens RightsDidn't think you 'could' legally? No state in the US requires a reason for divorce anymore, and (as far as I know) no state requires both-party consent anymore. The morning after your wedding night you can file for divorce. | /r/MensRights | 16/02/13 12:44 AM |
| 1 | I guess I'm not a man, as I refuse to raise someone else's child.Absolutely right... but I'll leave it so you don't look like you're chastising nothing. | /r/MensRights | 01/02/13 05:23 AM |
| 0 | I guess I'm not a man, as I refuse to raise someone else's child.English is my first language, I have an MFA in creative writing from a Big-10 University and a BA in English and a BA in Philosophy from a PAC-12 university. (my informal logic textbooks, still sitting on my shelf from philosophy, are why I understand what a 'strawman' argument is and how I know I didn't make one. I can recommend one if you like.) I am divorced, and i have 100% legal and physical custody of my only child. I'm not looking for a Mom for her. I do have a girlfriend, she has her own… | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 04:03 PM |
| 3 | I guess I'm not a man, as I refuse to raise someone else's child.I wouldn't shame anyone into parenting someone else's children, and I can see how OP's post was poorly written. On the other hand, choosing to label men who do step up and parent step-kids or adopted kids as 'cuckold' or (as I'm being called in this thread, in spite of being single) "captain save-a-ho" is weak. If the original idea was "Men that will raise other people's children are cool, men that walk away from their own children are losers" I think we might have avoided this argument altogeth… | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 03:55 PM |
| 2 | I guess I'm not a man, as I refuse to raise someone else's child.That's a pretty 'base' mammalian view. By the same token, if you can kill the man that lives next door and his children and impregnate his wife, you're "winning at life" too... | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 03:51 PM |
| -2 | I guess I'm not a man, as I refuse to raise someone else's child.That's a crap situation, and it should never happen, but I don't think the majority of parents raising non-bio children are in this case. I think it happens more than we're aware, but I doubt it's the majority... and I think the attempts in this thread to shit on step-parents as "weak willed cuckold losers" is... sad. The danger here, in MRA-land, is in judging a gender by a minority... women are pissed because men are abusive (which some are) and controlling (which some are) and chauvinistic (w… | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 05:09 AM |
| 5 | I guess I'm not a man, as I refuse to raise someone else's child.Research the "straw man" fallacy and try again.. nothing in my comments misrepresented your position at all... your position is quite clear, "These children already have a father" and I left it alone. Stick to the concepts you understand... | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 04:31 AM |
| 3 | I guess I'm not a man, as I refuse to raise someone else's child.Maybe they don't have a father. Maybe he died in Afghanistan protecting his fellow soldiers from a sniper. Maybe he died trapped in a fire trying to rescue someone's grandmother from a burning apartment building in detroit, or got shot in the head responding to a domestic violence call in rural Nebraska. Maybe supported his child until the day the cancer spread so far that he couldn't work anymore, and maybe he spent the most painful day of his life off the morphine so his last note to his child… | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 04:11 AM |
| -1 | I guess I'm not a man, as I refuse to raise someone else's child.The chance to pass on your genetic legacy? What kind of 12th century lion king crap is that? The chance to raise a child to adulthood, to form a valueless, directionless human being into a self-assured, resourceful, valuable and upstanding member of society, and to feed your love and support into a mutually caring relationship is the value of being a parent, whether it's a DNA match to you or not. | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 04:06 AM |
| 6 | I guess I'm not a man, as I refuse to raise someone else's child.I'm usually right there with most of what happens in this subreddit, but your offense to this is just you looking to take offense. My step-Dad was a fucking hero... he came along when I was 4 and there was not a moment, not a fraction of an instant where I felt like he was anything other than my Dad. There wasn't a single time where I ever felt treated differently or unfairly compared to his biological child (my half-sister) nor was there a single instance until the day he died (and left a will … | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 04:03 AM |
| 4 | Aggressive girl attacks schoolboy, coaxes him to hit her back.Because when dealing with a feminist, the idea that they need a man to 'defend' them strikes at the core of their being... it's deeply offensive to suggest that they're not 100% capable of defending themselves, providing for themselves, or being completely happy, fulfilled, and self-actualized without a representative of the patriarchy to care for them. While this subreddit is mostly populated by rational, grounded men just interested in achieving an actual equality, I'm sure there are those who… | /r/MensRights | 17/01/13 03:37 AM |
| 8 | Aggressive girl attacks schoolboy, coaxes him to hit her back.(I'm not sure I remembered which subreddit I was in when I said this... perhaps our advocacy of strong female partners defending us won't be so appreciated here... :) | /r/MensRights | 16/01/13 10:51 PM |
| 24 | Aggressive girl attacks schoolboy, coaxes him to hit her back.This is why you need a badass girlfriend... I protect mine from overly-drunk or overly aggressive guys, she messes up little bitches who punch me for no reason at concerts. | /r/MensRights | 16/01/13 09:32 PM |
| 6 | I'm about to give up. I'm not sure I can keep this up for another 10+ yearsIn fairness, she'll have less and less 'help' as she gets older. My ex did the same thing, trading sex for financial help to keep fighting me with less success here - CPS has 'closed the file' on me and no longer investigates me based on anonymous calls, etc.. - but she's had 3 more kids, been addicted to meth, and basically the quality of guy she can get to help her out has decayed to the point that she's not even threatening anymore. I used to worry about her showing up in the middle of the ni… | /r/MensRights | 15/01/13 05:27 PM |
| 5 | Had to explain society's protection to my fiance todayand digestive distress. | /r/MensRights | 27/12/12 06:40 PM |
| 22 | My Son's Mother "Canceled" His Christmas With Me, Is Denying Visitation and Telephone Visitation... and I Am Getting Revenge!Depends on the judge. My ex got her visitation cancelled for failing to return her and got to spend 48 hours in jail on contempt charges. | /r/MensRights | 25/12/12 09:04 AM |
| 1 | Too many men have become targets of false allegations in an attempt by the mother to gain the upper hand in a custody battle.Seeing this now with a friend, dealt with it myself... the courts, at least around here, are wising up to it and clearly didn't believe my ex's random accusations, at least after the first 2 weeks of the restraining order. The court Psychologist got talked her at length and basically gave the court a report saying it was his belief that all the accusation were "imagined or concocted" and her credibility throughout the rest of the process was severely damaged. Which, sadly, is going to create a b… | /r/MensRights | 12/03/12 07:13 PM |
| 7 | Oh how I love the fairness of the Child Support system.Interim support for one child during the 'wait for the divorce' phase from me to her: $1700/mo. Amount I paid in 6 months: $10,200. Support order once I got full custody, from her to me: $75/mo. Amount she's paid: $0. Amount, even if she were paying, I would get before my daughter turns 18: $13,500. So far, all they've done because she's behind, is pull her alcohol server's permit in a state she doesn't live in. -Z | /r/MensRights | 01/03/12 08:15 PM |
| 20 | Add this to your "male privilege" list. If your SO has an injury, you will automatically be assumed to be an abuser.For what its worth, this applies (differently) to women as well, apparently. A decade or so ago when I was having some severe GI issues with no obvious cause, they doctor ran a 'tox screen' in case my wife was trying to slowly poison me. (And told me that... exactly.) -Z | /r/MensRights | 20/02/12 11:21 PM |
| 3 | Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Campaign, that is actually very gender neutralI agree... MRAs need to be real careful not to fall into the trap of "yea, that's okay, but it's NEVER GOOD ENOUGH that WRAs tend to embrace." I, at least, appreciate the efforts made towards neutrality by this campaign. -Z | /r/MensRights | 08/02/12 10:22 PM |
| 1 | I am a man with full custody of both my children. I just want to say "FUCK YEAH"Hey, me too... 100% legal, 100% physical. My tiny princess is safe, happy, healthy, secure, and WAY better off. (yea, crazy on this one too... and addicted. Yay!) Congrats. It's a tough road, and absolutely worth it. Not to demean/undermine/whatever the army, cuz they kick ass too, but it's the toughest job you'll ever love. -Z | /r/MensRights | 04/02/12 02:48 AM |
| 3 | Social Services Breakdown: A Father's Fight For His Daughter [Part 1 of 6]Once a week or so I read this forum, and every single time it makes me thank God, the universe, and every other conceivable thank-able entity that I have 100% custody of my daughter. And it makes me so very saddened for the men in this world who aren't nearly as lucky... -Z | /r/MensRights | 16/12/11 07:26 PM |
| 0 | Man takes picture of a child in public. An overprotective mother chases him off. She calls the cops, they alert the media about a dangerous man lurking in the park... It turns out, the man was just photographing his grandson.My business is protecting my child. People I don't know taking pictures of my child, even from a distance, makes what they're doing my business. How did you possibly read what I wrote and apply the words "interrogating" and "accosting" to the scenario? Read first, then reply, huh? -Z | /r/MensRights | 11/08/11 05:03 AM |
| 0 | Man takes picture of a child in public. An overprotective mother chases him off. She calls the cops, they alert the media about a dangerous man lurking in the park... It turns out, the man was just photographing his grandson.For what it's worth, I was absurdly careful about this at swimming lessons this summer, recognizing that swimming attire photography is more likely to be perceived as creepy and given the proximity of children to their instructor, it was nearly impossible to photography JUST my child. For what it's worth, of the other 7 parents involved in this 8 child class, not one of them had a problem with me taking pictures, and we had several discussion how stupid it is that society has progressed to a poi… | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 10:44 PM |
| 2 | Child support enforcement office adventures. (also titled 'blatant sexism from a state office...)I might have rolled better with the rest of the events if I hadn't been forced to stare at this poster for 20 minutes while I waited. | /r/MensRights | 27/07/11 04:41 AM |
| 4 | Child support enforcement office adventures. (also titled 'blatant sexism from a state office...)http://imgur.com/yImS1 | /r/MensRights | 27/07/11 12:56 AM |
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