One of the reasons I think we’re going to eventually succeed in turning around the worst of the feminist excesses is that the monster they’ve reared has touched many of us personally. For the last generation or so more and more men have faced tragedies as a consequence of the biases of the family court system. Most of these men are still middle aged or younger, and the numbers are growing every day. Fatherlessness has become something of a national shame, and the old “blame it on the men” schtick is pretty worn out by now.
That said, I’m dealing with it myself – again – as my ex has recently declared she intends to remove my children from the US to live with the man she had an affair with, ending our marriage. I don’t know whether she can pull it off or not, but I have to put some effort into dealing with it in the most effective manner possible — if she can move them I will need an ironclad parenting plan to ensure that she doesn’t cut me off from my kids, who are still very young, permanently.
So while I intend to keep the volume of content at the same level on The Spearhead, my own contributions might be a little less frequent for a short period of time as I prepare for another legal marathon. I’d like to thank contributors for keeping a flow of posts coming in recently, and encourage them to keep it up. As always, I’ll be here keeping an eye on things, but the mental energy I dedicate to writing will be partly directed elsewhere for a little while as I work out a strategy to remain a father to my children. Being a parent is never easy – especially in these circumstances – but I owe it to my kids to hang in there for them.
In the meanwhile, I’m sure we’ll have a lot of good stuff coming in to keep readers engaged. As for my pending posts, I’m considering writing a few primers on the issues of international child abduction and relocation, because I expect to become something of an expert on it soon, but I’ll have to keep it rather general — I don’t intend to get into the specifics of my own case. Nevertheless, it is a real problem, and the 1996 Hague Convention, which addresses this issue, is still quite new. In the West, it is overwhelmingly fathers who are victims of child abduction and alienation from their children, so this is very much a relevant men’s issue. So in the long run, I expect this latest hassle to result in yet more inspired content. That is really the strength of The Spearhead: every challenge simply provides fresh motivation, momentum and resolve.
