Child support has become a misleading policy term meaning not love and care for a child, but monetary sex payments legally imposed highly disparately on men. Child support is part of the state regime regulating men’s sexuality and imposing unplanned parenthood (forced fatherhood) on men. Child support laws have generated imprisonment of men, without the benefit of counsel, for sex payment (“child support”) debt. The U.S. Supreme Court case Turner v. Rogers, 387 S. C. 142, 691 S. E. 2d 470 (2011) addressed this sordid state of affairs.
In Columbia County Support Collection v. Risley (2016), NY Court of Appeals authorized incarceration for more than 6 months for not paying “child support.” … Read the post more than six months incarceration for not paying “child support”
Given that completely criminalizing abortion coercion isn’t feasible, reproductive choice for women necessarily depends on reproductive choice for men. … Read the post choice for men would reduce abortion coercion of women
That men don’t caring about birth control is myth. From the ancient Greek Peisistratus to men today, birth control has been urgently important to men. … Read the post men’s concern for birth control from Peisistratus to the present
The medieval poems Gilote e Johane and Satire on the Consistory Courts contrast regulation of women’s and men’s sexuality in the Middle Ages. … Read the post sophistic Gilote explains medieval satire of family courts
In 1871, the Supreme Court of Minnesota in Olson v. Johnson made clear that unmarried fathers essentially have the legal status of wallets. … Read the post fathers as wallets: legal history of child support & custody
Courts have forced financial fatherhood (“child support”) upon men despite a written preconception contract and women’s contraceptive fraud. … Read the post contract & fraud irrelevant to forced financial fatherhood
Richeut provides medieval estates satire addressing paternity establishment, paternity fraud, and child support. This satire remains relevant today. … Read the post Richeut: 12th-century tale of paternity fraud & child support
In the great America tradition of progressive social reform, Cohen’s new book America Solved proposes new family law to heal America. … Read the post America Solved: Alan Cohen's cry for family-law reform
The Massachusetts Probate and Family Court incarcerated about 800 child-support debtors per year from 2009 to 2011. Incarceration was highly gender-biased. … Read the post incarceration of child-support debtors in Massachusetts
The badly functioning child support systems relies on childish reasoning, misrepresentations of biological paternity, and devaluation of men’s choices. … Read the post financial child support: judging misrepresentation and reliance