Until you take away the financial money being made of of orphaning children by the family courts for the money they will get from the federal government (in america) it will never stop. People that discuss this issue never, never, get to the real issue. You just can't seem to get to the truth of it. It's not "abandonment" by fathers. It's the stealing and filching of the father's invioable authority over his own children by the state/federal government and their henchmen, the judges, attorneys, guardian-ad-lidems, social workers, pshychologists, schools, etc. $ etc. The "domestic violence" industry is another culprit. There is no fatherhood without authority and that authority can't be at the mothers and or her parents wishes. It is God given. It is inviolable. Stephen Baskerville's book, "Taken Into Custody" would be an intense eye opener to all of the people, such as yourselves, who keep blaming this lie you keep perpetrating called "abandonment". The facts show otherwise in nearly every study on the planet that "abandonment" by the father is overwhelmingly not the case. Why do you keep pushing a lie when any study you can look at clearly shows that the money family courts make for their states; and this is in the millions, for every dollar they collect in child support is the real culprit. The "state" has become the father all over the known world and the mulitbillion doller (usa) industry that surrounds it. Until you are ready for the state to back off and drop their stealing of fathers kids and kids fathers you are wasting your time.

Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ is correct when he states, “Fatherlessness is a major contributor to increasing rates of juvenile violence”.

However, it is sad that the Heritage Foundation, who he quotes likes to twist statistics to make an unjustifiably attack on fathers. I quote Sanford L. Braver, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Arizona State University from Divorced Dads.

“What did we find when we asked couples ‘who left whom?’. The results are shown in Chart 7.1. Despite Our concerns with respondents changing counts over time, the results show remarkable consistency. No matter when the question was asked or of whom we asked the question, the wife was identified as the initiator in 63 to 67 percent of the couples, the husband was identified as the initiator in 26 to 34 percent of the couples, and in 4 to 9 percent of the cases, the divorce was a "mutual decision." Thus, by all measures, including the official records of who was “petitioner" in the legal action, the wife would be designated the initiator in about two-thirds of the families, directly in contradiction to the common wisdom.”

It is a shame that many conservative Christian think tanks view fathers as an easy target. I do not know about the US but in New Zealand father’s groups get no government funding to lobby for fathers issues. The only men’s groups that get funding are male feminists groups. Compare this to women’s groups that get massive public funding by comparison - and not to mention the Ministry of Woman’s Affairs that gets to have input into all family law.

Family breakup is bad on children but acrimonious breakup is worse. The only way that will change is for just family law to be introduced by Parliament and the Family Court to make fair and unbiased decisions. That is highly unlikely to happen with the present Principle Family Court Judge. If Judge Peter Boshier acted as unfairly towards mothers as he did towards fathers he would not be long in the job.