| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Harry Crouch | Children deserve and need to have two natural, caring, and responsible parents in their lives. |
| 2 | Guillermo Auad | |
| 3 | teri stoddard | |
| 4 | tammy searle | |
| 5 | Trish Keely | |
| 6 | Cary Lee | |
| 7 | Mark Decker | |
| 8 | fred sottile | incredible to have to state the obvious. children need both parents. |
| 9 | arnold rowe | |
| 10 | Anonymous | Equal Parenting Now |
| 11 | HENRI VENTURA | EVERYTHING IS AND MUST BE JUST FOR THE CHILDREN! |
| 12 | Jeffrey Seeman | |
| 13 | Daryl Taylor | |
| 14 | Francisco Fernandez | It is time that fathers be allowed to participate in the lives of their children and not just visit them 4 times a month!! |
| 15 | Anonymous | |
| 16 | Jaclyn Flatley | Fathers need to see their children. |
| 17 | Anonymous | |
| 18 | Robert C. Altieri | Children need both parents and REPEAL THE BRADLEY AMNDMENT! |
| 19 | Sylvia | |
| 20 | Fred Hayward | Had this been the law when my son was born, he would not need counseling for the rest of his life and I would be $150,000 richer. The current system serves nobody except the financial interest of those who administer it. |
| 21 | Stephen M Weiss | This is addressing only the tip of the iceberg of corruption that the Family Law Bar Association has wrought. |
| 22 | Renee Yalley | |
| 23 | Aarde V. Atheian | The lawyers, the judges and the legislatures who have created our current California Family Court System deserve nothing less than a holocaust. What they have done to the California fathers, children and families is nothing short of a holocaust. I know of no conscionable men who would not commit suicide after bludgeoning so much of their community members. I know I would. |
| 24 | Gregory Steiger | |
| 25 | Joe Maerkle | |
| 26 | Pedro E. Auad | www.crcsandiego.org/voices.htm |
| 27 | Audrey Jorgensen | |
| 28 | Anonymous | Please continue to do all possible to get equal rights for fathers. Thank you for what you are doing. |
| 29 | Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D. | A father’s legacy
The op-ed below was published in The Washington Times on Tuesday June 17, 2008 on page A23.
Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/17/a-fathers-legacy/
COMMENTARY: A father's legacy
Gordon Finley
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Photo by ASSOCIATED PRESS
The late Tim Russert, "Meet the Press" moderator and NBC News senior vice president and Washington bureau chief
Tim Russert, internationally respected political analyst and moderator of NBC News' "Meet the Press," died unexpectedly and prematurely at work at age 58 on Friday June 13, 2008 - the day preceding the Father's Day weekend.
Mr. Russert likely best will be remembered as the longest-running host of one of television's most intensely incisive political interview programs. In my view, however, he should best be remembered as a son, father, and one of the most positive exemplars of and advocates for fathers and their importance in children's lives.
Mr. Russert was born on May 7, 1950. By historical and social chance, his life spanned the golden years of fatherhood beginning in the decade of the 1950s - when fathers and married family life were portrayed in the most positive of lights - and continued through two-score and eight years during which fathers increasingly were depreciated, demeaned, marginalized and deemed irrelevant both to children and to society.
Blowing against the ideological winds of his adolescent and adult years, Mr. Russert wrote two best-selling books which, should his own wishes be granted, will be his most positive and long-lasting legacy. "Big Russ & Me - Father and Son: Lessons of Life" was published in 2004. From the dust jacket: "I have learned so much from Big Russ, and I feel so grateful to him, that I wanted to write a book about the two of us, and also about the other important teachers in my life, who have reinforced Dad's lessons and taught me a few new ones. ... I hope this book will encourage readers to think about the things they learned from their father. Whatever we achieve and whoever we are, we stand on their shoulders."
The responses of sons and daughters everywhere to this book were overwhelming and these spoken, scribbled and written commentaries about their own fathers became the foundation of his second book published two years later: "Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons." Of the many quotable quotes here are three from the Introduction: "By writing a book about my father, I was affirming not only his life, but the lives of many other fathers as well"; "Thank you for talking about your dad in such a positive way, because that was my experience too"; and "If real estate is about location, location, location, fatherhood is about time, time, time."
In a life by all accounts well-lived, Tim Russert represents a man who not only talked the talk in two best-selling books but also walked the walk in his relationships with his own father and son. May the written word outlive the spoken and may his books influence not only fathers and children today, but also society for generations to come.
Entombed in "Wisdom of Our Fathers"is Mr. Russert's own obituary:
"When my life is over, I know that the most important thing I'll be judged on is what kind of father I was."
Gordon E. Finley is professor of psychology at Florida International University in Miami. |
| 30 | Enrique Monteagudo | |
| 31 | Anonymous | In the Family Court of San Diego I was repeatedly biased against, had false allegations with no proof presented against me, and had a complete stranger to me and my daughter helping to make these allegations against me (the Mother's so-called fiance`). I had numerous glowing letters about my Fatherhood and relationship with my daughter from highly respected friends, family, and professionals from the neighborhood and community all in support of my parentage, yet I was still biased against and doubted by the Judge, the Custody Evaluator, and my daughter's Mother (the impetus). The Family Court and its assignee ignored my truths, proof, evidences, and didn't even do a thorough or fair job at investigating matters, in fact I find them grossly negligent in their duty, and they just sided with the 'Mother', temporarily... even when she filed a restraining order against the so-called fiance` for vandalizing her home, threatening her and the children, and committing documented domestic violence... the Custody Evaluator ignored these facts and had knowledge of some goings-on. She earned that restraining order, quickly found another man, got pregnant with him, hid that pregnancy, and consequently created a reason to move when in the first hearing provided testimony she had no reason to move, was not going to move... But after all this... She moved 100 miles away without a court order to do so and now where I used to be involved in coaching her sports teams, twice as her softball coach, I cannot, nor can I remain involved in her school as I was before, nor her community and friends and their parents as I was before... it is all fragmented. She was going to the 3rd rated best school in all of San Diego County! I will not go back to the Family Court and her mother has REASONS to stay out of it too... Our daughter is doing fine now partly because I keep consistent with visitation her mother allows (knows better now) but I know our child's heart has burdens and could be doing even better, I know our child, I know she could be doing even better. The Family Court and its assignee evaluator I hold chiefly responsible. I told the truth, played by the rules, have done everything they want me to do, would expect me to do and this is what I get for being a dedicated, loving Father??? Shame on the system! Shame on those who run a racqeteering, sham machine that rewards unethical and immoral conduct. |
| 32 | wendy liu | |
| 33 | Fredric Hayward | If the state's only function were to facilitate 50/50 timeshares -- unless one parent were proven incompetent, abusive, or uncooperative -- money currently spent on judges, lawyers, mediators, evaluators, etc. could be spent on children, instead. |
| 34 | Mike McCormick | |
| 35 | andrew wahrmund | |
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| 37 | Joseph Mantione | |
| 38 | Larry kerkman | This petition is extremely important to prevent our children from be pawns in a divorce or separation. Causing perminate emotional damage to our children and increasing crime. |
| 39 | Peter Maule | |
| 40 | Michael Rother | |
| 41 | Edward Goold | |
| 42 | Jacklyn Barton | |
| 43 | Anonymous | I see the destruction when one parent ends up with proportionately more time, giving more power and control over the child. There are no checks and balances in this system. Once a child becomes alienated and turns 14, that child can call the shots and only come when he/she feels like it. Otherwise, there is no schedule. On the supposedly "on" weekends, phone calls and e-mails about the weekend plans go unanswered. And, we live nearby! The child is given too much power over the parent while the parent is helpless and can only try to beg the child to come! |
| 44 | Gary Costanza | |
| 45 | Jason Lovgren | Fathers deserve a chance to be equal parents too. The fact that fathers automatically start out being issued part-time parental rights, without any hope of contributing equally to the childs life, is completely cruel, biased, and prejudice. |
| 46 | HAZART SANKER | |
| 47 | Robert Terence Canning | |
| 48 | Gerald Valdez | I am a dad with 80 percent time with the children and I finally realized that equal time shared is better for everybody involved. I reduced my time with the children to even out and to benefit all. Tthe said above will have meaning.. |
| 49 | Chad Barthelemy | |
| 50 | Anonymous | |