10-11-2002
O'Reilly,
I just watched you bulldoze the fathers' rights attorney who was just on your
show. I don't know what your agenda is, but you need to check out reality. YES
it is excessive that the man in question fathered 9 children and even I have a
problem with that however, the attorney was trying to show that the government
ordering any person not to have kids is unconstitutional. It wasn't about your
moral beliefs or mine for that matter. Personally, I can't see how anyone can
have 9 kids and still support them all equally both emotionally and financially,
but that's beside the point.
The point is that in each and every state "child support" awards
are EXCESSIVE and have absolutely no financial basis besides the huge award the
mother usually gets for having custody. I PAY enough "child support"
for the financial support of 3 children and I only have one. That means that my
ex-wife is responsible for absolutely nothing financially and gets a nice bonus
on top of that. I would have no problem paying what they like to call child
support if it really represented my half of the child's necessary financial
support. Even though it is ludicrous to have 9 kids from multiple women, it is
even more ludicrous to expect the father to pay what probably amounts to 80%
(estimating this from what normal fathers are ordered to PAY, I don't have
actual figures) of his pay to all the mothers to use as they wish without
accountability and still expect him to support himself. Keep in mind that this
is an EXTREME situation and most fathers that are court ordered into slavery
only have one or two children. That is what goes on in the real world.
The states are using astronomic child support awards and guaranteed mother
custody (men generally make more money for them to take) to get as much in
federal TANF block grants as they can even if it means major constitutional
violations. These constitutional violations are an everyday occurrence in state
family courts where due process and equal protection under the law does not seem
to exist. If you are a father, even if you were never accused of abuse (which is
commonly used as a tool all by itself) you are almost guaranteed to loose your
children and most of your money. All of the states are getting away with type of
thing and people like Robert Williams of Policy Studies INC. (who profits from
arbitrarily high child support awards and should be criminally prosecuted) are
making a ton of money in the process. Why don't you do a little research, learn
the facts, and expose this? Fair and balanced? No spin?
I happened to be a good father to my son who wanted equal time but I was told
by Pennsylvania Domestic Relations that I had to go through all sorts of
evaluations (totally unnecessary, and an invasion of my privacy) when I was
never accused of anything or my petition would be dismissed. These evaluations
cost big bucks and my lawyer told me that I don't really have a chance at equal
custody. I refused to pay all the unnecessary expenses to have my equal rights
enforced. The whole purpose of these expenses, as I see it, is for the sole
benefit of court appointed "professionals". I didn't have the money to
pursue the issue and the court dismissed my petition, so I guess I loose right?
This type of thing is what all the fathers rights people are hollering about,
not about the courts telling a man who has 9 kids not to have any more.
Please get to the real issue of equal treatment. I am loosing respect for you
daily because of the way you bulldoze people that come on your show (especially
on this topic) into speaking about what your agenda is when it isn't even the
real issue. The attorney tried to get this out but you wouldn't let him. Did you
ever have your kids taken from you O'Reilly? Were you ever "ordered"
to pay half your paycheck supposedly for "child support"? It's the
same thing as if you were ORDERED to pay $200,000 for a $30,000 car. Would you
pay it willingly?
Sincerely,
Dave Vincent
Center for Children's Justice
Pennsylvania Chapter
http://pfcr.childrensjustice.org
