Television show attacking fathers

Kathleen Parker has a good column at a planned FOX TV show designed to attack deadbeat fathers. In The Father of All Bad Ideas she explains why this show is a bad idea. There seems to be a trend to bash men, to bash fathers, and to bash males in general. This show will go after fathers who are accused of not supporting their children enough. But Kathleen explains:

"The more accurate picture of a deadbeat dad is an unemployed or underemployed bloke who sees more jail cells than golf courses. A common sequence of events for the poorest deadbeat dads goes something like this: Fall behind in child support, get arrested and put in jail, lose your job, fall further behind in child support."

I was surpised to learn:

"Clearly, some men are sinners and some women are saints. But sometimes the reverse is true. In fact, noncustodial mothers are 20 percent more likely to default on child support than noncustodial fathers, according to U.S. Census data. But we don’t see a reality show aimed at humiliating moms."


Glenn Sacks focuses on the double standard men are held to in the legal system. If a male teacher has sex with a student they can be facing decades in jail. If a female teacher has sex with a student they might only spend a couple months.

Recently he wrote Man Stabbed in Domestic Dispute, Almost Dies--and KABC Morning Hosts Think It's Funny:

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I was dismayed when KABC entertainment reporter Debra Mark (pictured) lightly and semi-laughingly mentioned that one of the film crew had been "stabbed in a domestic dispute."
In fact, according to the UPI article she was reading from (see below), the man almost died. Host Doug McIntyre (pictured below) and co-host Rob Marinko, both normally reasonable men, seemed mildly amused, too.
All together now--"If a wife was stabbed and almost murdered by her husband, would we be amused by it?"
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Glen is also opposing the TV Fox show:

"We oppose Bad Dads because it unfairly depicts divorced fathers as uncaring and selfish, when research clearly shows that most divorced dads pay their child support and remain a part of their children's lives, often under difficult circumstances. It also publicly humiliates children of broken families by depicting their fathers as not loving or caring for them."

You can learn how to voice your concern about attacking fathers by going here.


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