How Much is Too Much Child Support?

Child Support:
How Much is Too Much? | Psychology Today

On Jan. 1, Massachusetts adopted new child-support guidelines (link is external) that will likely raise the amount paid by non-custodial parents, usually fathers.

Are the new guidelines excessive and unfair, as a lawsuit charges? Or were the old guidelines too stingy? How much child support is enough? How much is too much?

Fathers & Families (link is external), a Boston-based advocacy organization, says the payments under the new guidelines are excessive. Non-custodial parents, usually fathers, who must now make increased payments could be forced to work long hours or move to a distant community to find housing they can afford.

FOX 25 Boston News – – Just hearing the words child support sparks an emotional response. Fathers who feel like the rules are more about the paycheck than the parenting, mothers who say they cant live on what they have. In general, the perception is, its unfairly biased against men in the state of Massachusetts, says John Ollen of Marthas Vineyard. Full Story

An Important Human Rights Issue

There is often talk about the glass ceiling and little talk about the glass floor.

Men are being denied their rights as fathers, workers and human beings by the courts and other institutions that have simply gone too far.

Feminist movements while promoting equality seem to be replacing the good old boys’ club with a good old girls’ one. Some in the country think it is time for men to take a stand and work with visioned women for REAL equality.

This show will feature Harry Croutch of the National Coalition for Men and Men’s Legal Center in San Diego along with RK Hendrick, Esq, an attorney and author of the book “How To Avoid Getting Screwed When Getting Laid”. Eric Von Sydow will be commenting on his books and role in helping men cope in today’s society. Join us for what is sure to be a provocative discussion.

Here we are starting another year in the same position as last year and the year before that and the year before that. Three years now since I saw my two children and three more to go if the situation remains the same. My son Scott will be sixteen in three years time and he will instantly have the freedom to choose to find me. Which is why I keep my blog running. I have said this over and over again during the last three years, all we want is equality. Not too much to ask in 2014. A fathers right to see his children and a child’s right to see his or her father. Men are often accused of being controlling, but when a mother denies a father access to his children and a child access to his or father then that is the extreme of controlling behavior. But that seems to go unrecognised. Balanced? I don’t think so. Fair? I don’t think so. Equal? I don’t think so. Children are not tools to be used as a punishment against a father.

Men’s Rights – An Important Human Rights Issue
Reason for Protest: To bring awareness to the corruption and fraudulent acts of Family Courts and Child Protective Services. Our children, parents and families are being abused, destroyed and in some cases, murdered while the APA maintains its “no policy” policy, which we believe contributes to the problem which consist with the corruption within the system that is supposed to be in the best interest of our children and families. We ask for a conference:

In support of a petition:

In support of the NATP Strategic Plan to Fight Child Psychological Abuse (see the NATP Facebook page)

Peaceful, polite protests also to be held simultaneously at State APA Headquarters and at Psychological Organizations around the world:

Sign/Poster Themes: – “Collusion with Delusion Must Stop” – “Mental Health Must Not Be Complicit in Child Abuse” – “Pathogenic Parenting is Child Abuse”