Category: Fathers’ Rights

The American Psychiatric Association is in the process of a major revision of its diagnostic manual, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Work groups across the fields of psychology and psychiatry are reviewing the manual’s current list of 283 officially recognized mental health disorders to ensure they are based on the best […]

Continue reading APA Ponders Its Official Stance on Parental Alienation Syndrome ...

As we reported in July, a Washington D.C. lawyer has sued basketball superstar LeBron James and his mother for unspecified millions of dollars in damages, claiming that the pair has conspired for years to deny his paternity of LeBron. He persists in his paternity claim despite a DNA test that demonstrated he is not LeBron James’s […]

Continue reading What Are a Father’s Rights When a Son Gets Famous and Wealthy? ...

With the Bristol Palin/Levi Johnston child custody agreement freshly in the news, child advocates and fathers’ rights groups have taken the opportunity to discuss the impact of shared parenting arrangements on children. A recent article from eMaxHealth, an independent health news organization, discussed some of the science about the topic. Palin and Johnston’s child custody […]

Continue reading Studies Show Joint Child Custody Leads to Better-Adjusted Children ...

After harsh criticism regarding a growing number of unresolved parental abduction cases in Japan, the Japanese government has announced that it will sign the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction as early as next year. Child advocates, parent and fathers’ rights groups and the U.S. State Department are among those hailing […]

Continue reading Japan to Sign International Child Custody & Abduction Treaty ...

According to many in the fathers’ rights movement, dads hardly have a chance if they want primary or even joint custody of their kids after a divorce. It’s great to hear more talk about how important it is to have fathers involved in their children’s lives, but family courts nationwide seem heavily biased toward granting […]

Continue reading Would Proposed Mass. Fathers’ Rights Rule Help Dads or Hurt Kids? ...

Washington, D.C. lawyer Leicester Bryce Stovell says he is LeBron James’s biological father, claims that James and his mother have conspired to cover it up, and has filed a $4 million paternity and fathers’ rights lawsuit to prove it. According to 55-year-old Stovell, he met James’s mother Gloria James at a D.C. nightclub in 1984, […]

Continue reading Man Claiming to Be LeBron James’s Dad Files Fathers’ Rights Suit ...

Last year, Georgia passed a new law allowing men to ask the courts to set aside a previous determination of paternity if they receive new evidence that they are not the father of the child. The new evidence could be a negative paternity test performed years after the child’s birth. When it comes to protecting […]

Continue reading How Do We Protect Fathers’ Rights After Late, Negative DNA Tests? ...

Recent studies by demographers and sociologists at major universities across the countries are documenting a very positive trend: Non-resident dads are increasing their share of child custody, spending more time with their kids, and paying their child support more regularly. Experts including sociologists, family therapists, child advocates and the Fathers’ Rights movement have long pointed out that kids […]

Continue reading Fathers’ Contact With Kids, Payment of Child Support Trending Up ...

During and after a divorce, emotions run high. Under the best of circumstances, it can be a real challenge to co-parent children with a former spouse. Especially when the divorce wasn’t amicable, a disagreement can easily become a child custody battle. In some severe cases, however, it becomes much more than a disagreement. When one […]

Continue reading Fathers’ rights: What is parental alienation syndrome? ...