Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / January 2006

I'm looking for 20 sound-bite facts that could be e-mailed around to
spread awareness of what is actually going on in the USA regarding the
travesty of Justice that is the Family Court system, child custody, and
child support.  I know there are so many wrongs being done (and they are
all interconnected) that it is hard to pick only a handful, but here are
some criteria:

1. The facts must be readable in a sentence or two
2. The facts must be accompanied by at least one link to documentation
that backs them up
3. I'd like to keep the list as humorous as possible.  I know that
sounds strange, but humor will help keep the list looking like a list of
gripes from angry men and more like an expose of the farce that we men
are facing.  There is nothing really humorous about any of this, of
course, but it would help if we could make light as much as possible to
keep people from shutting down and failing to read the whole thing.  We
want to win hearts and minds here.

One statistic I can give as an example is the fact that women initiate
70% of divorces, and mostly for personal reasons other than abuse.  I
know I've seen documentation of this before, and it would be a good fact
to use because not many people are aware of it.

We could do something like "Top 20 myths about the Divorce Industry (or
Fathers, or what-have-you)", and list 20 misconceptions common to
Americans about all this mess.  Using the above example, we might list
the MYTH: Most divorces are initiated by fathers who abandon their
families, followed by REALTY: (What I just said above), and
DOCUMENTATION: (An active online documentation)

We could send this list to various interested groups and e-mail people
we knew asking them to pass it on.  It couldn't hurt, right?

If you could pick 20 facts about this awful system that you would like
the American public to know about, what would they be?

   - Ron   ^*^