Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family

by Stephen Baskerville

Overview

Taken into Custody' exposes the greatest and most destructive civil rights abuse in America today. Family courts and Soviet-style bureaucracies trample basic civil liberties, entering homes uninvited and taking away people's children at will, then throwing the parents into jail without any form of due process, much less a trial. No parent, no child, no family in America is safe. The legal industry does not want you to hear this story. Radical feminists, bar associations, and social work bureaucracies have colluded to suppress this information. Even pro-family" groups and civil libertarians look the other way. Yet it is a reality for tens of millions of Americans who are our neighbors."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781581825947
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/01/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.22(h) x 1.27(d)

About the Author

Stephen Baskerville is an assistant professor of government at Patrick Henry College and president of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and is a fellow at the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society. The author of more than eighty articles on fatherhood and family topics in scholarly and current-affairs journals, he has appeared widely on national radio and television programs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     9
Introduction: The Crisis of Fatherhood and Marriage     11
Judicial Kidnapping     29
Divorce and the Constitution     75
Deadbeat Dads or Plundered Pops?     111
Batterers or Protectors?     165
Fathers and Feminism     221
The Politics of Fatherhood     259
Conclusion: Ending the War     281
Notes     311
Index     359