Television Peddles Anti-Dad Bias

Fathers used to be respected, both in real life and on television. A long-running sit-com called "Father Knows Best," starring Robert Young, was very popular in the 1950s. But then the radical feminists set out to demonize fathers, to make them at best irrelevant, and at worst a cad who deserves to be kicked around and insulted. They coined the epithet "Deadbeat Dads" to make people believe that divorced fathers are failing to do their duty in supporting their children.

Now a television network called Lifetime TV has sunk to a new low by planning to air a reality program called "Deadbeat Dads." It centers around a character who chases and confronts dads who do not pay child support. The "reality" show is out of touch with reality. The fact is that more than 90% of divorced fathers with joint custody paid the support that is due, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Most of the so-called deadbeat dads actually have no money. According to government statistics, two-thirds of men who fail to make child-support payments earn only poverty-level wages, and most of the others are unemployed. One prosecutor who was trying to score points with the feminists bragged that he "many times prosecuted impoverished fathers." These down-and-out fathers who have no money are often sent to debtors' prison and have their driver's license taken away as punishment, although it's obvious that such tactics cannot produce any income for father, mother or kids. Some of the dads who don't pay full child support are fathers whose ex-wife denies them the right to see their own children.

It's not likely that the TV series will be truthful about divorce and child custody because the feminists are so powerful in the media, but maybe you can protest to the sponsors of the program for airing unfair feminist propaganda.