Tuesday, June 21, 2005

In Response To Perry Manly

While the loss of a life, no matter what the cause the individual stood for,is a tragic event, we cannot afford to hurt our movement but such drasticand irrational measures. When fathers take to such extremes to gainpublicity it ultimately and always back-fires and provides more fodder andfuel for those in opposition to us. It also ensures the courts they aredoing the right thing by awarding custody to moms because dads are toounstable and do not have the best interest of the children in mind whengoing to such extremes.

I ask and encourage all of you to please not resort to such action.Protesting, handing out pamphlets, marching on the steps of the Capitalbuilding, etc, will guarantee our voices are heard. Actions such as policesuicide, murder, or other violent acts only thwarts our efforts. But moreimportantly it hurts the children and affects them more than anyone else.Now, because this individual committed police suicide, his children are leftwith pain and sorrow of losing what they consider a loving and caringfather, with the question always in their minds of, "Why did he killhimself?" And, "Why did he not think of me before he killed himself?" Thesepoor children will now and forever be haunted with these questions not ableto know the answers as they continue to grow and have children of their own.- Mark A. Wireman

1 Comments:

Blogger Lost Dad said...

As a father that has had my children stolen from me and turned against me I completely understand how Mr Manly felt. There are days that I dont know how to deal with the loss of my children or the manner in which they were taken from me.

Knowing that there are other men that have had this done to them does not help. It only makes the problem worse knowing that there is a system in place that condones and even supports active alienation of a father from his children. A system that forces fathers into financial servitude to malicious exwives and mothers.

All that is expected of us is to remain quiet and pay up.

Not a good feeling and not everyone can just sit on their hands and take it. As futile as his protest was at least he is not suffering anymore.

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