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Fathers demand mandatory paternity testing

The Australian, February 16, 2011, Patricia Karvelas

A men's rights group has called for mandatory paternity testing of all babies after government figures revealed almost 600 instances of men compelled to financially support children they did not father.

Since changes to child support laws four years ago, there had been 586 cases of men successfully using DNA testing to show they were not biologically related to children they had been financially supporting, the federal government has revealed to The Australian.

In the overwhelming majority of these cases, the courts have not forced mothers to pay back the money they have received.

Of the 586 cases, only 74 mothers have been told to pay back the money. Those reparations total in excess of $533,000.

The figures, from the government's Child Support Agency, prompted Men's Rights Agency director Sue Price to call for mandatory DNA testing at birth.

"Quite a lot of them (the men) don't get their money back," she said. "The mothers aren't working anyway, so there's no way of getting the money back."

The figures are likely to renew a fierce debate over the use of DNA to determine biological parentage after birth.

Sole Parents Union president Kathleen Swinbourne told The Australian that the 2007 law change that led to the explosion in DNA testing was hurting children who were being told their fathers did not want to continue playing the role of parent. She urged uncertain fathers to seek testing during the pregnancy.

"We think there is more to being a father than DNA," she said. "If men are asking for these tests right at the beginning when someone says they are pregnant, that's fine, but if you are doing this when they are already calling you daddy, what effect does that have on the child?

"If you have accepted that you are their father, should you be allowed to turn around and change your mind based on biology?"

She suggested men make inquiries early to ensure children do not become traumatised by the DNA checking process.

"If you're in doubt, check it early," she said. "Take it out on your ex, don't take it out on your children."

Ms Price said she believed that up to 30 per cent of men who had a test found they were not the father.

"I think there should be mandatory testing at birth of every child to stop this happening," she said.

"People have affairs -- that happens -- but it's your obligation to find out who the father is."

A spokesman for Human Services Minister Tanya Plibersek said it was important that the children of separated parents were supported, both financially and emotionally.

"The Family Court adjudicates in disputes over who the actual parents are," he said.

"The Child Support Agency simply facilitates payments in the minority of cases where parents can't come to private arrangements."

Moms Who Kill

Biological Mothers Murder More of Their Own Children Than Do Biological Fathers

Australian Institute of Criminology statistics show there were 270 child homicide incidents in Australia from July 1989 to June 1999, involving 287 identified offenders and resulting in the deaths of 316 children under 15.

For example, the revised National Homicide Monitoring Program 2006-07 Annual Report states 11 homicides involved a biological mother and 5 involves a biological father.

The Western Australian figures shed light on who is likely to abuse children in families. Mothers are identified as the perpetrator of neglect and abuse in a total of 73% of verified cases.

Biological mothers account for about 35 per cent of all child murders, while biological fathers account for 29 per cent

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Domestic Violence - Male Victims

Family Courts’ Violence Review
October 2009

The Attorney-General commissioned a review of the practices, procedures and laws that apply in the federal family law courts in the context of family violence. The Family Courts Violence Review considered whether improvements could be made to ensure that the federal family law courts provide the best possible support to families who have experienced or are at risk of violence.

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Men's Rights Agency Reply to the Family Courts Violence Review

Men's Rights On Dr. Phil

Dr Phil TV Show - Men's Rights

September 2021

Dr Phil mixes both the mainstream men's rights advocates and a nutcase guy looking for publicity to make men look bad to create a controversial and ridiculous show to attract an audience of mainly middle aged non-working women who watch TV in the afternoons.

Advertisers love such controversial shows aimed at women who control over 80% of household spending. The more ridiclous some person on the show is, the better the ratings. Dr Phil is the upscale Jerry Springer. These shows really insult the intelligence of women.

In the show, Dr. Phil, who is no longer registered as psychologist, admits that all of his show management are females as are 90+% of his staff.

The show does have the "Martin Luther King" of the Men's Rights Movement - Warren Farrell. It also has Cassie Jay of The Red Pill documentary fame. Jerry Cox who was falsely accused of rape and kidnapping by a woman is featured. He had the ridiculous charges dropped and successfuly sued the woman.

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Gender Discrimination Against Men

Do men get a rough deal?

National Times
January 11, 2011

Seems a bit rich these days to claim there is a ‘‘glass ceiling’’ for female jobs. Load of cobblers, isn't it? I mean, Australia has a female Prime Minister and a female Governor-General.

Has there really been discrimination over the years against mothers who work -- or against women without children?

The National Council of Women thinks so and no surprise there. I recently chatted with Victorian leader Jennie Rawther who pointed out that, among other things, women at the end of World War 1 had to give up their jobs to returning servicemen -- even though their husbands may have been killed in combat. There was no widow’s pension, nor child support.

Sounds tough but Age reader Steve Hills of Rosebud is not impressed. “There is overwhelming evidence that female health, safety and female lives were held as more valuable than men’s lives,” he says. “Men’s lives were routinely regarded as disposable. The view that women alone were discriminated against is an ignorant one.”

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