Deadbeat Parent - Opposition To The Use of The Term

Opposition To The Use of The Term

The men's rights activist Glenn Sacks regularly publicizes situations in which government authorities target so-called deadbeat parents, noting that jailing people for non-payment (whether men or women), vilifying public campaigns naming and shaming such people can be ineffective and fraught with error where the identification is incorrect.

The late men's rights activist Wilbur Street was an activist in the father's rights movement. Wilbur lost his high paying job when he developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as "Lou Gehrig’s disease"). The New Jersey system ignored Wilbur's disease and imputed a high income to him, despite his level of disability. In 2005, Wilbur was jailed for a child support arrearage based upon his imputed income. He died in a New Jersey jail on the second day of his incarceration from complications of ALS. Wilbur's daughter has taken up Wilbur's campaign and has become an activist in the cause of father's Rights.

Stephen Rene has been lobbying state and federal legislators since 2001 to share the message that comes from sharing positive parenting results. The United States Congress responded with the new Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction And Enforcement Act. This balances the legislation passed in 1996 on Child Support Enforcement for parents that should not be discriminated against based on race, gender, religion or parenting status.