Coalition of Parent Support

One of the most remarkable things that an activist discovers is how little concern there is for the truth in the media.

This archive contains documents that chronicle our efforts to correct false and misleading portrayals of non-custodial parents.

Falsehood:
"SACRAMENTO--Fewer than one in eight California children who are entitled to financial help from an absent parent actually get that aid, according to a state watchdog sharply critical of child support enforcement efforts."

California's Little Hoover Commission, May, 1997.  This state funded agency published a review of California's child support enforcement system.  Their report was mostly repetition of the propaganda of advocacy groups.

The Executive Summary of the report was interpreted by an Associated Press reporter who wrote an article that contained the above falsehood.  Read about our efforts to get the article corrected, and how many individuals in both the media and Little Hoover commission were actively opposed to publishing the truth.

Advocacy groups and liberal foundations have stumbled onto Dadbashing as an effective strategy for taking the focus off of welfare mothers who have child after child for the tax-free cash they bring into her household.  Their hired lobbyists discovered that they could say anything at all about dads, no matter how absurd, and there was nobody in a position to rebut them.  The strategy of blaming all poverty on abandoning fathers is now being used to support the creation of a new federal agency that can perform identically to old welfare (that is, write a mother a check for each additional child she has).  This new agency will have a politically correct name, though: Child Support Assurance.  See Bucking the Trend  (a PDF document that requires the Adobe PDF reader) to see how foundation money has funded the false dadbashing.