Parental Advocate, Dr. Leon Koziol, to Meet with Agents and Supporters in Nashville.

Do fathers matter any more in this country? It’s a growing question haunting policy makers in our nation’s divorce and family courts. Politicians accustomed to appeasing women’s rights activists have made it expedient to abuse fathers for votes without any regard for its long term consequences. As a result, stigmatized fathers are surrendering to the stereotypes and abandoning their rightful roles as natural parents. It is a silent and insidious trend harming families, children and our society.

We all have some recognition of the injustices in these courts, but do we really know the severity of their consequences? The insidious harm is supported by numerous studies over the past three decades which show that father discrimination is at the root of today’s unprecedented social problems. After an exhaustive review of such studies in an article entitled, “Is There Really a Fatherhood Crisis,” Professor Stephen Baskerville places the blame on government itself:

“Virtually every major social pathology has been linked to fatherless children: violent crime, drug and alcohol abuse, truancy, unwed pregnancy, suicide, and psychological disorders – all correlating more strongly with fatherlessness than with any other single factor, surpassing even race and poverty. The majority of prisoners, juvenile detention inmates, high school dropouts, pregnant teenagers, adolescent murderers, and rapists come from fatherless homes. Children born from affluent but broken families are much more likely to get into trouble than children from poor but intact ones, and white children from separated families are at higher risk than black children in intact families. … Marshalling federal agencies to “promote” something as private and personal as a parent’s relationship with his own children raises questions. The assumption that the government has a legitimate role in ameliorating the problem of fatherlessness also glides quickly over the more fundamental question of whether the government has had a role in creating the problem. What we see in the “fatherlessness crisis” may be an optical illusion. What many are led to believe is a social problem may in reality be an exercise of power by the state.” Independence Review, vol VIII, n 4, Spring 2004, at pp 485-486.

A promotional tour for a nationwide fathers’ rights project will begin next week in Nashville. That project is described in a highly researched report made public on March 1, 2015 entitled “We Are Fathers.” It was authored by parental advocate, Dr. Leon Koziol, and he has been sharing it with celebrity agents in California, public interest groups across the country and chambers of commerce, among others. One obstacle, of course, has been the subject matter. When breast cancer, domestic violence or abortion rights are offered, the reactions are typically more favorable. However for reasons that remain a modern day phenomenon, fathers are frowned upon and relegated to that lower class of citizenship.

Bucking that trend, Dr. Koziol is seeking to remove the stigma and promote a vital cause to benefit our families, children and future generations. Indeed our followers are growing exponentially by the day. Nevertheless we recognize the uphill nature of our work. For example, when we discussed our tour with the Agent for Miranda Lambert, a reply received the next day favored her Mutt Nation project over ours, leading one of our followers to conclude that she considered stray dogs more important than fathers. Greater public awareness would inform her of the countless homeless fathers struggling against a highly oppressive court system. Others have been more supportive. As you can guess, early meetings with celebrities or their agents cannot generally be made public but we will continue to report on our progress. For all the country music followers of this site, some but not all of the celebrities we’ve reached out to are listed below:

Toby Keith, Taylor Swift, Blake Sheldon, Kix Brooks, Kenny Chesney     Gretchen Wilson, Jake Owen, Carrie Underwood, John Rich, Jason Aldean,  Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley  and Cowboy Troy