Give these Dads a Voice! Support? System Down

[Darrick Lynn Scott-Farnsworth]

A shocking new documentary, Support? System Down shows men's lives ripped
apart by the family court system. Many men are locked away in jail and
unable to see their kids. Deprived of a basic human right -being a parent,
their human rights as fathers are cast asunder. The very ties that bind them
to family, to humanity, to society are all threatened when they can't meet
child support. These fathers may have the best of intentions to pay child
support, but switched or changed jobs or got deployed overseas and got
caught up in a system with limited opportunity to express how and why their
circumstances changed. Unable to pay, they're locked away. A simple sounding
rhyme... and a questionable crime... in these uncertain financial times.

There's a pervasive mentality that views them as "dead beat dads". Their
pictures are hung up at the post office on the "most wanted lists". The
system itself is creating a modern day debtors prison as if our prisons
aren't crowded enough as it is. This is de-humanizing to fathers.

There's a whole industry being created around the collection of child
support. It's to a state's advantage to show a higher number of "dead beat
fathers" on their dockets. They actually profit from it. But it's a Catch
22. The more money that's owed; the more incentive they have from the
Federal government to collect it. Along the way abuses can occur all too
easily at the fathers' expense.

So many of these fathers as this documentary shows are not the bad guys
they're made out to be, far from it. They're victims of a system that gives
them little chance to be heard and even less recourse. With the economy in a
downward spiral and fathers out of work and/or underemployed their ranks are
likely to grow as more and more men get locked up for lack of child support.
Limited financially by the very monetary circumstances that put them in jail
in the first place - most don't have legal representation or a chance of
pleading their case for leniency in these tough economic times. Yet, even
criminals have a chance of a fair trial. But these guys are treated as
criminals and denied their basic civil rights.

And if being locked up isn't hard enough, many of these fathers suffer from
parent alienation on top of the woes of being in jail. It's why many can't
even see their kids when they're in jail and afterwards, it only worsens
their relationship with their children and themselves. It's hard to feel
good about yourself and work and do the right thing, when you can't even see
your kids. Parental suicide rates go up 5 Times for parents removed from
their children.

These fathers have a basic right to be there for their kids and to be heard
by the family court system. See the movie, Support ? System Down. Give these
fathers a voice they so desperately need. See All trailers here: http://www.supportthemovie.com/trailers/

1) Buy the Sneak Peek DVD for the father's in your life and the future fathers you might know: http://www.shop.supportthemovie.com/product.sc?productId=4&sour...

2) Make a donation at the documentary's website: http://www.supportthemovie.com/

Help bring the plight of our fathers facing jail time to the public. Give these dads a chance by seeing, Support? System Down.