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Fathers' Rights Groups: Demographic Correlates and Impact on Custody Policy

¹ University of Southern California; Office of Research Advancement
² University of Ontario Institute of Technology
³ University of Maryland, College Park

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: lrosen{at}usc.edu.

	Abstract

This article combines information from fathers’ rights Web sites with demographic, historical, and other information to provide an empirically based analysis of fathers’ rights advocacy in the United States. Content analysis discerns three factors that are central to the groups’ rhetoric: representing domestic violence allegations as false, promoting presumptive joint custody and decreasing child support, and portraying women as perpetrators of domestic abuse. Fathers’ rights organizations and themes are examined in relation to state-level demographics and custody policy. The implications of fathers’ rights activism for battered women and their children are explored.

First published on March 2, 2009, doi:10.1177/1077801209331409

Violence Against Women 2009;15:513.

A more recent version of this article appeared on May 1, 2009


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