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Northern California dad travels to DC to confront President Obama

Northern California daddy activist Donald Tenn travels to this year's Parental Justice March in Washington DC.

As I wrote recently:

Earlier this year Obama asked fathers to step up, to be there for their children.  Donald Tenn, Fathers 4 Justice President, and Madison's Daddy says he wants President Obama to step up.  To help parents, usually fathers, who are illegally* prevented from parenting their children.  (*and legally via corruption)

Tenn, a stay-at-home daddy whose daughter was illegally abducted by her mother to Illinois, is meeting with members of Families 4 Justice, Fathers 4 Justice and other family rights advocates in DC Sunday.  They're uniting for the 2009 Parental Justice March, where they will be asking President Obama to step up for family rights.  Tenn left California headed towards Washington DC on Monday. 

Corruption has been exposed all the way from the family court system to the US State Dept, and they want Obama to intervene.  People are traveling from all over, including a father coming from Japan, and they represent hundreds of thousands of parents who've had their rights denied.   Parents in every state say they want Obama to step up for parental rights.

After driving through a storm with hail the size of golf balls, Tenn was sitting in a fast food joint in Nebraska when a young man approached him.  "I saw your signs, that you're with Fathers 4 Justice," he said, "I haven't seen my daughter in five months, and tomorrow is her birthday.  Can you help me?" 

Unfortunately the child had been abducted to a state that Tenn had already passed through, or he would have given the grieving father a ride.   "I felt bad for the guy.  He couldn't have been more than 21-years-old," Tenn said, "I told him to get on the internet so he could unite with the rest of us, to change the laws that allow this to happen." 

Donald Tenn at the 2009 Fatherless Day Rally in Sacramento:

 

More parent speakers at the Sacramento 2009 Fatherless Day Rally

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Teri Stoddard is a nature loving, 50-something San Francisco Bay Area native, mom of four and grandma to two. After a career in foster and child...

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  • Dude 2 years ago
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    Confront Obama? HAH! How many deadbeats marched 3? Obama knows these losers got kicked to to curb by mothers who want better for their kids. Sometimes they make kids with jerks but that doesn't mean the kids have to pay for it if the mothers can keep them away.

  • teri stoddard - family rights examiner 2 years ago
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    "Dude", why are you hiding behind a fake name and fake gender? I know exactly who you are, and you are not a dude.

  • teri stoddard - family rights examiner 2 years ago
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    I have deleted some comments of a false and personal nature. Although I encourage the spirit of debate and don’t expect all readers to agree with me, I will delete all false comments about me.

  • Xtreme 2 years ago
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    I applaud the fathers that are fighting for their rights as fathers, I don't believe the world should be bias to just mothers only. A child needs two loving parents to help raise and guide them in this world. If it can be just blown off as well she didn't know he was a jerk, then why sleep with a person , you hardly know.... and take a chance of making a kid with that person.
    That is the reason why we have birth control and abstinence. But to be safe than sorry for a lifetime.

  • Tim Casey 2 years ago
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    No one bothers to notice that nearly 50% of divorced women with children are taking psychotropic drugs. One of the most common side effects of these drugs is... according to Health Canada... "behavioural and/or emotional changes that may put them at increased risk of self-harm or harm to others."
    Take a look at www.ssristories.com and scroll down the right hand index until you get to " Mother..."

    timcaseycdn@yahoo.com

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