AMPP-American Mothers Political Party

 

AMPP Mission Statement

AMPP is a social movement seeking justice and accountability within the family court system which includes DHHS/CPS, psychologists and other so called experts.
We as mothers demand CITIZENSHIP and our Rights to our Children. We demand that our children not be used as pawns by our abuser in a custody dispute. We demand that Mothers and Children be equally protected against court ordered visitation with an abuser. We demand that Mothers and Children be given the same rights, privileges and voice that the abuser gets in family courts!
We demand that our President take action now as can no longer afford to be silent and we wont. We demand the same "rights and freedoms" to which all humans are entitled.
Behind the closed doors of the dirty little secret of the family court system, thousand of women each year lose child custody to violent men who beat and abuse Mothers and Children. Family courts are not family-friendly and betray the best interests of the child. Until Mothers and Childrens voices are heard we will never shut up, give up or go away

 

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AMPP-American Mothers Political Party

 

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AMPP Mission Statement

AMPP is a social movement seeking justice and accountability within the family court system which includes DHHS/CPS, psychologists and other so called experts.
We as mothers demand CITIZENSHIP and our Rights to our Children. We demand that our children not be used as pawns by our abuser in a custody dispute. We demand that Mothers and Children be equally protected against court ordered visitation with an abuser. We demand that Mothers and Children be given the same rights, privileges and voice that the abuser gets in family courts!
We demand that our President take action now as can no longer afford to be silent and we wont. We demand the same "rights and freedoms" to which all humans are entitled.
Behind the closed doors of the dirty little secret of the family court system, thousand of women each year lose child custody to violent men who beat and abuse Mothers and Children. Family courts are not family-friendly and betray the best interests of the child. Until Mothers and Childrens voices are heard we will never shut up, give up or go away

 

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SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE: MATERNAL CARE MATTERS

SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE: MATERNAL CARE MATTERS

FILED IN: CHILD CUSTODY FOR FATHERS, CUSTODY FOR DADS, MATERNAL DEPRIVATION, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, MOTHER CHILD RELATIONSHIP, MOTHERLESS CHILDREN, MURDER - SUICIDE, NONCUSTODIAL MOTHERS, ROBERT HAWKINS, SCIENTIFIC STUDIES

More on maternal deprivation. A study completed at McGill University confirms maternal care has an effect on children. Imagine not having that maternal care…being deprived of your mother, and how it affects future suicide victims.

Remember Robert Hawkins, the boy who shot up the mall in Omaha, Nebraska.  His father had custody of him:

Robert Hawkins shooting at mall

Throughout most of his life, he and his family were plagued by his psychiatric problems. The day after he turned 14, he was sent to a mental health treatment center for threatening to kill his stepmother with an axe.

Four months later, he became a ward of the State of Nebraska, which lasted nearly four years. He had undergone two psychiatric hospitalizations, and was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, an unspecified mood disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and parent-child relationship problems. His extensive treatments cost the state USD$265,000.

On December 5th 2007,  Robert Hawkins, went to Westroads Mall in Omaha and fired against employees and customers in a department store, killing eight people and then he killed himself.

Maribel Rodriguez, Robert’s mother said in interviews she was deeply devastated. She hasn’t had custody of her son since Robert was around 4 years old but she said that had a good relationship with her son and felt the obligation to apologize for what he did. Robert was without hope, without faith and without courage she added.

Who was the first one he told “I love you” on his suicide note?  Mommy.  Maternal deprivation.  Now, the information from the study…

Childhood trauma has life-long effect on genes and the brain

Study confirms effects of early environment in brains of suicide victims

McGill University and Douglas Institute scientists have discovered that childhood trauma can actually alter your DNA and shape the way your genes work. This confirms in humans earlier findings in rats, that maternal care plays a significant role in influencing the genes that control our stress response.

Using a sample of 36 brains; 12 suicide victims who were abused; 12 suicide victims who were not abused and 12 controls, the researchers discovered different epigenetic markings in the brains of the abused group. These markings influence the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function, a stress-response which increases the risk of suicide.

This research builds upon findings published last May that showed how child abuse can leave epigenetic marks on DNA.

But, in this, the first study of its kind, Moshe Szyf, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Gustavo Turecki, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry who practices at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute; Michael Meaney, a professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and Neurosurgery, who is also at the Douglas; and McGill postdoctoral research fellow Patrick McGowan have built on their world-renowned epigenetics work to uncover how parental care affects the DNA in the brains of a group of Quebec male suicide victims who suffered abuse as children. The all-McGill study is set to be published in the February 22, issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience.

“We know from clinical experience that a difficult childhood can have an impact on the course of a person’s life”, said Dr. Turecki.

“Now we are starting to understand the biological implications of such psychological abuse,” added Dr. Szyf.

“The function of our DNA is not as fixed as previously believed, said Dr. Meaney. “The interaction between the environment and the DNA plays a crucial role in determining our resistance to stress thus the risk for suicide. Epigenetic marks are the product of this interaction.”

Epigenetics is the study of changes in the function of genes that don’t involve changes in the sequences of DNA. The DNA is inherited from our parents; it remains fixed throughout life and is identical in every part of the body. During gestation and even later in development, however, the genes in our DNA are marked by a chemical coating called DNA methylation. These marks are somewhat sensitive to one’s environment, especially early in life. The epigenetic marks punctuate the DNA and program it to express the right genes at the appropriate time and place.

The researchers discovered that maternal care influences hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function in the rat through epigenetic programming of certain receptors in the brain. In humans, child abuse alters HPA stress responses and increases the risk for suicide.

In previous studies in laboratory rats, the group proved that simple maternal behaviour such as mothers who licked their pups during early childhood has a profound effect on the epigenetic marks on specific genes and effects on behaviour in ways that are sustained throughout life. However, these effects on gene expression and stress responses can also be reversed in adult life through treatments known to affect the epigenetic mark known as DNA methylation.

The brain samples in the latest study came from the Quebec Suicide Brain Bank, administered by Dr. Turecki of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute. With the support of the Bureau du Coroner du Québec (Office of the Chief Medical Examiner), the McGill Group for Suicide Studies (MGSS) founded the Quebec Suicide Brain Bank (QSBB) at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, to promote studies on the phenomenon of suicide. Research carried out on brain tissue can help develop intervention and prevention programs to help people suffering mental distress and who are at risk of committing suicide.

The research was funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the National Institute of Child Health and Development (USA).

Please visit McGill’s website for this story.

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FATHERLESS AMERICA- The Childhoods of Historical Figures in American History

THE LIZ LIBRARY PRESENTS: HISTORY SERIES
fatherlessness absent fathers

FATHERLESS CHILDREN STORIES
are transcripts from "A Fatherless Minute" series sponsored by
The Liz Library for The Justice Hour radio show on WPBR 1340 AM.

The term "fatherless" ("fatherlessness" or "father-absent") is used in this series as it is in research and "father absence" policy rhetoric by the U.S. government, DHHS, the National Fatherhood Initiative, U.S. states in connection with child custody law and policy, and various family values and fatherhood policy and lobbying groups.

Brief stories of fatherless children can be found here. A list of famous fatherless children, all of whom grew up in father-absent homes, and succeeded in achieving greatness, can be found here.

Citations to research and studies can be found
here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

The effects of fatherlessness??
Fatherless America? Yes indeed!

Alexander Hamilton - the author of the Federalist Papers, first treasurer of the United States, and the founder of America's economic system.

John Hancock - president of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and financial underwriter of the American Revolution.

More than a quarter (27%) of U.S. presidents --
a majority of U.S. presidents in America's first 50 years:

U.S. President Gen. George Washington - America's first founding father, first president, and most beloved hero.

U.S. President Thomas Jefferson - America's third president, and primary author of the Declaration of Independence

U.S. President James Monroe - America's fifth president

U.S. President Andrew Jackson - America's seventh president

U.S. President Andrew Johnson - America's seventeenth president

U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes - America's nineteenth president

U.S. President James A. Garfield - America's twentieth president

U.S. President Grover Cleveland - America's twenty-second president

U.S. President Herbert Hoover - America's thirty-first president

U.S. President Gerald Ford - America's thirty-eighth president

U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton - America's forty-second president

U.S. President Barack Obama - America's forty-fourth president

Many of America's top jurists:

U.S. Supreme Court Justice James F. Byrnes

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo

U.S. Supreme Court Ch. Justice (and U.S. Treasury Secretary) Salmon P. Chase

U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Davis

U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Melville Fuller

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John McKinley

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Rutledge

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd

U.S. Supreme Court Ch. Justice Edward D. White

U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Wilson

More American leaders, heros, icons and achievers:

George Washington Carver

U.S. Senator Henry Clay

Stephen Colbert

Frederick Douglas

Nathanial Hawthorne

Fr. Gen. Marquis de Lafayette - supporter of the American Revolution

Gen. Robert E. Lee

Meriwether Lewis

George Mason - a founding father of America

Linus Carl Pauling (Nobel Prize x 2)

Michael Phelps - the world's greatest Olympic athlete and swimmer

Jackie Robinson

Eleanor Roosevelt

Benjamin Rush - a founding father of America, physician and diplomat

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

Annie Mansfield Sullivan - the "miracle worker", Helen Keller's teacher

Mark Twain

Booker T. Washington

Some of the world's greatest:

Aristotle

Jurist William Blackstone

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Mother Theresa

Julius Caesar

Catherine the Great of Russia

Cleopatra

Confucius

Nicolas Copernicus

Queen Elizabeth I - also at The Liz Library Women's History Collection

Alexander Fleming - scientist who discovered penicillin

Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus of Nazareth

Johannes Kepler

Nelson Mandela

Muhammed - prophet of Islam

Sir Isaac Newton

Plato

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

King Solomon - Biblical icon

Leonardo da Vinci

More "fatherless children" (alphabetically):

U.S. Senator Bella Abzug

physician Hunter "Patch" Adams

comedian Steve Allen

cancer researcher Frederick W. Alt

medical researcher Dorothy Andersen

author Hans Christian Andersen

singer Marian Anderson

mogul nun Mother Angelica

poet Maya Angelou (Marguerite Annie Johnson)

silent film star Fatty Arbuckle

historian Hannah Arendt

cyclist Lance Armstrong

musician Louis Armstrong

author Ivo Andric'  (Nobel Prize)

author Jane Austen

actor Lauren Bacall

composer Johann Sebastian Bach

author Charles Baudelaire

Isabella Baumfree (Sojourner Truth)

scientist Sir Charles Bell

composer Irving Berlin

actor Halle Berry

California Supreme Court Justice Rose Bird

legendary surfer Tom Blake

scientist Katherine Burr Blodgett

reporter Nelly Bly

physicist Max Born

"Father of Chemistry" Robert Boyle (Boyle's Law)

news correspondent Ed Bradley

U.S. Senator (and basketball great) William Warren "Bill" Bradley

actor Benjamin Bratt

scientist Herbert C. Brown (Nobel Prize Chemistry)

author Les Brown

Ralph Johnson Bunche (Nobel Peace Prize 1950)

molecular scientist Geoffrey Burnstock

poet Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Sarah Breedlove aka Madam C.J. Walker

actor Charles Bronson

actor Pierce Brosnan

"father of soul" musician James Brown

comedian Lenny Bruce

satiricist Art Buchwald

Canadian rocket scientist Gerald Bull

actor Carol Burnett

vaudevillian George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum)

philosopher Albert Camus (Nobel Prize)

author Elias Canetti (Nobel Prize)

cancer researcher Mario Capecchi (Nobel Prize)

author Truman Capote

first "celebrity chef" Antonin Careme

comedian George Carlin

pioneering surgeon Benjamin Carson

author Willa Cather

scientist Ernst B. Chain (Nobel Prize)

fashion designer Coco Chanel

actor Charlie Chaplin

Oona O'Neil Chaplin

actor/singer Cher

author Agatha Christie

musician Eric Clapton

computer guru Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape)

author Mary Higgins Clark

U.S. Gen. (Ret.) Wesley Clark

science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke

philanthropist Thomas Green Clemson (Clemson University)

singer Patsy Cline

pilot Bessie Coleman

educator Ward Connerly

journalist Anderson Hayes Cooper

comedian Bill Cosby

scientist Donald Cram (Nobel Prize Chemistry)

composer Stephen Crane

actor Tom Cruise

author Roald Dahl

actor Dorothy Dandridge

actor-comedian Rodney Dangerfield

actor Bette Davis

actor James Dean

scholar Daniel Dennett

psychologist/author Peggy Drexler

author Alexandre Dumas

pop psychologist Wayne Dyer

industrialist George Eastman (Eastman Kodak)

psychologist Albert Ellis

computer scientist Clarence Ellis

author Ralph Ellison

author Ralph Waldo Emerson

rapper Eminem (Marshall Bruce Mathers III)

U.S. Senator John Ensign

psychologist Erik Erikson

actor Douglas Fairbanks

psychophysicist Gustav Theodor Fechner

politician Geraldine Ferraro

singer Ella Fitzgerald

actor Jodie Foster

cancer researcher Emil J. Freireich

educator Frederick Wilhelm August Froebel

poet Robert Frost

steamboat inventor Robert Fulton

author/businessman Chris Gardner (The Art of Happyness)

social reformer/journalist William Lloyd Garrison

actor Gloria Gaynor

author Andre Gide (Nobel Prize)

architect Cass Gilbert

actor Melissa Gilbert

author Charlotte Perkins Gilman

actor Paulette Goddard

actor Whoopi Goldberg

actor Cuba Gooding

writer Kenneth Grahame

Alabama Governor Bibb Graves

U.S. economist, Chair of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan

scientist Theodore Grutthuss (Nobel Peace Prize 1950)

actor Gene Hackman

Gen. Alexander Haig

nuclear engineer Susanna Harding

crystallographer David Harker

first governor of British India Warren Hastings

opera singer Catherine "Kate" Hayes

economist Henry Hazlitt

Alan J. Heegar (Nobel Prize Chemistry 2000)

baseball player Rickey Henderson

actor Audrey Hepburn

conductor Victor Herbert

geophysicist J. Marvin Herndon

scientist Gerhard Herzberg (Nobel Prize Chemistry 1971)

industrialist William Reddington Hewlett (Hewlett-Packard)

union organizer, poet, author Joe Hill

pharmaceutical researcher George Hitchings (Nobel Prize)

singer Billie Holliday

scientist Robert Hooke

Tennessee Governor Sam Houston

industrialist Roy Wilson Howard (Scripps-Howard)

U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hamilton Hoyer

writer Langston Hughes

philosopher David Hume

Iraqi president Saddam Hussein

writer John Irving

civil rights activist and politician Jesse Jackson

scientist Edward Jenner

actor Carolyn Jones (Morticia)

dictator Chiang Kai-shek

chess great Garry Kasparov

MIT political scientist William Weed Kaufman

research physician Judith Kaur

author John Keats

social scientist reformer Frances Alice Kellor

author Stephen King

singer Eartha Kitt

physiologist Karl Landsteiner (Nobel Prize)

vocalist Kathryn Dawn Lang (k.d. lang)

photographer Dorothea Lange

archaeologist Mary Leakey

mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

musician John Lennon

literary critic John Leonard

economist Sir Arthur Lewis (Nobel Prize)

author Barry Lopez

actor Sophia Loren

computer whiz Ada Lovelace

actor-comedian Bernie Mac

baseball great Billy Martin

author Harry Martinsson (Nobel Prize)

actor Steve McQueen

economist Franco Modigliani (Nobel Prize)

author Lucy Montgomery

author Herman Melville

author J. R. Moehringer(Pulitzer Prize)

Tom Monaghan (Domino's Pizza)

actor Marilyn Monroe

U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

WWII hero Audie Murphy

comedian Eddie Murphy

musician Willie Nelson

actor Jack Nicholson

philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche

activist Rosa Parks

Massachusetts Gov. and civil rights attorney Deval Laurdine Patrick

Secretary of the Air Force F. Whitten Peters

detective Allan Pinkerton

poet Sylvia Plath

author Edgar Allen Poe

composer Giacomo Puccini

short story writer Horacio Quiroga

painter Raphael

actor Doris Roberts

prosecutor Jim Rogan

psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach

scientist Peyton Rous (Nobel Prize)

political genius Karl Rove

philosopher Bertrand Russell

Lewis & Clark guide Sacagawea

Revolutionary War soldier Deborah Sampson

businessman Colonel Harland Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken)

President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy

philosopher-author Jean-Paul Sartre (Nobel Prize)

beauty products businessman Vidal Sassoon

lawyer Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

U.S. Senator Al Sharpton

Washington State Senator Paull Shin

rock star Gene Simmons

New York Governor Al Smith

U.S. Senator Robert C. "Bob" Smith

geologist William Smith

author Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize)

microwave oven inventor Percy Spencer

Russian dictator Joseph Stalin

writer Henry Morton Stanley

actor Barbara Stanwyck

musician Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey Jr.)

activist Gloria Steinem

comedian Jon Stewart

author Jonathan Swift

inventor Henry Talbot

actor/director Quentin Tarantino

physicist Joseph John ("J.J.") Thomson (Nobel Prize)

scientist Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius (Nobel Prize)

author J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings)

author Leo Tolstoy

singer Tina Turner

boxer Mike Tyson

novelist Sigrid Undset (Nobel Prize)

physical chemist Harold Clayton Urey (Nobel Prize)

musician Ritchie Valens

President of Ireland Eamon de Valera

Queen Victoria of Britain

scientist Alessandro Volta

poet Derek Walcott (Nobel Prize)

zoologist Max Weber

television anchor Bill Weir

singer Hank Williams

scientist Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (Nobel Prize Physics)

musician Barry White

industrialist Eli Whitney, Jr.

Indiana Supreme Court Justice William Allen Woods

poet William Wordsworth

author Richard Wright

activist Malcolm X

actor Loretta Young

author Emile Zola

and many, many more....

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The notion is FALSE that children require a certain kind of family composition (two married biological parents) in order to do well, rather than that certain family characteristics and lifestyle advantages (such as educational opportunities, financial opportunities, stability, attention, and so forth) may be beneficial.

No research has shown that when a child's parents do not live together, joint custody is in their long-term best interests, or that "the best parent is two parents." See the research: here, and here, and here, and here, andhere, and still more, along with discussions and articles in the index here.

(Interesting, though, how "motherlessness" is almost glorified in our society, e.g. Disney.)
At thelizlibrary.org, we don't "hate men". We hate lies.

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Alexander Hamilton - President Gen. George Washington - President Thomas Jefferson - President James Monroe - President Andrew Jackson - President Andrew Johnson - President Rutherford B. Hayes - President James A. Garfield - President Herbert Hoover - President Grover Cleveland - President Gerald Ford - President William Jefferson Clinton - President Barack Obama - U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Wilson - U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Rutledge - John Hancock - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd - U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Davis - U.S. Supreme Court Justice John McKinley - U.S. Supreme Court Ch. Justice (and U.S. Treasury Secretary) Salmon P. Chase - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Melville Fuller - U.S. Supreme Court Ch. Justice Edward D. White - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo - U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas - U.S. Supreme Court Justice James F. Byrnes - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas - Frederick Douglas - Gen. Robert E. Lee - Booker T. Washington - Benjamin Rush - Stephen Colbert - George Mason - Maya Angelou - Fr. Gen. Marquis de Lafayette - U.S. Senator Henry Clay - William Tecumseh Sherman - Meriwether Lewis - Eleanor Roosevelt - Donald Cram - Jackie Robinson - Mark Twain - George Washington Carver - Nathanial Hawthorne - Eli Whitney Jr. - U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hamilton Hoyer - Michael Phelps - Linus Carl Pauling - Aristotle - Nicolas Copernicus - Sir Isaac Newton - Mahatma Gandhi - Leonardo da Vinci - Confucius - Jesus of Nazareth - Queen Elizabeth I - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - William Blackstone - Annie Mansfield Sullivan - Alexander Fleming - Nelson Mandela - Eartha Kitt - Catherine the Great of Russia - Henry Hazlitt - Robert Frost - Langston Hughes - Alexandre Dumas - Les Brown - Gen. Alexander Haig - Mario Capecchi - Alabama Governor Bibb Graves - New York Governor Al Smith - Tennessee Governor Sam Houston - Clarence Ellis - Bernie Mac - Indiana Supreme Court Justice William Allen Woods - U.S. Senator Al Sharpton - U.S. Senator Senator Robert C. "Bob" Smith - U.S. Senator John Ensign - U.S. Senator Bella Abzug - U.S. Senator William Warren "Bill" Bradley - U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan - Queen Victoria of Britain - Alan Greenspan - Plato - Alessandro Volta - Jim Clark - Ada Lovelace - Jane Austen - George Eastman - Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius - Rosa Parks - Mother Theresa - Roy Wilson Howard - Washington State Senator Paull Shin - Johann Sebastian Bach - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz - Lance Armstrong - John Lennon - Hans Christian Andersen - Billy Martin - Edward Jenner - George Hitchings - Ringo Starr - Giacomo Puccini - Joseph John ("J.J.") Thomson - Bertrand Russell - Hermann Rorschach - Herman Melville - Ivo Andric' - John Keats - Albert Camus - Marian Anderson - Ernst B. Chain - Garry Kasparov - Johannes Kepler - Sylvia Plath - Leo Tolstoy - Peyton Rous - Herbert C. Brown - Benjamin Carson - Jean-Paul Sartre - Raphael - David Hume - Hannah Arendt - Erik Erikson - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Stephen Crane - Lord Byron - Geraldine Ferraro - Truman Capote - Friedrich Nietzsche - Agatha Christie - William Wordsworth - Max Weber - Cleopatra - Jesse Jackson - Audie Murphy - Gustav Theodor Fechner - Edgar Allen Poe - Alam J. Heeger - Emile Zola - Elias Canetti - William Smith - Colonel Sanders - Oona O'Neil Chaplin - Gerald Bull - Willa Cather - Ritchie Valens - Daniel Dennett - Cass Gilbert - Mary Leakey - Harry Martinsson - Joseph Stalin - Charlie Chaplin - Nelly Bly - Henry Morton Stanley - Mike Tyson - Max Born - Sarah Breedlove - Frederick Froebel - Geoffrey Burnstock - William Week Kaufman - Judith Kaur - Robert Boyle - Theodore Grutthuss - Steve Allen - Mary Higgins Clark - Louis Armstrong - Warren Hastings - Allan Pinkerton - Billie Holiday - Hank Williams - Malcolm X - Carol Burnett - Thomas Green Clemson - John Irving - J.R.R. Tolkien - Charles Bronson - Albert Ellis - Tom Blake - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Gene Simmons - Paulette Goddard - Gene Hackman - Sir Arthur Lewis - Robert Hooke - James Byron Dean - Halle Berry - Benjamin Bratt - Eddie Murphy - Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg - Charles Baudelaire - Deborah Sampson - Karl Landsteiner - Ralph Ellison - California Supreme Court Justice Rose Bird - Eric Clapton - Eamon de Valera - William Reddington Hewlett - J. Marvin Herndon - Mother Angelica - Karl Rove - Lauren Bacall - Nicolas Sarkozy - Antonin Careme - Melissa Gilbert - Julius Caesar - Gerhard Herzberg - Ella Fitzgerald - Muhammed - Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick - John Leonard - Andre Gide - Dorothea Lange - Dorothy Dandridge - F. Whitten Peters - Henry Talbot - Sigrid Undset, - Arthur C. Clarke - Jim Rogan - Frederick W. Alt - Emil J. Freireich - Willie Nelson - Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Victor - George Burns - Herbert - Bessie Coleman - Dorothy Andersen - Chiang Kai-shek - Videl Sassoon - Bill Weir - k.d. Lang - Coco Chanel - Quentin Tarantino - Anderson Hayes Cooper - James Brown - Kenneth Grahame - Hunter "Patch" Adams - Jack Nicholson - Rodney Dangerfield - Roald Dahl - Lucy Montgomery - William Lloyd Garrison - Douglas Fairbanks - David Harker - Robert Fulton - Irving Berlin - Jonathan Swift - Peggy Drexler - Art Buchwald - Carolyn Jones - Sojourner Truth - Judge Sonya Sotomayor - Doris Roberts - Barry Lopez - Loretta Young - Marilyn Monroe - Barbara Stanwick - Steve McQueen - Cher - Pierce Brosnan - Wayne Dyer - Francis Alice Kellor - Sophia Loren - Eminem - George Carolin - Joe Hill - Stephen King - Franco Modigliani - Derek Walcott - Sir Charles Bell - Whoopi Goldberg - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson - Richard Wright - Percy Spencer - Ward Connerly - Fatty Arbuckle - Katherine Burr Blodgett - Cuba Gooding - Dorothea Lange - Frances Kellor - Gloria Steinem - Gloria Gaynor - Jon Stewart - Harold Clayton Urey - Bette Davis - J. R. Moehringer - Audrey Hepburn - Tom Cruise - Horacio Quiroga - Tina Turner - Kate Hayes - Bill Cosby - Barry White - Susanna Harding - Jodie Foster - Patsy Cline - Ralph Bunche - Ed Bradley - Tom Monaghan - Rickey Henderson - Sonia Sotomayor...

"...Just add Dad, the magic ingredient. It's hard to know where wishful thinking becomes deliberate deception. But this argument, advanced by the fathers' rights movement, is like saying that, since Mercedes Benz owners make more money than people who drive Hyundais, you will become wealthy if you buy a Mercedes..." Mike Peterson

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