The New York Times has made a startling discovery: there are abuses against NCPs in America's family courts, which routinely abuse our nation's returning veterans.
In an article published 9/1/09, "all-the news that's fit to print" covered the story a veteran who recently returned from war torn Iraq only to be dragged through the terror mill of a New Jersey family court. The tone of the article was one of astonishment, as if this sort of abuse was new.
Four years ago, NCPForce! featured on this website a page about abuses against military dads and called for a boycott of military enlistment.
The Times, it seems, only deemed this issue worthy enough for publication because the subject of their article happens to be a female veteran.
While we at NCPForce! wish Specialist Leydi Mendoza all the best in her battle to have a normal relationship with her daughter, we must ask the Times why it waited so long to address this issue and why it chose to focus specifically on a female veteran?
Every day in courts around America, military dads face rampant abuses and their stories are no less newsworthy. By choosing to focus on a military mom, the Times has put a familiar spin on stories about family law abuses where women are always victims and men are always aggressors.
We at NCPForce! are against such stereotypes and gender-baiting, and we ask that the New York Times better balance its stories in the future ... and to stop pretending that family law abuses are so rare.
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