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...just a moment on the political wrangling by the U.S. Olympic Committee to field a halfway decent men’s basketball team or to ensure that any other high-profile athletes would compete for their country. Don’t forget that Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, and Kevin Garnett all ultimately declined to play for the red, white, and blue...
...Diana Bryant was sworn in as Chief Justice of Australia's Family Court last July. Though she rejects the accusation that the court is biased against men, fathers' groups generally have warmed to her because she's prepared to listen to them. In an interview with Time, Bryant argues that in the court's first years, in the late 1970s, almost no one complained that it was denying separated fathers sufficient time with their children. The judgments reflected the way we lived then: most fathers worked, most mothers didn't, so the formulaic patterns of contact after separation made sense...
...would be unfair to suggest that most of these counselors mistrust and dislike men, argues Michael Green, QC, president of the Shared Parenting Council of Australia and author of the 1998 book Fathers After Divorce, "in some agencies there's an element of feminism." In Green's view, Bryant's predecessor as Chief Justice, Alastair Nicholson, tended to be swayed by the arguments of women's groups and "wasn't especially sympathetic to fathers' concerns." Green, who's also a mediator, believes the centers should be run by a skeleton government staff that would distribute work to a range...
...technical argument. Litigants make an opening statement, directly addressing the judge, who - perhaps eschewing the wig and robe - keeps things moving with a word of advice here, a cautionary tale there. "The (eight) judges who've been involved in the CCP all embrace it very enthusiastically," says Chief Justice Bryant, who thinks it "highly likely" the CCP will eventually become the template for all Family Court trials...
...reasonable in their negotiations with each other. And there's the rub. In the emotional storm that is the aftermath to breakup, many lack both the capacity for magnanimity and the clear-headedness to focus on the best interests of another person, even their own child. As Bryant said in a recent speech, couples who appear in her court tend to carry "with them not just baggage, but an entire caravan of family values, views and expectations." For every mother who, filled with spite, does all she can to limit her ex-husband's time with his children, there...