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Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family Hardcover – September 25, 2007

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Taken into Custody' exposes the greatest and most destructive civil rights abuse in America today. Family courts and Soviet-style bureaucracies trample basic civil liberties, entering homes uninvited and taking away people's children at will, then throwing the parents into jail without any form of due process, much less a trial. No parent, no child, no family in America is safe. The legal industry does not want you to hear this story. Radical feminists, bar associations, and social work bureaucracies have colluded to suppress this information. Even pro-family"" groups and civil libertarians look the other way. Yet it is a reality for tens of millions of Americans who are our neighbors.""

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Why is the American family in crisis? Political scientist Stephen Baskerville argues that the most direct cause is the divorce industry itself: a corrupt government-run system that abuses parents and children, runs rampant over civil liberties, steals the wealth of families, and is accountable to no one.

Nothing like this has ever before happened in America. Driven by an extremist version of feminist ideology and highly bureaucratic, the divorce machine resembles the totalitarian regimes of the last century in its erosion of privacy. Political correctness inhibits scholars and reporters from investigating it, and clichés and euphemisms obscure the ugly reality of how much arbitrary power government officials exercise over people's lives.

In Taken Into Custody you will learn the shocking truth behind such clichés as "ugly divorce" and "nasty custody battle." Also expose in this legal underworld:

Why the "deadbeat dad" is not only a myth but a hoaxthe creation of government officials who plunder parents whose children the government itself has taken away
What lies behind the hysteria over "domestic violence" and how this propaganda is destroying families, endangering children, and criminalizing innocent parents
The real causes of child abuse and how the abuse industry distorts the truth
How family courts function as if there is no Bill of Rights, denying parents their constitutional protection of due process
How "soft totalitarianism" is being institutionalized in family law

This is the story that bar associations, feminists, and social work bureaucrats have colluded to suppress. The most devastating indictment of the divorce industry every published, Taken Into Custody exposes the most pervasive and destructive civil rights abuse in America today.

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Why is the American family in crisis? Political scientist Stephen Baskerville argues that the most direct cause is the divorce industry itself: a corrupt government-run system that abuses parents and children, runs rampant over civil liberties, steals the wealth of families, and is accountable to no one.

Nothing like this has ever before happened in America. Driven by an extremist version of feminist ideology and highly bureaucratic, the divorce machine resembles the totalitarian regimes of the last century in its erosion of privacy. Political correctness inhibits scholars and reporters from investigating it, and clichés and euphemisms obscure the ugly reality of how much arbitrary power government officials exercise over people's lives.

In Taken Into Custody you will learn the shocking truth behind such clichés as "ugly divorce" and "nasty custody battle." Also expose in this legal underworld:

Why the "deadbeat dad" is not only a myth but a hoax―the creation of government officials who plunder parents whose children the government itself has taken away
What lies behind the hysteria over "domestic violence" and how this propaganda is destroying families, endangering children, and criminalizing innocent parents
The real causes of child abuse and how the abuse industry distorts the truth
How family courts function as if there is no Bill of Rights, denying parents their constitutional protection of due process
How "soft totalitarianism" is being institutionalized in family law

This is the story that bar associations, feminists, and social work bureaucrats have colluded to suppress. The most devastating indictment of the divorce industry every published, Taken Into Custody exposes the most pervasive and destructive civil rights abuse in America today.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1581825943
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cumberland House Publishing (September 25, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781581825947
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1581825947
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.53 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.34 x 1.27 x 9.22 inches

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- #1,027 in Government Social Policy
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STEPHEN BASKERVILLE is Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College, and Research Fellow at the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society, and the Independent Institute. He writes on comparative and international politics and on political ideologies, with an emphasis on radical religion, family policy, and sexuality. His books include Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family (2007) and Not Peace But a Sword: The Political Theology of the English Revolution (1993, expanded edition 2018). In addition to academic journals, his articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Independent Review, Salisbury Review, The American Conservative, Chronicles, Touchstone, Human Events, Women's Quarterly, Catholic World Report, Crisis, Insight, The Family in America, Family Policy Review, American Spectator, The Spectator, The American Enterprise, and National Review, among others. He has appeared on national and international radio and television programs, including The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball with Chris Matthews, The Dennis Prager Show, The Michael Medved Show, CNN, Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg, and others.

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James Stanton

This book is almost too disturbing to read

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2020

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I'm a non-custodial father who thankfully hasn't spent a bunch of time and money on lawyers or in the court system. This book drives home how thankful and fortunate I've truly been.

I shared excerpts from this book with my fiance and eventually she asked me to stop because she too found what this book reveals so disturbing. The State along with assistance from courts, law enforcement and state run social service programs have created a system full running on the good ol boy and girl network and our children are paying the price.

Children are torn from their parents, most often 90 plus percent of the time the fathers where non custodial parents are required to pay sums that leave them destitue. Even in situations where parents have worked out custody and money on their own the courts often intervene and create friction where non previously existed and this abuse by the State is carried on all across our country by politicians of both parties.

If you want to see what's really going on with our family court systems and how non custodial parents, fathers especially are getting screwed while our kids pay the price I can't recommend this book enough. However, I caution you as it's almost unbelieveable and that it is happening right here in our country is most disturbing.

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Donald Tenn

Baskerville's Best

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2021

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Dr. Stephen Baskerville is 'Spot On' in this book entitled, Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family

As the President of the Internationally recognized organization, "Fathers4Justice" I can tell you without a doubt, there is a war being waged within the so-called, 'Family' courts. This war has proven to be most detrimental not only to fathers and their children, but the anti-father actions of these courts have also had an adverse effect on our extended families and unfortunately for all, these actions have adversely affected our society as a whole.

The war against fathers is not only being waged in the United States, it is worldwide in scope! If you should find yourself in this most unfortunate situation if at all possible, try and reach a compromise outside of the courts. If you can not, BUY THE BOOK! Align with others, learn how this 50 Billion dollar-a-year industry is destroying the family unit and our society as a whole!

The resolve will always be the same, "Our Children Need the Love, Guidance and Lifelong Support of BOTH of their Fit and Willing Parents."

JUSTICE IS COMING!!!

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Mike Gibbs

The absolutely best book to read!

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2018

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The absolutely best book to read! I cannot recommend it any stronger. Buy it. Read it. Then give it to another male.

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Gary T

The Master Book Detailing the Institutional Corruption of Family Court Law

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2013

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I consider this book the most comprehensive book to date that I have read on this subject, the whole institutionally corrupt system called Family Court law.
Mr. Baskerville has done an expert job in bringing it all together in one overarching review and analysis. I am dwarfed in my own efforts compared to what the author has done in creating this book.
It is investigative journalism, a detailed report, an incisive critique, and a warning call to all fathers. In some ways the book is unavoidably discouraging as well - the system that exists supports a whole industry and the livelihood of thousands of professional leeches that survive only by the grief and anguish of others. There is so much money to be extorted under random authority of rogue courts, that any change for the better is a change for the worse for them. And they will fight to keep it that way.
That combined with the entrenched state of the system, shows there has to be a radical overhaul from the top down for any change to actually occur.

An amazing compilation of the state of the travesty that we call family court law.

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Larry A. Singleton

A patriot's "Bible".

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2014

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Even if you have no interest in family law matters, if you're a patriot who believes in freedom; GET THIS BOOK! If you're a patriot and think you have the books that matter, I'm here to tell you....you don't. You'll realize that you didn't have a clue after you've read this book.

The NSA have nothing on Child Support. People TALK about this country becoming a Police State. This book will convince you it's already here. Get this book and The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers. This gal kicks some Liberal Fascist ass-Big Time! Next to Horowitz Indoctrination U, (and still she might even do a better job), there is no book out there who shreds the Femi-Nazis like Sommers does. These should be sold as a gift set. Really; your library is incomplete without these two books.

The Introduction in Baskerville's book alone will both break your heart and start your mind wondering where you can get a copy of An Anarchist's Cookbook. You will be kicking over the furniture and wanting to put a gun to your head at the same time. There was an article I read the other day; All Your Children Belong to Us by Glenn Cook, talking about the over-reach of the nanny state in Scotland. I sent him an email with the above two books. He was close, "but no cigar".

This is one of those "Bibles" you'll keep close to hand and scream every once in a while because the whole Introduction isn't readily available to spread online like a religious tract.

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Belinda Brown

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 1, 2017

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Tim A.

Dispelling Anti-Father Myths

Reviewed in Canada on August 13, 2018

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Dr. Stephen Baskerville has done an immeasurable service in writing this book. Even coming from someone who was initially sympathetic to his point of view, the material in this book still retains a paradigm shifting capacity. There are so many myths about fathers (“deadbeat dads,” “abusive husband,” “controlling man”) that require dispelling that the reader is not likely to come away from this book without having his beliefs challenged in some way.

If you’ve ever questioned the conventional wisdom on domestic violence, domestic abuse, child support, supervised visitation, child custody issues, divorce, family court, and the like, you are going to appreciate this book. Dr. Baskerville convincingly demonstrates that almost everything we’ve been told about these subjects is wrong. For example, there never was any significant problem of fathers abandoning their families. Domestic violence is committed by women at least as often as men. Family courts do not actually serve the best interests of the children, but instead serve mainly as a racket to extract money from fathers to fund their own interests.

This is by far the most well researched and well cited work on these issues in existence. I thought when I ordered this book that I would get a well written polemic against the institutions that perpetuate the war against fathers. Instead I received the most comprehensive study of these issues I have seen. The author has gone to great lengths to ensure that his arguments are well grounded in research, that he draws from both allies and opponents to support his arguments, and that he covers the issues from every angle possible (the courts, the law, feminism, etc.).

The anecdotes in this book will shock you. The crimes that the state (and he covers not only the U.S. but the entirety of the Anglo world, including Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand) has perpetrated against individuals in the “best interests of the children” have not been adequately reported. While individual anecdotes could be dismissed as outliers, taken as a whole the evidence is overwhelming, and it is hard to imagine a workable argument that could be made dismissing the author’s claim that there is a legitimate “war on fathers, marriage, and the family.”

I cannot recommend this book highly enough if you are or know a man (or woman) who has been railroaded by the family courts, whose rights have been casually violated by the police (false accusations), or who has been driven into destitution by so-called “child support.” After experiencing many of these issues myself and struggling to explain the nature of my agony to friends and family, I found that this book could communicate my intended message better than I ever could. I ordered four copies to share with friends and family. I hope that this book will help you to achieve healing, or to gain a better understanding of what is happening, as well.

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