LYNCUP was started originally as Lancaster Non-Custodial Parents back in 1995 for the purpose of guiding and supporting non-custodial parents around the pitfalls of the court system and the prejudices of society.  We have helped close to 200 parents, mostly fathers, who have in many cases been blocked in their hopes to maintain meaningful ties with their children.

Our hearts are heavily burdened for our children who have been removed from us by what appears to be an insensitive system bent on breaking up families.

Sadly, as I will show through links of my creation and links to other web pages, this is indeed the case.

I recently audited a course offered through the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard=s law school on the topic of violence against women and found that, not surprisingly, this institution focuses more on Aculture change@ than on preventing violence.  Despite statistics and studies to the contrary, their presumption is that domestic violence is almost exclusively a male-on-female phenomenon.  As I will show in the following, men and women are equal in the initiation of all levels of DV.  I will also attempt to show that the DV issue has been improperly used as a weapon to combat father custody.  The following are our LYNCUP links:  !!!

1   Andrea Dworkin on Family

2   Jason Huff

3   Horror Stories from Lancaster-York

4   Society=s Most Urgent Problem

5   Fatherlessness

6   The Church and Family Breakdown

7   Pulling the Punches in the Fight Against Domestic Violence

8   Domestic Violence Studies

9   Hope for the Future

10 Fathers Day 2000  

11 Child Abuse by Relationship to Perpetrator, Pennsylvania 

12 Discussion page

Other Links Link to A collection of editorial articles by Don Hank America's most prominent battered husband: Legal expert Travis Ballard on joint custody: Hard to get information on almost any subject, useful in      rebutting politically correct nonsense: Witty and to the point, on feminism. Chuckles guaranteed:

Link to A collection of editorial articles by Don H

NON-CUSTODIAL PARENTS IN LANCASTER-YORK, PA

Lancaster-York Non-Custodial Parents is at this time the only group in the Lancaster-York County area devoted entirely to helping divorced/separated parents and children.  De facto, the term Aparents@ in this case has turned out to mean mostly fathers because of the situation in local courts, which are clearly operating under antiquated paradigms whereby mothers preferentially get primary custody while fathers become visitors and walking wallets, with disastrous results. However, we are pleased to have been able to help out a small number of non-custodial women as well.

LYNCP provides:

1  a friendly ear and shoulder to cry on

2  free counseling on custody issues.

3  information you can use in the debate on fatherhood and family.

There are no dues to pay.

Our Rationale:  Defending Family and Fatherhood Against a Hostile Community

One of the best-kept secrets that the media, academe, the law community, a very large segment of the psychology profession, and in particular, radical feminists have kept from the public for many years is the solid link between fatherhood and the welfare of children and hence society.  The National Fatherhood Initiative has done a lot to point out this link to the public, for example, publishing test results showing the clear-cut relationship between fatherlessness and crime, drug use, teen suicide, teen pregnancies, failure in school and virtually every social ill.

The reasons why the various groups listed above wanted this kept secret seemed to be the general assumption among those who have gone to college in the last 30 years that these 30 years represent a form of progress, particularly for women, who are seen as being freed of a system feminists refer to as the Apatriarchy,@ which simply boils down to:  family.  A vast body of women=s literature has been devoted to this theme and seems to boil down to the idea that men are superfluous in the upbringing of children, playing no significant role.  Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin, for example, in her book AWoman Hating@, states unequivocally that the goal of feminism must be to destroy family. One of the notions on which the feminists base their antagonism to family is that the family is a form of oppression for women.  Dr. Warren Farrell pointed out in his book The Myth of Male Power (1993) that in the past, before family and fatherhood were seriously challenged in society, the situation that existed did not represent oppression by either sex but rather an oppression by the forces of nature which caused men and women to team up in an effort to overcome it. Further, Erin Pizzey, the founder of the first woman=s shelter in the world, in Chiswick England, reports how feminists there since the 60s have had as their chief agenda item the destruction of the family.

The frustration expressed by single moms today shows that the male role is still important and many of these moms agree that the world is more oppressive without men than with them.

The year after Farrell=s book came out, Christina Hoff Sommers pointed out in the book Who Stole Feminism the how and why of the feminists= assault on traditional society.  This book is helpful in showing where societal anti-father bias comes from and why major segments of the legal community, educators, psychologists and others often reflexively defend women while blaming men  A good example is Marie Noe, who admitted killing all 8 of her children in Philadelphia, was arrested yet never served a prison term.  Imagine what kind of a sentence she would have received had she been male.

Other cases of administrative blindness to female criminality are catalogued in Farrell=s above-cited book and, for example, in the book When She Was Bad by Patricia Pearson.

As for anti-male bias, in 1999, a men=s group in Massachusetts filed a class-action lawsuit to focus public attention on the widespread practice of almost automatically evicting men accused of abuse with little or no evidence.