You can now read excerpts from the book which concern such important topics as:

	Fathers' Rights in General
	The Social Consequences of Fatherlessness
	The "Ultimate Old Wives' Tale"

Notes from divorced fathers...

Mr. Leving, in regards to your book:

I am currently in a custody battle. We are  waiting on our custody evaluation report.  I just wanted to let you know that I would not have had any chance to be a part of our children's lives if I would not have read your book. I call it "The Book".  Thank you from the bottom of my heart for writing it. 

-James Rowan

(From a listener of Mancow's Morning Madhouse after Mr. Leving appeared on the show on June 22, 2005)

Mancow and Crew

Please forward this to Mr. Leving;

I thought that I was beaten; losing my $300,000 house, my 15 year pension, my dogs, all the furniture, and my only daughter. My ex-wife was going to make my life hell and I was not able to see my daughter for 12 weeks.

After hearing Jeffery on your program a couple years ago, I went that evening and bought the book, Father's Rights and spent the entire night reading every page.

I then called my wife the next day and informed her that I was enforcing my parental rights and then called my attorney who was unconcerned about my visitation issues and told him to call my wife's attorney and state that I was exercising my parental rights.

During my next meeting with my attorney, I copied your format for joint parenting agreement and filled in (allocated) the dates & holidays to share our daughter. My wife's attorney had previously drafted a divorce agreement that was one-sided. I demanded that this format agreement be included. My attorney was reluctant to do this and amended the agreement with a handful of the items on Mr. Leving's form. I heatedly told my attorney that the entire form as filled out would need to be included and finally agreed to include the entire form.

My wife's attorney and mine were surprised by this structured format and was finally agreed to by my wife.

The ending is fantastic. I have a beautiful loving relationship with my 14 year old daughter that would have never happened without you. I owe you. Thank You very much for the insight to protect father's who are beaten by women who are willing to use the children against them. This is unfair for the children as well as the father.

You can use me as a reference any time. Thank You with all my heart.

Patrick Williams,

Garden Prairie, Illinois

Dear Mr. Leving,

Just a note to say thank you! I was forced into a nearly three year custodial litigation in nearby northwest Indiana (Lake County). I am a police officer as well as a father and was told by three area attorneys that I had little chance in family court because of the inherit bias toward mothers and against my profession. Shortly thereafter I purchased a copy of the Father's Rights book. It proved to be my greatest resource as the information and guidance the book provided was an almost exact lay out of what took place in the proceedings. From utilizing the book to find the correct attorney to the strategies I adopted the book was time an time again an invaluable tool. Absolutely fantastic, I cannot say enough as to how vital it was in assisting me in this matter. The insight made for efficient attorney conferences and I was able to provide several relevant issues using the book as a guide.

We were unable to negotiate a settlement and were forced into a full blown custodial proceeding. Seven days of trial along with two evidenciary depositions, evaluations, guardian ad litum, the whole courtroom battle down to the end. I was awarded sole care and custody of my two children. I believe the road would have been much harder without Mr. Leving's book.

I recommend it to everyone heading toward family court litigation. Best fifteen dollars I ever spent!

Sincerely,

Z.H.

And another letter from Scott Watson

...thank you for providing such in depth information on a tough subject...

Until truth, justice, compassion and common sense prevail more broadly and more consistently, a father facing exclusion from his children's lives must plan carefully, negotiate skillfully, and fight fiercely to assert and preserve natural rights and constitutionally guaranteed freedoms that most Americans take for granted.

Often, the obstacles of gender bias, judicial inconsistency, and public apathy separating a father and his children may seem insurmountable. Believe me when I tell you that they are not. Ten years ago, fathers routinely walked away from custody disputes. They felt they had no chance of winning. Since then thousands of men have stayed the course and built new lives for themselves and their children. And every time a disenfranchised father is able to reconnect with his children, it quickly becomes evident -- to the father, to the children, and to our society -- that the ultimate rewards of the father's quest far outweigh the heartaches and hardships endured along the way.

...the average visitation order gives a father fifty days a year with his children. Because 20 percent of custodial mothers see no value in maintaining the father-child relationship, visitation interference is common. That fifty-day allotment quickly evaporates. Only one in six divorced fathers sees his children once a week or more. Almost 40 percent of children who live with their mothers haven't seen their fathers in at least a year. The bottom line is, fathers are vanishing from the social landscape, and as the following facts compiled by the National Fatherhood Initiative demonstrate, father absence has dramatic and extremely serious effects on us all:

The ingrained presumption that femininity and parental ability are "naturally" intertwined is a hardy, durable myth, apparently immune to the forces of science, social reality, political pressure, and public opinion.

Numerous studies of single-parent households have reached similar conclusions: There is no correlation between gender and child rearing competence. While several differences in parenting styles were noted by researchers, both mothers and fathers were found to be equally capable as caregivers. (Parental competence, in all the studies cited, was measured through comprehensive evaluation of children's behavior, attitudes, school performance, and social skills.)