The deep sadness in the Elian Gonzalez case is that for 30 years or more, the rights of American fathers have been steadily eroded.
American men are as docile as puppies when it comes to their rights.
Scratch their bellies and you own them. Today's American man, poor sad bastard that he's become, has all the rights of a beast of burden, bred for working and ripe for doses of verbal whipping when misbehaving. Today's American man has the right to be accused and abused. American men are irrelevant in a child's life. The children who are allowed to be born and do have married parents have a fifty-percent chance of becoming a child of divorce.