The same interests represented on the review panels can force divorce on the parents whose property they then confiscate - for the children, of course. This makes unilateral divorce very lucrative for all concerned. Coerced child support, along with forced attorneys' fees, is the financial fuel of the divorce machinery. Academic studies by Sanford Braver, Margaret Brinig and Douglas Allen, and others confirm that the parent expecting custody usually files for divorce. The divorce industry, in short, has turned children into cash cows.
Similar chicanery operates in other states.
This time around the eyes of the nation will be on Virginia to see if it will continue to enrich the divorce industry by engineering thedestruction of its children's homes. The Criminalization of Fatherhood Family Court Most Powerful Branch of the Judiciary Media Bypass, vol. Campaigning for president, Al Gore calls for incarcerating more fathers. This phenomenon proceeds largely from involuntary divorce and is affected by family courts. Family courts are the arm of the state that routinely reaches farthest into the private lives of individuals and families.