Coming with the imprint of a major current affairs publisher, his book will likely become the authoritative work for some time. More than that, it gives a respectable imprimatur to a phenomenon that until now has been often dismissed in the press for its religious and working-class constituency (as in the "Million-Man March" or "Promise Keepers"). Poignant anecdotes and surveys document the horrifying consequences of not simply a predictable gender bias in family courts but, much more disturbingly, the virtually absolute power of mothers and courts to deprive children of their fathers with no grounds whatever. Sections on custody, child support, litigation, mediation, paternity, false accusations of abuse, along with a useful reference section make this the most complete book on its subject to date and one that deserves the accolades it has already received.