Steven, a California father of two, was assigned an erroneous child support arrearage, arrested by federal agents at gunpoint, jailed without due process, and locked up for seven months with murderers and other violent criminals. He and tens of thousands of other fathers are victims of perhaps the greatest civil liberties violation of our era--the war against so-called "deadbeat dads."

Though the mainstream media and civil libertarian groups have been extremely slow to recognize it, child support enforcement's police state tactics routinely violate fathers' constitutional rights and right to due process, as do the actions of out-of-control judges.

Los Angeles family law attorney Margaret E. Monos frequently defends fathers against Los Angeles County's Child Support Services Department. Monos and Steven joined Glenn on His Side with Glenn Sacks.

To learn more about the child support system and its inequities and abuses, see:
1) Glenn's column New Study Shows Child Support Guidelines in Need of Reform
Daily Breeze [Los Angeles] (6/20/04) (co-authored by family law attorney Jeff Leving)
2) Glenn's column It's Child Support Guidelines that Need Surgery, Not 'Deadbeat Dads' (Cincinnati Post, Kentucky Post, 5/12/04)
3) Glenn's column New Study Punctures Myth of Uncaring Divorced Dad (Newsday, 6/23/03),
4) Glenn's column The 'Deadbeat Dad' Canard Sacramento Bee (8/1/02) (co-authored by shared parenting advocate Dianna Thompson)
5) Glenn's column Divorced from Reality on Child Support (Newark Star-Ledger, 9/6/02). (co-authored by Thompson).