ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, April 23, 1990                   TAG: 9004230208
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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ALIENATION OF FATHERS IS DESTROYING FAMILY

STOP PUTTING fathers in jail and chasing them down to "make 'em pay." This alienation of fathers is what's destroying the American family.

The dream of having a wife and children is still there for most men, but reality doesn't back it up. Every married man today lives under the threat of family destruction because of the readily available legal "protection" for women. Not protection from physical harm (which is necessary), but the power of women against men and men against men for women.

It's no longer necessary to continue this angry women's movement. Men are going to have to start drawing some lines, or all relationships will become nothing more than negotiations for prostitution, with children the pawns.

\ JOHN N. SMILEY\ ROANOKE 


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