Joseph Jackson Quotes

I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.

The family court is extremely child focussed. Its overriding objective is to do what is in a child's best interests.

Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.

Many states favor joint custody.

My lawyer is telling me I have to take some responsibility about the welfare of the children. Do I want the kids? Hell no. Does it look good for me to ask for them? Absolutely. I don't want to look like the woman who gave away her kids and just forgot about them.

When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me. ... and no one showed up.

Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.

Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

The main concern was making sure the kids didn't get caught in the middle.

The children’s mother has no legal right to a voice in deciding w whether they shall be nursed; how or where educated; what trade or profession they shall adopt; in what form of religion they shall be instructed… If the father wishes the child to be left unvaccinated, the mother cannot legally have it done.

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.

I know what "custody" [of the children] means. "Get even." That's all custody means. Get even with your old lady.

I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.

I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.

In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?

My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.