CEDAW’s Imposition on Member States Is Part of the Feminist Fraud
by Shane Flait (2011)

CEDAW, the Convention of the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, is a human rights treaty for women adopted by the United Nations. It espouses equality and non-discrimination based on sex and requires UN member states to adjust their laws to abide by it. The fraud is that whatever laws discriminates against men but favors women is OK with them. Here’s a typical example…

Just like the U.S., Israel has family court laws and procedures that discriminate against fathers’ rights – the right that a father has to parent his children equally to the mother. In the U.S. fit fathers under divorce and paternity suits are overwhelmingly divorced from their children as a result of these suits and then extorted for child support for up to 23 years for whatever the mother wants to spend it on.

Although U.S. family law may state that there is a presumption of equal parental rights, the courts almost never uphold that parental right for fit fathers. The family courts unconstitutionally use the best interest of the child excuse and the abuse excuse to deny overwhelmingly fathers their parental rights and a host of other rights too.  Feminists have supported and maintained these laws to privilege women at the direct denial of rights to fathers and other men.

In Israel, the ‘tender years doctrine’ that says that young children should live with their mother – rather than their father- under divorce is still the law. This is a clear denial of equal rights for fathers on the books! And Israel adopted CEDAW’s principles some 20 years ago which supposedly objects to such stereo-typical roles imposed by society.

Recently an Israeli parliamentary commission has recommended joint custody of children after divorce rather than maintain the ‘tender years’ doctrine. You would think that the CEDAW-supporting feminists would be happy, but, of course, their not; they’re up in arms against the change. And why would that be?

Why would feminist rage against equal parental rights for fathers?

Feminists are against equal parental rights for fathers because it would undermine the almost absolute power divorced and never-married mothers have over their children and over their children’s fathers. A mother can easily alienate the father’s children from him while using the full force of the state to extort exorbitant payments from him for years.

Feminists are interested in power – women’s power - not equality. Whatever laws favor or privilege women even at the expense of denying fundamental rights to men or fathers are OK with them. Those types of laws are related to family, the essential building block of society and critical in the lives and happiness of men, women and children.

Feminists have always pushed for easy divorce, privileged benefits for divorce and never-married women, and abuse laws specifically geared for women’s use. They’ve helped create divorce and domestic abuse laws that work against assuring equal parental rights for fit fathers and against due process for fathers that would protect their rights under divorce and abuse complaints.

 

The growing number of fatherless families and the accompanying social pathologies of western cultures follow closely on the workings of feminism in the family courts in the U.S. and elsewhere. It’s not due to men not taking responsibility as the feminists’ propaganda and their divorce and domestic violence industry would have everyone believe. It’s the direct denial of a father’s rights to his children and their care and custody that feminists support and maintain for their own empowerment.

 

The fraud that is CEDAW and feminism

Countries that have acceded to CEDAW – as has Israel - are legally bound to put its provisions into practice according to its treaty. They are also committed to submit national reports, at least every four years, on measures they have taken to comply with their treaty obligations. 

But CEDAW has not and will not push Israel to adopt equal rights for fathers and mothers after divorce. That’s not part of the real agenda. The real agenda of feminist organizations such as CEDAW is empowerment of women. And that, as in so much of feminist ideology, makes no provision for a father’s position of authority in the family. That would impose on a mother’s authority which the feminist-supported family laws currently uphold.

 

That’s why CEDAW and other state-imposed feminism is a fraud. What it is intended to appear to be to those it propagandizes to - it isn’t. It’s a tyranny – a feminist tyranny to rearrange society to the advantage of women. It doesn’t recognize the most fundamental rights of men - and that includes his right to his children.  

 

Do men have a role in the feminst family? 

Yes, keep the child support payments coming and stay out of the way.

 

 

Shane Flait is a writer and educator