posted at 04/16/10 - 06:45 PM

Once you begin reading the book you are bound to it because the unbelievable perversion of a young relationship that leads to a family household with two young children of marriage. The legal effect and the outcome are not congruent with expected norms of justice. You may find yourself intensely reading to seek answers and truth for the author and for the children. It is tragic, yet it is fascinating how the added effect of the legal system placed an unimaginable burden upon the author in his family testament. The testament reflects a growing movement in the Americas where citizens both demand and expect equal treatment before the law and equal protection under the law.

The author’s experience highlights a system which readers may believe fails to protect children and parents during the marriage and during the marriage dissolution experience of this author’s family unit. One is left wondering how anyone may keep faith in the legal structure, institution, and system once placed before and beneath the burden of the legal process where a parent is fighting to protect the family and the interests of the children. The legal system is built upon respect for legal principles and the family group unit. However, the experience captured within the chapters of this book demonstrates the experience of a growing mass population objecting to the family experience. It is disappointing that the children of this family unit have lost their right to access their father given the author’s ongoing efforts to follow the law by respecting his values and family principles, and efforts to protect his family and the two children of marriage.

The book is truly a family testament to the fidelity challenges concerning sociology of the family, responsible parental behavior, and the modern legal institution put in place to protect the family group unit. Readers of this book may be intrigued and shocked. It is thought provoking from start to finish!

The Family Court paradigm: In general, the family experience may be unique when entering the family court system with the possibility of a trial. In general the reader may have thoughts or questions concerning family values or norms of society such as:

1. Are societal norms and values aligned with judicial processes?
2. Is it a challenge to balance gender equality rights in family law with a legal moral compass?
3. Is gender equality possible in family law?
4. Is there an institutional or systemic bias that causes a moral injustice and opposite effect to ideals of gender and family equality?

Nevertheless, the author’s family life experience, as it is told, is sociologically interesting and tragic. The language expresses a heartfelt testament of family leadership effort and family challenge in multiple countries and on two continents. This story may be helpful to everyone who, reflecting on past, present or future, experiences the legal regime. In many ways family units may experience the corridors of family law direction and the systemic confusion when experiencing family law logic. The book is a perspective lens for anyone’s personal family testament.