Tag: Department of State

July 25th 2015 – Petition Draft: To End Child Abductions, Restore Our Children, Reject “Online Video Parenting”, and Stop the Goons!

July 26, 2015

Petitions are supposed to be like legal briefs, aren’t they? It’s quite difficult to imagine how to make four pages worth of rant (minimum) at the sickly and sour Japanese family courts, and the revulsion inspired by the thick US response into a quick, short, sharp, shock out of clumsy, unpoetic prose – >ZAP!< to … More July 25th 2015 – Petition Draft: To End Child Abductions, Restore Our Children, Reject “Online Video Parenting”, and Stop the Goons!

“Stunning!” Congressional Committee Slams US State Department for Issuing False Report on Japan’s International Child Abductions

July 22, 2015

It is difficult for us as parents of kidnapped children to slog through the murky streams and fouled rivulets with which the U.S. Department of State floods the river of legal and verbal effluvia separating us from our children. Among the strategic difficulties, one was the subject of a significant U.S. Congressional hearing this week … More “Stunning!” Congressional Committee Slams US State Department for Issuing False Report on Japan’s International Child Abductions

Swat the Fly!

May 19, 2011

The Japanese government will announce its accession to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction on Friday. Should we be excited? Should we celebrate? Japanese child abduction is an epidemic.  In the global world in which more communications flow with greater and greater diffusion, and differences  between countries increasingly become more a … More Swat the Fly!