Family law courts are nothing more than kidnapping, fraud, and extortion rackets, destroying the lives of innocent people for money using taxpayer dollars to cause social strife so that government employees have problems to solve but only make worse and worse.

They rip families apart by declaring one parent a winner who keeps the child(ren) and the other parent a loser who, unlike married fathers, must pay what some corrupt judge dictates or else go to prison, while retaining no enforceable right to continue as a parent.

We may be facing financial collapse because of corrupt government regulators, but we're also facing societal collapse because of corrupt, greedy, government officials who destroy lives by the thousands every day.

Meanwhile, as with the financial collapse, the media is out to lunch, too busy promoting propaganda for this political party or that one, never scrutinizing the true impact of unconstitutional laws like VAWA.

Best wishes to Mr Hopkins and his children as he faces these crooks. Yesterday was the 8th Thanksgiving in a row I was not "allowed" to see my children, though I committed no crime and have paid all of the "child support" extortion these slimy judges, lawyers, and Bar Associations need to keep their corrupt racketeering ongoing.