Is There Really a
Fatherhood Crisis?
By Stephen
Baskerville © 2004
Footnotes
1. Standard
legal authorities insist this distinction no longer exists. “With
the procedural merger of law and equity in the federal and most
state courts, equity courts have been abolished” (Black’s Law
Dictionary, 6th ed., s.v. “Equity, courts of”).
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2. West 2000,
and accompanying accounts by and interviews with Armstrong’s family.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in Concord, New Hampshire, has refused to
discuss the case.
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3. Account compiled from interviews with White’s
daughter and with Todd Eckert of the Parent and Child Advocacy
Coalition, who was assisting White before his death, and from
reports by Donna Laframboise in the National Post, March 23, 25, and
27, 2000, in the Vancouver Sun, March 24, 2000, and in the Ottawa
Citizen, March 24 and 27, 2000. Attacks on White in the Toronto Sun
(April 9, 2000) and in other newspapers did not contest the
essential facts.
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