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Old October 13th 04, 11:39 PM
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Michigan attorney general dumps poster campaign

http://www.detnews.com/2004/metro/04...c01-302103.htm

Cox bows to criticism from fathers group over his child support billboard
contest

By Jim Lynch / The Detroit News


Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is pulling the plug on a controversial
part of his PayKids child support program - a contest critics say places
children between warring parents.

Three weeks ago, Cox's office announced a contest calling for children 17
and younger to create artwork for a Michigan billboard. Contestants were to
create scenes "encouraging the payment of child support."

On Tuesday, however, Cox changed his mind about the contest. In an e-mail to
The Detroit News, Cox said he had made a mistake and would stop the contest
immediately.

"It was not an attempt to turn children against one parent or another," Cox
wrote, "it was an attempt to use children's artistic abilities to positively
address a social problem."

The announcement comes after fathers' rights groups blasted the program as
insensitive.

Ron Brown, a Detroit resident and founder of the Fathers Helping Fathers
Network, said the contest "is creating messages for the child, and those
messages may be telling a child that one parent is not a good person."

Murray Davis, vice president of the National Family Justice Association,
said he was "stunned" to hear of the contest when it was announced in
September.

"In most divorce decrees," he said, "there is language stating that parents
are not to disparage or denigrate each other to keep children isolated from
emotional turmoil. This puts children in the middle of it."

A spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said the end of the contest
would be announced today.

"We're disappointed that certain groups chose to cloud or distort the
message we were trying to convey," said Randall Thompson, an office
spokesman. "And that is that, while there are a lot of good parents out
there, there are others with the means to pay child support but don't over
many years. They're called felons."

You can reach Jim Lynch at (313) 222-2069 or .


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