The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law

With The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law, Hollywood veteran Greg Ellis delivers a gripping, unvarnished first-person account of family breakdown and the social, political, and legal forces that are fueling this national health emergency. It further exposes and condemns a gender bias that presumes that fathers are less effective caregivers.

Family breakdown is the single greatest threat to American society. Every day, more than 4,000 children lose a parent because of our archaic and inhumane family-court system. Every day, ten divorced men commit suicide. And now, one in three children in our country are without their father.

The Respondent is Ellis’s personal story about a Hollywood dream razed by internal and external forces. Part memoir, part meditation, and part manifesto, it’s a timely and heartrending portrait of perhaps the most misunderstood aspect of the American legal system. Through its candor and moral strength, The Respondent offers guidance and hope. As such, it’s an indispensable read for not only parents enduring the grief of child separation, but all interested in learning about the gross overreach and unrelenting brutality of family law.

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The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law

With The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law, Hollywood veteran Greg Ellis delivers a gripping, unvarnished first-person account of family breakdown and the social, political, and legal forces that are fueling this national health emergency. It further exposes and condemns a gender bias that presumes that fathers are less effective caregivers.

Family breakdown is the single greatest threat to American society. Every day, more than 4,000 children lose a parent because of our archaic and inhumane family-court system. Every day, ten divorced men commit suicide. And now, one in three children in our country are without their father.

The Respondent is Ellis’s personal story about a Hollywood dream razed by internal and external forces. Part memoir, part meditation, and part manifesto, it’s a timely and heartrending portrait of perhaps the most misunderstood aspect of the American legal system. Through its candor and moral strength, The Respondent offers guidance and hope. As such, it’s an indispensable read for not only parents enduring the grief of child separation, but all interested in learning about the gross overreach and unrelenting brutality of family law.

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The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law

The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law

The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law

The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law

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With The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law, Hollywood veteran Greg Ellis delivers a gripping, unvarnished first-person account of family breakdown and the social, political, and legal forces that are fueling this national health emergency. It further exposes and condemns a gender bias that presumes that fathers are less effective caregivers.

Family breakdown is the single greatest threat to American society. Every day, more than 4,000 children lose a parent because of our archaic and inhumane family-court system. Every day, ten divorced men commit suicide. And now, one in three children in our country are without their father.

The Respondent is Ellis’s personal story about a Hollywood dream razed by internal and external forces. Part memoir, part meditation, and part manifesto, it’s a timely and heartrending portrait of perhaps the most misunderstood aspect of the American legal system. Through its candor and moral strength, The Respondent offers guidance and hope. As such, it’s an indispensable read for not only parents enduring the grief of child separation, but all interested in learning about the gross overreach and unrelenting brutality of family law.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781646634811
Publisher: Monkey Toes
Publication date: 06/29/2021
Pages: 278
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Greg Ellis is a published author, television director, Annie Award-nominated voice artist, and Emmy Award-nominated actor. He has appeared in Oscar-winning movies, directed Hollywood superstars, produced and written television shows, starred in Broadway musicals, and voiced animated characters for movies, television series, cartoons, and over 120 video games. His major motion picture film credits include the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Titanic, Star Trek, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Beowulf. His television credits include 24, X-Files, CSI, Dexter, NCIS, and Hawaii Five-O. With his production company, Monkey Toes, Mr. Ellis has written and directed projects for Kiefer Sutherland and Stephen Fry. He is also the host of several popular video podcasts, including The Respondent. Additionally, he runs The Alive Institute, which helps people address past problems and improve their future, and the multimedia child-advocacy program The Respondent, which inspires family champions through the nonprofit Children and Parents United.

Table of Contents

Dedication Johnny Depp xi

Foreword Alec Baldwin xii

Prelude Greg Ellis xiv

Part 1 Fear

Chapter 1 The Nocturnal Terrorist 3

Chapter 2 The Order of Restraint 13

Chapter 3 Crossing the Emotional Rubicon 17

Chapter 4 The Liturgy of the Compromised Man 28

Chapter 5 Prelude to a Travesty 37

Chapter 6 Dead Man Walking 54

Chapter 7 A Nuclear Family Apocalypse 64

Chapter 8 Of Savages and Scapegoats 72

Part 2 Loathing

Chapter 9 Boys Become #MenToo 81

Chapter 10 Fathers in Absentia 97

Chapter 11 The Mass Kidnapping of American Children 120

Chapter 12 A Crusade of Familial Genocide 126

Chapter 13 The Ex-Communicator 137

Chapter 14 Spirit Level of the (S)Exes 153

Part 3 Redemption

Chapter 15 My Own Problem Perpetrator 173

Chapter 16 Back from the Emotional Rubicon 181

Chapter 17 Fatherhood and Funerals 198

Epilogue 206

Medical Records 211

Acknowledgments 241

CPU: Children & Parents United 242

Glossary 246

Bibliography 249

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