We made two big media hits today: the Globe ran a story about Robert Carr's
appeal, and WBUR ran a story this morning  about parental religious
differences in divorce.   The WBUR story made a significant mention of the
Fathers Group monthly meeting headed by Ned Holstein.

The Globe's story mentioned both CPF and The Fathers Group.  We on the media
team--much thanks to Ray Saulnier and Dona Rais Sarrategui--placed the Globe
story.
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The Globe story, from p B6: 'Strict' divorced father seeks more time with son

 A divorced Boston software engineer argued before the state Appeals
court yesterday that his constitutional right to participate in his
12-year-old son's education was violated by a probate court judge, who
limited his visits because of the father's rigorous child-rearing philosophy.
        Robert E. Carr of the West end, representing himself, asked the
court to overturn a ruling by Middlesex probate Court Judge Edward Ginsburg,
who found the father's strict practices were obsessive and inflicted stress
on his son.     Ginsburg said that Carr was depriving his son of his
childhood. he granted legal custody to Carr's ex-wife, Janet Carr, and
reduced Carr's overnight visits with his son from every weekend to every
other weekend.
        According to court records, Carr, in an effort to instill
intellectual discipline in his son, lectured the boy on the relationship
between work and play, and required his son to read books above his grade
level and write three sentences daily i8n a journal on such topics as "what
I will do with the last third of my life." Carr said the judge's ruling has
relegated him to the role of a stranger and left him with insufficient time
to have an impact on his child's education.
        In a brief filed on behalf of the boy's mother, Janet Carr, she
argued that the stress her ex-husband inflicted on the boy led to stomach
pains, sleeplessness, and mononucleosis. But Carr said the stress was from
the divorce.
        Briefs supporting Robert Carr were filed by the Fatherhood Coalition
and The Father's Group. The Carrs were divorced in 1993 when the boy was 8.
        Last week, the state supreme Judicial Court upheld lower court
rulings that a divorced father who belongs to a fundamentalist Christian
church could be forbidden to take his children, who are being raised in
their mother's faith as Orthodox Jews, to his place of worship.