“There’s no experience quite as surreal or as horrifying as seeing your own mug shot flashed across the television screen during the evening news, all from the ‘comfort’ of your very own prison cell. “ ~ Josh Kimbrell
In October 2014, conservative radio talk-show host and South Carolina political activist Josh Kimbrell faced the most heinous of criminal charges: Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor in the First Degree – which carries a life sentence – for allegedly molesting a 3-year-old.
His accuser – his former wife.
Her enabler – an over-motivated investigator.
Their unknowing ally – a politically-driven prosecutor.
The 3-year-old – his own son.
While it sounds like the makings of a Lifetime movie, it is the epitome of the exploitation of the legal system to gain the upper hand in a family court fight. Unfortunately, criminal accusation is fast-becoming a real plight for some parents in the age of divorce.
Fatherhood on Trial is Josh Kimbrell’s personal account of the legal and personal high-stakes battleground for parenting beyond marriage – a microcosm of the larger undermining of fatherhood and co-parenting in our culture.
“The consequences could not be more severe as social ills and developmental issues abound from the lack of fatherly leadership in the lives of millions of American children.”
Fatherhood on Trial outlines the cultural trends that have devalued fatherhood, making the legal exploitation of parenting in the age of divorce possible.
As Josh Kimbrell puts it…
“No parent should have to go to prison simply for trying to be a responsible part of the lives of his or her children. I hope this book will save even one family from enduring the pain that mine and I endured for nearly five years as I fought and spent over $100,000 in legal fees, to simply be a father to my beloved little boy.”
Fatherhood on Trial is a clarion call to change our cultural attitude toward authentic manhood and participatory fatherhood as well as to reform public policy to support two-parent childhood again.
It can and will be a catalyst for the cultural and political reforms that will be required to rebuild American fatherhood and bring daddies home to their children across our country.