Stephen K. Baskerville (born October 15, 1957) is an American scholar of political science and is described by Paul Craig Roberts as a leading authority on divorce, child custody and the

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system.

Education and employment history

Baskerville holds a BA in International Relations from

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as well as a PhD in Political Science and History from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has served as the president of the American Coalition of Fathers and Children, and has been featured as a guest on

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. Baskerville is currently a Professor of Government and Director of the International Politics & Policy program at Patrick Henry College. He was previously Professor of Political Science at Howard University. He is the managing editor of the International Journal for Religious Freedom.

Work

In 1996 Baskerville published ''Not Peace but a Sword'', dealing with the "

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" of the English Civil War era, which was described by one review as "comprehensive." '' Human Events'' described Baskerville as both critiquing the ways the systems create individual crimes and arguing that they create patronage systems and function at times to perpetuate the high levels of divorce that require the current large staffs in the system. It describes Baskerville's speciality as studying how public policy affects the family and working as an activist to change the policy. Baskerville's book ''Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fatherhood, Marriage and the Family'' (Cumberland House Publishing, 2007) was described by ''

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'' as possibly his biggest contribution to public policy debates. For Baskerville, a.o. LGBT rights are part of an ideological "sexual agenda", which is - in his view - "the greatest threat to religious freedom – and therefore to freedom generally – in the Western world today".International Journal for Religious Freedom, Vol. 4 Issue 2, 2011, p. 91.

References

External links

Professor Baskerville's testimony
to the

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in August 2007
''O'Reilly Factor'' interview with Baskerville
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baskerville, Stephen Alumni of the London School of Economics American political scientists American University School of International Service alumni Fathers' rights activists 1957 births Living people Howard University faculty Patrick Henry College faculty