Stephen K. Baskerville is an American scholar of political science and is described by Paul Craig Roberts as a leading authority on divorce, child custody and the family court system.
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Baskerville holds a BA in International Relations from American University 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 The Political Cesspool.[1]
Baskerville is currently an Associate Professor of Government and Director of the International Politics & Policy program [2] at Patrick Henry College. He was previously Professor of Political Science at Howard University.
In 1996 Baskerville published Not Peace but a Sword, dealing with the "political theology" of the English Civil War era, which was described by one review as "comprehensive".[3]
Baskerville has been described by Paul Craig Roberts as the leading authority on the politics of divorce, custody and the family court system.[4][5] Human Events described Baskerville as both critiquing the ways in which these systems create individuals 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 effects the family and working as an activist to change this policy.[6] Baskerville's book Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fatherhood, Marriage and the Family (Cumberland House Publishing, 2007) was described by Touchstone Magazine as possibly his biggest contribution to public policy debates.[7] Baskerville's shift to being an specialist in and advocate for fathers rights was largely the outgrowth of his experience with his own divorce in 1997.[8]