There’s a dangerous and dishonest narrative circulating online. In a recently shared clip, a man insists that fathers are victims of a broken system—complaining about needing “supervised visits” to see their kids, painting the mother as a manipulative villain who weaponizes the children.

Video from Just Pearly Things podcast

But here’s the truth:
Mark Stephens does not have supervised visitation.
He has an active court-ordered No Contact Order.
Not because he’s a man. Not because he’s misunderstood. But because a court of law, after reviewing evidence, expert reports, and repeated instances of harm, determined that any contact with his children posed a serious risk to their emotional and physical safety.

Let’s stop pretending this is about “50% DNA.” This isn’t about biology—it’s about behavior.

One of Mark’s children recently turned 18. That milestone lifts the legal restriction, but it doesn’t erase the trauma. The younger child? Still protected by law. Still under a No Contact Order. That speaks volumes.

So why does Mark—and others like him—keep pushing the false narrative that he’s a victim?

Because it works.
It’s a textbook example of DARVO:

• Deny the abuse
• Attack the real victims
• Reverse Victim and Offender to appear persecuted by the very people he’s harmed

This manipulation isn’t just disturbing—it’s strategic. It hijacks sympathy, reframes court-ordered accountability as injustice, and erases the voices of those most affected: the children.

Let’s be clear about the playbook here:

• Claim alienation to avoid accountability
• Pretend the court system was duped
• Weaponize social media to retell a filtered, self-serving version of events
• Hope public sympathy overrides legal reality

But this isn’t a father being “kept” from his kids.
It’s a man who lost that right—because he consistently chose control, chaos, and cruelty over care.

The courts didn’t get it wrong.
They finally got it right.

And no amount of podcast clips, social media spin, or victim cosplay can change that