Mothers Against Drunk Driving its 2014 tax return. Radley Balko, an advocate for decriminalizing drunk driving, argued in a December 2002 article that MADD's policies are becoming overbearing. "In fairness, MADD deserves credit for raising awareness of the dangers of driving while intoxicated. It was almost certainly MADD's dogged efforts to spark public debate that effected the drop in fatalities since 1980, when Candy Lightner founded the group after her daughter was killed by a drunk driver," Balko wrote. "But MADD is at heart a bureaucracy, a big one. It boasts an annual budget of $45 million, $12 million of which pays for salaries,
There Was a Father lessons on the destructive power of TNT, Ozu reveals a society heading blindly toward the abyss and destroying its future in the name of the past." "There Was a Father" was released on DVD along with Ozu's "The Only Son" by The Criterion Collection on July 13, 2010. In 2011, the BFI released a Region 2 DVD of the film as a bonus feature on its Dual Format Edition (Blu-ray + DVD) of "Equinox Flower". There Was a Father Shuhei Horikawa (Chishū Ryū) works as a mathematics schoolteacher in a middle school. A widower, he has a ten-year-old son named