Support the ACFC Shared Parenting Petition Drive
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Mike McCormick, President of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, has initiated a drive in support of shared parenting.
Your participating in this electronic petition will demonstrate support for shared parenting and family law reform for all public officials. The goal for the ACFC is to acquire as many signatures as possible in order to unveil them at the DC Rally 2008. The signatures will be printed, bound, and then presented to Congress during the rally which is to take place August 15th, 16th, and 17th at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
Please pass this petition along to your friends and family via email, too. Your efforts will help parents, children, and families throughout the country who suffer as a result of the demise of marriage. A rebuttal presumption of shared parenting will go a long way towards reducing the default adversarial nature of divorce by reducing or eliminating the perceived benefit of using the children as tools in an effort to maximize child support or punish the other parent. Most importantly, it will guarantee a maximum amount of parental involvement with their children when it is logistically possible and there exists no supportable evidence to cast doubt on the fitness of one parent or the other.
For regular updates on the progress of this campaign, stop by and visit Glenn Sacks’ blog.
“Children thrive with the active involvement of both parents. Children and parents should be encouraged to spend substantial time with each other regardless of the parents’ present marital status. The undersigned recognize that absent issues of abuse, neglect or abandonment, social and government policy must be structured in such a way as to promote and maximize the opportunity of all parents to contribute to the social, emotional, intellectual, physical, moral and spiritual development of their children.” -ACFC’s new Shared Parenting Petition.
Help to try and ensure that the meaningful relationship between fathers and their children survives even if the marriage doesn’t.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Thanks so much for bringing this work to our attention. My husband is allowed almost no input into the raising of his children despite the continual spew of jargon, rhetoric, and psycho-babble we hear from the courts and the ex about co-parenting. I was raised to believe the our legal system was fair and just but I am disturbed and disgusted by how the family court system can be manipulated to hurt and destroy innocent men (mostly) and sometimes women. Every day I give thanks for my ex who is the perfect co-parent and an amazing dad. My heart breaks for the children and alienatied parents who have suffered.
March 18th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Mr. M, thanks for posting this. I’ve posted a link on my blog.
Although it’s too late for me and my boys, other families don’t have to suffer.
The sole parenting model we have now simply writes the other parent out of the equation.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
as a child of divorced parents, thank you for your work. my visitation scheldule with my dad (this was 16 years ago by the way) was every other weekend and wednesdays. i don’t think people realize how much this hurts the kids. it was easy to manipulate my parents because they had no communication. i got in much more trouble than i should have had my parents just been able to talk to each other. had my dad been allowed to be more active in my life, i would have been much happier.
i hope this makes sense, and i hope it helps those divorced parents to see that the kids are much more important than their petty disagreements.
March 18th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Thanks for posting this. I signed it and will pass it along.
March 19th, 2008 at 12:27 am
I forgot to mention that I posted a link to the ACFC petition on my blog (www.vermontshortblog.com) as well as adding your site to my blogroll. I am grateful for all these resources!
March 22nd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Thank you for spreadin the word about this petition. My finace is going through what many of you write about. He has been to court 6+ times fighting for the minimum visitation with his kids that his ex denies him. She is never held in contempt & he is running out of money. She continues to use the kids to try and make him suffer. I will never understand why she can’t see that she is hurting the kids by doing this! There should be a law against that! This petition makes us feel we have a little more say in this matter. Thanks!