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Bring Fathers and Families to Your State
By Rita Fuerst Adams, National Executive Director,
Fathers and Families
My
dream for Fathers and Families is to build a strong affiliate in every
state. Fathers and Families is on its way to making this a reality.
Get ready. We are coming to your state.
With
your gift – and enthusiastic volunteers – we are building in
Massachusetts, Ohio, California, Georgia, Kentucky, and Washington.
Massachusetts, where we started, is leading the way. We secured a place for our founder, Ned Holstein,
on Governor Deval Patrick’s Working Group on Child-Centered Family Law.
The legislature is looking to this Working Group for its
recommendations on massively overhauling family law, and Ned is
advocating for shared parenting.
The Massachusetts Executive Committee, seventeen dedicated volunteers, led by Alan Cooke and Deanna Marchand,
turned out our membership for the Massachusetts Trial Court hearings on
Child Support Guidelines. It is keeping up the pressure with our sixty
volunteer legislative liaisons who are personally contacting their
state senator and representative to demand change. And, of course, many
of you responded to our call to action and placed calls to the Governor
and Chief Justice Robert Mulligan, and wrote letters to Speaker Robert
DeLeo and Senate President Therese Murray.
Fathers
and Families is your voice in family law. Fathers and Families
continues to grow and so does the strength of your voice. We want to
start our next affiliate in your state.
Preserving the bond between parents and children,
Rita Fuerst Adams, MBA
National Executive Director
PS Give
to make shared parenting the norm in every state. Give to strengthen
Fathers and Families in your state; or to bring it to your state.
Fathers and Families' 2012 Accomplishments.
If you wish to make your gift with securities, please contact Rita at 617.542.9300 ext. 3, or email. to transfer directly to Fathers and Families brokerage account.
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Ned Holstein, MS, MD
Founder &
Chairman of the Board
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Excessive
child support orders are the result in part of an archaic way of
thinking, namely, that the wellbeing of the child is solely bound up in
the wellbeing of the custodial parent and her home. And that the
circumstances of the non-custodial parent matter little or not at all to
the wellbeing of the child. Social science over the past 30 years has
thoroughly repudiated this concept.
When
the amount of child support constitutes a windfall to the recipient, it
creates active resistance to shared parenting so as to obtain a sole
custody decision and the money that goes with it. Multiple studies have
shown that shared parenting is the arrangement that children most desire
and in which they do best, so Guidelines that incentivize battles for
sole custody harm children.
Fathers and Families
PO Box
270760
Boston,
Massachusetts 02127-0760
(617)
542-9300
www.fathersandfamilies.org
info@fathersandfamilies.org
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