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Open Letter to All US Politicians

There is an overwhelming need in our country for an education campaign on the value of fathers and mothers equally in the lives of their children. I am writing you to request your help in convincing the people and politicians of our country to support Shared Parenting legislation. The reason your help is needed is due to the current lack of knowledge about and support for this much needed legislation and below is why your support is requested.

There are a number of reasons that mothers gain sole custody of children to the tune of 85% of the time when a family breaks apart. There also are a number of reasons that we should have equal custody for fit, willing and able parents mandated through legislation like last years Michigan HB 5267. Here is a link to see the bill. (http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(5ptzgoiqptretoe4fj4k5jb1)/mileg.aspx?page=getObject&objectName=2005-HB-5267 ). You also may want to visit: http://www.dadsofmichigan.org/shared_parenting.html

Three basic reasons cause fathers to be discriminated against in our family courts. First is the politics of political correctness practiced by politicians who pander to feminist groups by saying that mothers are more important then fathers through existing laws like the “Best Interest of the Child criteria” and the way these laws are enforced. Second is misplaced chivalry of those that think it is their job to protect mothers from falsely accused fathers combined with the soft bigotry of low expectations of mothers when it comes to equally supporting their own children and then allow fathers to be more then a pay check and an occasional visitor. Third is the all powerful desire of most politicians to make sure that federal welfare funds keep flowing by ensuring that fathers are made into second class parents so that bloated child support payments can be forced.

Politicians have learned that it is not politically correct to say that fathers and mothers are equally important in the lives of their children. Some politicians try and play it safe without ever doing research on the truth of what children truly need. Here is a link to a study that was done on this subject for your review: http://www.apa.org/releases/custody2.html

Here is a short synopsis: Children Likely to be Better Adjusted in Joint VS Sole Custody Arrangements in Most Cases, According to Review of Research (Living Situation Not As Influential As Time Spent With Parent) ...a meta-analysis of 33 studies between 1982 to 1999 that examined 1,846 sole-custody and 814 joint-custody children. The studies compared child adjustment in joint physical or joint legal custody with sole-custody settings and 251 intact families.

There also have been studies done on the impact of divorce and the bias within our society.  Children are taught that their mother is more important then their father through school curriculum content, entertainment themes and news media slanted presentations. The news shows present stories on the importance of mother’s work outside of a traditional job without trying to remove any of the gender bias in the story by letting the viewers know about the work that father’s typically do outside of the work place and the importance of the work that father’s do to support the household and our society. Many children’s books that have a parent in them have the mother but not the father or show fathers as foolish and incompetent. At school fathers have to push the system to include them when it comes to news, information and events and are told since they are not the custodial parent they can not make decisions for their child. The feminist would have you think that fathers are not biased against when it comes to the court system but the facts show that bias is present and active. Lawyers often tell fathers that they well not get equal custody and that they should not push for it because it could upset the pro-woman judges and make the divorce process harder. Below is a link to a study that shows that bias starts as soon as a father sees a lawyer, see page 8-10:

http://www.public.asu.edu/~devra1/matt&jenessa.pdf

The following link will show a number of other studies and statistics that further support the claims that I have made: http://www.gocrc.com/research/index.html

The great big secret that the politicians, Friend of the Court, lawyers and judges do not want people to know about is that the state is paid to make non-custodial parents. When Michigan Governor Granholm was asked during my telephone call to a radio show about supporting equal physical child custody she told me directly that she believes children should spend as much time with each parent as possible. On the other hand when addressing my written letter she had Michael Kohn of the Michigan Child Support Unit respond. He wrote that the state has two interests, to maintain stability and to make sure someone is supporting the children besides the state. Here is a link to an article that explains this in great detail: http://www.achildsright.net/html/title_iv-d.html 

Judges do not want to decide custody, the FOC wants to pressure parents into stereotypes and lawyers want to win but what about the children? Please feel free to call and write to me about all of these topics.

Sincerely,

Darrick Scott-Farnsworth

Children Need School Choice

The Coalition To Embrass Detroit Public Schools by Akindele Akinyemi

I was at a meeting called the Coalition for Better Detroit Public Schools at the Northwest Activity Center in Detroit. The whole goal of this so-called "Coalition" is to improve Detroit Public Schools by starting to identify a better "superintendent" then the finalist that were already chosen by the Detroit School Board.

I knew this was a circus when I saw Rev. Horace Shefield and Dr. Samuel Bullock at the table. Samuel Bullock is the President of the Council of Baptist Pastors. Also was present was School Board members Rev. David Murray, Marie Thornton, Paula Johnson and Jonathon Kinloch, Minister Malik Shabazz, Helen Moore, Rev. Lloyd Lester, and Ernest Johnson of the Community Coalition.

The audience was made up mostly of Black Nationalists/Grassroots activists who only came to be part of the circus and not part of the solution.

As usual there were hardly any young people at this event. Just old folks blaming charter schools for the failure of Detroit Public Schools.

When will Black liberals wake up and realize that competition is necessary for build up a better school system? It is interesting that these old people had no vision and no ideas to create a better school system.

There were two highlights. One was the fight that was getting ready to take place between Lawrence X and John Telford and (2) how on one hand Marie Thornton got up and told the audience that she was not supporting William Coleman for "superintendent" and how Paula Johnson would support Coleman. Not one time we heard anything about strategies on how to retain children in the schools. No talk on curriculum, direction or retaining teachers in the district.

However, I did visibly noticed how all of these paid for TV actors who were speaking last night did not touch the teacher unions. 53% of the money for public education is CONTROLLED by federal & state bureaucracies - immune from parental influence at the local school district level. Further, such power provides a focused, centralized 'playground' for unions, social do-gooders and bureaucratic central planners to leverage their narrow interests, without answering to world-class quality, local school boards, parents and local taxpayers - - plus self-serving resistance to change.

I wonder why these liberals attacked charters but stayed away from the teacher unions. Could the Council of Baptist Pastors be paid off by the teacher unions?

These so called leaders in our community do not have a clue on how to save Detroit Public Schools. We should not even listen to them for direction. Don't they realize that the larger the school the greater the rate of crime, violence, discipline problems, absenteeism and tardiness?

If you want to save Detroit Public Schools (even though I do not) our people should consider the following:

Downsize all federal and state education bureaucracies by at least 95%. Any funding remaining at these levels shall only be used to consolidate school performance and test results and spending per student data, via reports to the public at regular intervals during each year. Resulting savings shall be funneled to local school districts, without strings on a per-student formula basis.

Restructure DPS such that the size of each does not exceed some rationale of proven good practice when test scores were rising rapidly. Small school districts and small schools are preferable to large organizations. The elected local school board shall be the only authority involving its schools, without restriction or mandate from any governmental level.

Revenue now flowing first through federal and/or state bureaucracies must be channeled direct to local school districts, without strings attached.

Eliminate non-local generated regulations regarding schools. It is recognized that schools must meet local ordinances for health, safety and discrimination issues. But, regulations should not be directed to schools differently than directed to the balance of society at large.

Restrict national union influence of local school board policies, such that all officers must be a full-time resident within the school's district.

Once local school districts are in complete control as above, maximum efforts to privatize as many services as possible should be under-taken - - including 'make-or buy' decisions concerning privatizing of some teaching functions or complete schools. The main objective of each school board must be the best education quality for the lowest cost - - and without concern as to whether educators are employees of said board or of non-government schools receiving said resources.

Employment of teachers: without tenure or compensation packages exceeding that in the surrounding non-government schooling sector - exceptions granted for skills in short supply in math and hard sciences.

Non-teaching employees per student should not exceed that of surrounding non-government schooling sector.

Each school board should adopt a waiver appeals rule such that parents under certain conditions may have their child transferred to any other public or private school in that district that will enhance education quality. Approved transfers shall be together with a grant for the average per student cost saved.

Each district, and each school within a district, should hold monthly parent-teacher meetings, with all parents invited and encouraged to participate.

School boards should adopt strict standards for passing each grade, and the assignment of letter grades - - with reports issued monthly for parent signature. So called 'social promotions' must be eliminated at all levels.

Local school boards shall be free of any other higher authority in adopting discipline standards, strictly established as to minimize obstruction to the main reason for the existence of schools: for learning.

Each school will encourage all students to take standardized tests, and make freely available to all parents and the community the average test score history of said school compared to other public and private schools and national averages for such standardized tests as SAT, NEA, international test series, etc. And, each parent shall know where their child stands in this regard.
So while the deaf, dumb and blind were the stars of this "meeting" to get publicity my One Network (under the One Choice Movement ) is moving forward with a grass­roots movement that is slowly gathering force that may transform the politics of Michigan education. Its human face is not White but Black; its resources few but its determination strong. And its goal is freedom. Although most black political leaders still actively oppose vouchers and charter schools, my Network is seeing how the constituents are growing increasingly angry at the public schools' disastrous record of teaching black children. As a result, black parents, pastors, local officials, and civil rights leaders are beginning to embrace school vouchers, charter schools, and other reforms that offer alternatives to dismal public schools. All this right here in Michigan.

We do not need a coalition to save Detroit Public Schools. That;s too much like an Urban Agenda. We need to design what is known as a educational empowerment zone. I have been talking about this for quite some time now. We have African Americans who believe that academic achievement is the key to their economic independence. They want schools that involve them in their children's education while imposing high standards and strict discipline, and they reject the notion that poverty somehow renders parents less interested in their children's academic well­being. As their numbers swell, teachers unions will find it increasingly difficult to hold back reforms that offer black children a better chance.

This will only come from educational choice. Detroit Public Schools must close those 52 schools and some of those schools need to become charters. Anyone who says this is not the way is lying to you and anyone who injects race into the equation is misleading young urban conservatives to hell.

Remember Dick DeVos? He wanted educational options while Granholm opposes vouchers, charters, homeschooling and any other type of educational choice. Why? Militant opposition to choice stems from the influence of large, monied teachers unions, which see any choice outside the public schools as a threat to their monopoly.

Some race baiters argue that the education establishment opposes school choice for a very basic reason: self-­preservation. One of the strongest reasons why the civil rights establishment opposes choice is economic. They strongly feel that competition and privatization will leave them out in the cold. Public schools employ a large portion of the African ­American professional community; some of them may view school choice and charter schools as programs designed to rob them of tenured jobs.

Will saving jobs justify depriving innocent children of a quality education? To answer this question, these leaders ought to talk to students and their parents, visit the neighborhood private schools these children could go to, and perform a cost ­benefit analysis of the savings associated with sending children to these schools. Once you do this, you can't help but become a believer in school choice. Period.

So let not waste time trying to save Detroit Public Schools. We need a Coalition to Expand Educational Choices in urban communities across Michigan.

Life is good!

With the exception of losing time with my children - life is good!  NOTHING can erase the pain I feel everyday missing my children and also seeing this pain in them as well!  How sad that some parents use kids as pawns in a game of chess?  This rings a bell to me, "If you do not give me the house I will go for full-custody  of the kids".  Very real and true but how incredibly sad for my children.

Angela and I do not have a cent to our names but we are so happy!  Nothing could possibly be better than the way I feel about my wife and all that she endures just to be with me.  She knows that my ex has affected our lives in so many ways and LOVES to fight in court instead of working things out for the benefit of both families.  I admire Angela for being so strong and also because of her intelligence!  Real lucky to have a registered nurse in the house!  I had no idea that life could be this good with another person.  The only thing we have of wealth is each other and in that case we are filthy rich with love and respect for one another.

Robert Pedersen

www.achildsright.net

Black Churches Must Embrace Urban Regional Power

Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Black Churches Must Embrace Urban Regional Power by Akindele Akinyemi

Many times you often hear me talk about how the Black church is the catalyst of revitalizing our community from within. As we begin breaking ground on urban regional power in in areas like Benton harbor and Inkster we need to fully understand how the faith based community will play an critical role of redevelopment and begin a revolution to reestablish cultural values in our community.

The biggest obstacle facing our community is ourselves. Not the Democratic or Republican parties, not the TV or Radio, and not government. We need to re-evaluate ourselves as the Black community. After 40 years of liberal policies in urban communities across Michigan we are still stuck at square one.

Fighting the "white" power structure is far from the answer and due to this false pretense we have lost not just one but two generations of leaders due to keeping them stuck in a mindset of where hey might not never pull themselves out of mental poverty. Part to blame for this is our churches.

The African American church is the most powerful institution in our community. It will play an important role in building urban regional power on an economic and educational level.
However, we must redefine the role of the church in 2007.

The Black church must begin to organize on true Christian principles. Far too often (and I have said this many times) that it is a crime to turn the church into a fashion zone, a political derby for liberal or conservatives, a bling-bling for those with money or wealth, Black Theology that is rooted in communism/socialism or Marxism, or old membership that is ready to die off.
The root of ANY church should be its children/youth ministry. This is where we should be establishing legacies. What I mean by that is developing leadership based on God, accountability, integrity and trust. We should be exposing our children to free market enterprises, investments and wealth creation.

We should be teaching the spiritual side of sex to our young people. Sex should be explained as a mental and spiritual development first before physical. Of course, explain the dangers of sex as well as developing a healthy spiritual lifestyle.

The other thing we should be teaching our young adults who are eligible to vote is to vote their values. If we are teaching our children that abortion is wrong in the church and then vote for Jennifer Granholm (a governor who supports abortion) then that is sending a mixed message. Our community is confused because we want to be liberal politicians who preach about Black this and Black that but want to teach our children conservative values. This will not cut it as we build urban regional power in our community.

The Black church also should stress the importance of spiritual prosperity FIRST before economic prosperity. We have some churches that will not engage in either and teach our young people to have a hand-out mentality. This is the problem in Benton Harbor, MI. We have religious leaders begging Whirlpool Corporation to build the Black community when they should have already established an urban regional network with Berrien, Kalamazoo, Van Buren and Calhoun Counties. The Black Chamber of Commerce should already be in place. Economic development should already be in motion. Thanks to liberal policies and hatred for other people that do not look like us we hinder our social, economic and political development.

The Black Church should stop giving social programs (where our people become dependent) and begin to develop educational and wealth creation programs (which will give them a sense of self-determination) we will begin to fully appreciate what God has in store for us. Social programs are riddled with scandals, political jockeying and embezzlement. We need to educate our families within the church structure on how to conserve their money, invest for their children's future and most importantly live comfortably. Churches that are fighting the system only to receive the crumbs that fall from the table of the "White Power Structure" for a few social programs is keeping us enslaved.

Free market economics is the key to transforming Inkster, Benton Harbor and Ecorse.
Black churches finally should embrace and invest in educational choice. We are responsible for expanding charters in our own community. We have the prime opportunity to compete with traditional school systems to prepare our children for a 21st century global job market.

If the Black church revolutionize themselves in 2007 with fully embracing conservative technology then we will succeed in building urban regional power in small urban communities in Michigan.

http://onedetroitnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/02/black-churches-must-embrace-urban.html

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A Compliment to Robert Pedersen on ANCPR NEWS

What can I say?  I was speechless with such kind comments that I found posted to an ANCPR NEWS article that covered my help with the Walberg campaign!  You know it is things like this that makes it all worthwhile besides the fact that my only goal is to protect a child's right to EQUAL time with BOTH fit parents!  To be fair - I have one heck of a team and everyone works very hard and has given A Child's Right an explosive start!  Here are the comments:

Robert Gartner said,

on February 15th, 2007 at 10:26 am

Robert Pedersen is a man and a father bringing politicians and society back to common sense and connection with life and all that life and creation was intended to mean. Strange how humanity continues to do to its own what it has done to the many other life forms just trying to have a life on this planet. Mr. Pedersen is one of those voices in the wilderness with a precious message. I feel happy for him that he has managed to make this accomplishment as a manifestation of his calling, devotion, and energies. His work is making a profound difference for the children and the parents of the nation.  http://ancpr.com/blog/archives/466

The above comments made my day!  Thank you very much!  Robert Pedersen  www.achildsright.net

Anger and hatred has prevented you from seeing the damage you are doing to your son or daughter.

How can you steal times like this away from your son or daughter because you can not move beyond your hatred and anger to see how much you are damaging them?  A Child's Right:  EQUAL time with BOTH fit parents!  Wow!  What a video!  Angela Pedersen, R.N.

A Child's Right has officially applied for 501c3 non-profit corporation status!

Friday was an exciting day for A Child's Right!  We officially filed to become a non-profit corporation which will allow us to compete for various grant money that is provided for 501c3s to compete for.  Hard to believe in such a short time that we have created something that everyone can be so proud of. 

A Child's Right was originally created by Robert Pedersen and myself for his two amazing children that we both love dearly.  They have been robbed of time with their father who has done nothing but state over and over again that he wants more time with his children.  Both his son and daughter, when they are older will be able to look back at this incredible accomplishment that was done out of Robert's love to both of them.

Thank you so much to all of you that have supported our efforts and also volunteered on our behalf.  Special thanks is also due to Darrick Scott-Farnsworth who always provides his sound judgment in all matters!  He is never afraid to disagree and is always a calm voice in our progress forward.  Darrick has done so much to protect a child's right to EQUAL time with BOTH fit parents!

WOW!!! We finally made it!  The "ex" told us one time that none of this was true...kind of nice to be on the side of reality.  We hope in the future that things will improve with Robert and his ex for the sake of the children.  They have so far been denied the love, nurturing and guidance of a loving, fit and successful father.  As our radio ad states - this is wrong!  Congrats again everyone we made it!!

Angela Pedersen, R.N.

President and Co-Founder of A Child's Right

www.achildsright.net

Fletch Quote #2 There is no better stress relief when a vindictive ex denies your child of EQUAL time with BOTH fit parents! -Fletch and Fletch Lives

Dr. Dolan: Isn't there a children's book about an elephant called Babar?

Fletch: I don't know. I don't have any.

Dr. Dolan: No children?

Fletch: No elephant books.

Letter to Domestic Violence Equal Parenting Objectors

Please help me understand why your organization does not support a presumption of equal child custody for fit parents who have no domestic violence convictions? Also do you advocate that parents who have been acussed of committing domestic violence but not convicted be totally denied their ability to parent their children? Please take note, I would like to point out that the amount of time spent interacting with the other parent is the same under a standard custody order versus a standard joint physical custody order of every other week. There are just as many custody exchanges if not more when one parent is designated the non-custodial parent with visitation rights. If mothers in general would agree to allow fathers to equally participate in the actual raising of children after a divorce the parents would see each other only once every other week or every week depending on the agreement. In a standard FOC cookie cutter custody order the parents interact twice a week because of the visit during the week and alternate weekend custody exchanges. Social research says that children do better when raised equally by both parents even when there is some confict so please help all children by supporting equal child custody for fit parents.

Visit www.achildsright.net and click on the volunteer link and get busy.

A Child's Right is blasting the Michigan airwaves with our new radio ad!

Download a_childs_right.mp3

A Child's Right is now running radio ads throughout Michigan!  Once again this is an exciting step in the further growth of this organization!!!  I am very proud and honored to have such a fantastic team of volunteers at A Child's Right.  Special thanks to Darrick Scott-Farnsworth for completing this much needed task for us.  This is great stuff and we are always thinking "outside of the box" in ways to increase our volunteer numbers.  You can also hear this radio ad play when you first visit www.achildsright.net.  It will play once and then stop.  If you would like to volunteer please visit:  http://www.achildsright.net/html/volunteer.html  We have a great group of people and your help is needed to help protect a child's right to EQUAL time with BOTH fit parents!  Robert Pedersen

Fletch Quote #1

Receptionist: May I help you Dr...?
Fletch: Oh, it's me, Dr. Rosenpenis. I'm just here to check out Alan Stanwyk's file.
Receptionist: Dr. who?
Fletch: Dr. Rosenrosen, I'm here to get to the records room.
Receptionist: What was that name again?
Fletch: It's Dr. Rosen, I want to check the records room.
Receptionist: Dr. who?
Fletch: Dr. Rosen. Where's the records room?

Robert Pedersen, Co-Founder of A Child's Right, mentioned in the Washington, D.C. based newspaper "The Liberator".

Download robert_pedersen.PDF  Robert Pedersen/Tim Walberg Story

The Liberator is a Washington, D.C. based newspaper that is considered to be "the authority" on shared parenting all across the United States.  It is published by the ACFC and has a readership estimated at close to 30,000.

The story that reports Robert Pedersen's efforts in helping Tim Walberg win over an incumbent Congressmen starts on page 1 and concludes on page 14.  This is quite an honor for A Child's Right to reach this level of national attention!  The news story also mentions Robert Pedersen's unusually high vote count for the minor political position that he ran for - County Delegate for Precinct 2. 

We are very proud of Robert and of his dedication to making Michigan family friendly again.  Robert told me himself that he has two copies of the entire newspaper saved for his son and daughter for when they are old enough to have such material.  One thing will be crystal clear to his children when they are older - he consistently asks for more time with his children and this is being DENIED!  How sad after this much time that has gone by to still prevent his own children from seeing more of him.  I would not be able to sleep at night knowing that I deprived such awesome kids of the love, nurturing and guidance of a loving father that WANTS more time.  Story on Right Michigan  Story on ANCPR NEWS

A Child's Right:  EQUAL Time with BOTH fit Parents!  Angela Pedersen, R.N.

 

 

A Child's Right is now advertising on the radio!

As soon as we get an mp3 sample from the radio station we will have it posted here!  We are truly excited!

www.achildsright.net

Daddy is with you always!

Download giorgio_cisilini_animated_short.mov   

Now this is a tear jerker if I have ever seen one.  Daughter and Father .  A Child's Right:  EQUAL time with BOTH fit parents!

Incredible short animation film.

Angela Pedersen, R.N.

www.achildsright.net

Membership requires the approval of the owner. Files can only be accessed as members. The Meetup Group for A Child's Right

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Darrick Scott-Farnsworth - Executive Director of A Child's Right gives his advice on how to save the state's budget and Michigan familes!

Congrats to Darrick Scott-Farnsworth! Darrick's opinion was recently printed in the Battle Creek Enquirer.  He commented on how to save the state's budget AND Michigan's families/children.  His opinion was printed in 02-09-07 in the Battle Creek Enquirer.  Congrats again Darrick!  Here it is:

Your Opinions

Reduction in payments could be opportunity

This year the state of Michigan is facing a budget shortfall and is looking for ways to cut the budget. Through last year's approved budget the federal government has decided to cut the Title IV-D welfare incentive payments that are paid to the states when they create noncustodial parents through their family law practice.

This reduction in incentive payments is a part of Michigan's current budget shortfall and should be looked at as an opportunity to move families ahead in our state. This can be accomplished by eliminating the free welfare service provided by the Friend of the Court to divorcing/unwed parents who have the means to support themselves. This will reduce the total size of Michigan's government operations and allow the remaining FOC employees to focus on collecting support from parents who have truly abandoned their children.

To move children ahead, the state should also adopt a presumption of joint physical custody law so that both parents can spend substantially equal time supporting and raising their children and reduce the need to pay support through the state system. It is time for everyone to speak out on this issue; parents raise children, not money!

Darrick Scott-Farnsworth

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www.achildsright.net

Title IV-D Employee Embezzles Quarter of Million in Child Support Enforcement Money

Wow you have to check out this post re:  IV-D Employee Embezzles Quarter of Million in Child Support Enforcement Money.  We found this on Lary Holland's Blog. 

Now this simply made our day! Murdoc Online, a high traffic blog, posts a brief mention of A Child's Right

We are thrilled and quite frankly honored that this very popular blog mentioned our organization.  We started advertising on this Blog sometime ago and it has brought in a large number of volunteers.  This just made our day!  Here is the actual post:  http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/004531.html.  This was a perfect topic for Murdoc to write about because many of our military men and women are affected by this system.  The movie that he mentions can be found here:  http://supportthemovie.com/

A Child's Right is an official sponsor of this documentary film that is sure to make serious waves of change. Sponsors Link  As you can tell from the sponsor page KRights Radio with Richar Farr is also a sponsor - they are certainly worth checking out.  Krights Radio

Watch three of the trailers for the movie Support?  System Down

1.  Corruption  2.  War is hell!  Child Support does not have to be. 3.  Divorce is ugly business

Every trailer is worth viewing and there is NO downloading and will immediately play when you click on the links!

To learn more about what is described in the trailers you can read this:  http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/022806SSAndCustody.html by Lary Holland and Jason Bottomley.  Lary Holland has a website that discusses this issue more in depth - Lary Holland website.

Angela Pedersen, R.N.

A Child's Right has a huge announcement we will be making soon!

We have a huge announcement that we will be making with in the next 4 weeks.  As soon as we know we can release the information we will certainly do so.  It could be as soon as tomorrow or as long as 4 weeks.  Sorry we can not mention the specifics yet!  This is not intentional by any means.  There are some exciting things brewing with A Child's Right www.achildsright.net This announcement has nothing to do with politics, the bike ride, etc.

On some different notes:

1)  I am organizing a meeting in Lansing, MI and it will be held in March.  I will have the exact date very soon.  This meeting is for step-mothers, non-custodial mothers, grandmothers, etc.  Various things will be discussed including the promotion of Robert's bicycle trek from Lansing, MI to Washington, D.C.  Robert will be doing this 600+ mile trip with Rob McKenzie.  I put some "feelers" out for a meeting such as this and the response was huge.  We will have lunch served and there will be a few door prizes. 

Keep in mind that when a divorce happens and a child is forced to only see his or her father (most cases) only 4-6 days a month it is devastating in ways that they typically can not communicate.  50% of the child's family tree is now forced to see less of the child affected like this.  Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, and so many more are no longer given the proper time to interact with the child.  This child is denied the right to the love, nurturing and family sense of security b/c of a vindictive ex.  Unless if a parent has been found to be legally unfit, I do not see how the custodial parent could ever deny a child of this type of love.  I would not be able to live with myself. 

I know that some vindictive exs try to rationalize in their heads that what they are doing is OK to reduce the feelings of guilt deep within themselves.  Some even come up with their standard of what is fit.  The child will always find out the truth.  It is a child's right to EQUAL time with BOTH fit parents.  Some people hop around from family to family- from friend to friend - and they have no concept of the damage done from denying a child of another fit parents love.  They are almost like parasites in a sense.  Some, when they realize what they have done, still do nothing because of their addiction to Title IV-D welfare monies.  In fact they will fight you at ever turn when a reduction in child support is requested.  HEAVEN FORBID a father (most cases) desires to keep more money within his house to spend on his child the way he would like to.  Often times the cost of attorneys alone lose any value towards fighting a reduction.  But this would take common sense to figure out.  They fight you at every turn because they are simply filled with hate and nothing more, yet they will brag to everyone about how they go to church and even more comments filled with the utmost hypocrisy.

2) Our membership numbers continue to increase.  We are very thankful for this!  We look forward to a incredible 2007!  How many children, when they grow old enough to view such material, will have pictures and video of their father biking from Lansing, MI to D.C. in honor and love to them? The truth is always revealed in time.  We can not wait for this event to unfold!

Angela Pedersen, R.N.

www.achildsright.net

Dr. Stephen Baskerville of the ACFC has a "must read" book coming out regarding child custody, the destruction of families and fathers.

We have already placed our pre-order through Amazon.com!  Dr. Stephen Baskerville's book titled, "Taken into Custody: The War Against Fatherhood, Marriage, and the Family" is scheduled to be released on July 1st 2007.  Link You can easily pre-order this book by using the amazon.com link provided.  See why you should buy this book!  Amazon.com has an extensive write up on it.  This will be an incredible and well researched book knowing Dr. Baskerville.  You can also visit Dr. Baskerville's website at:  http://www.stephenbaskerville.net/  To learn more about the ACFC please visit:  www.acfc.us

Baskerville Photo by:  Angela Pedersen, R.N. of A Child's Right www.achildsright.net

We were just informed that the newspaper featuring Robert Pedersen and Tim Walberg will soon be shipped to us!

As soon as we get our copies of this Washington, D.C. based newspaper we will send it to our members via snail mail.  We also hope to have the pdf file up on our Blog as well.  This is an exciting story for our organization and confirms our growing political strength.  Robert is obviously excited about this because he has long been a fan of Tim Walberg way before he became our representative in the U.S. Congress. 

Things are really starting to pick up regarding the massive EQUAL parenting rally to be held in Washington, D.C. and Robert is truly excited about joining Rob McKenzie on this 600+ mile bicycle ride. 

We also got the inside scoop that a bill similar to MI HB5267 will soon be introduced again here in Michigan.  Wenke is now a strong supporter of our organization and our highly justified cause.  Our organization recently informed him that we would support his quest for a higher office should he choose to do so in the future.  By the time that might come around our PAC should be fully operational. 

A parent that denies a child the love, nurturing and guidance of the other fit parent is committing child abuse.  Denial and excuses sadly prevent many of them from seeing this soon enough to stop the damage to the child or children.  A Child's Right:  EQUAL time with BOTH fit parents!  A Child's Right is starting to gain some serious momentum!!  Not too shabby for an organization that started not too long ago.  Angela Pedersen, R.N.  www.achildsright.net

Update on Follow the Title IV-D money flow machine pdf document

Ken recently provided us with an updated Title IV-D follow the money flow machine pdf file.  This will update one that was posted earlier.  We also edited the original post to include this outstanding resource.  One thing is for sure - Ken is aggressively going after the Volunteer of the Year award at A Child's Right.  We truly appreciate Ken's sense of duty to help Michigan's children.  Ken has been volunteering at A Child's Right for roughly 30 hours a week and all we can say is thank you Ken! 

Here is the updated pdf file:

Download Follow_the_Money_1_29_2007.pdf

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A Child's Right:  EQUAL time with BOTH fit Parents! Michigan children deserve better!  Support shared parenting and volunteer now:

http://www.achildsright.net/html/volunteer.html

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Lary Holland

Michigan EQUAL Parents Week Rally. A vindictive ex can deny a child the love, nurturing and guidance of another fit parent. This is child abuse!

Michigan EQUAL Parents Week Rally