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When it comes to the divorce of two parents that have children people think of the two parents and the children in the middle of the divorce.
In order for the state and the court system to make money through Title IV-D federal incentives, one of the fit and willing parents must be forced into the role of the non-custodial parent. Sadly, children go from seeing this parent on a daily basis and then suddenly the typical 4-6 days a month. Children have the fundamental right to be loved, guided, nurtured and educated equally by both fit and willing parents after a divorce. To deny this is child abuse.
The pain of this child abuse also affects the parents of the non-custodial parent. Grandparents are then forced to see less of their grandchildren. This is abusive not only to the children but to the grandparents as well. Grandparents, from both sides of the family tree, play an important role in the development of their grandchildren. How do grandparents in this situation deal with all of this pain? The pain of seeing their child become a non-custodial parent and being forced away from their child by no choice of their own or the child's. Grandparents must also endure the pain of seeing less of their own grandchildren.
Grandparent are increasingly becoming involved in the Shared Parenting movement and are joining in the fight against child abuse that is sponsored by a bitter spouse and the court system.
I encourage all grandparents to visit SCOPE - Senior Citizens Organization for Parental Equality and become involved in what is in the best interest of their grandchildren. Another organization that I can personally recommend is Three Sides to Every Story, Inc. Grandparents! There is a place for you to make a difference.
The 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek is an event worth supporting. Bloggers know an interesting and unique story. Over 4 months away and the online buzz is picking up! The five cyclists truly appreciate any help in spreading the message of this event. It is not easy to pedal over 758 miles physically or mentally for that matter. Special thanks to all bloggers that have picked this story up.
Here is a sample of some of the most recent blogs covering the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek:
1) Dean's World
5) Angry Harry - UK
6) Figli Negati Italia - Italy
7) Gun Pundit
Robert Pedersen and Robb MacKenzie at 43 mph in Pennsylvania during the 2007 Equal Parenting Bike Trek - Max Speed during trek 54 mph!
So sad! Imagine being a next door neighbor and seeing this. I wonder what she will do once the child custody dispute starts! Hopefully she will stay in jail for trying to kill her husband and putting her child at risk. Someone once told me that there is no such thing as domestic violence against men. I have always know that to not be true.
Well over 166 studies showing that women and men are equally violent in their personal relationships! Please support Stop Abuse For Everyone
Be sure to check out the upcoming 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek. Things are already picking up and this incredible event is over 4 months away! Spread the word!
The 2007 Equal Parenting Bike Trek was a smashing success! Review the complete media coverage of last year's event. Pictures from the 2007 Equal Parenting Bike Trek.
The 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek is already shaping up to be bigger and better than ever before!
Media inquiries please contact Robert Pedersen 269-420-4688 or Angela Pedersen 269-420-3203
Do not miss this incredible event which is already gaining traditional media and blogger coverage!
A grueling 758 mile cycling trek to raise awareness of a child's fundamental right to be loved, guided, educated and nurtured equally by both fit and willing parents.
Five Michigan fathers will pedal their bicycles 758 miles from Lansing, MI to Washington, D.C.
Robb MacKenzie - Upper Penninsula of Michigan - EPBT Founder - 2007 cyclist
Robert Pedersen - West Michigan - 2007 Runner-Up Winner in Best Life Magazine's National Hero Dad Contest - 2007 cyclist
Brian Downs, Esq. - Grand Rapids MI - Running for Judge in Kent County MI in 2008
Derek Bailey, MSW - Traverse City MI - American Indian. Founder of Dance4Equality
Mike Saxton - Lansing MI
Equal Parenting Bike Trek Chase Vehicle Crew
Also present at the August 7 2008 departure of the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek:
1) Dance4Equality, an American Indian shared parenting organization, will be present performing their Pow Wows, dance, drums and songs!
2) See the MASSIVE CRISPE bus up close and meet the crew!
Event: 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek
When: Departure - August 7 2008 Noon 12PM-2PM
Where: Lansing Michigan Capitol Area Lawn
Please show your support and attend this amazing event being held at the Lansing Capitol in Michigan. ALL ARE WELCOME! A large crowd will help energize our cyclists! We already have confirmation of media coverage (TV, Newspaper & Radio) for the departure!
We Need Your Support and Help Now!
Ways you can show your support for this event:
1) Please donate for this amazing event - no amount is too small or too large. It is very expensive to pull off such a large event over 758 miles with 5 cyclists and chase crew. Donating early will allow us to advertise this event, hand out brochures along the route, gas expense for the chase vehicle, a bed to sleep in at night for the cyclists, etc.
2) Blog about this event and link to this page. Blog on MySpace and more! Post on Facebook!
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4) Email this page to everyone you know and tell them about this wonderful cause for children.
National Fatherless Day Rally - Nationwide Events on June 13 2008
Leadership Provided by Fathers4Justice and Families4Justice
Email/Blog/Print the following National Fatherless Day Rally Flyer
Download national_fatherless_day_rally_flyer.pdf
Be sure to order a few high quality flags for your state's event!
Excellent example of Fathers4Justice in action along with
the Equal Parenting Bike Trek Crew and CRISPE
National Fatherless Day Rally Fathers4Justice F4J F4JUSA Families4Justice A Child's RightChildren Need Both Parents, Inc United Civil Rights Councils of America ACFC Donald Tenn Fathers4Justice US child custodyFathers Fatherhood Dad Men divorce family court If you found this post to be interesting or helpful please bookmark using one of the services below.
Excellent find by Lary Holland.
Wal-Mart thief: 'Child Support Made Me Do It'
While we certainly do NOT agree with theft in any way there are major issues with the child support system in all states throughout America.
The Multiple Scandals of Child Support
Social Security, Welfare, and Child Support Enforcement
The Secret Alimony Hidden in Child Support
Too many mistakes are made with child support accounts.
The Robert Parker case out of Genessee County Michigan is a perfect example in the State of Michigan!
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Delete, Anthony Pedersen and Sherry Shabazz
Robert Pedersen, Darrick Scott-Fanrsworth and Robb MacKenzie
Congressman Tim Walberg, Mrs. Walberg and Robert Pedersen
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Weaver
Representative John Stahl
Honorable Judge Newblatt
Honorable Anthony Caius Pedersen :)
Robert Pedersen will be on KSCO 1080AM, covering central California, to discuss the Equal Parenting Bike Trek and the 2008 Family Preservation Festival. 03/14/08 5PM EST
The interview is today on the Divorced Fathers Radio Netowrk with Steve Ashley on Talk Back Radio KSCO 1080AM at 5PM EST/2PM PacificTime. If you do not live in California you can listen live via your computer!
Be sure to tune in on 03/13/08 Thursday at 9PM EST!
Derek Bailey, MSW - founder of the American Indian shared parenting organization DANCE4EQUALITY.
and
Robert Pedersen - Co-Founder of A Child's Right and one of the 2007 Equal Parenting Bike Trek Cyclists
BOTH will be on Minister Ronald Smith's ultra-popular Talk Show "Children Need Both Parents". Tune in for this special show to find out how Robert Pedersen and Derek Bailey, MSW are forming an incredible coalition in Michigan. The link below will take you to the homepage for this show where you can acquire the phone number to call in and more.
CRISPE and Dance4Equality will both be present at the departure for the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek on August 7th 2008 12 Noon-2PM at the Lansing Michigan Capitol. Ask off of work now for this special shared parenting event.
Yet another LTE printed by A Child's Right. Darrick Scott-Farnsworth in the Kalamzazoo Gazette.
Support Equal Parenting Measures in Legislature
It is time for Michigan to recognize and for citizens to demand there be a fundamental right to parent your children within the state's constitution and family law. To this end, I implore everyone to actively support both the ``parental rights'' resolution and House Bill 4564, the ``equal parenting bill.''
Children are a part of the family and they have the right to the love of both of their parents and their extended family, too. Allowing the state, without due process of law through the courts and government child welfare bureaucracies, to interrupt the child-parent relationship has destroyed many childhoods and caused untold damage to our society.
Parents should have the right to decide how their children are educated and medicated as long as there is no clear evidence that these choices will seriously harm their children. Demonstrating to children that the family is important by making sure that both parents and the entire family are respected will give children the courage to have a family of their own.
In divorce cases, the state is allowed, through the supposed best interest of the child criteria, to pressure most fathers to relinquish custody to the mother or be denied custody in court because they want to create winners and losers instead of promoting joint custody.
HB 4564 and Resolution NN will help ensure that children will have the stability and love of both of their fit, willing and able parents.
Darrick Scott-Farnsworth
Executive Director, A Child's Right
PDF File of LTE: Download DSFKZOO.pdf
Shared Parenting Facts and Fiction
Kalamazoo Gazette Kalamazoo A Child's Right Darrick Scott-Farnsworth Michigan House Bill 4564 Michigan House Joint Resolution NN (2008)
Excellent article from World Net Daily on how kids need their fathers!
"...researchers released a massive study – covering 22,300 individual sets of data, gathered from 1987 to 2007 – which found that "active father figures play a key role in reducing behavior problems in boys and psychological problems in young women."
"The results are not going to sit well with many Americans, particularly those who hail voluntary single motherhood as a valid "lifestyle choice." An ugly alliance of feminist ideology and pop psychology has brainwashed the public into believing that fatherlessness has few, if any, social consequences."
Be sure to review this as well!
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Yet another excellent editorial by The Daily Telegram! This time on Michigan House Bill 4564 and Michigan House Joint Resolution NN (2008) - if only other newspapers in Michigan had the same journalistic integrity and courage to report on the facts and not push liberal agenda.
Sunday MARCH 2, 2008
LOCAL EDITORIAL
‘Fatherhood month’ deserves state action
At issue: February being declared Responsible Fatherhood Awareness Month in Michigan.
Our view: Key bills need passage to help more children benefit from having fit non-custodial parents more involved in their lives.
February is “Responsible Fatherhood Awareness Month in Michigan,” declared by Gov. Jennifer Granholm to raise public awareness that involved fathers are important in raising children. Research shows that fathers parent in ways that tend to provide somewhat different — but complementary and equally important — benefits from parenting provided by mothers.
Unfortunately, society has moved away from the two-parent model for raising children. The U.S. Census Bureau found that between 1970 and 1990, the proportion of children living only with their mother doubled from 11 percent to 20 percent. Wednesday, the Census Bureau issued its new report that showed the latter rate has increased to 23 percent. More than one-quarter of American children live with only one parent and, in 88 percent of those cases, the Census Bureau found the mother has custody.
Divorce is a major cause of the trend. In most cases in Michigan, children of divorced parents typically are only given four to six days per month with their non-custodial parent. This arrangement remains the standard in any case in which either parent refuses joint parenting.
Two proposals are before Michigan lawmakers that would help ease that problem. One is Michigan’s Equal Parenting bill, HB 4564, which would establish that more equal parenting would become the normal expectation in contested divorces involving parents who both are fit adults. Judges still would have the authority to assign primary custody, however the burden of proof for denying one parent more equal time with their children would be shifted to a presumption of fitness rather than today’s general presumption of single-parenting.
Another proposal is House Joint Resolution NN, the Parental Rights Resolution, a proposed constitutional amendment to establish that “parents and legal guardians have a natural and fundamental right to direct the care, education, and upbringing of their children. No government action shall burden, abridge, or hinder this natural, fundamental right unless it is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.
The Equal Parenting bill has languished in the House Judiciary Committee since Oct. 10 after six months of sitting in the Families and Children’s Services Committee without a hearing. A similar bill received mostly favorable testimony last year, but died when Rep. Dudley Spade, D-Tipton, declined to vote “yes” or “no” on it in committee.
Spade has signed the Parental Rights Resolution as a co-sponsor, although Rep. Mike Simpson, D-Liberty Twp., has not.
It is time to move these pieces of legislation forward for consideration by the full House. This month’s declaration pays recognition to fatherhood. It is important now that lawmakers also create a more equal state environment in which more children will benefit from responsible fatherhood.
