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For every family torn apart, or otherwise hurt by:

the family court system
child protection services
domestic violence services
child support enforcement
any government employee or contractorIf you can't attend, please show your support by:

passing this bulletin along to your MySpace friends
copying this entire page and pasting it into a MySpace blog post adding the postcard and map to your website or blog
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CPS - words from parents and foster parents who know
Current mood: disgusted
Category: Life

"Two of my children ended up on the street one at the age of about 14
and the other is sitting in jail in Texas. This is thanks to the CPS
in Maine. In my opinion they did a worse job of parenting than I could
have ever done."

"My wife and I were in the foster care system for 7 years, and when I
witnessed a poor mom lose her kids simply because she was too poor to
own or rent a house with enough rooms for her six kids, I knew right
then what kind of monstrosity I was participating in. And although we
did adopt a little girl who might have had a horrible life if she was
left with her harlotrous drunk mother who conceived her at a party
where several men took turns having sex with her, I still felt she was
1 little girl who will come out well, while seeing many many other
kids who are being violated worse than any of their parents ever could
or did. Simply put, when the foster system has a failure rate of 73
percent, there is no way that they can tell me that there would not be
a much lower statistic of tragedy if those kids were left with their
"bad" parents."

"On 1-11-06, 2 of my home schooled, NONABUSED daughters were removed
from me with NO court order because their (then) 19 year old sister
told CPS she was sexually molested with power tools from ages 8�"16,
beaten with crow bars and burned in the fireplace. It's 2 years later,
CPS pronounced me UNFIT last year with NO EVIDENCE because there was
NO abuse, we lost our appeal to a higher court and my youngest
daughter (16)remains in a foster home.
http://texasroadrunner.spaces.live.com/
I have never known such pain and anguish. WE ARE INNOCENT!!! Will
somebody please investigate CPS corruption in Texas? Pray for the FLDS
children…the State will destroy their faith in God, like they did to
my girls, who are now Satanists since God didn't answer their prayers
and get them out of CPS captivity. HSLDA couldn't help us either even
though we were with them since 1984.

God help anyone caught in the CPS web…..you are guilty until proven
guilty, there is no other option with them.

In foster care, the chances are extremely high, that they will be
drugged (for more Federal funds), definitely emotionally abused, and
maybe even physically and sexually abused. Check out the stats. on
foster home deaths, rapes etc."

"I have a family member who tried for YEARS to get his son removed
from his ex girlfriends care. Judge didn't CARE about all the mothers
drug convictions…her lack of a desire to keep a job, lack of food
consistantly in the house, the neighbors complaints that she locked
the child out of the apartment while she was passed out inside
(unresponsive). She showed up at hearing with black eyes from current
live in boyfriend. Testimony at custody hearing with a neighbor who
testified she banged on the door for over an hour…the mother was
passed out inside…child (5 year old)locked out of the home. The judge
ruled NO REASON for emergency custody order to father. (Dad had steady
well paying professional job…not so much as a parking ticket)
2 weeks later, mother solved problem herself. Mother DIED OF OVERDOSE
IN FRONT OF CHILD. Little boy now has to live with that image in his
head."

THIS ONE IS REALLY SHOCKING:

"My wife and I took care of foster teenage girls for five years. In
those five years, we had over 200 teenage foster daughters. Some were
placed in our care for valid causes; however, FAR TOO MANY were
removed from their homes for absolutely no cause related to their
wellbeing. CPS does whatever they want and justifies the means after
the fact either through false allegations or by silence based on child
privacy concerns. In one facility where we took care of emergency
teenage girls, we took a stand one time to address the prevalence of
girls being placed in foster care for no good reason. In response,
Child "protective" Services came after us and our own daughters based
on a made up allegation that my wife was not providing for our 3 month
old daughter because she was not producing enough breast milk. Yes,
you read that right. We actually had to take our daughter to CPS in
another town for our daughter to undergo a physical and prove that she
was doing fine. All the while, we knew that it was just a threat to
shut us up and play along "or else". This was in North Carolina. We
left that facility immediately after that and spent three more years
taking care of emergency teenage girls at a much better place. We left
that facility too, after three years when it became obvious that the
population of girls in foster care who had no reason for being there
was increasing. All we were doing was taking care of kids that CPS
was, in fact, abducting from their homes on frivolous charges....
...My family has experienced CPS Gestapo practices first hand and know
that, someday, if left unchecked and unmonitored, that agency will
step across your doorstep and remove your children on whatever trumped
up charge either they or some anonymous caller decides to make up that
day. And no one will listen to your cries in the dark either, because
CPS is the "STATE" and their authority places them outside of the
bounds and limitations of our Constitution or even common sense. We
have an OBLIGATION to lift our combined voices in protest of what the
Texas CPS has DONE to these families. If we do not; if YOU do not,
then understand why no one comes to your aid when they walk into your
house and do the same."

"i can tell you why "good Christian" families are not taking in these
kids…their very lives are being destroyed by CPS!! We are a
homeschooling family for 16 years…have taken in a sibling group to
foster…then adopt, and the state has tormented us constantly. We have
been under CPS investigations 6 different times. One of the sibs
"wanted" to move out (12 yr old)…didn't like the rules and didn't like
to be homeschooled. Told us frequently, he was calling the police on
us. He is now not here (State let him leave instead of telling him to
obey the house rules) and he the one calling CPS to "report" us for
this or that. Of course this is our guess?? We have been threatened by
the "powers that be" that they "CPS" will even remove OUR BIO kids IF
we are found to have abandoned these kids in any way. We came into
foster care to HELP needed children several years ago…now, we have had
this sib group for 1 1/2 years and those that remain WANT to stay here
but the State is NOT LISTENING to them….they are into the "best
interest of the kids" to be placed yet again with the sib that does
not want to stay in a Christian home…does not like our rules, and does
not like to be held accoutable for his rotten actions. How long will
they let the 12 year old kid decide the future of his sibs? We never
believed that it would turn out like this? We must have been clueless.
What Christian family would put their own BIO kids at risk of removel
to take in some foster kids who need a home??? My husband says it is
his job to protect his family…When all of our Christian friends watch
from the sidelines as we wrestle against the State and CPS…(darkness)
they DO NOT WANT TO GET INVOLVED WITH THE STATE FOSTER SYSTEM. I don't
blame them. We are in for trouble in the near future if we don't STAND
UP!!"

"My husband and I haver been foster parents for over 10 years and many
times we have felt we were working for Satan. The sad part of this is
that this is the only system we have.

The best interest of the children have seldom been the main focus of
CPS. However, parents have been given all the resources to learn to be
safe parents for these children and most of the time they choose drugs
over their children. No wonder so many children end up in jail or on
drugs.

But, don't just blame the foster parents or CPS. The judges and
legislators also have a huge responsibility for this system.

The buck does stop with each voting citizen of this country. Do you
really hate what happened to these children? Make your voice heard
where it counts…your elected officials. Put pressure on the judges
that give parents YEARS to straighten out their lives and the children
are left in limbo. Or in this case where not all the children are in
danger make those calls.

My final thought is that if we don't stop CPS now there will be no
family safe from them. I am not being an alarmist, I've seen some of
the reasons children are taken."


scary, hah? everyone should support and promote the August dc
festival. http://www.dcfestival2008.com

teri

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Louise Setara - Make You Feel My Love - Live On Radio
Current mood: touched
Category: Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDJqvpxpH6w

beautiful.....

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U.S. State Department Behind International Child Abduction Scandal
Current mood: angry

http://mensnewsdaily.com/2008/06/14/us-state-depar...

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This article is about my dear friend Karl and his daughter Emily.

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RADAR ALERT: Family Law Advocates Need to Counter DV Falsehoods
Category: News and Politics

Department of Justice statistics show domestic violence (DV) in married, intact couples is only 2% ( http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/intimate/victims.htm). So why do the public and state legislators believe that partner violence is out of control?

Each year the federal government bankrolls the domestic violence industry to the tune of $1 billion. That money is authorized by the Violence Against Woman Act (VAWA) and other laws.

Much of that money is awarded to state domestic violence coalitions. In at least three cases – New Hampshire, Maine, and West Virginia – these coalitions have denied membership to organizations that proposed to provide domestic violence services to male victims of domestic violence in spite of Section 40002(b)(8) of VAWA 2005 which states, "Nothing in this title shall be construed to prohibit male victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking from receiving benefits and services under this title".

State DV coalitions often sponsor biased training programs to legislators, judges, and the public, falsely claiming that domestic violence is "overwhelmingly" perpetrated by men. (For examples, see RADAR's Special Report, "Education for Injustice" – http://mediaradar.org/docs/RADARreport-Education-For-Injustice.pdf)

In addition, state DV coalitions have become lobbying organizations. In many states they have successfully pressured legislators to weaken protective order standards and enact all-encompassing definitions of DV. They have also pushed state legislatures to adopt mandatory arrest polices, no-drop prosecution, and primary aggressor laws.

Federally-subsidized state DV advocates have used the domestic violence issue to defeat family law reforms, as well:

• North Dakota's shared parenting initiative in 2006
• West Virginia's shared parenting bill in 2008
• New Hampshire's mutual consent divorce bill in 2008
• Virginia's bill that would have required evidence and a separate finding to restrict a parent's access to a child in a spousal protective order in 2008

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DAD: please help me find my newborn daughter!

From: "jk Smith" <jksmith818@sbcglobal.net>

Please help me find my new baby girl, She will be/ or was born @ March 5 - 26, 2008.

Here is my story:

I made a mistake of having an affair with an unstable person.
I was attracted to her fun outgoing personality and fell for her cries that
she was living with an physically/ verbally abusive man (David Miranda) and
needed help getting away.

At the time I felt like her knight in shinning armor. I thought I could make
things better for her, her daughter and step son, Veronica/ Meritza had already
given away a son @ 15 years ago. She later confessed that the girl was not the
child of the man she lived with, but David thinks she is his child. She let
both children moved to Utah with David, the man she professed to be abusive.

Veronica/ Meritza then announces that she is pregnant and that it's mine, my
surprise was that she disappeared a little later "She says." she had gone to
Utah While she was there she accidentally backed over her daughter with his SUV,
injuring both of the little girl's legs, they neglected the injury until by the
time they took her to a Dr. she had to have an operation. They are both are in
my opinion unfit parents and I fear for my child's safety. Veronica/ Meritza
has been in cont. contact with me throughout the pregnancy. We already know the
baby is a girl and her name will be Danu.

But now Veronica/ Meritza has decided that I will never get to see my little
girl.

I have to find her and make sure my daughter is alright. My wife has forgiven
me for the affair and also fears for the child, we are willing to make a
healthy/ happy home for Danu.

Veronica is @ 34 - 36 years old Hispanic and possible going by the names of:
Veronica Calderon, Maritza Calderon, Veronica Miranda, or Meritza Meranda.
She may be in the Glendale, Pasadena, Ca. OR @ Salt Lake City area.

If she has her other daughter with her she would be in the 2nd grade/ misses
alot of school.

Veronica/ Meritza does not speak American very well.

I'M AT THE PLEADING STAG: PLEASE HELP ME FIND MY BABY GIRL.
HELP ME BE THE GREAT CARING DAD I AM TO DANU!

UPDATE: Veronica called to let me know that she is in Utah and my
daughter was born on Sunday, March 2nd,and is home with her now.
and that she looks like me.

I still do not understand this womans intentions. She called to taunt
me with this bit of information, but still insists on playing cat and
mouse games with me. She did let it slip that she has moved to Utah and
that is where the baby was born.

Her Name is Danu Poala Calderon or Miranda. Veronica say's she will
give me an address to send any gifts that I may have for the baby but
that is all. What am I to do if I can not find out where she is to send
Paternity documents to. I have tried to find her on the internet but
with no luck.

If anyone is in Utah and knows any information, please help me!
If it is proven that Danu is truly my daughter, then I will take full
responsilbility for her as her Dad.

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kids 4 sale?

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Abuse risk seen worse as families change

Abuse risk seen worse as families change

By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

NEW YORK - Six-year-old Oscar Jimenez Jr. was beaten to death in California, then buried under fertilizer and cement. Two-year-old Devon Shackleford was drowned in an Arizona swimming pool. Jayden Cangro, also 2, died after being thrown across a room in Utah.

In each case, as in many others every year, the alleged or convicted perpetrator had been the boyfriend of the child's mother — men thrust into father-like roles which they tragically failed to embrace.

Every case is different, every family is different. Some single mothers bring men into their lives who lovingly help raise children when the biological father is gone for good.

Nonetheless, many scholars and front-line caseworkers interviewed by The Associated Press see the abusive-boyfriend syndrome as part of a broader trend that deeply worries them. They note an ever-increasing share of America's children grow up in homes without both biological parents, and say the risk of child abuse is markedly higher in the nontraditional family structures.

"This is the dark underbelly of cohabitation," said Brad Wilcox, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia. "Cohabitation has become quite common, and most people think, 'What's the harm?' The harm is we're increasing a pattern of relationships that's not good for children."

The existing data on child abuse in America is patchwork, making it difficult to track national trends with precision. The most recent federal survey on child maltreatment tallies nearly 900,000 abuse incidents reported to state agencies in 2005, but it does not delve into how rates of abuse correlate with parents' marital status or the makeup of a child's household.

Similarly, data on the roughly 1,500 child-abuse fatalities that occur annually in the United States leaves unanswered questions. Many of those deaths result from parental neglect, rather than overt physical abuse. Of the 500 or so deaths caused by physical abuse, the federal statistics do not specify how many were caused by a stepparent or unmarried partner of the parent.

However, there are many other studies that, taken together, reinforce the concerns. Among the findings:

_Children living in households with unrelated adults are nearly 50 times as likely to die of inflicted injuries as children living with two biological parents, according to a study of Missouri abuse reports published in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2005.

_Children living in stepfamilies or with single parents are at higher risk of physical or sexual assault than children living with two biological or adoptive parents, according to several studies co-authored by David Finkelhor, director of the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center.

_Girls whose parents divorce are at significantly higher risk of sexual assault, whether they live with their mother or their father, according to research by Robin Wilson, a family law professor at Washington and Lee University.

"All the emphasis on family autonomy and privacy shields the families from investigators, so we don't respond until it's too late," Wilson said. "I hate the fact that something dangerous for children doesn't get responded to because we're afraid of judging someone's lifestyle."

Census data leaves no doubt that family patterns have changed dramatically in recent decades as cohabitation and single-parenthood became common. Thirty years ago, nearly 80 percent of America's children lived with both parents. Now, only two-thirds of them do. Of all families with children, nearly 29 percent are now one-parent families, up from 17 percent in 1977.

The net result is a sharp increase in households with a potential for instability, and the likelihood that adults and children will reside in them who have no biological tie to each other.

"I've seen many cases of physical and sexual abuse that come up with boyfriends, stepparents," said Eliana Gil, clinical director for the national abuse-prevention group Childhelp.

"It comes down to the fact they don't have a relationship established with these kids," she said. "Their primary interest is really the adult partner, and they may find themselves more irritated when there's a problem with the children."

That was the case with Jayden Cangro.

In July 2006, his mother's boyfriend, Phillip Guymon, hurled the 2-year-old nine feet across a room in Murray, Utah, because he balked at going to bed. The child died from his injuries.

Jayden's mother, Carly Moore, has undergone therapy since the killing. Yet she continues to second-guess herself about her two-year relationship with Guymon.

"There's so much guilt," she said in a telephone interview. "I never saw him hit my kids, ever. But he was gruff in his manner — there were signs that he wasn't most pleasant person for kids to be around."

Guymon has been sentenced to five years in prison for second-degree felony child abuse homicide. Moore thinks the penalty is far too light.

"It's a hard thing," she said, recalling Jayden's death. "You go off to work, you say, 'See you later,' and then everything's completely shattered in a split second."

Some women can't see the trouble even when it's right in front of them.

Jennifer Harvey of Springfield, Mo., acknowledged in court last summer that she continued to date a man for two months after becoming suspicious that he had killed her 18-month-old son, Gavin.

"I was in denial," said Harvey, who was placed on five years' probation for not acting on her suspicions. The boyfriend, Joseph Haslett, was sentenced to life in prison for suffocating the toddler with a headlock.

The slaying of toddler Devon Shackleford in 2004 was premeditated.

Derek Chappell, who was sentenced to death this month, considered Devon an obstacle to an on-again, off-again relationship with the boy's mother, and drowned him in an apartment complex's swimming pool in Mesa, Ariz.

The mother, Kristal Frank, has created a Web site in memory of her son, full of reminiscences and snapshots. Chappell is referred to only as "that inhumane thing."

Such cases trigger a visceral reaction, but there are no simple solutions. Some of the worst cases of child abuse involve biological parents, and examples abound of children thriving in nontraditional households

"There's no going back to the past," said Washington and Lee's Robin Wilson. "We don't tell people who they can cohabit with. We don't tell them they can't have children out of wedlock."

There are, of course, some initiatives aimed at reducing the percentage of children raised by single parents. That's one of the goals of the Bush administration's Healthy Marriage Initiative.

"The risk (of abuse) to children outside a two-parent household is greater," said Susan Orr, one of the top child-welfare specialists in the Department of Health and Human Services. "Does that mean all single parents abuse their children? Of course not. But the risk is certainly there, and it's useful to know that."

As with many local programs, the federal effort encourages single parents to at least consider marriage, while other programs focus on broadening the support network for single parents. One long-standing initiative, the Nurse-Family Partnership, has lowered abuse rates by arranging for nurses to visit low-income, first-time mothers throughout their pregnancy and after their child is born.

Many social workers say the emphasis should be on nurturing healthy relationships, whether or not the parent is married.

"The primary thing is to have adults around who care about these kids, whatever shape it takes," said Zeinab Chahine, who was a New York City child-protection caseworker and administrator for 22 years before taking a high-level job in July with Casey Family Programs.

Chahine said caseworkers need to learn as much as possible, in a nonconfrontational manner, about the personal dynamics in at-risk households. Is there an unmarried partner who spends time there, or a newly arrived stepparent? Does that person care about the children, or consider them a nuisance? Is a criminal background check warranted?

"We start from perspective that the mom is as concerned about her kids as we are," Chahine said. "We can try to help her see the need for us to look into the situation."

Judith Schagrin, a Baltimore-based social worker engaged in child welfare for 24 years, said live-in boyfriends can be valuable resources for a single mother and her children. Some even have been awarded custody of children as an alternative to foster care while the mother is in jail.

"We look at the relationship the kid has with whomever is around — is it supportive or destructive?" Schagrin said. "Does the mother have a long-term, stable relationship with this individual, or does she have rotating list of partners coming in and out?"

In the real world, however, learning crucial details about a potentially fragile family is not easy.

"The field struggles with the balance between intrusion in private matters and awareness of significant risks to the child," said Fred Wulczyn, a research fellow at the University of Chicago's Chapin Hall Center for Children.

"With a social worker who's in the house on a once-a-month basis, how good do we expect our diagnostics to be?" Wulczyn asked. "Achieving the right balance, so you never have to ponder 'What if?' — that's hard to do."

The sensitivity of probing into private lives is one of many problems underlying the lack of definitive national data that correlates child abuse with parents' marital status and household makeup. Some conservative commentators say "political correctness" is partly to blame — namely a reluctance to press for data that might reflect negatively on single motherhood.

Another problem is lack of thoroughness and consistency among the states as they forward abuse reports to federal agencies. Differing definitions of "household" and varying efforts to ascertain marital status result in a statistical "hodgepodge," according to Elliott Smith, who oversees a national archive of child-abuse research at Cornell University.

Among child-welfare specialists, there is hope that the statistical gaps will be filled by a comprehensive federal survey, the National Incidence Study, that will be completed next year.

The previous version of the study, released in 1996, concluded that children of single parents had a 77 percent greater risk of being harmed by physical abuse than children living with both parents. But the new version will delve much deeper into the specifics of family structure and cohabitation, according to project director Andrea Sedlak.

"We can ask the questions," Sedlak said. "But it's hard to look at cohabiting. It could well be there will be too much missing data to make definitive statements."

Long term, many child-welfare advocates say economic and social changes are needed, so day-care options improve and young men in poor communities have job prospects that make marriage seem more feasible. There's also agreement that many adults in high-risk households need better parenting skills — whether it's the harried young mothers often guilty of harmful neglect or the boyfriends and stepfathers often responsible for physical abuse.

"These boyfriends increasingly have been raised without fathers and been abused themselves," said Patrick Fagan, a family-policy specialist with the conservative Family Research Council. "Among the inner-city poor, the turnover of male partners is high. Where's a boy getting the model of what a father is like?"

Oscar Jimenez Jr., the San Jose, Calif., boy found buried under cement and fertilizer, did have a biological father who was devoted to him. But the father, Oscar Sr., separated from Oscar Jr.'s mother in 2002 and was prevented from seeing his son in the weeks before the boy's death in February, allegedly from a beating by live-in boyfriend and ex-convict Samuel Corona.

The mother, Kathyrn Jimenez, says she, like her son, was abused by Corona, yet she has pleaded guilty to three felony charges for assisting him — driving with him from San Jose to Phoenix to hide her son's remains, then keeping quiet about the killing for months.

Kathryn Jimenez was in custody when Oscar Jr.'s funeral took place Sept. 29. She didn't hear the plea of a longtime family friend.

"Listen carefully to the message," Olessia Silva said at the service. "To all the mothers in this world who may find themselves in a difficult situation or harmful relationship: know that there is always, always someone willing to help if you would just reach out."

 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071117/ap_on_re_us/child_abuse   

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SUPERHEROES RALLY TO SAVE CHILDREN
Category: News and Politics

MEDIA ADVISORY - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SUPERHEROES RALLY TO SAVE CHILDREN (OHIO)

Friday, March 30, 2007
11:00 AM until 8:00 PM
1085 Eaton Avenue Hamilton, Ohio

This Friday, March 30, 2007 Fathers-4-Justice (F4J) will exercise their First Amendment rights by bringing awareness to the misinformation being perpetrated upon the American Taxpayer by Ohio's Butler County Child Support Enforcement Agency (CSEA) director, Cynthia Brown. Non-custodial parents are routinely vilified and often driven to despair because of the winner-take-all sole custody system and connected child support industry that is exemplified by Ohio's biased and outdated family law.

F4J members will demonstrate outside the CSEA, where they will deliver a call for the resignation of Cynthia Brown due to her use of local pizzerias to print "Deadbeat Dad" wanted posters on their pizza boxes. Cynthia Brown's discriminatory public humiliation of good American parents is not unlike the methods that provoked the civil rights movement of the 1960's.

These misguided and irresponsible tactics, which have fostered national media coverage of Director Brown and her attack campaign, serve no one but the CSEA and Cynthia Brown's own lucrative position within the state bureaucracy. F4J will start and end their demonstration outside of Karen's Pizzeria, one of the pizzerias involved.

Also in attendance will be the pizza-loving videogame duo, Mario and Luigi, better known as the Super Mario Brothers.

According to Fathers4Justice Ohio State Coordinator Keith Owens, "Children should never be included in the adult issues of divorce. This campaign by Cynthia Brown and the Butler County Child Support Enforcement Agency is abusive to children by doing just that.

There needs to be a new level of education concerning the true values of the American public about the much greater issues that are at stake than filling Cynthia Brown's CSEA coffers. I know many fathers that are destitute and homeless because of unfair and often impossible-to-make child support payments. Maybe Cynthia Brown should be looking under pizza boxes instead of on them."

Karen's Pizzeria in Hamilton is being used by the CSEA to spread myths about parents who allegedly are in arrears on child support, portraying them as criminals. This is harmful to children, putting them in the position of being ridiculed and ostracized because of the unfair connection made to one of their parents.

Fathers-4-Justice does not support "deadbeat" dads, but it also does not support bullies like Cynthia Brown who beat dads dead and harms their children in the process.

THE BEST CHILD SUPPORT IS EQUAL PARENTING!

Ohio's antiquated child custody laws need to be changed for our children, families and society. While Ohio law promotes internicene wars for sole physical custody, a benefit of joint physical custody is that it improves child support compliance. Researchers have found a positive correlation between the frequency of a parent's contact with a child and the payment of child support.

The more frequent, regular and flexible the time a parent is permitted to spend with his child, the more likely he is to meet his child support obligation in full and on time. In terms of voluntary compliance, fathers who have little or no contact with their children after a divorce pay only about 34% of their child support, while fathers with regular contact pay 85% or more of theirs.

F4J is a non-profit, volunteer army of fathers, mothers, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and others dedicated to fighting for truth, justice and equality in family law. Justice is coming.

FIGHTING FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE & EQUALITY IN FAMILY LAW

Keith Owens
Ohio Coordinator
Phone: 419-619-7725
Mail: PO Box 14954
Mpls, MN 55414
info@f4j.us
www.f4j.us
US Phone/Fax: 614-448-3276
TM

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