HELP STRENGTHEN CHILD & FAMILY WELLBEING

Children raised in single-parent homes are at greater risk of almost every societal ill.

Gun & criminal violence – second only to the gun itself, fatherless males are the most common factor in gun violence.

Suicide & mental health issues – 4X – 5X more likely to commit suicide. Mental, emotional, & social development all suffer.

Child poverty & homelessness – 4X-5X more likely to live in poverty. 32X more likely to runaway & be homeless.

Juvenile Detention – 70%, 9X more likely to be in a state operated institution.

Runaway & Homeless – 90%, 32X more likely to be a homeless or runaway youth.

Broken Systems

Family Court, CPS, & Child Support systems often do more harm than good.

Family Court

Contested custody is rarely about the child. It’s about money, power & control.  Rebuttable presumption of equal parenting prevents child abuse.

Child Protective Services (CPS)

Most CPS reports are made with an ill intent to harm the other parent instead of a true child safety concern. End false allegations and prevent child abuse.

Child Support

Created for all the wrong reasons.  Established as a welfare recovery system that did not trust low-income parents, typically families of color, to be good parents.

Systemic Issues

False Allegations, Parental Alienation, & Domestic Violence – 3 forms of abuse

False Allegations

False allegations are THE primary weapon of abuse in family court and with CPS. They are rampant because they work and there is no accountability for making them.

Parental Alienation (PA)

Despite hundreds of peer-reviewed social science studies and research, PA is controversial because of a VAWA-funded disinformation campaign that policymakers believe.

Child Support

Men and women are equally as likely to be perpetrators and victims of DV, yet victim rights groups deny that simple fact and falsely promote DV as being a single-gender issue.

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Systems Betray Children by Putting Them in the Middle of Their Parent’s Conflict

The Rebuttable Presumption of Equal Parenting means that if custody is contested, it will be 50/50 unless there is a preponderance of evidence that proves a parent is unfit or unsafe. Unless the equal parenting presumption is overcome by evidence, not opinion or bias, the child’s right to have two safe, healthy, and secure parent-child relationships is protected.

Kentucky passed rebuttable presumption in 2017/2018. Over the following five years, child victims decreased 33.2% (Colorado decreased 3.7%) and child abuse investigations decreased 30.9% (CO only 0.8%). The correlation? If a false allegation of child abuse will no longer win custody, false allegations won’t be made.

Stop Parents From Weaponizing Systems & Their Children

False allegations of child abuse, domestic violence, and parental alienation are common practice in family court and with CPS. False allegations are an often-used strategy designed to create bias, destroy the targeted parent emotionally and financially, and sever their relationship with their child. Although the systems acknowledge it happens, they have taken zero steps to prevent this form of psychological and emotional child abuse and domestic violence.

Parents who knowingly use false allegations as the basis of obtaining a protective order or other court motion must be held accountable for this criminal and libelous offense.

Parental Alienation Is Real

Parental alienation is a form of psychological and emotional child abuse and domestic violence. Sadly, despite the data and hundreds of peer-reviewed studies and research papers, the term is controversial for policymakers. Why? Because a small but persuasive group of victim rights and child protection advocates falsely claim that it’s only a legal defense abusive dads use to win custody from protective moms. They mislead policymakers to make it easier for themselves to make false allegations and not be held accountable for abusing their child.

A CDHS 2019 Child Fatality Report Team report recommended parental alienation be added to the Colorado Children’s Code on Abuse and Neglect. COR intends to overcome the objections of the policy villains and see that parental alienation is added to the Children’s Code as recommended in the CFRT report.

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Colorado Resilience, a 501.c.3 nonprofit, is dedicated to strengthening family resilience by replacing system practices that foster parental conflict and victim mentalities with programs that promote parental cooperation and hero mindsets. By setting equality in parenting as the cornerstone for protecting both parent-child relationships, children will be safer, healthier, and happier. Children need and love both their parents, just as parents deeply love their children.