Policy Priorities

Policy Priorities

Rebuttable Presumption of Equal Parenting

Time Taken, Time Back

3 Strikes Law

Justice Delayer is Justice Denied

Cameras in Courtrooms

Healthier Children & More Resilient Families

When parents choose to work together to provide and care for their children, they, their children, and their families will almost always be healthier, happier, safer, and better off by every measure of wellbeing. Except in cases of proven abuse, two parents are almost aways better than one.

The problem is that instead of protecting both parent-child relationships as equally important to the child’s wellbeing and outcomes, weak policies allow parents to try and harm or even sever their child’s relationship with the other parent. Financial, control, and anger incentives often lure selfish, emotionally vulnerable parents and their families into systems that exacerbate parental conflict to diminish child safety and family resilience.

The solution is simple. It’s called the rebuttable presumption of equal parenting. Outside of court, parents can agree to whatever co-parenting and support arrangement that works best for their family.  But, if either wants to limit or lessen the other parent’s role, it requires a justifiable and substantiated reason as to why. Revenge and false allegations should not suffice.