Our Mission is to:

• Minimize the emotional upheaval experienced during and after the parental separation.
• Promote every child’s civil rights to equal access to both parents and the extended family regardless of marital
• status.
• End the adversarial process in divorce and custody matters.
• Insure equal, unbiased treatment for all parties in Domestic Relations proceedings.

Our Goals are To:

• Promote equal parental responsibility for children’s nurturing.
• Promote equitable parental responsibility for children’s financial needs.
• Promote the policy that children are not property.
• Educate policy makers and the public about the rights of children to have full access to both parents and their
• extended families.
• End parental alienation.
• Provide positive parenting role models and parenting education programs for separating families.
• Advocate laws for the resolution of marital and custody disputes through mediation rather than litigation.
• Promote legislation whereby shared custody is made a legal presumption.
• Compel court enforcement of shared custody and visitation orders on a par with support enforcement,
• including sanctions.
• Eliminate profit motive in custody and support awards by the courts.
• Support efforts toward public awareness of the vital role of fathers in the growth and development of their
• children.
• Prevent the use of false child and/or spousal abuse allegations as leverage in custody disputes.
• Compel court enforcement of sanctions for filing false allegations of child and/or spousal abuse.
• Promote legislation to tighten the evidence requirements for obtaining Protection from Abuse orders.
• Establish a shelter for displaced fathers and their children.
• Promote legislation to limit legal fees in domestic cases.