Beneficiaries of Child Custody disputes RESIST change at every turn
Posted by Not Credited on April 12th, 2010 | Category: bias Conflict of Interest Costs double standards Exploitation of Family Law Family Law Reform Feminism welfare benefits
The evidence is overwhelming. Absent fatherhood is tearing apart communities, schools and our youth. Yet every opponent of state House Bill 2916 represents an industry that profits from its existence. The state can no longer afford to ignore this connection.
HB 2916 is equal parenting legislation. It returns equal responsibility for children to both their natural parents. In the absence of an agreement by the parents to care for their children otherwise or evidence of parental unfitness, in order to "tie-break," HB 2916 stipulates that responsibility and care for children rests equally upon both parents.
The bill risks undermining the profitability of social service industries handling family matters, custody disputes and domestic violence while lobbyists from myriad industries including psychologists are fighting its passage.
Groups claiming to represent the child's best interest line up to perpetuate a system everyone knows is broken, yet to change it undermines the economic viability of taxpayer-funded social service industries and entitlements. These groups continue to claim they hold the only key to protecting our children. Yet all evidence and data support the opposite conclusion. Decades of financial incentives to support single parenting have produced worsening results for children but dramatic growth in funding for the industries designed to help.
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