Before One More Child is Lost...

Fix the Corrupt System

by Andrew J Thompson

Every day, I talk to parents who are forced to be absent from their children's lives for no good reason, sometimes for no reason at all.  When parents are taken from a child's life, the child suffers.  The odds of increased drug use, crime, and out-of-wedlock pregnancies all sky rocket when children are left without a father or mother, or worst of all - without both.

The family law and family court systems of all 50 states, underwritten by the federal government, has badly distorted financial incentives that encourage separation and divorce, alienation of one or both parents from their child, unjust and inappropriate awards of child support, and many other barriers to sound, health family relationships.

If we do not reverse this trend - and soon - an entire generation of American children is at great risk of losing the sense of security, hope and grounding in family that has enabled every past generation of Americans to find it within themselves to manage through every battle we've faced.  Today's children are ill equipped to face tomorrow's challenges because their own parents have been stripped, in whole or in part, from their lives. 

Meanwhile, parents suffer too!  And they suffer in ways none of us could imagine until it happens to us, for reasons no one can support with logic, love or truth.

Together, we can and must bring about change.  This is at the very core of each of our beings, of who we are as individuals and who are as a nation.  It is so much bigger than health care reform, climate change, and unemployment.  It affects every one of us.  It hurts more deeply, it lasts even longer.  We will not have a generation equipped to address these issues unless we find a way to address the harms our children are caused by the oppression and injustice of the family court system today. 

It is also bigger than second had smoke, the addictive nature of nicotine and problems with asbestos.  As awful as these problems are, the corruption within the family law system far exceeds them.  Yet, these issues have been and are begin effectively addressed through the court system itself, following the initiation of large scale class action litigation. 

We can do the same and do more.  Not only can we effect change via serious and thoughtful class action, we can similarly bring change through legislation and our impact on federal, state and local lawmakers and administrators.  We can change the law: we can change the case law, and we can change the enacted law as well.

I am a licensed attorney in the state of Indiana with experience in class litigation.

If you believe you your Constitutional rights have been violated through this corrupt system, please join us!  The first thing to do is to add your email address to our mailing list using the form in the upper, left hand column above.  We will be forwarding forms to all new subscribers to describe the specifics of your situation and evaluate your claim. 

Whether it is a matter of equal protection or due process, involving issues with child protective services, child support enforcement, an unjust loss of parenting time, abuse of VAWA claims, basic judicial corruption, or any other matter that has caused harm to you and your children through the improper use of governmental authority, you rights - and your children's deserve to be protected. 

If you can give to help support the cause, your gifts will be greatly appreciated as well.  Whether it's a gift of $10, $25, $100 or more, every bit will help us fight to win this most important battle.  It is a long, uphill fight and we need your support!

That is the simple goal of Reform Family Law Now.  We hope you will come alongside us in bringing about the change that may spare our children from a looming national disaster.  Please join us today!

Comments

[Lisa R Smith]

Thank you for writing about a topic that is ignored TOO Much.

[Michelle Martin]

Reform is needed badly...too many families are being broken apart and are hurting. Thank you for this wonderful article.

[Deborah L. Davies]

A person with my kind of reform, real reform. Judges in family court need to be held accountable for following in the corruption instead of fighting against it and upholding the parents and children's constitutional rights. Fighting for Reform through Federal Court

[Drew Thompson]

You couldn't be more right, Deborah. This is a very challenging thing to do, however. Judges do not want to hear cutody and parenting matters, they find them distracting. They have strongly preconceived ideas about parenting that are very hard to change as well. I am joing our State Bar's Judicial Oversight Committee on Improvements in the Judiciary. These are sincere peopel and I hope we can have the right kind of impact!