MA Shared Parenting Action Alert: We Need Your Phone Calls
Hundreds of supporters of family court reform packed the Joint Committee on the Judiciary hearings last Wednesday. Numerous determined advocates of Fathers and Families’ Shared Parenting bill (H02684) testified–some waiting all day up to 10 PM at night to do so–and their words were powerful and engendered much agreement and sympathy.
Now we need you to:
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Fathers and Families Board Chairman Ned Holstein, MD, MS testifying in favor of H02684. |
1) Call your state representative and ask him or her to call House Chair Eugene L. O’Flaherty and Speaker of the House Robert A. DeLeo and ask them to pass the bill. The phone numbers and email addresses of all House members can be found here.
2) Call your state senator and ask him or her to call Senate Chair Cynthia Stone Creem and Senate President Therese Murray and ask them to pass the bill. The phone numbers and email addresses of all Senators can be found here.
3) Tell us what your representative or senator said by emailing us.
Activism is not a spectator sport–we need your calls to help overcome the special interests that are arrayed against us. Women, grandparents and children of divorce are especially needed–we urge you to ask your spouses, parents, siblings and friends to call, too.
We’ve built widespread support for shared parenting among legislators–30% of whom signed on as cosponsors of shared parenting legislation–and with the Governor. But shared parenting is being bottled up in committee by a handful of ideologues–we need your help to get it out.
To read the testimonies of Dr. Holstein and Fathers and Families’ members Deanna Marchand, Jules Remenar, Michael Burgraff, Howie Simon, and others, click here.
We also thank F & F member Richard Fucillo for his skilled legislative work in support of the bill, as well as the many others who attended and in some cases testified, including Roy Corbeil (a grandparent), Terry Brennan, Harris Allen, Tom Hanks, David Harbison, Robert Gada (with his baby), John Peterson, Kevin McCarthy (with his 4-year-old boy), and others.
We know of only two people who testified against shared parenting, one of whom represented the Family Law Task Force.
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