Appoint a Shared Parenting Task Force!
By David Brasington, Director, National Board of Directors 
David Brasington
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Now is the time for the Massachusetts Legislature to appoint a Shared Parenting Task Force. On the heels of the resounding success of the Massachusetts Alimony Task Force, Fathers and Families wants the same for our children with a Shared Parenting Task Force.
Call your legislator today!
I am asking every Massachusetts Fathers and Families reader to advocate for the Shared Parenting Task Force that our legislative leaders promised. Please call your legislator and tell them or a member of their staff:
Now it is time to produce the single most important reform for the welfare of our children — shared parenting — in the family courts. The legislature used a task force to work out the solution for alimony, please use this same powerful tool for shared parenting for our children. Ask the Judiciary Committee's Chairs to appoint a Shared Parenting Task Force: Senator Cynthia Stone Creem and Representative Eugene L. O'Flaherty.
Shared parenting is best for children in families with two parents living together and for children where the parents are living apart through no fault of the children. Anything less than the presumption of shared parenting in the family courts not only penalizes innocent children, but it causes many of the problems our children suffer in today's society.
Shared parenting is simply a collaborative arrangement in which both parents share custody of their children. It is the best solution for most separated, divorced, and never-married families. It provides children ample time with both parents and, just as important, with both extended families. Through a ballot initiative, over 86% of Massachusetts voters have already stated that they want shared parenting.
Identify yourself as a member of Fathers and Families. Let them know that Fathers and Families' mission is to improve the lives of children and strengthen society by protecting the child's right to the love and care of both parents after separation or divorce.
Find your legislator or call 617.722.2000 to reach their office.
Some of your Massachusetts Senators and Representatives have already stated their commitment to shared parenting. They have signed on as sponsors to Fathers and Families bill HB2684 sponsored by Representative John W. Scibak. Or they have signed on as sponsors to other shared parenting legislation: HB1306 sponsored by Representative Colleen M. Garry; SB847 sponsored by Senator Richard J. Ross; or SB659 sponsored by Senator Stephen M. Brewer.
If any of the legislators listed below are your representative or senator, thank them for protecting our children and ask them to take the next step and seek the appointment of a Shared Parenting Task Force.
I want to know their response to you. After you have spoken with your representative, senator, or a member of their staff, please let me know by emailing Rita Fuerst Adams, our new executive director. Rep Paul Adams (17th Essex)
Rep Denise Andrews (2nd Franklin)
Rep James Arciero (2nd Middlesex)
Rep Cory Atkins (14th Middlesex)
Rep F. Jay Barrows (1st Bristol)
Rep Carlo Basile (1st Suffolk)
Rep Matthew Beaton (11th Worcester)
Rep Jennifer E. Benson (37th Middlesex)
Rep John J. Binienda (17th Worcester)
Rep Thomas J. Calter (12th Plymouth)
Rep Linda Dean Campbell (15th Essex)
Rep James J. Dwyer (30th Middlesex)
Rep Carolyn C. Dykema (8th Middlesex)
Rep Kimberly Ferguson (1st Worcester)
Rep John P. Fresolo (16th Worcester)
Rep Paul K. Frost (7th Worcester)
Rep Sean Garballey (23rd Middlesex)
Rep Colleen M. Garry (36th Middlesex)
Rep Anne M. Gobi (5th Worcester)
Rep Thomas A. Golden, Jr. (16th Middlesex)
Rep Carlos Henriquez (5th Suffolk)
Rep Bradford Hill (4th Essex)
Rep Kate Hogan (3rd Middlesex)
Rep Robert M. Koczera (11th Bristol)
Rep Bradley H. Jones, Jr. (20th Middlesex)
Rep Kenneth Kuros (8th Worcester)
Rep Stephen L. Levy (4th Middlesex)
Rep Jason M. Lewis (31st Middlesex)
Rep David Paul Linsky (5th Middlesex)
Rep James Lyons, Jr. (18th Essex)
Rep Paul McMurtry (11th Norfolk)
Rep Aaron Michlewitz (3rd Suffolk)
Rep Shauna O'Connell (3rd Bristol)
Rep James J. O'Day (14th Worcester)
Rep George N Peterson, Jr. (9th Worcester)
Rep Elizabeth Poirier (14th Bristol)
Rep Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. (12th Hampden)
Rep George T. Ross (2nd Bristol)
Rep Angelo M. Scaccia (14th Suffolk)
Rep John W. Scibak (2nd Hampshire)
Rep Carl M. Sciortino (34th Middlesex)
Rep Todd M. Smola (1st Hampden)
Rep Joyce A. Spiliotis (12th Essex)
Rep David B. Sullivan (6th Bristol)
Rep Benjamin Swan (11th Hampden)
Rep Walter F. Timilty (7th Norfolk)
Rep Chris Walsh (6th Middlesex)
Rep Daniel B. Winslow (9th Norfolk)
Sen Stephen M. Brewer (Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin)
Sen Sal N. DiDomenico (Middlesex, Suffolk, Essex)
Sen Robert L. Hedlund (Plymouth and Norfolk)
Sen Brian A. Joyce (Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth)
Sen Thomas P. Kennedy (2nd Plymouth and Bristol)
Sen Michael R. Knapik (2nd Hampden and Hampshire)
Sen Thomas M. McGee (3rd Essex and Middlesex)
Sen Anthony Petruccelli (1st Suffolk and Middlesex)
Sen Richard J. Ross (Norfolk, Bristol, and Middlesex)
Sen Bruce E. Tarr (1st Essex and Middlesex)
Sen James E. Timilty (Bristol and Norfolk) |
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