Rights in Court According to NOW

For those of you who don't know, NOW is the National Organization for Women. They may have done good things years ago but I think their time has come and usefulness has passed where it concerns family law because they have no clue! They have their own agenda and equality is NOT IT.

This is from their website:

Recognizing that mothers' rights in family law courts are regularly violated, and that stopping that must be a priority of the feminist movement, we must have strategies for effecting change in this area. By organizing ourselves into groups we can have a greater impact on the problem. We can bring attention to the details of the problem, call for change through legislation, demand that our elected officials and politicians recognize this problem and step up to do something about it, and organize with other mothers and concerned citizens to protest the treatment of women in the courts.

Somebody come pick me up off the floor now! OMG! It is a well-known fact that there are more courts that are mom-biased than equal or father-biased. I know if I were to divorce my husband (which I have no plans of btw, 'cause we love each other immensely and he's sexy and sweet and he loves me and...getting off the point here, lol), I would have the advantage over him in court. Sad, but true.

Why don't they get a clue and start speaking up about EQUALITY period. I've been a part of a womens movement for family law change and it didn't coincide with NOW's ideas to trample men's rights so women could one up them in court! What about fighting for equality for the children's sake? What about equality so BOTH parents constitutional rights are upheld? NOW makes it a gender issue. It is time to put "gender issues" aside and be HUMAN. It is a human issue. It is a parental issue. It is not just a woman's issue for them to use as they please.

I can understand standing up for battered women so they and the children are protected (as should the men and children who are battered by women which nobody wants to talk about because it is better for NOW to portray women as helpless and men as the big, bad wolf all the time) but they go beyond that so that ALL men's rights in family court are in jeopardy every time they step foot in it. Men know that in all likelihood they aren't going to get a fair deal in court without a whole lot of time and expense to fight what should naturally be a constitutional right to parent your children equally with mom...and even after expending all that money, a majority still lose out!

If the courts would give BOTH parents equality where you have two loving parents involved, this wouldn't be an issue. I don't mean joint "legal" custody because that is a load of you know what. All that means is that both parents agree unless mom doesn't and she gets her way (that is what the court told us personally and I will forever remember the name of that government official!). I mean a TRUE sharing of parental responsibility - physically, legally, and monetarily.

I think NOW needs to just be quiet now. I am sick of them. They turned feminist into a dirty word. I'd never use it to describe myself again.

I am a mother.

I am a wife.

I am a woman.

I believe in equality.

That means I don't believe in NOW.

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This is not a political blog. This is just my rant for the day (actually more like the past 13 years but who is counting), lol.