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Boone County Child Advocates is a civil rights organization advocating for the full involvement of parents in their children's lives. Originally founded as an advocate for Non-Custodial Parents (NCP) in Boone County and the Indianapolis area we soon found there was a much greater need. Work-a-holics, neglectful parents, absentee parents, parental alienation, incarceration and custody battles are all negatively impacting our children. We support the United States Supreme Court's mandate of presumptive joint physical and legal custody of parents in divorce and paternity cases unless there is a showing of unfitness by a parent. Allowing or ordering a parent out of a child's life and substituting a payment is not effective parenting. We seek to remove the federal incentive payments to states for breaking apart families and damaging children. Payments are made to states for taking children from parents homes and placing them in adoption and for terminating
a parent's custody and issuing child support payment orders. States do not receive any payment when parents facilitate their own child support arrangements. Corruption in the courts and the profit that judges, prosecutors, lawyers, therapists, evaluators and more derive from destroying childrens lives needs to be eliminated. Modification of child support and child custody laws in Indiana and the country is essential to providing children with access to both parents and the opportunities necessary to achieve a positive childhood. We hope you will join us to offer support, improve yourself or do what you can to help all children live better lives. We are always seeking the assistance of additional people who can advocate for family and children's rights.
Boone County Child Advocates made it possible for me to provide for my children again.
After the county prosecutor pressured my employer into firing me I was out of a job. Then the prosecutor had my driver's license suspended because I couldn't make child support payments. Without a license it was impossible to get a job. I had applied to over 40 places.
When I asked Boone County Child Advocates for help they contacted a member at a local employer who hired me the day after my interview. I am glad that the members of Boone County Child Advocates were able to ensure I got a job when no one else would hire me. I am now able to take care of my children again - J.P. Thorntown, IN
The girl was beaten with leather belts, had her head held underwater in a bathtub and then was thrown across a room, her head slamming into a tile floor, Trenor said in a court document. Click headline for story.
Mother Kimberly Ann Trenor * * * * * * * * * Riley Ann Sawyers "Baby Grace" * * * Boyfriend Royce Clyde Zeigler II
Children at much higher risk of death from mother's boyfriends
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"CHILDREN LIKELY TO BE BETTER ADJUSTED IN JOINT CUSTODY"
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U.S. Military Report confirms that mothers who are suddenly given sole custody of children are more likely to emotionally, physically and sexually abuse them.
Among the findings; * Mothers were three times more likely to have a substantiated report of child mistreatment when their Soldier husbands were deployed than when the fathers were home. * Mothers at home were nearly four times as likely to neglect their children and nearly twice as likely to physically abuse them during deployment periods. * Children of intact families were better off than those raised by one parent. * "Family readiness support assistants" help families of deployed active-duty, Army Reserve and National Guard units. * Fathers left at home while their Soldier wives were at war had an insignificant effect on the likelihood of abuse or neglect of the children.
Utah Senator admits that child support payments are a "huge economic shift" that "may not go to the child".
"Society as a whole starts with the family unit and if the family unit is not treasured and nourished, everything else is going to go to pot!" - Brenda Blythen, Actress in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
“Kids need moms and dads” - Ashleigh Banfield, Court TV reporter, on child custody. 22-10-07
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