The Center for Children's Justice is an organization
of active, concerned parents, professionals, and social and political activists
whose common goal is the preservation of the child-parent relationship
in full after divorce or other family division, or in the case of children
born out of wedlock.
CCJ's central proposition is that children have
a fundamental, natural, inalienable right to full access to both parents.
Divorce or separation may end the relationship of the parents, but it does
not, and cannot be allowed to, diminish the relationship between the child
and either parent.
CCJ promotes parental responsibility
toward children by encouraging parents to put children first – before their
own needs and desires. CCJ promotes the concept that separated or divorced
parents must subordinate their personal feelings about the other parent
in favor of what the child needs.
To these ends, CCJ actively
works to introduce and support legislation and policy which promotes equality
of parenting time as much as possible, discourages a "primary custodial
parent" from being allowed to interfere with the other parent’s time with
the child or to remove the child from proximity to the "other" parent.
Move-aways after divorce are discouraged except in the most extreme or
compelling circumstances.
Children have a fundamental,
natural, and inalienable right to both parents.
The fodder that feeds the
"misery industry" known as family law is the custody battle. Every year
in the U.S., 1.2 million children are affected by family dissolution, and
in many cases custody of the child is a contested issue.
Family law attorneys love
these cases. They are often protracted, expensive battles which often flare
up again after the divorce is final – providing a steady stream of hundreds
of millions of dollars for the lawyers who represent battling parents.
Activist judges love these
cases, too, though most won’t admit it. They provide the raw material to
promote a social agenda, but these courts are in almost all cases wholly
inadequate to decide custody. In Colorado, over 90% of contested custody
cases end with the mother being awarded sole or primary custody – in spite
of the fact that over two-thirds of mothers with children under 18 work
outside the home, just like fathers.
These battles, and the ensuing
endless misery and separation they cause for the child and parent, would
be impossible if our laws and the courts supported and enforced the proposition
that children have the fundamental right to both their parents.
To this important end, CCJ
actively initiates, promotes and supports legislative change, an end to
judicial bias and prejudice, and restrictions on the court’s discretion,
with the goal of abolishing the archaic idea of "custody" of children.
Except in compelling circumstances such as proven abuse or neglect, children
have a right to both their parents.
The gender and economic bias
and prejudice rampant in the family law courts and their sometimes complete
disregard of facts, concrete evidence, rules and law, frequently results
in children being ripped out of the life of one parent.
CCJ’s relentless efforts
to ensure a child’s full access to both parents after divorce or separation
is aimed at the goal of eliminating the destruction of the parent-child
relationship by judicial corruption.
Although law provides that
most domestic relations hearings are open to the public, the reality is
they are "closed," because no one is present besides the parents, their
attorneys, and sometimes a few witnesses. In these "closed" hearings, judges
get away with murder.
CCJ organizes active volunteers
to sit in the audience during hearings in cases which are likely to be
problematic. This public scrutiny compels judges, in many cases, to adhere
more closely to law and due process and to protect the child’s rights.
Corruption retreats when it is exposed to light.
Because of the "closed" nature
of custody hearings and other family law cases, the public is unaware of
the corruption in and rampant abuse of discretion by the judges who may
someday decide the course of their children's lives -- unless, of course,
they have already been disenfranchised.
The public's lack of information
causes great apathy about one of the greatest on-going tragedies of modern
times, one in which you yourself could be embroiled if you have children.
CCJ disseminates information
about abuses by the judiciary through press releases to the media, press
conferences, periodic articles regarding aspects of the larger problem,
and is launching a regular newsletter for all people interested in justice
for children.
The efforts of the Center
for Children’s Justice are supported by contributions of talent, time and
money from concerned citizens who are angry or outraged by the harm and
injustice inflicted on children and disenfranchised parents by the courts.
Your contribution enables
the full-time effort of CCJ to actively promote legislative change, public
information, disclosure of bias and corruption within the family law system,
and the promotion of policy changes to ensure that the inalienable rights
of children to access to both parents will no longer be routinely denied.
Please join and support
the Center for Children's Justice in its efforts to preserve the parent-child
relationship and to reunite those disenfranchised parents and children
who are the victims of bad law and even worse judges.
