Equal Parents Week Rally in Support of Michigan Shared Parenting Bill
Dads of Michigan, the American Coalition for Fathers and Children’s Michigan affiliate, is joining with other Michigan shared parenting advocates in sponsoring an Equal Parents Week rally at the Michigan Capitol on Wednesday, September 26. The rally will be held at the Capitol Building on Capitol Street in Lansing between 9 AM and 11 AM. For more information, call Dads of Michigan at 248-559-DADS (3237), or write them at info@dadsofmichigan.org.
Dads of Michigan and their allies are fighting to pass HB 4564, a shared parenting bill. They have the votes to pass the bill but are fighting to get it out of committee, where it is bottled up. Shared parenting activist Derrick Scott-Farnsworth urges Michigan moms and dads to come to the rally and “be prepared to visit your elected politicians’ office to discuss the issue of equal parental access for your children.”
In May, the Michigan National Organization for Women put out an Action Alert opposing HB 4564. NOW wrote:
“Joint custody is more expensive, as it presupposes the maintenance of two households with sufficient room and necessities for the children.”
In other words, it’s more economically efficient for the child to live with mom in a household dad finances, and for the child to see dad in a park on Sundays and no more. This is hardly in the best interests of children. And since NOW is interested in economic efficiency, I would argue that it’s more economically efficient to not get divorced to begin with, but since the vast majority of divorces are initiated by women, NOW is not about to come out against divorce.
I discussed NOW’s other reasons for opposing Michigan shared parenting in my column HB 5267 Will Help Michigan’s Children of Divorce (Lansing State Journal, 5/28/06), which I co-authored with ACFC Executive Director Mike McCormick.
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