Domestic Violence Pioneer Erin Pizzey Featured in New DV Documentary

November 29, 2023 – Erin Pizzey founded the first domestic violence shelter in the world, in Chiswick, London in 1971. When Pizzey asked the women in her shelter about their violence, she discovered that most of them were equally or even more violent than their husbands. Pizzey concluded that women are as capable of partner …

Parental Alienation and Equal Parenting

April 25th is Parental Alienation Awareness Day. What is PA –Parental Alienation and what is the connection with equal parenting? Let’s look at a PA case (names have been changed to protect confidentiality.) When his wife left Ron, he expected to share custody of his two sons, and after all, he had been a “hands-on …

Equal parenting bill in Parliament

Canadian Parents’ Organization supports Bill to reform Divorce Act Canadian Equal Parenting Council (CEPC) applauds M.P. Maurice Vellacott who on Dec 6th 2013 introduced into the House of Commons Bill C-560 – a bill that would mandate a rebuttable presumption in favour of equal shared parenting. The Bill substantially strengthens direction to the courts under …

Response to the CBA Access to Justice Summit and papers

In April 2013, the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) held a conference in Saskatoon to discuss “Access to Justice” and subsequently issued four reports: a summary, a metrics paper, a “community voice” paper, and a longer report. I asked for and received these reports by email, as they were supposed to be on the website of …

Universal Children’s Day

The Canadian Equal Parenting Council wishes all parents best wishes on Universal Children’s day. If you are not able to see your children because of government actions (or by actions of State proxies such as judges, social agencies or other state funded vested interests) we understand your pain and the disadvantage that your children are …

Parental Alienation and Equal Parenting April 25th

April 25th is Parental Alienation Awareness Day. What is PA –Parental Alienation and what is the connection with equal parenting? Let’s look at a PA case (names have been changed to protect confidentiality.) When his wife left Ron, he expected to share custody of his two sons, and after all, he had been a “hands-on …

CEPC AGM 2013

CEPC AGM Agenda Thursday, Feb 20, 2013 1. Call to order 2. Approval of agenda 3. Selection of acting secretary 4. Approval of minutes of last AGM 5. President’s report (approval y/n) 6. Financial Report (approval y/n) 7. Nomination/Election of Board Members for coming year 8. Nomination/Election of President for coming year 9. Motion: that …

Canadian Equal Parenting Council adds RSS feed

The Canadian Equal Parenting Council is working with a developer to add RSS feeds to our website, so that supporters and advocates for parents can get news, action items and issues updates a variety of ways. We at CEPC are working on a blackberry 10 app to show these posts, and a smartphone website version …

Barbara Kay Video Condemns Family Courts

Here’s a 45-minute video of equal parenting supporter and journalist Barbara Kay giving a speech to the Canadian Association for Equality in Toronto. It’s worth watching for the reasons that Kay’s columns are worth reading. She knows her facts and has the largeness of spirit necessary to see past the anti-father bias that’s so common …

Happy equal parenting Mother’s Day

May 13th is a day to honour mothers. Equal parenting advocates respect all mothers for the important parenting that they do. Parenting is the most important accomplishment that women, or men, can do. It is more than a job, it’s a commitment, a sacrifice, a rewarding investment and much more. The contributions of mothers are …

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