Stop Child Divorce!

Equal Parenting Now! Children are regularly forcibly divorced from one parent against their will in Canada’s family law courts in violation of Canadian and International law. Divorce law was never intended to separate children from fit and loving parents. Spouses divorce, but children cannot and should not be separated from their parents without a specific …

CEPC rebukes CBA

National Parents Organization rebukes CBA position on Equal Parenting Bill as “insincere, inaccurate and uniformed” March 30, 2014 OTTAWA – The Canadian Equal Parenting Council (CEPC) – Conseil d’égalité parentale du Canada denounces the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) opposition to Bill C-560 as insincere, inaccurate, uninformed of the Bill’s contents and based on their own …

Social science consensus on equal parenting

A fresh review of the literature around children’s attachment to their parents strengthens the case for equal shared parenting in cases of separation and divorce when children are involved. This consensus report was prepared by Richard A. Warshak, Ph.D., a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. It was analyzed …

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 …

Canada’s anti-father policies and the suicide of the founder of a men’s shelter

A friend of mine committed suicide just last Friday. I believe his story shows a serious failing of federal government social and health policy. I first met Earl Silverman in 1995 in Edmonton at a men’s issues conference. He lived in Calgary and had been a victim of physical abuse by his wife. Earl had …

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 …

Parent Rights are Human Rights

On Facebook, I saw a poster from the Love And Iron Project, that said “Parental rights are HUMAN rights.” It’s wonderful to see this. The Canadian Equal Parenting Council support this concept and the sentiment. CEPC has been promoting the idea of a balance of rights and responsibilities for parents since 2004. Our position is …

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 …

Family Issues are Parenting Issues

In the discussion of “family” issues, the voice and role of parents is often excluded. Too often parents are dismissed or ignored. “Ignoring parents in family issues is like ignoring entrepreneurs in discussion of business issues” says Glenn Cheriton, president of the Canadian Equal Parenting Council (CEPC), a national voice for parents and equality. “Parents raise …

Children’s Issues are Parenting Issues, says national equal parenting advocacy group

Parents need a voice to provide balance to media coverage of children’s and family issues, says the Canadian Equal Parenting Council (CEPC). In the coverage of children’s issues, the voice of parents is often missing, and too often denigrated or dismissed as self-serving or self-interest. The “professionals” and “experts” so often quoted have their own …

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