The Canadian Equal Parenting Council represents a coalition of 42 organizations across Canada “united in purpose and spirit”.
“The Council” is made up of a Board of Directors, Executive, Organization delegates and various committee members.
“The Coalition” is our 42 member organizations.
We are a powerful voice across Canada for family law reform, which is in all of our best interests.
Our members are
- Fathers
- Mothers
- Grandparents
- Second spouses and step parents
- Siblings
- Coworkers
- Friends
- Professionals
- Business persons
- Academics
- Concerned Canadians
What we stand for
- A presumption and standard in law of equal parenting consisting of equal parenting time and equal parenting responsibility in the decision making for the child.
- The CEPC seeks to effect meaningful social change for the betterment of Canadian families and society.
- Children need intensive care-giving and nurturing from both parents, whether the parents are married, unmarried, separated or divorced.
- We believe that elementary standards of fairness, equity and equal opportunity translate into social justice for both men and women in our society.
What we stand for
- A presumption and standard in law of equal parenting consisting of equal parenting time and equal parenting responsibility in the decision making for the child.
- The CEPC seeks to effect meaningful social change for the betterment of Canadian families and society.
- Children need intensive care-giving and nurturing from both parents, whether the parents are married, unmarried, separated or divorced.
- We believe that elementary standards of fairness, equity and equal opportunity translate into social justice for both men and women in our society.
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I really don’t know where to begin here it’s been way too long, so I’ll be brief and to the point.
My ex-wife and I separated in 1998, this was a vicious separation / divorce like some of the horror stories I’ve read about from Readers Digest’s “Myth Of The Dead-beat Dad”. Ya I have tried in the past to commit suicide but by the grace of God I’m still alive today.
Any trust that I have for any help institutions, family courts, and lawyers has diminished to zero, yet I pick myself up and push forward.
It’s been just over 10 years now since I’ve had any form of contact from my children and I have hope that their out there somewhere alive and hopefully well but a part of me wonders if they might be dead.
This experience has been very traumatic to say the least. My career(s) and opportunities to go forward and improve my financial situation and way of life have been cut off indefinitely by Alberta’s M.E.P. Maintenance Enforcement Program (child support) yet the meter is always running.
In this blessed country of ours (Canada) I have seriously been living like a 2nd and 3rd world citizen, I understand and know what oppression feels like but don’t know what a self-sustaining lifestyle feels like.
Today my physical health isn’t what it should be, I’m starting to get tired and burnt out with this whole mess, and to top it all off I’m now being threatened by M.E.P. with a fine and jail time when in the past I was told that I was in “good payer standing” .
I’m waiting for them to take me to jail now because I’ve done the very best I could do even when my back was against the wall.
The justice system can imprison me again and again like they have in the past but the truth is my prison sentence began in 1998, am I concerned “ya” a little but I know in the end truth and justice will one day be restored and will prevail.
I’m throwing this one out there!