The ANCPR's Call To Action!

The following e-mail was sent to ANCPR Members on Friday, January 29, 1998. The only serves to underscore the need for custodial parents to start speaking for themselves and becoming pro-active. Messages like what are proposed in this call to action need to be countered with the truth from custodial parents.

"Hello to all of you,

Below is an editorial concerning the experience of Lockheed Martin IMS, a New Jersey subsidiary of the huge defense concern, and Maximus Inc., a consulting firm in Virginia, two companies contracted by the State of Florida to collect child support. It shows what many of us have been saying all along. The 30 to 52 billion dollars of unpaid child support that is supposed to be out there, ready to collect with ever more draconian child support enforcement procedures, doesn't exist. These measures and the increasing costs associated with them are a complete waste of taxpayer's money. Furthermore, by putting the emphasis on child support collection, rather than on what children really need, which is parental involvement of both the mother and the father, we are driving the non-custodial parent into exile, and creating a legacy of dispirited youth, who have lost contact with one of their parents (most often the father) due to divorce. It's time we got the government out of the business of breaking up and destroying family relationships. It's time we de-emphasize child support enforcement, and put the stress on shared parenting and a presumption of full joint physical custody in every state across the nation.

Not everyone understands the facts demonstrated by this article. Most believe that most child support is owed by people who have the money, but just don't pay. Help us to dispel this myth. You can take action right here, right now. ANCPR has prepared a letter for mailing to your Representatives in Congress. Click on this link http://congress.nw.dc.us/ancpr/elecmail.html and choose the Deadbeat Dad More Myth Than Reality letter. Enter your zip code, select all of your representatives (the program will send an individual letter, properly addressed, to each one, automatically). Follow up by printing up regular letters (the program will do that for you too) and mail these to your representatives via regular mail. You can also click on member profile links to get the fax numbers.

Please do this today, right now. It is really easy, and it is an absolutely unprecedented opportunity to make your voice heard. Forward this message to any of your friends or associates and to any other lists you subscribe to. Let's guarantee that these politicians are flooded with mail on this issue. Believe me this counts! Clinton's latest proposal is to spend over 46 million dollars for a national child support police force to hunt down obligors and make them pay. Do you want this? Do you think this is a good thing to do?

If not, then you better get busy right now. Use our Legislative Action Center and let these people know how you feel. If you don't, it's a vote for ever increasing child support enforcement procedures which will cost billions, and further erode our civil liberties.

Do it now!

Wishing you all the best,

Lowell Jaks"