RELATED SITES:

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> FATHER FRIENDLY ORGANIZATIONS

> - American Coalition for Fathers and Children

>   A well funded, well organized American lobby group.

> - Children's Rights Council
>   "Works to assure children meaningful and continuing contact with both their parents."

> - Dads Can

>   An organization devoted to encouraging involved fatherhood.

> - Dads Canada

>   Strategies for men going through divorce.

> - Equitable Child Maintenance and Access Society

>   Devoted to the well being of children from separated and divorced families.

> - Fathers Are Capable Too

>   This site promotes the philosophy that = the best parent is both parents.

> - Fathers For Justice

>   Attempts to assist non-custodial parents with divorce-related problems.

> - Men's Educational Support Association

>   Devoted to educating and supporting fathers

> - The Second Wives Club

>   A U.S.-based online community for step moms and second wives.

> - Shared Parenting

>   A site dedicated to issues affecting non-custodial parents.

>   FATHER FRIENDLY RESOURCES

> - Alternative Dispute Resolution Resources

>   An American site geared to solving problems outside the courtroom, via mediation.

> - Balance: The Inclusive Vision of Gender Equality

>   Alberta-based on-line magazine.

> - The Child Support Guideline Problem

>   A great research paper that critiques the guideline approach to child support.

> - Divorce for Men

>   Run by Carey Linde, a Vancouver family law lawyer.

> - Everyman: A Men's Journal

>   An online magazine devoted to men's issues.

> - Family Law Centre

>   Resources put together by Gene Colman, a Toronto family law lawyer.

> - The Liberator

>   An American men's movement magazine.

> - Project for the Improvement of Child Support Litigation Technology

>   Run by child support expert Roger Gay.

> - Razberry.com

>   The personal web site of National Post journalist Donna Laframboise

>   OTHER RESOURCES

> - Child Support Canada

>   A division of the Department of Justice, with links to Child Support guidelines and legislation.

> - Ontario Family Responsibility Office

>   The provincial body that administers and enforces support agreements in Ontario. The site lists many of the means by which agencies chase support payers who are in arrears.

> - National Child Support Enforcement Association

>   An American advocacy group for child support professionals.

> - Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (United States)

>   At the bottom of this page is a series of useful studies on child support, including a pair on using private agencies to collect payments.

> - Selected Statistics on Canadian Families and Family Law

>   November 1997 study compiled by the Department of Justice.

> - Special Joint Committee on Child Custody and Access

>   Contains minutes of all meetings.

> - Status of Women Canada

>   Federal government agency mandated to promote gender equality.

> - Joel Miller's Family Law Centre

>   A large Canadian-based site with comprehensive links to family law guidelines and legislation.

> - The Children's Voice

>   Advocates the dismantling of the adversarial system in Canadian family law.

> - Women's Justice Network

>   This page put together by a Canadian coalition of women's organizations discusses reactions to the Special Joint Committee on Custody and Access. Links to the dissenting reports of the Reform, NDP and Bloc Quebecois parties.

> - Spousal Support Under Canada's Divorce Act

>   A brief look at the issue of spousal support and how the law treats it.