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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.

     

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