I recently posted about Republicans adding Equal Parenting to the Texas GOP Platform, but in reality this is a bi partisan issue that both Republicans and Democrats can agree on and come together to vote for HB 803 because kids need and deserve both fit parents in their lives equally. in fact, Democrats do support Equal Parenting too!
Dear Democrat Legislator:
Democrat Women support EQUAL
PARENTING – Democrat Women Legislators all voted FOR this Equal Parenting bill in
JJFI committee last session – Support HB 803!
Last Session, Representative,
and mother, Gina Calanni destroyed the TFLF Lobbyist arguments in JJFI
Committee by showing that there is NOT equal time in the current standard
possession order, and to try to get equal time or even more time above the
standard possession order from a judge would cost more than most can afford.
Further, she destroyed the lobbyist argument that there would be increased
litigation with equal parenting. She pointed out that parents fight over time
with kids and with fit parents coming in to court having equal time starting
point there would be no reason or incentive for them to fight over and over in
court.
Rep. Gina Calanni
Declared, “I just don’t understand why
anyone would be against this when it gives parents actual equal access to their
children” and she further pressed TFLF by asking, “How much does it cost to go
to court an estimate to hear a court case in front of a judge in a custody case?”
Bill Morris with TFLF responded, “custody case could be upwards of 50 thousand dollars.”
To which Gina Calanni responded, “Exactly and so you’ve got people that cannot
afford that and so they get stuck with a really bad standard possession order
and that’s not good for the kids and that’s not good for the parent that
doesn’t get it.” Gina Calanni’s grilling of TFLF made it clear that the reason the
lobbyist would oppose kids having equal access to both fit parents as the new
standard is because for them it might be about about what they get in attorney
fees when parents fight in court, instead of the good parents getting along and
the kids winning by getting to see both fit parents equally.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Declared:
“Women will have achieved true equality when men
share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.” (New
York City Bar Association, 2001)
In fact, Moms for Shared
Parenting, Emma Johnson, has done studies that show how equal parenting
responsibility would help close the pay gap between men and women. When both
men and women share the duties in raising a child and bringing them to school
and back etc, it allows women to have more equal opportunity to have a career
and make more money, instead of primarily the father getting to go have a
career by not having the responsibility to equally raising a child.
Support HB 803
Equal Parenting Bill – It has
already been vetted last session and passed out of committee by all of the
Democrat women on the committee, but it got out too late to make it to the
floor for a vote. The kids of Texas and society deserve the bill to be voted
out sooner this session so that it finally gets a vote on the floor of the
House.
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