Heartfelt THANKS
to all of you who responded
to ACFC's action alert last
week calling on President Bush
to reconsider VAWA. The
White House received nearly
1,000 communications from you
on this important issue.
The President signed the bill
late Thursday, just as our objections
were being registered.
Thanks to all of you who included
a personal note in your submissions.
ACFC will continue to pursue
an improved VAWA each year.
Your responses provide useful
and substantive documentation
of the public's dissatisfaction
with the present state of this
legislation. Thanks again
for your participation in this
effort.
ACFC Article Opposing VAWA Published
in Congressional Quarterly Researcher
Congressional
Quarterly Researcher (CQR)
is a respected Capitol Hill
publication. It is considered
an authoritative resource for
non-partisan research on issues
of the day and is relied on
by legislators and staffs from
both sides of the aisle.
This week's edition of CQR devotes
26 pages to VAWA. ACFC
Executive Director Mike McCormick
was interviewed, and asked to write
commentary for the "At
Issue" column.
Read the article here.
Phyllis Schlafly's Latest
Article
Conservative
activist, syndicated columnist
and Eagle Forum President Phyllis
Schlafly, has given ACFC permission
to pre release her new column
- "Feminists' Double Standards
about Child Care."
The article will be available at
http://www.townhall.com/
on Wednesday, January 11,
2006, but ACFC list serve subscribers
can
read it today by clicking here.
There
are many quotable lines, but
especially the last:
"It's time for a
national debate and discussion
of the taxpayer incentives that
favor divorce, the anti-marriage
feminists, and the resulting
exclusion of fathers from the
lives of their children."
We
thank Phyllis for her efforts
on behalf of shared parenting, fathers,
children, families and for her
confidence in ACFC.
Chicago Town Hall Forum on Family
Law
Dialogue on
Sustainable Community will be
hosting a Town Hall Forum at
the University of Chicago this
Saturday afternoon, January
14, 2006 on the issue of family
law and its impact on the community.
Click here for additional details
and make plans now to attend
this important event.
More news is
on the way. Members of
ACFC are receiving their
latest edition of 'The Liberator.'
The Liberator is ACFC's quarterly
print publication. It is
sent to ACFC members and elected
officials at the state and federal
levels. 'The Liberator' contains
the best of shared parenting,
fatherhood and family law reform
news from around the nation.
If you are not a member, you're
only getting half the news. To
join ACFC and start your
subscription to The Liberator,
click here. It's the
best $25.00 you'll spend this
year.
Together we
are making progress.
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