Billboard Controversy!

Click this link to read an interesting article that is causing quite a stir in the NYC area.

Tell me what you think!

There is a community for people like you.....

It's amazing how word of mouth travels. Within only a few weeks of our community being up and running, I have received several phone calls and emails about people who are just like us. Daughters who have had amazing relationships with our fathers and want to help, daughters who have had no relationship with their fathers and even in adulthood are looking to begin one, and men who love their daughters so much but due to "red tape" don't have the access to them that would develop a loving and healthy relationship that we all agree is so needed. Additionally, there have been many step moms who have contacted me concerning what they can do to help their husbands who are in court monthly, trying to get parental rights and their stepdaughters that are suffering because of it.

I am extremely over joyed at the outpouring of support for this initiative, even if over 90% percent wish to remain anonymous. Many don't want to comment on a public blog or public facebook page for fear of retaliation but all of the private emails make me happy and sad at the same time. It gives me the motivation to move forward with trying to help as many people as I can and spreading the word that there is a community out here for you. There are others, I promise.

Praying for many blessings for all of you struggling to establish and maintain complex relationships that sometimes seem to be impossible.

I leave you with a quote, “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” Mother Teresa

More Dad's fighting for custody (from ivillage.com)

{Taken from ivillage.com}

As Halle Berry and Padma Lakshmi are finding out in a painfully public way, more and more fathers these days want a hand in child rearing and are seeking custody of their kids.

Berry is embroiled in an increasingly ugly dispute with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry over their 2-year-old daughter, Nahla. A rep for the actress said she has "serious concerns for her daughter's well-being while in the care of her father for any extended period of time," and Berry even dropped out of an upcoming movie to focus on the brewing battle.

Read the complete article here.

SUPREME COURT RULES FOR FATHER IN GEORGIA-ITALY CUSTODY BATTLE

{reprinted from Edwards & Associates website, posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011}

Recently, the Georgia Supreme Court sided with a father asserting his rights. The high court decided that a child custody case involving a University of Georgia professor who fled to Italy with her child before filing for divorce from her husband will be settled in Georgia, not Italy.

The ruling overrules a decision made by a Clarke County Superior Court judge who dismissed the father's child custody claim and divorce filing in February of 2010. Supreme Court justices cited the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act as their basis for the ruling.

To read more, visit thier website at http://www.redwardslaw.com/

In my own backyard..........

The more I research information on Parental Rights and become involved in this community of people who advocate Family Law Reform, the more I think that I have lived in my own happy bubble for most of my life. I was raised by two loving parents who both instilled unique things in me that I would have been lacking had the other not been there. I thought that was life for a lot of people. Boy was I wrong..... there goes my bubble.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand. I came across this story that apparently happened in my own backyard, Albany, Gerogia. Just thought I'd share.........

updated 1/6/2011 6:54:34 PM ET 2011-01-06T23:54:34

ALBANY, Ga. — Police say a Georgia woman used a friend's baby to collect more than $1,600 in child support from an ex-boyfriend after she convinced him the child was his.

Dougherty County Sheriff's Capt. Craig Dodd says Regina Thompson's ex-boyfriend paid the money over two years. Dodd says the ex-boyfriend even had pictures made at the girl's birthday party.

The 38-year-old Thompson has been charged with five counts of theft. Police say she was keeping her friend's child when she concocted the scheme.

The girl's mother, Lastraga McCloud, didn't know anything about the plot. Police say it began to unravel when the girl, now five, began to talk more and told Thompson's ex-boyfriend, Joseph Golden, that he wasn't her father.

Thompson did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

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Information from: The Albany Herald, http://albanyherald.net

This is the season of Father/Daughter Dances....

Do you know of Father/Daughter dances being held in your community?

Post them in the comments below for others to be aware! Thanks in advance!

Some info to get us started........... (click on the name for more info from direct website)

Jan. 29, 2011 - Acworth, GA Father Daughter Dance

Feb. 4, 2011 - Gwinnett County, GA Daddy Daughter Valentine Dance

Feb. 5, 2011 - Sandy Springs, GA 2nd Annual Daddy Daughter Dance

Feb. 5, 2011 - DeKalb County (IL) 20th Annual Daddy/ Daughter Dance

Feb. 11, 2011 - Alpharetta, GA Father Daughter Dance

Feb. 13, 2011 - City of Marietta Daddy Daughter Dance

June 19, 2011 - 9th Annual Ryan Cameron Foundation