I am a custodial parent and I feel very strongly about changing the child support laws and am looking for other people to join me in this fight for our children. Child support policies currently state that payments and visitation are not handled together. We as parents should stand up together and take a stand because in some cases, not all, children do not just need money, they need an emotional bond they are not always getting thanks to beat parents who get by with just paying an ordered amount and not having to deal with emotional distress or counseling services. They are the main ones that need to be in counseling with these children to learn how to be parents. I am writing this from personal experience. The juvenile judge in my case ordered my child to spend every other weekend with a father who he had only briefly met for a few minutes. Explain to me how this is any different than putting my child in a home with a complete stranger for the weekend. For mine, it was traumatizing, there was nothing I could say or do in the courtroom to change this decision. He was physically, emotionally, and verbally abused by the step-brother, step-mother, and ultimately by his own father because he didn't do anything to change the situation. I am very upset with the juvenile justice system for even allowing the "Shared Parent Provision" order to be used in all cases without proper investigation into the situation. My child would have been spared a lot of mental anguish and embarrassment and developmental problems as in depression and questions of self-worth as well as social anxiety. Please give me information where i can get the word worldwide to parents who are having similar difficulties dealing with non-custodial beats who are not being made to take responsibility for their own actions therefore making the children, who are THE MAIN FOCUS, at fault. Sincerely, Michelle McKinney
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