CCC was founded in 1985 by Joseph Blain, Clifford Ford, Dianna Fowler, Richard Haney, and Paul Hinch as directors with many others as members.
The Canadian Council for Co-parenting (CCC) is a federally chartered, non-profit organization managed by a Board of Directors. The CCC is not a charity, so individual donations are not tax-creditable, but donations from companies can receive a receipt usable for tax purposes.
The CCC has been a major influence in bringing the issues of joint custody, child-centred divorce, non-adversarial alternatives, and equality of parents to the public consciousness, to the media, and into the courts.
While the “Best Interest of the Child” is a well-meaning legal concept in theory, the criteria set forth in most of the statutes is so broad and vague as to be susceptible to arbitrary interpretation by a mediator, guardian or attorney ad litem, psychologist or a court thereby yielding significantly different results and constituting a convenient disguise for discrimination based on gender of the parent. Like the “Intent of the voter”, the “Best Interest of the Child” does not satisfy the minimum requirements for non-arbitrary treatment of parents necessary to secure the equal fundamental rights of those parents. A child custody conflict usually arises between two fit parents, that both love their child and want to be responsible for their care. But one parent, (most recent studies show usually the Mother, acting out of anger, selfishness, or vindictiveness doesn’t want to share the joys of raising the child), wants to have full parental control over the child, and/or wants the disproportionate child support entitlement that the custodial parent is usually awarded. These goals are usually achieved by diminishing the parental role of the other parent. This leaves the non-custodial parent with the option of accepting the minimized parental role or enduring a long intrusive, destructive and expensive legal battle over the custody of the children, to determine what is in the “Best Interest of the Child”. Many parents (especially Fathers) who cannot endure the emotional and financial cost of this process are disenfranchised from their children. This clearly is not in the “Best Interest of the Children”.
Can you tell me what is being done to make parenting our children in custody cases more equally favored in our family courts today and for our children’s futures. And further, what is being done to protect children’s rights to have access to both parents equally, for the best interest of the children? And what is being done to prevent greedy parents from alienating fathers from their children while mothers make false allegations of abuse and neglect just to take full custody rights away from fathers?
And what is being done to keep fathers in the lives on their children when mothers clearly kick out the fathers and go into a shelter and claim abuse so that they can get low income housing on the top of a priority list using bogus information to keep the fathers away legally from his children? Child support guidelines are implemented, causing fathers to become broke and on social assistance as a result. So what is being done to protect the fathers from going into a spiraled bankruptcy situation, and staying poor while the mother gets paid baby bonus, income taxes, special benefits, housing etc.etc.etc