Category: NPO in the media

February 13, 2015

On February 6, 2015, the San Jose Mercury News in San Jose, California, ran an op-ed titled “California family courts should increase advocacy for shared parenting” by National Parents Organization of California Chair Michelle Glogovac.

In the piece, Glogovac calls for California legislators to consider shared parenting legislation.

“California’s child custody laws late last year received a D in the National Parents Organization’s shared parenting report card — the first study to issue each state a grade on how well laws support shared parenting,” Glogovac wrote. “California must pass legislation that forces the courts to work in the best interest of children, instead of continuing to make life-altering decisions based on outdated models and assumptions.”

State-by-State Analysis Highlights Parental Inequality Across the Nation

February 13, 2015

On January 28, 2015, the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Richmond, Virginia, published an op-ed from National Parents Organization of Virginia member Kristen Leadbeater titled “Shared parenting is the answer to poor child custody grades.”

Her piece highlighted National Parents Organization’s Shared Parenting Report Card and the need for child custody law reform.

“I imagine my stepson bringing home a report card with a 1.63 GPA. Would I be satisfied? Would I say, ‘Well, that’s OK. It’s good enough?’ I would not. By most measures, a 1.63 GPA would not be acceptable to any of us, particularly when it comes to our children,” Leadbeater wrote. “We would want to encourage our children to improve and, if necessary, find ways to help them get there. So how is it that, as a nation, we have an average equivalent to a 1.63 GPA on our child custody statutes, and we aren’t doing much to change that? After all, this is America; we innately find ways to make things better.”

State-by-State Analysis Highlights Parental Inequality Across the Nation

February 13, 2015

On January 22, 2015, Law Firm Newswire published a press release from California Divorce Mediators that highlighted National Parents Organization’s Shared Parenting Report Card.

The release included the following excerpt:

The National Parents Organization (NPO) gave California a “D” in a recently released report card on the state of shared parenting in child custody arrangements across the United States.

According to Orange County divorce mediator Gerald Maggio, the grade is not a reflection on California’s parents, but on California’s divorce courts.

“This report looks at legal statutes and judicial practices in each state to determine how favorable the court system is to shared parenting in child custody cases,” said Maggio of California Divorce Mediators. “In California courts, child custody decisions can be a crapshoot, and that is what the low grade in the report reflects.”

State-by-State Analysis Highlights Parental Inequality Across the Nation

January 22, 2015

iHeart Radio affiliate 84WHAS in Louisville, Ky., aired an interview with National Parents Organization of Kentucky Chair Matt Hale on the state’s D- grade in the Shared Parenting Report Card.

In the interview, Hale spoke of the significance of Kentucky’s poor grade as well as potential upcoming legislative efforts in Kentucky that are supportive of shared parenting and parental equality.

January 22, 2015

On Jan. 20, 2015, Radio host Ed Baxter, who previously substituted for Paul Harvey, invited National Parents Organization Founder and Board Chair Ned Holstein, MD, MS, onto his show on San Francisco, Cali., radio station Talk 910.

During the show, Holstein spoke on the U.S. Office of Child Support Enforcement’s current effort to update its guidelines for the first time in 35 years while emphasizing that the proposal should be altered in ways that go further to promote parental equality and shared parenting.

January 22, 2015

On Jan. 16, 2015, San Antonio Fox News Radio affiliate WOAI aired a story based on an interview with National Parents Organization Founder and Board Chair Ned Holstein, MD, MS, on the U.S. Office of Child Support Enforcement’s proposed changes.

“Some of the proposed changes would actually do very little to help middle class families, while benefitting the poorest ones,” Holstein said on air.

January 22, 2015

On Jan. 2, 2015, the Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass., published the op-ed “Remove obstacles to shared parenting” by Ned Holstein, MD, MS.

“After decades of child development research, this year, three different groups of experts reached the same sweeping conclusion: shared parenting after parental separation or divorce has substantial positive effects on the development of children. For instance, 110 child development experts signed a paper published by the American Psychological Association titled ‘Social Science and Parenting Plans for Young Children: A Consensus Report’ that concluded, ‘shared parenting should be the norm for parenting plans for children of all ages, including very young children,’” Holstein wrote in the piece.

State-by-State Analysis Highlights Parental Inequality Across the Nation

January 22, 2015

On Jan. 2, 2015, The Rhode Island News section of EIN Newsdesk’s World News Report published the op-ed “Remove obstacles to shared parenting” by National Parents Organization Founder and Board Chair Ned Holstein, MD, MS.

“The great news is that 2014 produced a marvelous advance in our ability to help troubled children. But as a unique study released last month by Boston-based National Parents Organization shows, political obstacles stand in the way of using this knowledge for the benefit of our children,” Holstein wrote in the op-ed.

State-by-State Analysis Highlights Parental Inequality Across the Nation

January 22, 2015

On Dec. 31. 2014, National Parents Organization Founder and Board Chair Ned Holstein, MD, MS, was a guest on Voice America talk show “Family Matters.”

During the episode, titled “Parental Inequality: A State-By-State Analysis,” Holstein spoke with host Virginia L. Colin, Ph.D, about National Parents Organization’s Shared Parenting Report Card and the need for shared parenting to be more commonplace following divorce or separation.

State-by-State Analysis Highlights Parental Inequality Across the Nation

January 5, 2015

On Dec. 21, The Milford News in Milford, Massachusetts, ran an op-ed written by National Parents Organization Founder and Board Chair Ned Holstein, MD, MS, titled “The advantages of shared parenting.”

“After decades of child development research, this year, three different groups of experts reached the same sweeping conclusion: shared parenting after parental separation or divorce has substantial positive effects on the development of children,” Holstein wrote in the op-ed.

His piece continued, “It is exciting to learn that after years of frustrating failures, there is something we can do about educational failure, substance abuse, violence, bullying, sexual assaults and diseases, depression, and a host of other problems of at-risk children. Federal statistics show that 35 percent of our children are growing up in single parent households with little input from the other parent and that this is exactly the group in which most serious behavioral problems of children arise. So the shared parenting solution targets exactly the children who are most at-risk. All we need to do is get the family courts to order shared parenting instead of sole custody as its default option, and we will have far fewer troubled kids . . . The bad news is that National Parents Organization’s Shared Parenting Report Card shows that legal obstacles must be overcome before we can make full use of what we now know.”

State-by-State Analysis Highlights Parental Inequality Across the Nation