July 23,2010
Please send an email in support of HB 1400, Massachusetts’s Shared Parenting Bill, to Keith McFarland in Joint Judiciary Committee Chairman Eugene O’Flaherty’s office. To write your letter or send our form letter, please click here. We have been successful in getting HB 1400 extended while many other bills have died, but we need to get the bill out of the Judiciary Committee. HB 1400 will help Massachusetts’ children–to learn more about the bill, click here. We have been getting major and often favorable media coverage on HB 1400. For example, last night Ned Holstein, M.D., M.S., Chair of the Board of Fathers and Families, discussed HB 1400 on ABC’s Boston affiliate WCVB. The story also featured longtime F & F member Rob Derosier, who told WCVB about his long, hard fight to remain a meaningful part of his daughter’s life after his divorce. To watch the show, click here. Last week Holstein debated the bill on NPR’s Boston affiliate WBUR–to listen to the debate, click here. Over the past several weeks, both the Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Massachusetts’ 3rd largest newspaper, published editorials on HB 1400, and Holstein’s newspaper column Time for shared parenting appeared in the Telegram. Together with you in the love of our children, Glenn Sacks, MA Executive Director Ned Holstein, M.D., M.S. Chair of the Board