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We the Parents
2013 · Film · 62 min
Directed by James Takata
We the Parents, a feature documentary film, follows the people and events surrounding the first ever school transformation under California's 'Parent Trigger' law. Parents, with the help of the non-profit group Parent Revolution, gather signatures from over 51% of the families at McKinley Elementary School in Compton, CA. When their petitions are turned in to the district, demanding that a charter school take over McKinley, the controversy begins. Everyday people, who simply want a better life for their children, suddenly find themselves doing extraordinary things: appearing on television, speaking at press conferences, lobbying in the state capital, and becoming community leaders. On their journey they inspire a national movement and discover that education is a political beast.
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We the Parents is a new documentary that was just released, free to view on YouTube, about the family court system and how it is fundamentally broken. In many states it is actually legal to make a false accusation against a parent without evidence or history and use that unfounded accusation to separate children from their families without ever having to substantiate or show any evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever. An army of immoral and corrupt attorneys have learned to use this loophole to perform what they call, "The Silver Bullet," a technique in which a false allegation is filed, generally physical abuse against a child, take the children away and then use the fact the children have been removed as the sole justification to assign full custody to the other parent along with monetary support. This is what happened to me and countless other parents but as more and more families have been destroyed by this cabal of corrupt attorneys, judges and associated service personnel people are slowly waking up to this grift and are demanding a change. Change is an uphill battle as there are simply too many people making too much money, from the attorneys, to Judges and myriad support staff such as "coaches", coordinators, and forensic accountants and psychologists who all have a financial incentive to make sure the status quo continues. Many of these personnel are vitriolic but vapid in their disdain for the bill and opposition to it is usually the surest sign you are dealing with a biased individual who chances to lose out if and when it passes. The "divorce industry" seems to attract narcissists and immoral individuals like flies to excrement many pretending they are there to help but which is rarely the truth. If you ever wonder why Judges allow this corruption to continue right under their noses, the answer is astounding. As elected individuals every election cycle they run a campaign and solicit contributions from the very lawyers and support staff who they are supposed to be impartial to. Most will take in tens of thousands of dollars per cycle and any money left unspent can be "paid" back to themselves. So when an attorney who has made a sizable contribution shows up in their courtroom and congratulates the Judge on their recent victory, everyone involved understands the transactional nature of the "pay-to-play" system they have bought into.
Unmarried fathers in Ohio end up with ANY custody of their children less than 20% of the time and is one of the most unfair states in the country and Ohio House Bill 14 aims to fix it by defaulting to 50/50 time, like most states.
This new movie, We the Parents is a great introduction to the problem and the solution.
Any parents in or around Columbus Ohio, next Tuesday, Nov, 14th at 5pm we are having a showing at the Ohio Statehouse.
Please come to show your support and see a great movie.
[1] https://www.wetheparentsmovie.com/