Family Association is a Fundamental Human Right

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The name Parentsmarch™ is trademarked. Anyone wishing to utilize this name must first get permisssion from the trademark owner. Permission will be granted at the discretion of the trademark owner conditioned upon the requestor’s promise to adhere to the principles of Parentsmarch™ described herein.

PARENTSMARCH™ 98 - September 23, 1998 included a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. followed by a rally on the Capitol steps along with approximately 20 coinciding rallies across the country. This was a grassroots effort to unite the numerous groups under one umbrella to bring the force of our numbers to bear on our legislators to demand reform of the child protection laws. The platform of this event was the Petition To Congress; the purpose was defined in our disclaimer below. This banner still flies in the hearts of many  supporters. However, this event did expose some treachery and sabotage within our ranks and caused more divisiveness than unity. This was unfortunate, but not fatal to our cause.

We will not give up. The American Family Advocacy Center  still supports the petition and the purpose of Parentsmarch™. Parentsmarch™ is a nationally recognized name that can be used (with written permission from the trademark holder only) for your public rally by any organization that supports and upholds the original purpose and platform.

PARENTSMARCH  DISCLAIMER

Our supporters and our organizers are involved in many diverse areas involving these issues of government intervention into the lives of families. As such, they often have the opportunity to make public comments that reflect their individual agendas and values  These personal opinions are unrelated to Parentsmarch.

We have many diverse groups and individuals who support this march, but we do not speak for them and they do not speak for us. Each associated group or individual retains their own autonomy, and we do not dictate to anyone what they should believe or how they should discipline their children, or anything of that nature. We do not necessarily support their positions or their tactics, and we only ask the support of a group or individual who can and will support our petition. If you cannot support the petition to congress, then of course, you should not support Parentsmarch.

Their comments are not to be construed as being representative of Parentsmarch nor are they the platform of  Parentsmarch. Our supporters and even our organizers have participated in discussions and public events in their individual capacities. Many of these people are activists in this area, have different views on the issues, and communicate widely on this issue. As individuals, they are entitled to their opinions and have the constitutionally protected right to freely express them - these opinions are not the position of Parentsmarch.

The Parentsmarch coalition has developed its own nonpartisan, non-denominational, non-gender, nonracial platform. Rather than being exclusive, we wanted to provide an all-inclusive mechanism whereby the widely diverse and splintered groups that are all fighting their small battles for the same thing  - our families - could unify for a single purpose that is beneficial and relevant to each and every one of them without compromising their own personal agendas.

The purpose is the march; the platform is the petition to congress. Since our entire official position is clearly written out, there should be no confusion as to what we stand for. If something is not on our petition to congress, we have chosen not to have a position on that issue.

Any comments made by any supporter or organizer of Parentsmarch that are not specifically referred to as being made in the capacity of a duly authorized Parentsmarch representative are not to be attributed to Parentsmarch.

Any public posts that contain any reference to Parentsmarch are strictly for information referral purposes only and are not attributable as quotes by Parentsmarch unless specifically defined as such. Neither are they necessarily the policy or platform of Parentsmarch unless specifically represented as such by a duly authorized spokesperson of Parentsmarch.

If parents cannot set aside their minor differences, to support what we believe are the core issues affecting child protective services, then we can never hope to affect real, meaningful change in the system and our families will continue to be in jeopardy. Mother's rights and father's rights groups must stand shoulder to shoulder with each other and with married parents and their children and grandparents to present our mutual concerns to the public and to congress.

Child protective services agencies MUST keep us divided, because they cannot prevail when we unite.  We must not be deceived into remaining divided.

We may disagree politically *as individuals*, we may disagree on theology, we may disagree on discipline, but we all agree that unless children are truly abused  they belong with their parents without any interference from the state. That those who would lie about abuse should be punished. That the court system should be fair and affordable. That those who have the power to destroy our families must be held accountable and liable. And that we have the right to demand that the agents of the state obey the law.

Q. If you could do only ONE thing to protect your family, what would that be?
A. Amend Your State Constitution with the FAMILY RIGHTS AMENDMENT