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09/07/2026

The Voices for the Children Tour is coming to all 50 states.

The mission is simple. Gather groups of people in every state to advocate against a broken family court system and fight for the rights of the children who cannot speak for themselves. Not one voice. A wave of them.

Here is where we are heading first.

Denver, Colorado. September 26.
Trenton, New Jersey.
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Jackson, Mississippi.

More states after that. All 50 eventually. Every race we run is another chance to bring people together in a room, on the courthouse steps, or at the state capitol to say the same thing at the same time. Children deserve reasonable access to both parents whenever it is safe and possible. Kids cannot say it for themselves. That is why we are.

If we are coming to your state, be there. If we have not made it yet, get ready. We are on the way.

09/07/2026

The child's well-being is the priority. If both parents are safe, willing, and able, both parents deserve reasonable access to the child.

09/06/2026

When it comes to parental alienation, nobody wants to hear your story. It makes people uncomfortable. It sits in a space most people do not know how to sit in. So they change the subject, they minimize, they assume you must have done something to end up in the situation, or they simply do not believe the level of harm you are describing. The stigma is thick. It silences the very people who need to be heard the most.

The pain itself is one of the most brutal experiences a person can carry. Not being able to see your own child because of a court decision that never should have been made. Missing birthdays. Missing bedtimes. Missing entire seasons of a life you were supposed to be part of. Doing everything right and still being told no. Then walking through the world with people quietly assuming you must have done something wrong to be in that position. That combination breaks people.

The damage is inexcusable. To the parents. To the children. To the extended families quietly pulled apart alongside them. This has to stop. Not through more silence. Through more people finding the courage to name it out loud, believe the alienated parent in front of them, and demand a system that actually protects the children it claims to serve.

09/05/2026

One of the most dangerous stigmas in family court is the assumption that if a parent has limited access to their kids, they must have done something to deserve it.

That belief is baked in. If a parent is not around, they must be the problem. If access has been reduced, there must be a reason. That assumption then does two very destructive things. It quietly tells the alienated parent that nobody outside the situation is going to believe them, and it quietly gives the alienating parent air cover to keep doing what they are doing. Both outcomes hurt the child.

The truth is more uncomfortable. In a huge percentage of cases, the number one determining factor for limited access is not safety, capability, or fitness. It is one parent holding a grudge and making decisions based on emotion instead of the child's actual needs. The relationship between the adults ended, and the person who was hurt the most decided the other parent was going to pay for it. The system, doing what it does, went along with the loudest voice.

A lot of parents with limited access are safe. Healthy. Willing. Completely capable of raising a great human. The only thing they actually did wrong was be on the receiving end of a breakup. That is not grounds to lose your kids. It never should have been.

This has to be fixed. Children deserve reasonable access to both parents whenever it is safe and possible. That is why we advocate for 50/50 shared parenting in all 50 states. Because the legal starting point in every state has to reflect what the research, the data, and the lived experience of millions of families already prove. Two present parents produce healthier kids. Two available parents produce more stable adults. Two engaged parents produce better outcomes across every measurable category.

Reduced access should be reserved for genuine safety concerns. Not grudges. Not emotions. Not the residue of a relationship that ended between the adults.

Every parent capable of showing up deserves the chance to do it. Every kid deserves to grow up with both.

https://mothersandfatherstrulymatter.org/voices-for-the-children-tour/

09/05/2026

If only the resolution were as simple as going to family court. Some parents will spend over six figures just trying to stay in their child's life. The system is financially incentivized, and whatever makes the most money for the players involved is usually the path that is taken.

New podcast drop.Sat down with Dwayne Simmons, Executive Director of the Greater Attleboro Council for Children, to talk...
09/04/2026

New podcast drop.

Sat down with Dwayne Simmons, Executive Director of the Greater Attleboro Council for Children, to talk about what real community-level advocacy for kids actually looks like:

- The Backpack Program
- The Nicky O After School Program
- Christmas Is For Kids

All the work happening on the ground that most people never hear about.

We also got into his rap career and how music, community, and mission can live in the same person at the same time. Not one identity stacked on top of another. All of it feeding the same work.

If you care about what it takes to actually show up for children in your own community, this one is worth your time.

Watch:

09/04/2026

5th Annual Raise the Roof Fundraiser.

Friday, September 5.
6 PM to 11 PM.
Attleboro Elks #1014.

All proceeds help fund the Greater Attleboro programs, including the Backpack Program, the Nikki O After School Program, the Christmas Is For Kids Program, and more.

Learn more and support the mission: https://www.councilforchildren.org/

09/03/2026

One of the parts of parental alienation that does not get talked about enough is who else gets cut off.

You are not just alienating a child from a parent. You are alienating them from a family. Grandparents. Cousins. Aunts. Uncles. Siblings. Every branch of an entire family tree that had nothing to do with the fight between the two adults at the center of it and everything to do with the child at the middle of that fight.

In my case, I have six kids. One of them does not get to have a relationship with five of his sisters. Five. Not distant cousins. Not people he has never met. His sisters. And that is before you count the aunts, the uncles, the cousins, and the grandparents on my side of the family who love him and would help him grow into the kind of adult he is capable of being. Every one of those relationships was already there waiting for him. Every one of them got closed off because of choices that had nothing to do with him.

Alienation is not just robbing a parent of a bond with their child. It is robbing that child of a whole community that would have shaped them, protected them, and shown them who they were allowed to be. Kids who grow up connected to an extended family have more resources, more mirrors, more people to turn to when the world feels heavy. Kids who get cut off from all of that inherit a smaller life than the one they were born into.

It has to stop.

If you are in a co-parenting situation and your feelings about the other parent are still driving your decisions, you have to put those feelings down. Not because your pain is not real. Because your child's future depends on you doing it anyway. The most important thing you can create for that child is a healthy, safe environment where they get to know every person who loves them. That takes emotional maturity. It takes swallowing pride. It takes loving your kid more than you dislike the other parent, the other parent's family, and every reminder of the relationship that did not work.

For the kids. For the siblings they should get to grow up next to. For the grandparents who would have taught them their history. For the family they were born into. Put the emotions down and let them love who they were made to love.

09/02/2026

Download the 90 Strong app on Google Play.
One of the daily habits inside 90 Strong is 10 minutes of intentional time with your child. Not distracted time. Not "we are in the same room" time. Ten minutes where you are actually there. Reading a book. Playing a game. Building a Lego. Talking about their day and actually listening to the answer.
In this video I am reading to my daughter. Ten minutes. Just us. That is the whole thing. She might not remember the specific book years from now, but she will remember that Dad sat down and read to her. That is what forms competent, secure, healthy adults. Not big trips. Not expensive gifts. Ten minutes a day, repeated for years, that says without saying it, "you matter."
Download 90 Strong on Google Play. Start the habit today.

09/02/2026

We meet in front of Providence Family Court every Wednesday at 8:20 AM.
This fight against family court is not going to fight itself. We need as many people as possible stepping into the ring until things actually change. Not one voice. Not one weekly showing. A wave that legislators, judges, and the entire system cannot ignore any longer.
This is not about the parents. This is about children growing up with the access to both mom and dad that gives them the healthier, happier lives every credible statistic keeps confirming. The data is undeniable. Kids do better with both parents. Full stop.
If you are in Rhode Island, find us Wednesday morning. 1 Dorrance Street. 8:20 AM. Pamphlets in hand. Voices ready.

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