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A few decades ago the women's rights movement was hijacked by the supremacists among free women. It has led to the destruction of our children by destroying the family and parenthood. Women created this mess and it is up to women of principled, egalitarian thinking to step up and clean up their own mess. Given these facts, the truth is that only women can fix the family law problems our nation faces today. We must also reform and refund our domestic violence programs governed by today's Congressional Guidelines for Abusing Women that abuse women and children under the guise of protecting them.
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Women have been running the house for millennia, why not the White House?
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The creation of True Equality Network was more by happenstance than by design. One could say the efforts of a few hundred women working together "evolved" into an organization. Followed by a merging of like minded organizations to form a larger, more focused organization.
The core group of women who comprise the bulk of the current chapter leaders and active investigators first met through the former Second Wives Crusade forum that was run by the American Coalition for Fathers and Children (ACFC).
Second Wives Crusade members were advocates of equal parenting time after the breakup of marriage and recognized the outrageous levels of bias against fathers in our nation's courts. They discovered that many of their husbands were paying child support in excess of their net income. While others were victims of paternity fraud and some were completely separated from their children due to false allegations of domestic violence.
Over time, getting to know one and another, the women realized that they were all victims of severe domestic violence themselves. They noted that most of the women they encountered while trying to get help for themselves were proud to say their claims of domestic violence were false and only filed them to get more child support or seek revenge for issues unrelated to domestic violence.
The paradox they witnessed was that these women got whatever they asked for. While all the women from the Second Wives Crusade got was another beating and then stuck paying their own medical bills, then watched their abusers received less punishment then a first offense DUI conviction.
It seemed that the abuse support systems were so flooded with false and trivial claims the people working within them didn't have the time left to help the worst cases of abuse.
The women from the Second Wives Crusade began to investigate the level of false claims verses real cases of domestic violence in their communities in 2001. Their survey was conducted by interviewing the plaintiffs of domestic violence cases in the court houses prior to their hearings.
The spirit that grew during that survey and their rejected request to testify at the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 19, 2005 sparked the desire to take greater action.
In July of 2005, Terri Lynn Tersak held an equal parenting conference. To her surprise, men and women from all over the country attended, cars and tents were everywhere. Her yard looked more like a campground hosting a jamboree than it did a yard for the weekend. She later learned that Teri Stoddard, who runs Shared Parenting Works, had done an amazingly expansive promotion of the event on numerous web sites. Even though Teri couldn't make it herself, she featured the conference because it was the right thing to do.
It was at this meeting that the title of Terri Lynn's blog, "True Equality" was thought to be the perfect name to describe the efforts of men and women working together as partners for gender equality.
It was during that equal parenting meeting that the ensemble of the Second Wives Crusade women and several state level organizations decided to merge to become, True Equality Network. In its first eighteen months of operation, True Equality Network grew to cover 21 states, with over fifteen thousand members.
It is safe to say, "the rest is history."
TEN currently has 41 chartered state field offices in the USA, with over sixty seven thousand active members and chartered offices in the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Italy, the UK and Australia. We are investigating in all 50 US states, Canada and the UK. As of July 2010 our eNewsletter is distributed to over seven hundred fifty thousand subscribed readers worldwide.
The phrase, Equal Protection Under the Law is True Equality, first appeared as Terri Lynn Tersak's personal email tag line in 2002.
It has always been presented in blood-red to honor the memory of those who paid the ultimate price for the freedoms we have.
We are not a law firm and do not handle individual cases or offer legal advice.
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