MISSION STATEMENT

Alliance for Non-Custodial Parents Rights is a nonprofit, public benefit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of the civil and inalienable human rights of Non-Custodial Parents (NCP's). The goal of ANCPR is to enact a system of family law that will provide greater security and benefit for children of divorced parents by fostering an atmosphere in which both parents play equitable roles in bringing up their children. ANCPR believes that for this goal to be realized, the following things must happen:

1. The power of judges to impose criminal penalties and jail sentences for civil contempt in child support cases must be severely curtailed.

2. Child support guidelines must be reasonable and not lead to the bankruptcy of the non-custodial parent and their family.

3. The power of the State to humiliate fathers by labeling them "deadbeats", advertising their faces publically as if common criminals, and taking other extreme measures such as license revokation must be curtailed.

4. Custody and visitation issues must be fairly and equitably addressed by the law immediately. The highest priority in divorce should be the welfare of the entire family unit, even when that family has experienced divorce. A child can have no more than one mother and one father. Both the mother and the father must play an equal role in the rearing of a child. The sole emphasis relative to the NCP's role post divorce no longer must be how much money they contribute.

5. Divorce, custody, visitation and child support issues must be taken out of the hands of the offices of District Attorneys except in proven cases of abuse, neglect, or abandonment.

PRIMARY STRATEGIES

1. ANCPR will maintain a highly visible and vociferous public presence in order to raise public awareness of the injustices caused by child support enforcement procedures that violate the Constitutional rights of NCP's.

2. ANCPR will inform members of Congress concerning child support issues so that the voice of non-custodial parents receives a more favorable hearing.

3. ANCPR will sponsor academic research into the damaging effects of current enforcement measures on the relationship between children and their fathers by offering fellowships and grants to graduate and post-graduate students doing research in this field.

4. ANCPR will fight current child support enforcement laws directly by sponsoring class action lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of inordinately high awards, license revokation, denial of passports, and the most egregious of all, the jailing of fathers for contempt, or non-compliance with unfair awards.