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'''Parents Without Rights''' is a political interest and support group based in [[Florida]], [[United States]] that campaigns for the reform of [[family law]]. It was founded in 1991 by a group of Rocket Scientists and Engineers let by Dr. Peter Wilson, NASA's Director of Shuttle Payloads on [[Kennedy Space Center]] They discovered that while they were competent to send men and women into outer space, thatfelt that the Florida's Family Courts did not consider them competent to be active Father and Parents, much less have custody of their children, when their marriages ended in divorce. In 1995, they were reorganized by Dr. [[Grayson Walker]].

==Florida law==

Although Florida law is explicitly gender neutral, the Florida Courts make the mother the custodial parent in slightly more than 90% of all cases, with the father the non-custodial parent in the remaining cases. In a recent study of cases involving contested custody in Broward, Palm Beach, and Dade Counties, the mother was awarded residential custody in 96% of all contested cases. Although the Florida Court oftenusually grants the father [[visitation]] rights, the group argues that this "turns the Father into a visitor in the lives of his child(ren)".

Parents Without Rights argues that ''unless one parent can be proven to be unfit and dangerous to the child(ren), anything less than 50/50 parenting is child abuse.'' However they do not specify what the mean by "child abuse". They agrue that children's fundamental rights are protected only when both parents are treated as equals, starting with equal time with the children. 

The '''standard visition''' of the Florida courts consists of alternating weekends and a few holidays; this amounts to about 14% of the child's time. Parents Without Rights argues that this standard visitation does not allow enough time for the non-custodial parent to form a meaningful relationship with their child.

(contracted; show full)*[http://www.ParentsBeforeTheCourt.org Florida Class Action Suit] Florida NCP Class Action Suit
*[http://www.MillionDadsMarch.org Million Dads March] Million Dads March
*[http://www.geocities.com/sharedparentingworks// Shared Parenting Works]

[[Category:Political advocacy groups in the U.S.]]
[[Category:Divorce]]
[[Category:Marriage]]
[[Category:Parenting]]