Fathers' and Children's Equality

FACE

 Mission Statement

Fathers' and Children's Equality, Inc. is an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) nonprofit children's advocacy organization, and a self-help, educational and support group for non-custodial parents and their families.

Our Mission is to:

• Minimize the emotional upheaval experienced by children during and after parental separation,
• Promote every child's Civil Right to equal access to both parents and extended families regardless of the parents' marital status, and
• End the adversarial process in divorce and custody matters.

Our Goals are to:

• Promote equal parental responsibility for children's nurturing,
• Promote equal parental responsibility for children's financial needs,
• Encourage alternatives to divorce,
• Promote the position that children are not property,
• End parental alienation,
• Eliminate profit motivation in child custody disputes,
• Provide positive parental role models for separating families,
• Prevent the use of false child abuse and spousal abuse allegations as leverage in child custody disputes,
• Establish mandatory penalties for false allegations of child and spousal abuse,
• Promote equal treatment of family court litigants,
• Enforce existing laws providing for gender equality in family court, and
• Establish a shelter for displaced fathers and children.

Adopted September 27, 1993 by the FACE Board of Directors

Revised January 18, 1996 and January 9, 2000

This page last updated 2/18/2010.