Senate Bill 5317 by Senator Kastama

SB 5317 - This is Mr. Kastama's latest efforts at bringing our state out of the family law dark ages. It was read on the 20th and referred to "committee" where it will predictably be killed by the Bar Association operatives, state-ists and Gloria Steinem revolutionaries in our state government. Shared parenting and the best interest of children would take millions away from DSHS and the state, millions from the courts and lawyers and power&control from the women's groups. Even though the feminist judges and greedy lawyers can unconstitutionally railroad any father (and trump any shared parenting legislation) with an unsubstantiated allegation of Domestic Violence, Shared Parenting will NEVER pass in this state. Too many greedy people with too much to lose to act in children's best interest. It's a Machiavellian thing.

I love the way this reads. The legislature is shocked to hear of the effect the family court is having on children and that fathers are actually important to kids' healthy development. Amazing! All along they just thought fathers were merely sperm donors and wallets. Hallelujah Church, can I get an amen, Sista? It's a light bulb moment for our fine representatives in the state government.

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Sec. 1. The legislature continues to find that our family law system is the primary reason for the disengagement of fathers from the lives of their children following divorce. This was the conclusion of the largest federally funded study on the effects of fathers and the children of divorce, conducted by Dr. Sanford Braver, and reported in his book, Divorced Dads: Shattering the Myth.

For more details on the bill . . . http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5317.pdf


Thanks Jim for trying, yet again, yet another year. And forget you Hargrove & the rest of your comrades for killing it. Jim, you're a good man and if I were in your district, I'd vote and even campaign for you. You're a breath of fresh air as you truly do try to represent we, the people and are one of the only ones in this government that truly cares about children and what the family courts are doing to them.