A warning for the next generation of NH Fathers...

Today's college students are tomorrow's parents and they should be well aware of what awaits them in the family courts of New Hampshire.

Being a parent is both an extremely rewarding as well as an extremely challenging task. These rewards and challenges should be shared by both mother and father when forming a family and raising their children.

For the purposes of full disclosure, however, the fathers of tomorrow should know about what awaits them in the family courts of NH,alongside the better than 50% divorce rate in the state and 70% of divorces being initiated by women. It is my belief that the percentage of divorces initiated by women (mothers) is even higher when children are involved, though I have yet to receive the figures I've requested from the NH Bureau of Vital Statistics.

Be aware, fathers of tomorrow, that if and when divorce is initiated against you, or even if you are not married but have fathered a child, you are likely to lose access to your child and also to lose the autonomy to earn a living freely for decades. You see, the NewHampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (NHCADSV) is fond of telling New Hampshire's legislators that '80% of fathers who desire shared custody of their children fit the profile of a batterer'.

The Coalition argues that men who have a divorce (or child custody proceedings if not married) initiated against them should be presumed to be violent, and thusly should not be allowed to be equal parents to their children. There is at present an epic battle raging in NH which must culminate with BOTH parents, mother and father, being affordedthe rebuttable presumption of equal parenting rights and responsibilities. Nothing else is in the best interests of NH's children.

The equal parenting protections reform movement is fighting hard against the lies and inaccuracies being promulgated by the NHCADSV to the elected officials in the state, but for now the reality of NH's family courts should be recognized by all those among you who

contemplate having a child. If you are a man who is to become a father then it will matter not what you have provided your children and your family emotionally, materially or otherwise. Rest assured that you will not be presumed as an equal parent.

Please know what awaits you and your children in the NH family courts will not constitute justice by any stretch of the imagination. Youcannot possibly imagine the pain of being forcibly removed from your child's life andthe pain your child will experience after being prescribed a parentectomy by the state's judges, marital masters, and GALs becausethe legislature refuses to pass the Constitutionally protected presumption of equal parenting rights into law. Sadly, many of the fathers of tomorrow will know firsthand some day soon the pain involved. It *can* and *will* happen to many of you...

Consider yourselves warned. This is non-fiction.

Visit www.nhcustody.org for more information.

Marc Sniderwww.nhcustody.org3 Ellie DriveMerrimack, NH 03054

nhfamilylawreform@hotmail.com