2010 National Family Preservation - Congressional Survey

Please copy only the survey and send to your Government Officials, This is the original sent June 2010 to all in hard copy form now we need to email blast it to them

2010 National Family Preservation - Congressional Survey

Please provide your name and state and answer each question with only a Yes or No answer. No modification or written comments may be made on the survey. Return the completed survey to CongressProgress2010@Yahoo.com no later than September 1, 2010 (revised deadline)

Name__________________________________ State __________________

Given that the House of Representatives voted YES (418 to 0 ) on House Resolution 125, condemning international child abductions, stating in part: Whereas according to the Department of State, abducted children are at risk of serious emotional and psychological problems and have been found to experience anxiety, eating problems, nightmares, mood swings, sleep disturbances, aggressive behavior, resentment, guilt and fearfulness, and as adults may struggle with identity issues, their own personal relationships and parenting; and Whereas left-behind parents may encounter substantial psychological, emotional, and financial problems and many may not have the financial resources to pursue civil or criminal remedies for the return of their children in foreign courts or political systems:



1. Do you support passage of H.R. 3240, the International Child Abduction Prevention Act? Yes __ No ___



2. Do you believe that children need both biological parents equally? Yes ___ No ___



3. Do you support S.J.Res.16 - The Parental Rights Amendment, which would amend the U.S. Constitution thereby protecting the rights of America’s parents from invasion through state law or international treaty? Yes___ No ____



4. Do you support HR 4469, a bill that would protect deployed military service members by preventing family courts from permanently changing or amending a child custody order while a service member is deployed overseas. (If custody was temporarily changed while the parent was overseas, the court must reverse the change once the service member returns home from deployment.) Yes____ No___



5. Will you support federal legislation to protect children and families, modeled on the Georgia legislation championed by the late state Senator Nancy Schaefer, whose purpose is to prevent “Child Protective Services” from unjustifiably inserting themselves into the private lives of America’s families, to prevent taking of children when it is not in the best interest of the child, and to reduce child trafficking? Yes ___ No____



6. Will you support the preservation of the American Family through the amendment of VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) which would encourage states to repeal laws that over rely on law enforcement (mandatory arrest) or violate probable cause (primary aggressor laws) as a solution to domestic violence?

Yes___ No___



7. Will you support the preservation of the American Family through the amendment of VAWA to make funding contingent on each state having implemented stringent policies to penalize false allegations of abuse so real victims of domestic violence receive VAWA’s benefit and false accusers are prosecuted? Yes____ No____



8. Do you believe that federal immigration code should incentivize false allegations of domestic violence by allowing the mere claim of victimization with out any concrete evidence to be used by immigrants as a short cut to gaining permanent residency and U.S citizenship? Yes ____ No ____



9. Will you support repeal of the Mondale Act 42 U.S.C. Sec.5101 or amendment of that act – to criminalize the use of false allegations of child or sexual child abuse intended to influence the determination of child custody, as is currently common practice? Yes ____ No ____



10. Would you support repeal or amendment of the Bradley Amendment US Code Title IV-D (42 U.S.C. § 666(a)(9)(c)) which currently requires state courts to prohibit retroactive reduction of child support obligations even in the case of fraud? Yes ___ No ___



11. Would you support sanctions or the elimination of federal funding to states that fail to take measures to eliminate misandrist bias from the Family Court System and impose sanctions on judges who continue to exhibit misandrist bias? Yes___ No__