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MEANINGFUL REFORM
This institute is maintained by a volunteer staff of concerned parents. To achieve our crucialgoals, extensive funding is needed to bring certain test cases to fruition in the courts. History hasshown that nationwide precedent is often made in New York. Hence, our institute is presentlyfocused on two parenting rights actions which I have brought personally before the state’s highcourt in Albany and federal district court in New York State.Civil rights litigation constitutes the fast track for parenting reform. We saw this occur in suchtest cases as Brown v Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954), where a century of establishedgovernment policy (separate but equal doctrine) was overturned in a single decision. Similarly,when women sought to challenge gender based abortion laws, they filed Roe v Wade tocircumvent processes behind a constitutional amendment in the states.These reform cases occurred within present day lifetimes, but none could claim a subject so profound as the preservation of parent-child relations. Embedded within every relationship areall the human rights which have existed since the beginning of civilization. Indeed the SupremeCourt continues to refer to parenting rights as the “oldest liberty interest” recognized under our Constitution. It deserves our utmost vigilance, because, wherever and whenever this interest isimpaired, human morality degenerates to the levels we see rampant in America today.The impairment of fundamental liberty rights in the parenting context has now reachedintolerable extremes. It is executed routinely in our domestic relations courts through themandatory imposition of a “custodial institution of childrearing” as I call it. Here, the state takesvirtual control of our children, and through its dysfunctional system, justifies sweeping intrusionsupon historically private family matters. The interests of parents are “at best, secondary”according to lead lawyer consultants, see Scheinkman, New York Law of Domestic Relations.Left unchecked by our citizenry over the past few decades, this “custodial institution” hasevolved into a multi-billion dollar child industry despite the increasingly archaic nature of the“custodial” process. As this prospectus will further demonstrate, money interests aresystematically replacing child interests as a driving force behind the vast erosion of our mostimportant rights in these courts. Money has become a root cause of widespread child injury because the state has simply transferred its dysfunction to the parents. Meaningful relief is best achieved through a writ or appeal before the United States SupremeCourt. This can only come by way of a ruling from a state’s highest court or a federal appealscourt. As referenced, our institute is currently engaged with test cases in both judicial tracks.Unfortunately, present day litigation is heavily burdened by processing fees, transcript costs,