From R-KIDS of MN and GPF

Contents 1 Talking Points 1.1 Resolution 1 1.2 Resolution 2 1.3 Resolution 3 through 7 1.4 Resolution 8 1.5 Resolution 9 1.6 Resolution 10 1.7 Resolution 11 1.8 Resolution 12 1.9 Resolution 13

Talking Points

Resolution 1

1. The MN House of Representatives has the constitutional duty to oversee the Judiciary through the ability to impeach.
2. This is not being done.
3. A number of the House Reps. don't even know that they have this responsibility.
4. The Judicial oversight board established in the Judicial Branch is covering up the corruption going on in the courts.
5. This resolution would send the message that a mechanism for the House to do its job needs to be established.
6. Judges are falsifying transcripts, removing evidence from case files, not fulfilling ministerial duties, and ignoring the law in rulings.

Resolution 2

1. Children are more important than money. Yet a thief will get a jury trial but a parent who is about to lose their children has no such right.
2. Because of Resolution 1 above the need for a jury trial is necessary.
3. Children are being separated from their parents in order to give people jobs. When a child is placed in foster homes or adopted, money is brought into a local area from the Federal and State Governments to pay for the event.
4. Hundreds of Millions of dollars are being spent to fund this industry.
5. Minnesota is #1 in the nation for termination of Parental Rights.

Resolution 3 through 7

1. The foundation of civilized society is the traditional family.
2. Children are being legally kidnapped from their parents without Due Process of Law by allegation and obscurement of facts behind the laws of confidentiality.
3. Families are being destroyed by state and county run childcare systems.
4. Innocent parents and child care givers are being arrested without probable cause.
5. Respect for law enforcement is being undermined by this aberrant behavior.
6. Parental authority has been abolished by our current system.
7. Children are being placed in various undesirable environments.
8. Children are given power to have their parents falsely arrested for any reason whether true or not.
9. This current state of our child care system, in this context, has created a police state.
10. Children are encouraged to rebel further as they see the law that enables them to avoid discipline and overrule the disciplinary authority of their parents.
11. These same children will further stress an already failing system.
12. No compensation, apology, or restitution is required for the innocent victims of this aberrant governmental behavior.
13. No responsibility is assumed by those exercising these aberrant acts of injustice.
14. In this context, the justice we have come to expect and demand as citizens is corrupted or eliminated.
15. In this context, the rule of law has been eliminated within the current system.
16. Parents are forever stigmatized by these false allegations.
17. Our public school system is losing enrollment due to our failing child protection system.
18. Taxpayer dollars are being wasted on unnecessary and damaging processes, procedures, and hearings.
19. Our courts are overrun with bogus case loads that further burden the taxpayer.
20. In this context, the current system for child protection makes a mockery of, and attempts to destroy many desirable attributes of our justice system, our traditional family structure, parental authority, public school authority, and law enforcement authority,

Resolution 8

1. The concept is "innocent until proven guilty"
2. The goal is to maximize each parents time with their children.
3. Children want, desire and need, both Parents in there lives.
4. Parenting time of non-custodial parent is greatly reduced or ignored.
5. Divorce rates are less in States that have a Presumptive Joint Physical Custody
6. Mental health of children. Higher suicide, teen pregnancy, crime, and other social ills when a father is removed from the family.
7. Emotional/financial stresses frequently are causes for suicide/homicide.
8. Frequently children are alienated from non-custodial parent.

Resolution 9

1. Both parents need to be responsible for the cost of raising their children.
2. Custodial parents income in not considered when determining child support costs.
3. The law that passed last year did not do this even though they say it did.
4. Cost must be actual cost based on reasonable needs of the children.
5. An Economist must do the calculation of presumptive child support cost based federal law. This has not been done.
6. There must be a strong rebut able clause in the law so one can prove the cost otherwise.
7. Current laws reward the winner of custody with money, encouraging a custody battle.
8. This creates more divorces.
9. Because of the inequities in Child support children are being removed from one of their parents life.
10. Limited assets of non-custodial parents frequently cause bankruptcy.
11. Non-custodial parents are limited in their ability to pay federal taxes.

Resolution 10

1. This is the method of determining the actual cost of raising a child.
2. ie. Rent $1200/m 3 people in a home = $400/person for per capita calculation.
3. Marginal cost would be the cost of the rent (1200) minus the cost for a single apartment (800) = $400 for the marginal (additional cost) for two children to live there.
4. The marginal cost for the phone bill if it was $100 would be $0. The per capital would be $33.

Resolution 11

1. No hidden alimony
2. Child support needs to be for child support not for the custodial parent.

Resolution 12

1. This goes along with Resolution 2. Removing a child from a parent should be a protected right so that it does not happen unless a crime is committed.
2. The parent who is wanting to move the child away needs to prove why it is best for the child and/ or give up their custodial rights if they are going to move.

Resolution 13

1. Men are specifically excluded by law from obtaining shelter service from the state government if they have been abused.
2. Most victims of DV are male.*
3. Violence against men is no less severe than Violence against women.*
4. Women who abuse are not normally action in self-defense. *
5. Most child abuse victims are male.*
6. Violence against males is increasing.*
7. Violence against females is decreasing. *
8. Violence by males is decreasing.*
9. Violence by females is increasing.*
10. Domestic violence against men is the most under-reported crime.*
11. The field of domestic abuse research and treatment is dominated by gender bigots.*
12. Women who claim to be victims are not always telling the truth.*
13. Males are the primary targets of gender bias in the American legal system.*

*From Tom James book - Domestic Violence: The Twelve Things you Aren't Supposed to Know. 

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