Goals

Within the family courts, there are situations which create an un-healthy environment for children.
I. C.A.N. will support mothers to support children and child-raising during divorce, and educate them on how to be the nurturers they should be (even during divorce), help mothers maintain appropriate, optimal parenting during this process and provide a support forum of advocacy, information and emotional support to help women re-gain or keep control of their situation. C.A.N. will teach mothers to understand the family courts and the divorce process and will encourage pro-se representation in the hope that it will help mothers feel more in control of the process and more satisfied with their own cases. C.A.N. hopes that this will force the judges to listen to mother’s plights and educate them as to the stark reality of these unfortunate situations. C.A.N. feels that a legally informed mother is the best advocate for her children.
II. C.A.N. intends to bring forward the injustices that now exist in the family courts that prevents mothers and women from receiving the financial support they need to effectively raise their children. C.A.N. intends to promote judicial fair play by educating legislators on the continuing bias towards women in the court system by means of involvement through gender bias studies.
III. C.A.N plans to promote reform of the antiquated and biased procedures of the family division to discourage the “Winner take all” approach of judges and attorneys.
IV. C.A.N plans to encourage everyone to take seriously the job of raising children to the best of our collective and single abilities, properly reflecting this maxim:
“A nation is judged by how it treats its elders and it’s children”.