Now let's get to work. Family court does not come with an instruction manual. This site brings together research, documents, statistics, videos, experiences and resources for parents trying to understand the system.
Start with information that can help you understand divorce, custody, documentation and what may be ahead.
Go directly into custody, child support, court, research and family-system resources.
Skip the tour and jump directly into the major resources and documents.
This project grew out of firsthand experience with family court and the decision to stop being quiet about what families experience inside the system.
The site has long collected statistics and claims concerning father absence, custody, child support and family outcomes. Follow the linked research and source material rather than relying on a graphic or statistic by itself.
Talking about a broken system is easy. Understanding it, documenting it and deciding what you are personally going to do next takes more work.
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Laws, cases, enforcement information, statistics and state-level material.
Title IV-D, enforcement, funding, reports, articles, videos and supporting material.
Research papers, government documents, books, articles and datasets.
Questions, documentation, planning and educational resources for people approaching separation.
Articles, videos, case material, research and domestic-abuse resources.
Public statements, legislative material and shared-parenting records.
Recovery, reunification, support resources and family-healing information.
Search the Matrix of research, documents, studies and other collected material.
Videos and podcasts collected across family-law, custody and parenting topics.
State-specific resources are being organized into the Pissed Off Parent state database. Use the state grid as the front door into that system.
Equal-shared-parenting organizations and resources can approach the issue from different perspectives. Links to outside organizations are provided for research and informational purposes and do not imply affiliation.
Need some truth with a side of sarcasm? The meme collection is made to be shared, laughed at and used to start conversations.
Share the content—but don't crop off the branding and repost it as your own. You know who you are...
Enter Meme Matrix →Pissed Off Parent grew out of being dragged through a family-court experience and making a quiet promise that my boys would not have to face the same thing without someone trying to make the information easier to find.
When the project needed a name, I wasn't interested in making the subject sound warm and fuzzy. I was pissed off. That's where the name came from.
"If Not Now, When?" came from watching people repeatedly talk about what they were going to do without ever getting around to doing it.
The imagery has family roots as well: the naval anchor honors my father and his Navy service, while the thread and needle honors my grandmother and her life as a seamstress.
"Silver Bullet" is a term used in some family-law material for allegations or emergency protective-order strategies that can rapidly change the balance of a divorce or custody case before the underlying allegations are fully adjudicated.
Watch Video ↗ Attorney / Protective Order Video ↗ Read Research PDF ↗You can read one page and leave—or keep following the sources, documents, videos, cases, statistics and links. The point of the Matrix is to make the information easier to find.
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