My Open Response to Dr. Stephen Baskerville that is published here and at http://www.mensnewsdaily.com
Stephen and friends,
I am proud to call some of you my friends and others I am proud to say that you are not. Even if you are not my friends, I would support you and the goals within the realm of our shared desire to be with our children and to assure that our children will not experience what many of us hardened family court veterans have regretfully experienced.
I received Dr. Stephen Baskerville's Open letter and read through it completely. I was compelled immediately to check my now meager checking account. I had a mere $115.00 left over, after I paid some of my bills, that was to last until the upcoming Friday. Remembering again how I had tens of thousands of dollars in that same account before I met the family court system. Now, I have been in and out of work because of a serious accident in June that has resulted in some lingering effects to my head and body. My hospital bills and finances are catastrophic, and I am barely hanging onto my own home. I went to the ACFC website and immediately signed up for an Associate Level ($65.00) Membership Account.
Why did I sign up for an organization that is having problems? Because Stephen asked me to with his letter. HE has my support, because I believe that he fully understands many of the issues that we have struggled on a local and regional footprint to bring to the forefront. I may not agree with everything and may have some personal differences to Dr. Baskerville's ideologies but I would assist Dr. Baskerville whether an organization was behind him or not. I would do so with my last dollar and every bit of my other resources and expertise because of the things that we do agree on.
I don't fully believe that the problems we are faced with are limited to just the family court system. I believe that the problems that we are faced with are systemic of a constituency that loses sight of what our country was founded upon. We need to again stand together and rise above the apathy and personal issues that we have for or against one another and look to the issues that we can work together on. The system thrives on division, and we are often times the best ones at supporting the very thing that tears us down simply by not rising above the personal issues that keep us apart in our "demands for change."
I have always stayed away from other organizations because I could not fully agree with any single one of them. So today, I join the ACFC and hope that others will follow. I stand with Dr. Baskerville and with other parents that want to help shape the world into a better place for our children and subsequent generations. I love my children, and I don't want them to have to endure the feeling of their children not being able to be with them. It's bad enough that they already feel the pain of not being with one of their parents.
Dr. Stephen Baskerville has my support, and together we will all help change the course of society for our children.
Lary Holland
http://www.laryholland.com
800-319-4955 x3