NOW and Family Issues

Crisis in the Courts & The Work of NOW's Family Law Committee

• Strategies for Organizing Around Family Law Issues
• NOW and Family Law Issues: Political Strategies
• More information can be found on the Family Law Committee page, including:
• Brochure: Crisis For Women In Family Court: What To Expect and How To Fight Back (PDF)
• Organizations and Websites That May Be Helpful for Protective Parents
• What to Do When Domestic Violence is Present

Related issues: Violence Against Women, Mothers and Caregivers Economic Rights, Equal Marriage

Latest News

• Support the Healthy Families Act (06/09)
• We did it! Now Urge Your Senators to Support This First Step Towards Paid Parental Leave (06/09)
• Paid Parental Leave -- Urge Your Representatives to Support This First Step (04/09)
• Paid Parental Leave -- Urge Senators to Support This First Step (03/09)
• Help Pass Paid Leave for New Parents (09/08)
• Help Working Families Strike a Balance (05/07)
• National Organization for Women Admonishes Media for Giving Alec Baldwin a Platform for Misinformed Theories (05/07)
• NOW, Legal Momentum File Complaints against Bush Administration Sex Discrimination in Job Training Programs (03/07)
• NOW Supports the State Children's Health Insurance Program (3/07)
• Invigorate, Don't Decimate, The Family and Medical Leave Act
• Fact Sheet: Provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (02/07)
• NOW President to Discuss Motherhood Issues on Good Morning America (3/06)
• "Mommy Wars" Incited by Irresponsible Media (3/06)
• Bush Administration May Roll Back Family Leave Protections (3/05)

Archive

2003

• NOW Opposes the Rescinding of 'Baby UI,' Calls for Comprehensive Paid Family Leave Programs (1/03)

2002

• Women's Rights Advocates Decry Bush's Family Leave Decision (12/02)
• California Gov. Gray Davis Signs Bill Allowing Paid Family Leave (9/02)
• Hughes' White House Departure Spotlights Need for Work-Family Balance (4/02)
• Activists Oppose Federal Anti-Marriage Amendment (5/02)
• Judge Takes NYC Agency to Task for Removing Kids from Battered Mothers (4/02)
• Mom Jailed for Protecting Kids from Convicted Sex-Offender (1/02)

2001

• Be All That You Can Be: How Military Child Care Measures Up (3/01)
• A Child Care Victory—More Funding! (2/01)

2000

• Child Care Funding Increases Desperately Needed (6/00)
• Action Alert: Support Paid Family Leave (1/00)
• Marriage Penalty Tax Relief Helps Some, Hurts Others (6/00)
• Vermont Grants Same-Sex Marriage Rights (Winter 2000)
• Child Support/Fatherhood Bill May Be Dead for this Congress (11/00)
• NOW Statement: Privatizing Child Support Collection a Truly Bad Idea (5/00)
• Is the Fathers' Rights Movement the Next Big Threat to Women's Equality? Two Reasons the Answer May Be Yes (Fall 2000)
• Fathers Count Bill: Warm and Fuzzy or Cold and Calculated? (Winter 2000)
• Fathers Count Bill to Fund Men's Custody Movement (Winter 2000)

1999

• Action Alert: Fathers' Rights Bill Advances in the House (10/99)
• Victory! Senate Adopts a Resolution to Expand Child Care Spending (4/99)
• NOW Urges Congress And Vice President Gore to Beware of Fathers' Rights Agenda (10/99)
• Taking Action Against Growing Gender Bias Against Mothers (Winter 1999)

1998

• NOW Demands Greater Acceptance and Access for Breastfeeding Mothers (5/98)
• Child Care, Other Women's Issues Touted in Congress (3/98)
• Child Care Initiatives Spotlighted (2/98)

1997

• Marriage Q & A (2/97)
• No-Fault Divorce Laws Under Attack By Right (1/97)
• "Father's Rights" Groups: Beware Their Real Agenda (3/97)

1996

• NOW to Congress: Dare to Do the Right Thing by Defending All Marriages (9/96)
• NOW Response to Supreme Court Decision in Romer v. Evans (5/96)
• Defense of Marriage Act (9/96)

1995

• Lesbian and Gay Couples Seek Right to Marry (8/95)

National NOW Conference Resolutions

• Marriage Equality Litigation Campaign (2004)
• Marriage Equality Education Campaign (2004)
• Action on Family Law (2001)
• Adopt Family Law and Custody as Priority Actions in NOW (1999)
• NOW Action Alert on "Father's Rights" (1996)
• Parental Rights of the Disabled (1996)