22 Million Kids a Year - A Marine's 5-Page Fix for Family Courts
Keith Barton spent 16 years and a lot of dollars in lawyers inside America's family court system. When he stopped hiring lawyers, he won his own appeal pro se. Then he wrote the fix in 5 pages, and now he is running for Congress in Texas to make states fund fathers instead of custody wars.
The math behind the mission: 22 million kids flow through family court every year, and studies he cites put 70 to 85 percent of violent crime behind people raised by a single parent. Equal parenting means higher earnings, less abuse, less welfare, less crime. His fix: judge checklists, written rulings, and…
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