Speak Up Guest - Ron & Sherry Palmer Authors of "Not In The Childs Best Interest"

Ron and Sherry Palmer are helping parents understand parental rights and children's rights and why they haven't been respected in divorce. Children are not property anymore -- children's rights and parent's rights are based on the concept of liberty. The questions we must now ask are: How do you assert your constitutional liberty rights? What is the true authority of the court and what is the true authority of the parents? Do the courts get to choose one fit parent over the other in divorce? Do children have a constitutional right to choose one parent over the other? Do children's rights entitle the child to cut a fit parent out of their life?

Court's do not get to redefine fit parents differently in divorce. Court's do not get to choose one fit parent over the other. And children do not have a right to choose one fit parent over the other. Ron and Sherry touch on these in the interview on Speak up but go much much further in their book," Not in the Child's Best Interest." Children are not in charge of their own rights, although Children have all the rights of adults, they don't have the capacity or maturity to exercise those rights or be responsible for the exercise of their rights. Therefore those rights must be held in trust by an adult. Both fit parents, even in divorce, have a constitutional right to be the equal trustees of their children's rights. Fit parents hold those rights in trust first and only if no fit parent is available does that trust fall to the state. Fit parents determine the best interest of their own children not the state or a judge, not even in divorce. Disagreement between parents whether married or divorced does not constitute a waiver of those parent's or children's constitutional rights, nor does it grant the state constitutional authority to disregard those rights. Even if they have state statutes that say they may; those statutes are unconstitutional unless they meet the strict scrutiny standard.

Just as blacks and other minorities had to fight to get their civil rights respected by the legislatures and the courts, so too do parents have to fight to have their and their children's constitutional rights respected. And this fight must begin from the first pleading in court to be most effective. TRUE CHANGE will only happen when people stand up and demand their constitutional rights, just as the freedom riders did in the 50's and 60's. Before you can demand your constitutional rights, you must know what they are. Start your education here