About the Fair Parenting Pledge Project

Mission

The Fair Parenting Project aims to introduce and implement a standard parenting plan for children with parents who are separated. This is to benefit individual children and parents by reducing conflict upon separation and throughout childhood, and benefiting the community as a whole by providing a standard schedule for separated children allowing for uniform planning of services and activities to this vulnerable population.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

                                                                                             Leo Tolstoy

"Happy separated families are all alike; every unhappy separated family is unhappy in its own way."

                                                                                                        The Fair Parenting Project

Background

The Director of the Fair Parenting Project is Eric Letts, a family law lawyer and mediator. He graduated from law school (University of Alberta) in 1996 following undergraduate studies in conflict resolution (University of Winnipeg) and graduate studies in Legal Intervention to Family Violence (Harvard University). He is married to a physician (adult and child psychiatrist) and they have five children between them; each having two children from previous relationships and they have one child together. All of their children have been raised with their other parents on the Fair Parenting schedule for over five years. He is professionally and personally familiar with the potential devastation, complication and frustration of raising children in separated homes. He also knows on both personal and academic levels, that children are better off having close relationships with all of their parents and the inconveniences and bothers are worth the hassle and aggravation.

About the Mission

By fulfilling its Mission, the Fair Parenting Project will normalize the experience of the separated child by introducing a standard parenting schedule that works well for children, for parents and for communities. It is a schedule that may even help intact families divide up child care responsibilities in a fair manner to allow each parent to flourish.

By registering and committing to the Fair Parenting Pledge you are letting the world, and your future partners, know that you are committed to raising your children in a manner that is fair to the children, to the other parent, to yourself and to the community. Registration entitles you to display the Fair Parenting symbol on your website, Facebook, Twitter or dating account.

We hope that our registrants talk about the schedule with people, especially with current or potential partners.

How will you parent your children if you become one of the millions of separated parents?