Let's Be Better

06/24/2026

50 half marathons. 50 states. One mission.

Children deserve reasonable access to both parents.

Six races down. Forty-four to go.

Next up is the Summer Forest Half Marathon in Virginia on June 27th. After Virginia, we have nine more races already locked in on the schedule. After that, we keep running. Until every child in this country has reasonable access to both parents. Until every state has 50/50 shared parenting as the legal starting point. Until family court reform is the standard, not the exception.

If we are running in or near your state, come find us. Run with us. Walk with us. Hand out a pamphlet at the finish line.

We are not stopping.

06/23/2026

A lot of people hear "family court reform" and wonder what that actually means.
It means building a system that puts children first. It means shared parenting as the default. It means reducing the kind of unnecessary conflict that drags out cases for years. It means parents aren't financially destroyed just because they want to be in their kids' lives. It means accountability and transparency in courtrooms that currently operate with almost neither.

If that is the goal, here are three ways to actually fight for it.

Federal.
Push for Title IV-D reform. The funding formula that ties federal money to child support enforcement is the engine of the pay-for-play system. The Shared Parenting Conference in DC on June 28-30 is where the legal and policy work happens. If you cannot be there, call your US representative and your US senator. Tell them Title IV-D needs reform. We are pushing this every chance we get.

State.
Push for 50/50 shared parenting legislation. Six states have already passed. Arkansas. Kentucky. Missouri. Mississippi. Florida. West Virginia. Your state can be next. Call your state representative. Email your state senator. Show up at your statehouse. We are running 50 half marathons in 50 states to put every one of them on notice.

Local.
Show up at your family courthouse. Hand out the pamphlets. Have the courage to call out alienating behavior when you see it. We meet every Wednesday at 8:20 AM at Providence Family Court, 10 Dorrance Street. If you cannot meet us, do the same thing in your own county. Pamphlets are ready for every county in America.

Three levels. Three actions. Pick one and start. Then do the next one tomorrow.

Children deserve reasonable access to both parents whenever it is safe and possible. That is the starting line. That is the standard. That is what reform means.

06/23/2026

Can't wait for this amazing event! If you can make it to DC, be there!

Link for tickets 👇

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-equal-shared-parenting-conference-tickets-1988137005302

06/22/2026

We meet every Wednesday at 8:20 in front of Providence Family Court
Join us be part of the movement.

06/21/2026

Go to the website. Print the brochures. Go to your local family court. Hand out the brochures.

We need people showing up and spreading the message.

06/20/2026

50 states and 50 half marathons because every child deserves access to both parents.

06/19/2026

Show up on June 28th.
Shared Parenting Conference

June 28 to June 30, 2026

Holiday Inn at the National Mall, Washington DC

Three days. Top leaders in the shared parenting community. Mark Ludwig in the room. Real conversations on family court reform, Title IV-D reform, and the next phase of shared parenting legislation across the country.

Here is the reason this conference matters.

Title IV-D ties federal funding to child support enforcement. The state gets paid more when collections are higher. That funding model creates a financial incentive to place the higher-earning parent as the non-custodial one. It does not matter if that parent is the mom or the dad. The math punishes income. Kids end up cut off from the parent most equipped to teach them how to navigate the world economically. The wealth gap compounds across generations.

This is not an accident. This is a structure that took decades to build, and it is not going to dismantle itself. It is going to dismantle because elected officials get pressured to dismantle it.

Those elected officials are our responsibility.

Every senator. Every representative. Every governor. Every state legislator with a vote on a shared parenting bill or a Title IV-D reform conversation. They work for us. They were sent to those buildings to act in the interest of the people, and the people include the children getting written out of one parent's life because of a funding formula nobody outside the conference rooms is talking about.

We hired them. We can pressure them. We can replace them.

That is exactly why this conference matters. This is the room where the legal and policy work happens. This is where the people who pressure those officials sharpen their game and build the network that turns one voice into ten thousand.

If you can be in DC June 28 to June 30, be there. If you cannot, find the equivalent in your own state. Call your representative. Email your senator. Drop a pamphlet at your local courthouse. Show up.

Children deserve reasonable access to both parents whenever it is safe and possible. The people we voted in are responsible for getting us there.

06/18/2026

The greatest predictors of mental health struggles, substance abuse, poverty, crime, homelessness, and dropping out of school all point back to the same thing.

A child not having both parents in the home.

That is not opinion. That is the data.

And yet the system we have built is designed to break homes apart and then bill the parents for the privilege of fighting over what is left. Pay for play. Conflict as a business model. Children paying for it every day in outcomes we can already measure in the next generation.

Reform happens when constituents make noise. Call your representative. Call your senator. Keep calling.

Children need both parents whenever it is safe and possible.