Military men and women risk their lives in support of the contingency operations that keep our nation safe. State courts should not be allowed to use a servicemember’s previous deployments or the possibility of future deployments when making child custody determinations.
Our Servicemen and women should never be in the position of having to choose between their country and their family. We owe it to them to provide uniform legal standards regarding child custody.
Women especially, have their children snatched away after returning home from war and their military service used against them.
This has to end. Women fight for the rights of women and children in other countries to be free yet, their children are taken in their own country because they choose to serve.