Equal Parent's Week

26 September - 2 October 2007

The Children's Rights Council, as International Sponsor, invites family members throughout the world to unite their voices in making the message of Equal Parents' Week, " The Best Parent Is Both Parents " an international mandate.

Equal Parents' Week is a movement which sends the message that parental rights and responsibilities must be shared equally by both parents. The purple ribbon is the symbol which sends this message. People are urged to send this message by wearing purple ribbons and tying them everywhere they can be seen.

Equal Parents' Week is a civil rights movement and a human rights movement. Equal Parents' Week advocates that equality is not just a legal concept. The right of both parents to function as a parent, the right of children to be raised and nurtured by both parents, and the right of familes to exist and function as a family, are rights inherent and inalienable to all families. The Equal Parents' Week mandate for equal parent status is a mandate for the time it takes to love, nurture, and teach our children our values the only way we can...a mandate for the ability to be a parent...and a mandate for justice.

The purple ribbon is our symbol of the Equal Parents' Week ongoing movement of solidarity advocating parental equality and advocating protection of the civil rights of all family members by all levels of our government and justice systems. As an international event, The Children's Rights Council are asking all organizations to join in "

Equal Parents Week page.