1. The toll-free telephone number is for the use of members of the Press only. All other communications should be made by e-mail. E-mail is checked continuously; you should receive a reply within 24 hours at most. Please respect this. Thank you.

2. Our spam filter rejects identical messages addressed to more than one of our e-mail addresses, so please do not send the same message to more than one e-mail address. If you are uncertain to whom you should address your message, please send it to John F. Smith and if it needs to be forwarded to someone else, we will do that for you.

If you do not receive a reply to your message within 24 hours, please re-send your message using a different phrase for your subject line. Spam filters, alas, are not perfect.

3. If you are a father facing the possibility of current or future appearances before a family court, we strongly suggest you do not provide us with any information which could be used to identify you, your children, or your children's mother.

We do not engage in, nor permit any member to engage in, illegal activities of any sort...but as anyone who pays attention to the news knows, it is an unfortunate fact that abuse of power by the authorities does occur occasionally in this imperfect world of ours. Please remember that what we don't know, we cannot tell.

Help us protect you by not sending us any personal information.

World Fathers Union is an all-volunteer research and outreach NGO. We work to foster cooperation and unity amongst fathers-aid groups worldwide working for equity in the family courts of all nations. We do statistical research, compilation, and analysis of trends in social and legislative policy affecting fathers and children, and we provide outreach programs to fathers and children in distress worldwide. Membership in the Union is free, anonymous, and open to everyone.

World Fathers Union, P.O. Box 278, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia B5A 4B2. www.worldfathersunion.com