World Fathers Union has a dual mandate:

• To foster cooperation and united action amongst father's aid organisations worldwide, and to promote the development of a uniform and equitable family justice system which children in all countries of the world may count on to help them when their parents can no longer help themselves.
  

• To offer the collective help and counsel of our members to fathers and children in crisis, wherever they may be, in whatever ways we can.

The first part of our mandate necessarily embarks upon a long road, one no less arduous than that followed by any group struggling for freedom from bias and inequitable treatment. Under this chapter, we must act in many spheres: working with the world press to rescue fathers from the rôle of the ideal villain in which they have been cast; working with government leaders to guide and inform them of the reality they need to address if our society is to be preserved; working with father's groups everywhere to create a true, world-wide union of fathers strong enough to make its voice heard and heeded in the halls of power.

Yet all of this offers little solace to fathers and children who are in distress right now. Sadly, there are always too many of them, because our family court systems encourage conflict instead of searching for just and equitable solutions. Hence our second mandate, which directs us to reach out in crisis situations where fathers despair and children weep and lives are destroyed. We do this one-on-one for any father who writes to the Union for help; and we do this globally by constantly searching for and disseminating information which can aid fathers in their struggle to save their children. Both the Union's News Page and the new Fathers In Crisis pages address this need.

We also conduct statistical research studies of entire family court systems and the individual judges' custody decision records from them. This enables us to identify and expose particularly biased judges to public scrutiny. If anecdotal evidence from fathers or reputable attorneys indicates that a particular judge is a real problem--much worse than even the 'ordinarily biased' family court judges which are the bane of fathers and children alike--we open a file on that judge and we undertake a statistical survey to ascertain how the record matches the stories. We then release the results to the press and forward them to the appropriate government ministers.

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