Republican Rep Pat McElraft – Carteret and Jones County

Republican Representative Pat McElraft represents Carteret and Jones County NC and we are a group of NC Fathers, paternal grandmothers, and other extended female family members of fathers who are reaching out to Representative McElraft in an effort to have or voices heard on the NC Family Courts and NC Child Support Enforcement System.

First and foremost, we want Representative McElraft to understand that the NC Family Courts are ripe for parental fighting that lasts for decades. Anytime you have one group of people winning 85% of the time (custodial mothers) and another group losing 85% of the time (non-custodial fathers) you are going to have anger, resentment, and discord that only hurts NC’s children. Children love both of their parents and do not acknowledge a greater love for one parent. Also, more and more studies are showing that children with absent parents have a greater suicide rate and emotional disturbances. We do want Rep McElraft to understand that there are a lot of fathers who choose not to be a part of their children’s lives, but I bet you would be surprised at the number of “deadbeat fathers” who WANT to be a part of their kids lives but can’t because the courts allowed a mother to move the kids half way across the country or they went bankrupt fighting multiple battles in court only to lose.

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Roughly half of custodial mothers today have male children who will one day be pushed to the margins of their kids lives if they experience a divorce and have children. Where do you think these non-custodial grandmothers (who will also be marginalized as well) will stand then Representative McElraft? With Equally Shared Parenting?

What about woman in paternal families Representative McElraft? Do you not think they get hurt in this system as well?

We realize that Representative McElraft is all to aware of fathers in NC who are being jailed for failure to pay child support. However, the courts do not acknowledge that many times it is not a conscious failure to not pay child support, it may be that there is an inability to pay child support. Furthermore, we find it insulting that fathers are jailed for not paying child support while custodial mothers are given federal and state assistance in the form of housing assistance, medical assistance, and tax credits in order to make ends meet financially.

Representative Pat McElraft represents a lot of fathers and numerous females of paternity in the NC General Assembly, so we wonder what she has to say to this group of folks that are not seeing their young loved ones equally, who are watching custodial mothers and her extended family enjoying raising children 26 days a month, and who are getting assistance to make ends meet while fathers are jailed.

Is Republican Representative Pat McElraft aware that the State of NC makes money from the federal government in collecting child support in Carteret and Jones County?

On August 3rd, 2013 the Carteret County News Times announced that Representative Pat McElraft is urging massive turnout for a critical habitat hearing. Meanwhile, the Republican Representative has not lifted a finger to end the practice of a hopeful custodial parent alienating a child across State lines hoping that the non-custodial family can’t get $15,000 together to ever see the child again. Representative McElraft refuses to do anything about parents spending $80,000+ dollars in a court system that clearly benefits others financially when parents fight for 18 years. How is this good for children Pat?

To us this is the most disturbing part of the NC Child Support Enforcement System. There are no less than three federal legislative pieces that give incentive payments to the State of NC for increased collection of child support, and the only way to get increased child support collection is via decreasing time spent with non-custodial families. As more and more fathers and female members of paternity learn that quite possibly the reason they are not seeing their young children as much as mothers and her extended family is due to the fact that NC makes money off collection of child support, I don’t think Carteret and Jones County families will be very happy with Representative McElraft. We also wonder if this system was built as an incentive to keep a divisive court system since as long as mom and dad are fighting someone has to lose so the State can make money.

If you are a NC, or Carteret and Jones County Father or female extended family member of a father who is not seeing his children equally then we ask you to contact Representative McElraft today and let her know of your frustration and demand that presumption of shared parenting become law in NC so that kids can have both of their parents and extended family equally. With this in mind we ask that you share this article on Representative Pat McElraft with other families in Carteret and Jones County on sites like Facebook and Twitter so that we can build a massive organization of non-custodial families voters who can start talking with Representatives daily.

Often, we hear legislators and judges tell us that the NC family courts, like the ones in Carteret and Jones County are about the best interest of a child and nothing else matters. This narrative is a lie. Consider the following example. When two parents separate, one parent can legally leave the family home and prevent a child from seeing the other parent until there is a court order. It cost the alienating parent $0 to do this, but costs the other parent upwards of $15,000 to remedy the situation in the courts. If the alienated parent does not have $15,000 then he/she NEVER sees the child again. All because of money? Representative Pat McElraft and other Republicans are fine with one parent, grandparents, and other family members not ever seeing a child because they weren’t able to get $15,000+ in cash? Where is the best interest of the child Representative? Sounds more like best interest of a lawyer.

Additionally, using the comment system below, we ask non-custodial families to leave comments to Representative McElraft because she does need to realize that this issue affects many men and women from all racial and cultural backgrounds.

Update 2/24/2015: This Republican lawmaker does not care about Carteret County or Jones County men and women in paternal and non-custodial families. She only cares about the lawyers lobby and their special interest group friends who make money from two parents fighting for 18 years in a purposeful unfair system. Any woman or man in a paternal family who votes for Representative Pat McElraft in any future elections needs to see a psychiatrist. And, if you do don’t come crying to us when nothing changes.

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Update 2015