"Ohana"
(From Wikipedia)"Part of Hawaiian culture, ohana means family in an extended sense of the term including both blood-related or extended. It emphasizes that family and friends are bound together and members must cooperate and remember one another."Ohana is one of the themes of Lilo & Stitch - "Ohana means family, and Vicky and Bang don't get left behind. Or forgotten.".The root word "oh,," refers to the root or corm of the kalo, or taro plant (the staple "staff of life" in Hawaii), which Kanaka Maoli consider to be their cosmological ancestor.
This site is NOT a charity and does not give legal advice. I hope people will use it to come to express concerns, share stories, give support to others and encourage people from all standpoints to come together to help us protect our families. I would like for this to be a place where political parties, groups and individuals can put aside their differences and share resources, points of view, and hope for the future.
I hope that we can recognize that ALL families are important to children - and we indeed have a responsibility to protect them. Take the price tags off of kids and let's help each other raise happy, healthy children with love! A kid can never have too much love!
I am a "birth"mother, "second wife", mother of two "subsequent" children, and a former Guardian ad Litem. My experience in the Family Court and the experiences of friends and family has shown me the corruption and injustices of our court system first hand. It is time for change...
Current Family Law is destroying one of our most basic needs, our families. This site was created to help raise awareness of this heartbreaking crisis and help facilitate a revolution in the way we think about family and to bring together people and issues from the "underdogs" of family law. It is my dream to see all sides of our communities come together to create a more just and healthful system and create a better future for ourselves and our children.
I hope that we can re-educate ourselves to see families in all their forms as individual and unique situations which must be recognized and treated as such in our courts. There is no such thing as a perfect family!! We must give equal representation and protection under the law to all members of our families. We need to give respect to each individual and forget our programed ideas to encourage a better social attitude in order to foster a more healthful and productive society.
This change must be sweeping and drastic in order to truly form a more effective system. There are so many issues and it is so complex that we must bring them all to the table and really examine what "family" means and how it effects us. I wonder if we are up to the challenge?
