NPO: Shared Parenting Advocacy Efforts Uphold Historic Proclamation

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'National Child Health Day is a Federal Observance of the need for all of us to direct our thoughts to the health and well-being of our children. This year is was Monday, October 6th. National Parents Organization celebrates it daily through our work to make shared parenting - the child custody arrangement that federal statistics as well as child development studies consistently show serves the best interest of children’s health and well-being after parents divorce or separate — the norm.

National Parents Organization recognizes that preserving a strong bond between children and their parents is critically important to children’s emotional, mental, and physical health. Shared parenting is the simplest, yet most difficult to implement, solution to most of the challenges facing our children today.

By promoting shared parenting, National Parents Organization answers a call President Calvin Coolidge made in 1928 under a Joint Resolution of Congress that proclaimed National Child Health Day a United States Federal Observance Day. In the proclamation, the President invited all agencies and organizations interested in child welfare to unite on Child Health Day, and he stated that “a day should be set apart each year for the direction of our thoughts towards the health and well-being of our children.”'