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This organization seeks to establish a network of local single parent groups so that such groups will have a collective political voice. It provides information and support on issues important to single parents. |
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Legal and emotional support for divorced women with children: |
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National Center on Women and Family Law
275 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1206
New York, NY 10001-6708
Nechama Masliansky, Executive Director
Phone: (212) 741-9480; Fax: (212) 741-6438; E-mail: HN1193@handsnet.org |
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This nonprofit organization seeks to address family law issues, particularly those affecting low-income women. The organization provides technical and legal consultation and training to attorneys, judges, mental health workers, law enforcement personnel, and others in areas such as domestic violence, child custody, and other family law issues. It also provides information and support to low-income women and their children in these areas. The group publishes articles, manuals, information packets, handbooks, and a national newsletter and helps draft and prepare legislation and friend-of-the-court briefs in critical cases throughout the United States. |
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National Women's Law Center
11 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
Nancy Duff Campbell, Co-President
Phone: (202) 588-5180 |
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This group works to guarantee equality for women under the law and to seek protection and advancement of their legal rights and issues at all levels. Areas of interest include child support enforcement, dependent care, and the family. |
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Women's Law Project
125 S. 9th St., Suite 401
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Carol Tracy, Executive Director
Phone: (215) 928-9801; Fax: (215) 928-9848 |
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This nonprofit feminist law firm challenges sex discrimination in the law and in legal and social institutions. This group also maintains telephone counseling and referral services on women's legal rights concerns and community education. |
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