About the Children's Rights Counsel
The Children's Rights Counsel of Southwest
Missouri is a chapter of a nationwide, non-profit
IRS 501(c)(3) children's rights organization of
which our national office is based in Washington,
D.C.
CRC works to strengthen families through education and advocacy. We favor family formation
and family preservation, but if families break up,
or are never formed, we work to assure a child the frequent and continuing contact with two parents and extended family the child would normally have during a marriage. Our motto is
"The Best Parent is Both Parents."
For the child's benefit, CRC favors parenting
education before marriage, during marriage, and for parents who are involved in marital disputes,
substituting conciliation and mediation for the
adversarial process, and providing for emotional
and financial child support. We work to strengthen fragile families of children whose parents are unwed. We also favor school-based
programs for children at risk.
