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Father's rights: GOP is letting Democrats steal a popular issue

Oklahoma's Republican House floor leader killed a bill with 36 Senate sponsors including all Democrats

By Matt Hale Fox News

Published June 21, 2026 11:01am EDT

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The Republicans saw an opportunity with a very popular issue and ran with it. It wasn't just any issue, but one that affects more Americans than any law other than taxes and traffic: child custody. The national pendulum has swung heavily toward shared parenting, which uses equal physical child custody and equal decision making as the starting point. National Parents Organization’s independent polling shows that a whopping 86% of Americans support this custody arrangement.

In 2018, Kentucky became the first state to presume that shared parenting is in a........

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