Group getting its wish: Custody issue out in the open

URBANA – On a subfreezing night when they could have watched holiday specials on television, they came from as far as Bloomington and Springfield to see what they could do to improve access to their own children.

About 40 people turned out at a meeting Dec. 6 in Urbana to hear the executive director of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children talk about ways to get the Illinois legislature and the Champaign County judiciary to consider shared parenting.

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