Charlie Kirk supported shared parenting custody laws before his assassination, as Kentucky’s equal parenting law shows strong correlation with electoral success.
A few hours before he was assassinated, Charlie Kirk’s last batch of Facebook posts included a critique of a Wall Street Journal article concerning the growing national effects of Kentucky’s landmark child custody law, which has a rebuttable presumption that assumes equal parenting time is in a child’s best interest.
The WSJ article noted the falling divorce rate in the Bluegrass State because of the historic law and how four more states have passed similar laws. However, there’s another compelling reason for both parties to push for shared parenting: Voters want it and evidence shows it affects how they vote. And the more vocal political candidates are about supporting equal parenting time custody, the more votes they get.
After Kentucky’s shared parenting law roared into life, the soon-to-follow fall election showed a direct correlation between winning percentage of contested races and lawmakers’ support of the bill. Of the contested House races, 100% of the sponsors won, 90% of those who voted ‘yes’ won, 80% of those who did not vote won and none of those who voted ‘no’ won. In fact, every bill sponsor who ran again won despite 14 seats changing parties.
The Republicans and Democrats should not be surprised by this because the voters are constantly telling them they support shared parenting.
