Top Family Court Judge Says Mothers Should Have Children Taken Away If They Don’t Let Fathers See Them

Posted on November 27, 2010 by admin

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Mothers who refuse to let separated fathers see their children should have them taken away, a senior family court judge said yesterday.

The children should be handed over to the full time care of the father if the mother persistently defies court orders, Mr Justice Coleridge said.

He called for a ‘three strikes and you’re out rule’ by which children would be taken away if mothers ignored three court orders.

The judge said that family courts are losing their authority because so many people take no notice of their judgments.

Around 5,000 new cases a year come before the family courts in which parents – almost always mothers – defy orders to let the other parent have contact.

Judges are extremely reluctant to jail such mothers because of the damaging effects on the children, so many continue to get away with it.

Mr Justice Coleridge, 61, said: ‘If I were to call it three strikes and you’re out it sounds insensitive but something like it perhaps should be the norm.’

He added that occasionally it might be necessary to send a mother to jail.

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Thousands Of Fathers Left With No Child Contact This Christmas

Posted on November 18, 2010 by admin

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The campaign for fathers rights is a growing movement involving countless groups all campaigning for a change in the family law, in order to protect children from abuse and alienation and to allow both parents to bring up their children after separation or divorce, resulting in more stability and happiness for the most important people in the situation, the child.

The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child states:

a) “the child should be brought up in the spirit of peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality and solidarity”

b) “the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents”

c) “the right of the child to preserve his or her identity, including nationality, name and family relations”

d) “respect the right of the child who is separated from one or both parents to maintain personal relations and direct contact with both parents on a regular basis, except if it is contrary to the child’s best interests.”

e) “both parents have common responsibilities for the upbringing and development of the child. Parents have the primary responsibility for the upbringing and development of the child. The best interests of the child will be their primary concern.”

f) “protect the child from exploitation”

g) “States parties agree that the education of the child shall be directed to the development of respect for the child’s parents”

h) “provide necessary support for the child and for those who have the care of the child”

The UK government signed up to this convention back in 1990, but still in 2010 tens of thousands of parents are being discriminated against in family court and  child welfare is not being put first.

Fathers should have the same rights as mothers and be allowed to share the responsibility of bringing up their children. Parental alienation is when the resident parent refuses to encourage a positive relationship with the other parent and this  is a form of child abuse that harms innocent children. The laws must be changed and family court judges must use the powers available to them to allow children to be brought up in a more stable, happy environment and contact with both parents.

This is a basic human right that is being ignored by judges and the law.

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I Just Want To Be A Good Dad

Posted on November 6, 2010 by admin

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For 12 days every fortnight I am a hard-working, broken-hearted person and I cannot find anything in the UK to make me happy.

For the two days every fortnight that I get to spend with my daughter, I am a happy, proud and confident person, a total contrast to my days without her.

Yesterday I gazed out the window watching fireworks and was really missing my angel but I cannot call her, she doesn’t call me and knowing she is only a mile away hurts like hell.

My ex has hurt me for years on end and she seems relentless in erasing me from our daughter’s life and I am reduced to nothing more than a broken-hearted dad that battles on for justice in the courts, so that someone will make my ex encourage our daughter to see me as an equal parent and let me be a part of her life, good times and bad.

I have alot to give and alot to teach her but the only people she gets to see is her mothers’ friends and family, not a true representation of her whole family, which to me is abuse and falls under the title of parental alienation. This is the act of one parent trying to stop meaningful contact with the other parent.

It is time to stand up and make family laws fairer to stop child abuse being carried out and to promote shared parenting in the family courts so broken Britain can start to be repaired for the good of our communities.

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