The family courts will no longer work on the presumption that having contact with both parents is in the best interests of a child, in a landmark change that domestic abuse campaigners have said “will save so many children’s lives”.Janice Fiamengo comments:The move has been heralded as “groundbreaking” by family lawyers and campaigners ...
The government confirmed on Tuesday that it would repeal the presumption of parental involvement from the act “when parliamentary time allows”. ...
The announcement means family court judges will no longer have to work from a starting point that parental involvement is in the child’s best interest, and instead will be directed to consider the evidence and assess a child’s wellbeing on a case-by-case basis.
The article does not admit the well-documented fact that mothers are the most frequent perpetrators of child abuse and child homicide (see, for example, p. 65, perpetrators of child fatalities). Neither does the article acknowledge that women do indeed lie about abuse , precisely as a means to sway custody outcomes in their favor. Moreover, women do alienate children from their fathers, often with the assistance of family court orders. Alienation is a recognized form of child abuse.Britain used to be a great nation. This is more evidence of its suicide.Feminists quoted in the article admit that this is merely an important “first step” in their long march to total father-exclusion. ...
Many fathers’ groups have lobbied for decades to secure fathers’ legal right to be involved with their children, amassing peer-revied data showing that children do better with both parents present: they are less likely to experience mental illness and juvenile delinquency, less likely to commit crimes or join gangs, more likely to finish school, less likely to abuse alcohol and drugs, and less likely to commit suicide or self-harm. Against fierce opposition, such organizations have achieved significant success in the United States in helping to shepherd statutes through state legislatures that encourage judges to award shared custody to parents after divorce.
National women’s groups in America (including the National Organization for Women) have been vehement opponents of bills to encourage shared parenting, claiming that a presumption of father involvement empowers male abusers. Such advocates reject any implication that women owe anything to the fathers of their children (Radbord is incensed that a woman might be prevented from moving out of state by a father’s petition), and refuse to acknowledge the sincerity of fathers’ parenting aspirations.Feminism is not about equality. It is more about eliminating fathers rights.
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Interesting that the proposal wouldn't actually exclude fathers as a class from parental responsibility. It's probably a good move.
Mike,
Reading between your very wide lines, I can see you still feel the 'father' should still be forced to contribute 'as a class' financially by way of 'parental responsibility'. Strange that the political left encourages so many women to pursue career instead of family, avoid marriage altogether if possible, abort their children before and after birth, castrate their children so the child can more successfully pursue their budding careers in mental illness, or give them up entirely without any penalty (except for men of course), even while lecturing men about their 'parental responsibility'. That's just rich. Besides promoting misery, drug usage, death, insanity, and poverty on their merry way to D.I.E. (I put the letters in the correct order for you), the political left really has no plan...or clue of how to govern.
I've got a much better idea, if the woman doesn't want the man around, that's fine. Then the man should be free to take himself AND HIS MONEY somewhere else to be with someone else who does. Women can't have their cake and eat it too...even if they are bat-shit crazy. When a man loses his job (whether or not he liked the job or not), he loses the security of a paycheck and benefits that go with it, no one pats him on the back and says 'There, there, You should still get paid and keep your benefits even though you don't work there anymore...because that's 'fair'...for some reason. Women of the western world need to re-learn this applies to marriage and relationships too...the cultural pendulum is about to swing the other way so they might want to take note.
At present, civil courts largely laughably favor unstable unemployed mentally ill women with drug addictions over men in family custody matters. Statistically and psychologically speaking, single motherhood is the leading identifiable common factor in the background of criminals in the United States.
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