Monday, June 25, 2012

Britain favors fathers rights

A Canada newspaper reports:
The first radical shake-up of family courts in decades is under way in the U.K. A dramatic list of consequences will befall any breach of court orders that flout court-endorsed arrangements for the care of children of separated parents. Children’s Minister Tim Loughton will announce that the Children Act 19879, which states that the child comes first in law courts, will be rewritten.

Henceforth the preferred option for the courts will be “the presumption that a child’s welfare is likely to furthered through safe involvement with both parents.” That is, in the absence of abuse, equal parenting, exactly the template we have been patiently awaiting in Canada, will be the default for splitting couples. Furthermore, mothers who refuse to permit access to the children may lose their passports, their driving licences or even their freedom of movement if they fail to comply.

This is a happy, but somewhat shocking, development for those in the global Fathers Rights community. For years objective observers in all western countries have hammered away at the double standards imposed in family court under the influence of feminist ideology, but it has been water dripping on a stone. The template has remained stubbornly pro-mother and anti-father.
I have reported on this development before. The UK has been horribly anti-father. If this happens, it will be the most positive pro-father change anywhere. It should be a good test of shared parenting.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is really great news for the Fathers'rights movement (and for their children). It is amazing that.."Mothers who refuse to permit access to the children may lose their passports, their driving licenses or even their freedom of movement if they fail to comply." Barbara