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The The Fathers rights movement is a loose network of interest groups, primarily in western countries, established to campaign for equal treatment by the courts in family law issues such as child custody after divorce, child support, and paternity determinations. ...fathers' rights movement in the UK consists of a number of diverse pressure groups, ranging from charities (whose activities are regulated by the The Charity Commission is the government agency that regulates charities (and hence most churches) in England and Wales. ...Charity Commission) and self_help groups to civil disobedience activists, who started to obtain wide publicity in 2003. The movement's origin can be traced to 1974 when Families Need Fathers (FNF) is a registered UK charity, founded in 1974. ...Families Need Fathers (FNF) was founded. At the local level, many activists spend much time providing support for newly separated fathers, most of whom are highly distraught. Although some have been accused of being sexist by uninformed and ostensibly Political correctness is the alteration of language to redress real or alleged injustices and discrimination or to avoid offense. ...politically correct commentators, these groups also campaign for better treatment for excluded mothers, women in second marriages, other step_parents and grandparents _ all of whom suffer discrimination in respect of contact with their (grand)child(ren). Leading groups
- Families Need Fathers (FNF) is a registered UK charity, founded in 1974. ...Families Need Fathers (FNF) is a registered Charity is a term in Christian theology (one of the three virtues), meaning loving kindness towards others; it is held to be the ultimate perfection of the human spirit, because it is said to both glorify and reflect the nature of God. ...charity founded in 1974 well known for its self_help work. It does not regard itself as a fathers' rights organisation, however, pointing out that its primary focus is on the children's rights to have a meainingful relationship with their dad. FNF is regarded by senior family court judges as taking a commonsense approach to bringing about change in the The family law system refers to the laws, procedures and rules [1] governing family matters as well as the authorities, agencies and groups which participate in or influence the outcome of private disputes or social decisions involving family law. ...family law system in the UK. It participates in government consultations and working groups. FNF has about 3000 members and over 10,000 former members. FNF has been lobbying the UK Parliament for over 30 years to give greater recognition to the role of fathers in broken families. Its achievements in bringing about policy changes have been modest and it has failed to publicise them. For example, FNF has been credited with having:
- brought about recognition of paternity for unmarried fathers who have signed the birth certificate;
- substituted the neutral term "non_resident parent" for the lamentable term "absent parent" in the Child Support regulations;
- reduced the threshold to 52 overnight stays per year when a father is entitled to take account of the costs of looking after his visiting child.
- However laudable, these measures made no impression on the perceived underlying prejudice against fathers in UK private family law. Consequently there is a considerable body of belief within the fathers' rights movement that no significant improvements will be gained without a campaign of civil disruption. Research in the United States has shown that direct action has been more successful over the last ten years at getting environmental law changed than lobbying Congress. Robert Frederick Zenon Bob Geldof, KBE (born October 5, 1951 in Dun Laoghaire, near Dublin) is an Irish singer, songwriter and humanitarian. ...Bob Geldof has exhorted all who care about injustice in family law to get political, and this is construed by many to mean taking direct action.
- Fathers 4 Justice (sometimes abbreviated to F4J) is a campaigning group in the United Kingdom which works for fathers rights. ...Fathers 4 Justice (F4J) takes a proactive approach to generating awareness of fathers' issues. It generates considerable publicity through planned actions e.g. throwing Alternate uses: Purple (disambiguation) Purple is any of a group of colors intermediate between blue and red. ...purple (its campaign colour) flour at the The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, commonly called Tony Blair (born 6 May 1953) has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1997, when he brought the Labour Party into power after 18 consecutive years of Conservative government. ...Prime Minister, and Batman Real name Bruce Wayne Publisher DC Comics First appearance Detective Comics #27 Created by Bob Kane Bill Finger Batman, more properly known as The Batman and occasionally as The Bat_Man, is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. ...Batman landing on Buckingham Palace and the Victoria memorial. This principal facade of 1850 by Edward Blore was redesigned in 1913 by Sir Aston Webb. ...Buckingham Palace. It organises stylish and colourful dress_up demonstrations as part of its campaign of Direct action is a method and a theory of stopping objectionable practices or creating more favorable conditions using immediately available means, such as strikes, boycotts, workplace occupations, sit_ins, or sabotage, and less oppositional methods such as establishing radical social centres, although these are often squatted. ...direct action. Their antics have been described as totally irresponsible and yet the attendant publicity, coordinated by Matt O'Connor, has managed to inform the British public of an issue that others had failed to do hitherto.
There are also a number of other groups (http://www.fnf.org.uk/links.htm#groups) specialising in particular needs.
Fathers rights issues There are a number of issues which drive the participants in the fathers' rights movement: - Residence of the children is rarely given to the A father is the male parent of a child. ...father after Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage, which can be contrasted with an annulment which is a declaration that a marriage is void, though the effects of marriage may be recognized in such unions, such as spousal support, child custody and distribution of property. ...divorce or This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...separation
- Shared residency, or joint residency, refers to the situation where the child of parents who have divorced or separated resides with each parent at different times, and each parent has equal status in law. ...Joint residence (aka Shared parenting is the common term used to describe a family arrangement after separation or divorce, in which the care of the children is substantially shared between the biological father and mother, leading to a situation where the child knows that both his or her parents are involved in their...shared parenting) is seldom used as an expedient to resolve family child residency disputes, frequently resulting in fathers being marginalised and unable to perform effectively in their capacity as fathers.
- When contact is denied, the courts frequently do not enforce their own orders
- Whereas mothers get Illegitimacy was a term in common usage for the condition of being born of parents who are not validly married to one another; the legal term is bastardy. ...parental responsibility automatically, fathers only do so if they were married to the mother or signed the birth certificate
- Fathers are obliged to pay means tested In many countries, child support is the ongoing obligation for a periodic payment made by a non_custodial parent to a custodial parent, caregiver or guardian, for the care and support of children of a relationship or marriage that has broken down. ...child support irrespective of whether they are allowed to see their children, and with no account taken of the mother's household's income.
- Paternity leave is inadequate compared to maternity leave
- Contact centres are places where an estranged parent can see his (or her) children under supervised conditions. ...Contact centre places are hard to obtain because of inadequate funding and at the same time their use is frequently demanded unreasonably _ resulting in children being unnecessarily deprived of the love and care of their non_resident parent.
- When a father makes representations in court to see his child when this is being obstructed by the mother, adversarial court proceedings against the mother are inevitably the cause of further conflict. If a court can determine that a child should see its father, this could be done without reference to the mother, who may be deemed irrelevant to the proceedings in cases of Implacable hostility arises after separation or divorce and denotes the attitude shown by one parent to another in denying access to, or contact with, their child(ren). ...implacable hostility.
Political lobbying - Also see The Fathers rights movement is a loose network of interest groups, primarily in western countries, established to campaign for equal treatment by the courts in family law issues such as child custody after divorce, child support, and paternity determinations. ...Fathers' rights
Whilst the line taken by government ministers for a long time has been one of denial that there is a problem, with no plans for new legislation, The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) is a United Kingdom government department. ...Lord Filkin [1] (http://www.politicallinks.co.uk/politics2/biog/LD-Biogs/bio.asp?id=2441), the family justice minister announced at the beginning of April 2004 that there will be a A Green Paper is a tentative report of British government proposals without any commitment to action. ...green paper outlining proposals intended to improve the methods used to settle child custody disputes[2] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/story/0,3604,1184913,00.html). This has now been published [3] (http://www.dfes.gov.uk/childrensneeds/docs/DfesChildrensNeeds.pdf) with the title Parental Separation: Children’s Needs and Parents’ Responsibilities, but activists have expressed the view that it does not seriously address the fundamental issues, particularly the courts' generation of inter_parental conflict by making it necessary to have adversarial proceedings. In the Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands reads her countrys Speech from the Throne Queen Elizabeth II reads Canadas Speech from the Throne in 1977 The Speech from the Throne, sometimes referred to by the shorter term Throne Speech, is an event in certain monarchies in which the monarch (or...Queen's Speech at the Opening of Parliament on 27th November 2004, Her Majesty said [4] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4034947.stm): - My Government believes that the welfare of children is paramount. Draft legislation will be published to safeguard the welfare of children in circumstances of parental separation and inter-country adoption.
Legal issues The new system in the UK whereby the amount of child support that, in the vast majority of cases, the father pays, is acknowledged to be less fair than the old because it has ceased to take into account the other household's income. This is justified on the grounds that it saves administrative cost for the government The Child Support Agency is a UK Government Agency, part of the Department of Work and Pensions, formerly known as the Department of Social Security. ...agency concerned. There are issues to do with the non_enforcement of Contact Orders _ orders made by family court judges which oblige the so_called resident recalcitrant parent (usually the mother) to let the children spend some time with their dad. Such orders are not required if the mother is cooperative about letting the children see their dad, but generally speaking no action is taken if such an order is made and she flouts it. The main issue, however, is to do with the adversarial nature of the system, in which most parents are dissatisfied, according to a UK government report published in 2004, and the only winners are lawyers.
A brief history of recent reform In 2001 Mr Justice Wall (now Lord Justice) chaired a Children Act Sub_Committee (known as CASC). They reported in March 2002 in a document called "Making Contact Work". It called for "urgent reform". It was a sort of Lord Hutton led the inquiry that concluded that Dr. David Kelly had taken his own life. ...Hutton Inquiry of family law reform. It is well known that Wall LJ was very vexed when nothing at all appeared to happen for over two years. The Facilitation and Enforcement stakeholder group was however created to discuss the CASC report. The impression formed by many involved in this group was that the government had no true appetite for reform, and just hoped the problem would go away. Fathers 4 Justice (sometimes abbreviated to F4J) is a campaigning group in the United Kingdom which works for fathers rights. ...Fathers 4 Justice have had remarkable success in bringing the whole subject to the nation's attention at a bottom_up grass_roots level, and the fathers' stories they relate have appalled many people. (For an example see [5] (http://www.equalparenting.org/Download/FAMILY%20X%20CASE%20STUDY%20TIMELINE%2015.11.04.pdf)). An activist called Oliver Cyriax is a Cambridge University law graduate who became an author of successful books in subjects as diverse as medicine and crime. ...Oliver Cyriax has run conferences promoting early intervention. These were attended by high ranking members of the judiciary, including from overseas, where schemes that promote retaining both parents' involvement in childcare, but leave the courts as last resort, have been successful _ notably in State nickname: Everglade State, Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush Official languages English Area 170,451 km² (22nd) _ Land 137,374 km² _ Water 30,486 km² (17. ...Florida and State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd) _ Land 404,298 km² _ Water 20,047 km² (4. ...California. There is an alliance made up of senior members of the Solicitors Family Law Association (SFLA), Family Law Bar Association (FLBA), Hamish Cameron (the child psychiatrist with the President's ear), Fathers Direct is a UK charity, founded in 1999. ...Fathers Direct and the campaigning charity Families Need Fathers (FNF) is a registered UK charity, founded in 1974. ...Families Need Fathers. President of the UK Family Division of the courts Rt Hon Dame Anne Elizabeth Oldfield Butler_Sloss GBE,known as Dame Elizabeth Butler_Sloss (born August 10, 1933), is a British judge, President of the Family Division of the UK family law system. ...Dame Butler_Sloss has said she supports this plan. Fathers' Rights campaigners urgently want an "Early Interventions Pilot Plan" to test and develop compulsory mediation and parenting plans, etc. backed up by a strict enforcement regime.
Green Paper In July 2004 the UK Government published a A Green Paper is a tentative report of British government proposals without any commitment to action. ...Green Paper [6] (http://www.dfes.gov.uk/childrensneeds/) in response to the two year old Making Contact Work document, and the more recent Child Contact Survey [7] (http://www.dfes.gov.uk/childcontactsurvey/). Only the year before, the Government had been indicating that no legislative changes in this area were planned, so this is a turnaround whose timing is generally felt to be the result of the efforts of fathers' rights activists. The The Womens Aid Federation of England (Womens Aid) is a United Kingdom charity whose aim is to end domestic violence against women and children. ...Women's Aid response to this paper [8] (http://www.womensaid.org.uk/policy&consultations/consultationresponses/Parental-separation-full-response.htm) contains the following: We believe that legislation is still required to create a rebuttable presumption in family proceedings legislation that child contact is not awarded unless and until it can be shown to be safe, and that this should be done through a mandatory risk assessment process. The response does not make clear whether this provision is intended to apply to both parents involved in a child residence dispute.
Party Politics At the same time, the Conservative Party has started making noises that fundamental changes in the law are required [9] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk-politics/3883927.stm). Some observers have expressed regret that this has become a party political issue, but this development goes to the heart of gender politics and could become an important vote swinger at the forthcoming General Election. The Labour Party is seen to support the status quo, reflecting the Radical feminism views womens oppression as a fundamental element in human society and seeks to challenge that standard by broadly rejecting standard gender roles. ...radical feminist stance taken by The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS) is a national non_departmental public body for England and Wales set up to safeguard and promote the welfare of children involved in family court proceedings. ...CAFCASS's trade union The Napo is a tributary to the Amazon River that rises in Ecuador on the flanks of the volcanoes of Antisana, Sincholagua and Cotopaxi. ...NAPO. This position, originally detailed in NAPO's anti_sexist policy document (which includes the statements: Family Court work is an important opportunity to build on the strengths and the expansion of women's roles and ...to develop policies and strategies which challenge the discrimination against women in contested residence and contact decisions), espouses the view that women in society need to be supported in their decision_making capacity in order to resist the forces of A patriarch (from Greek: patria means father; arché means rule, beginning, origin) is a male head of an extended family exercising autocratic authority, or, by extension, a member of the ruling class or government of a society controlled by senior men. ...patriarchy. The Opposition stance is that such a policy is against the existing Children Act, which has effectively been hijacked by idealologues in powerful positions in organisations such as CAFCASS, supported widely by Social Services departments. The Fathers Rights' movement has drawn attention to the marginalisation of men in society by this radical feminist tendency, supported by the Government most particularly in the appointment of The Right Honourable Margaret Eve, Lady Hodge (born September 8, 1944) is a British politician, and Labour Party member of Parliament for Barking. ...Margaret Hodge, a skillful Non_denial denial is a term for a particular kind of equivocation; specifically, an apparent denial that, though it appeared clearcut and unambiguous when heard, on examination turns out to be ambiguous and not a denial at all. ...non_denial denier [10] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk-news/politics/3268323.stm) and feminist who is a key figure in the ministerial sisterhood, that group of long_standing feminist friends who have managed to network their way into the very heart of government [11] (http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles/archives/000127.html). The Liberal Democrats, the other major UK political party, has framed the issue in terms of domestic violence, but yet has to communicate its ideas widely. Also see Update of 02 Dec 2004 article.
"Safety" One thesis is that children should only remain resident with one parent if it is considered safe to do so; otherwise it is generally better to have both parents involved in bringing up their children. Whilst this might seem to be reasonable, it is unfortunately turned around by some influential politicians to mean that the children should remain exclusively under the control of the mother unless the father can prove that he is "safe", i.e. that he has not had accusations of domestic violence levelled against him. If he has, then he is considered "unsafe" until a finding of fact can be made in his favour, i.e. that the allegations were unfounded. There is considerable confusion surrounding the issue of "safety" by politicians in the context that is used to deny parental access, particularly as it is a fact that most children's injuries occur in the living room at home, according to statistics published by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), and fewer malicious injuries to children are done by fathers than by mothers, according to an The NSPCC, correctly known as the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is the UKs leading charity [1] specialising in child protection and the prevention of cruelty to children. ...NSPCC report in 2000 called Child Maltreatment in the United Kingdom: A Study of the Prevalence of Child Abuse and Neglect [12] (http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/pubs/nl2001/winter2.html), which stated that "most violence occurred at home (78 per cent) with mothers being primarily responsible in 49 per cent of cases and fathers in 40 per cent of cases".
Constitutional Affairs Committee The government in 2004 set up a select committee to look into Family Law in the UK. In relation to the way in which the fathers' rights campaign has been received, the following interchange took place during the taking of oral evidence on Family Justice: The Operation of The Family Courts [13] (http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmconst/uc1247_i/uc124702.htm) at the In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ...House of Commons on Tuesday 9 November 2004. Lord Justice Wall: A few years ago I went to address the annual general meeting of Families Need Fathers and I was actually very impressed by the strength of their feelings and their emotions. The message I gave them _ and I was not the only one doing it _ was that the way to succeed, the way to get into the system, is not to sloganise but actually to get on the committees, get in with government where there is lots going on and people want to consult you, and respond to Making Contact Work. We had an excellent response from Families Need Fathers, part of which we incorporated, and I think Families Need Fathers has become a key player in the debate about on_going contact and joint residence. We make progress with rational argument; we do not make progress by sloganising. Dame Elizabeth Butler_Sloss: I cannot meet Fathers4Justice because they are not being sensible. As long as they throw condoms with purple powder and send a double_decker bus with a loudspeaker outside my private house in the West Country there is no point in talking to them; they are not going to talk, they are going to tell me. Those present included Rt Hon Dame Anne Elizabeth Oldfield Butler_Sloss GBE,known as Dame Elizabeth Butler_Sloss (born August 10, 1933), is a British judge, President of the Family Division of the UK family law system. ...Rt Hon Dame Elizabeth Butler_Sloss DBE, Rt Hon Lord Justice Wall and Hon Mr Justice Munby, His Honour Judge Meston QC, District Judge Michael Walker and District Judge Nicholas Crichton. It is worth noting here that what is being "demanded" by F4J and what is being "politely asked for" by Families Need Fathers is one and the same.
David Blunkett Story UK Home Secretary David Blunkett The Right Honourable David Blunkett P.C.,M.P. (born June 6, 1947) is a British Labour Party politician. ...David Blunkett was reported in November 2004 to have started a paternity suit against a former lover. The former lover, Kimberly Quinn, the American_born publisher of The Spectator is a British conservative political magazine, established 1828, published weekly. ...The Spectator magazine, claimed that the children 'belong' to her and her husband, Stephen Quinn, the publisher of British Vogue can refer to: Vogue, a fashion magazine vogue, a style of dance Melchior de Vogüé (1848_1910), French writer This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...Vogue, and wants to make her marriage work without interference from David Blunkett. It was reported in newspapers on 29th November that Mr Blunkett had discovered, using A paternity test is conducted to prove that a man is or is not the biological father of another individual. ...paternity testing, that he is the natural father of his former lover's two_year_old son, William. Newspapers reported that Mrs Quinn's huband believed that Mr Blunkett was vindictive in wanting to have anything to do with the children, even if Mr Blunkett was the natural father. The interesting ethical question is whether it is better for the children to be brought up by a married couple, even if the husband turns out not to be their natural father. Or whether it is better to allow a man with whom the mother once had an affair to remain involved in the children's lives, regardless of how that involvement might affect her present marriage. The issue of paternity in the case of David Blunkett may not have to be established. The case of K v M (Paternity: Contact) [1996] 1 FLR 312, was one where the mother had had an extra_marital affair but became reconciled with her husband, who could have been _ and accepted himself as _ the child's father. Irrespective of biological parentage, there was no prospect of the other man having contact and, accordingly, it was held not to be in the child's interests to determine the issue of paternity. One of the main intentions of marriage is to provide a stable environment for any children, and therefore the preservation of the marriage was viewed in this case to be better for the child than the preservation of a relationship based solely on biology. Even if he is allowed to prove that he is the child's father, family law precedent in the UK would make it look likely that Mr Blunkett will be unsuccessful in his quest to have a meaningful relationship with his children, unless he can show that there are special circumstances to this case to override this precedent. In the case of Re H (A Minor)(Parental responsibility), it is reported: - A father was refused contact with his 2_year_old son because the mother's new husband's objection to contact was such that the marriage and the child's welfare would be placed at risk. The Court of Appeal dismissed the father's appeal.
(But see discussion) On December 15th 2004, Mr Blunkett resigned as Home Secretary. In an interview the same day with the BBC [14] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4099581.stm), he indicated that he had been willing to sacrifice his political career to pursue his paternity claim his ex-lover's son. He said of his son, "He will want to know not just that his father actually cared enough about him to sacrifice his career, but he will want to know, I hope, that his mother has some regret."
News updates - (most recent first)
- Q&A: Child access reform (BBC 18 January, 2005) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4184369.stm)
- Father Wins Benefits Battle (Scotsman, Tuesday 21st December 2004) (http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3914187) though the UK Labour Government is reported as likely to appeal against this ruling made on the basis of sex equality
- "Putting the Father Back into Christmas", F4J (BBC Saturday, 18th December 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4107343.stm)
- Blunkett quits as home secretary (BBC, Wednesday 15th December 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4099581.stm)
- House of Commons Debate motion for 13th December 2004 (http://www.equalparenting.org/Download/Family%20Justice%2013%20Dec%2004%20COMMONS%20DEBATE%20-%20MOTION.pdf)
- SFLA wants statutory presumption (BBC, Tuesday 7th December 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4075643.stm)
- Government Minister starts to experience UK family Law (Evening Standard, 22nd November 2004) (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/14868913?source=Evening+Standard)
- F4J protester handcuffs himself to Children's Minister (BBC, Friday 19 November 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4025335.stm)
- F4J NSPCC demo (BBC, Monday 16th November, 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4014015.stm)
- 'No court bias against fathers' (BBC, Tuesday 9 November 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3995505.stm)
- Liverpool Court protest (BBC, Monday 8th November, 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/3993285.stm)
- F4J activists guilty of public disorder offences (BBC, Thursday 21st October 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/3763916.stm)
- Bridge protest a criminal offence (BBC, Wednesday 20th October 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/3759976.stm)
- F4J candidate gets 139 votes in Hartlepool by-election (BBC, 1st October 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3705866.stm)
- Family courts inquiry announced (BBC, Monday 20th September 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3670948.stm)
- Buckingham Palace Protest (BBC, Monday 13th September, 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3652502.stm)
- 'Superheroes' fighting for access (BBC, Monday 13th September 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3653112.stm)
- Government probably still dragging its feet (BBC, Sunday 5th September, 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3629294.stm)
- Divorced Dads Get Kid Boost (Daily Mirror, Tuseday July 13, 2004) (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14420968&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=divorced-dads-get-kid-boost-name_page.html)
- Fathers' cathedral protest (BBC, Monday 12 July, 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3884265.stm)
- Tories backing shared parenting (BBC, Monday 12 July, 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3883927.stm)
- Melanie Phillips's Article: Divorced from responsibility (Daily Mail, Monday July 5, 2004) (http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles/archives/000597.html)
- Fathers' group clash with police (BBC, Friday June 18, 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3818039.stm)
- Commons security under scrutiny (BBC, Wednesday May 19, 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3728385.stm)
- Commons security under scrutiny (BBC, Wednesday May 19, 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3728385.stm)
- Blair hit during Commons protest - the fun powder plot (BBC, Wednesday May 19, 2004) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3728617.stm)
- Judge backs angry fathers over contact with children (Guardian, Friday April 2, 2004) (http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,1184360,00.html)
- MPs breaking law in children's cases (Guardian, Monday March 29, 2004) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,1180238,00.html)
- No wonder fathers feel such pain (Guardian, Monday March 22, 2004) (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/comment/0,11026,1174948,00.html)
- Fathers spurn plan to save parents from court battles (Guardian, Saturday March 20, 2004) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1173919,00.html)
- Fathers and family breakdown (Guardian, Monday February 9, 2004) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1143779,00.html)
- Battle of the exes (Guardian, Sunday October 26, 2003) (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1071209,00.html)
- When love hurts (Guardian, Friday September 19, 2003) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1045298,00.html)
- Why Mrs Hodge must resign (Guardian, Sunday July 6, 2003) (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,12816,992564,00.html)
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was formed in 1927 by means of a royal charter from the Crown. ...BBC
- Fathers' rights: an iCan briefing (BBC, continuously updated) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A2830637)
June 2004: Practical Steps to Co_parenting (http://www.sfla.co.uk/mediadisplay.php?id=63) published by The Solicitors Family Law Association is an association of solicitors who practise family law, and it runs an accreditation scheme for specialist family lawyers. ...SFLA.
See also - This article lists external links to: academic research sponsored research legislative consultation documents law review articles, reported cases, etc. ...List of family separation research articles
- Family law is an area of the law that deals with family_related issues and domestic relations including, but not limited to marriage, civil unions, divorce, spousal abuse, child custody and visitation, property, alimony, and child support awards, as well as child abuse issues, and adoption. ...Family law
- The Fathers rights movement is a loose network of interest groups, primarily in western countries, established to campaign for equal treatment by the courts in family law issues such as child custody after divorce, child support, and paternity determinations. ...Fathers' rights
- Paternity is the social and legal acknowledgment of the parental relationship between a father and his child. ...Paternity
- When parents separate there may be considerable advantage in formally agreeing how they will deal with the children. ...Parenting plan
- Shared parenting is the common term used to describe a family arrangement after separation or divorce, in which the care of the children is substantially shared between the biological father and mother, leading to a situation where the child knows that both his or her parents are involved in their...Shared parenting
- The Children Act 1989 is a British Act of Parliament that altered the law in regard to children. ...The Children Act
- Families Need Fathers (FNF) is a registered UK charity, founded in 1974. ...Families Need Fathers (FNF)
- Fathers 4 Justice (sometimes abbreviated to F4J) is a campaigning group in the United Kingdom which works for fathers rights. ...F4J
- This article needs cleanup. ...Marriage strike
- Mens rights began as a recognisable movement in the 1980s, largely in response to the womens rights or feminist movement. ...Men's rights
- Masculism is considered by some to describe the belief that the male and female genders should be considered complementary and interdependent by necessity. ...Masculism
- Domestic violence, by barest definition, is violence within a home. ...Domestic violence
- Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS)
- The Napo is a tributary to the Amazon River that rises in Ecuador on the flanks of the volcanoes of Antisana, Sincholagua and Cotopaxi. ...NAPO
- Fathers' rights movement in Italy
External links - Green Paper, July 2004 (http://www.dfes.gov.uk/childrensneeds/docs/DfesChildrensNeeds.pdf)
- DFES's Every Child Matters website (http://www.dfes.gov.uk/everychildmatters/)
- The Children Bill (http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200304/ldbills/035/2004035.htm)
- Minister of State for Children (http://www.epolitix.com/EN/MPWebsites/Margaret+Hodge/8DF77971-054D-4EEB-BEB1-8F635C7826EF.htm)
- Directory of MPs, Peers and Offices (http://www.parliament.uk/directories/directories.cfm)
- On Suicide (http://www.childsupportanalysis.co.uk/analysis_and_opinion/politics_and_lobbying/suicide_and_the_csa.htm)
- Mothers apart from their children (http://www.matchmothers.org)
- Have your say (http://www.bigconversation.org.uk/index.php?id=719)
- Shared Parenting Works (http://www.geocities.com/sharedparentingworks//)
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