Posted in adoption, children, courts, family, fathers on November 25, 2007 | 6 Comments »
John at Family Lore has beaten me to it on this story about the Court of Appeal decision that a father should not be told about his 4 month old baby prior to adoption. I agree with what John says about the Mother having the ultimate veto over the father knowing - this goes against [...]
Posted in children, discrimination, family, fathers, feminism on November 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Carol Sarler wrote a piece in The Times yesterday in which she questions the proposition that children need a father. She is clearly supportive of non-traditional family units, including same-sex two parent couples and rightly so.
The thrust of what she says is: that the modern notion of the role of a father is just that - a [...]
Posted in blogging, children, contact, courts, divorce, fathers, feminism, legal myths on November 10, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Actually I quite like them. They are very useful. I am married to one and he has been put to work cleaning the house as I type…But I have discovered that these men types are not all as loveable as him upstairs:
I came across a rather unpleasant cluster of websites today whose focus is on [...]
Posted in contact, courts, family, fathers, openness, residence, stuff on October 21, 2007 | 12 Comments »
The privacy of the family justice system makes it difficult for the public to get a good idea about what steps the courts are prepared to take in order to ensure that a child has a relationship with both parents. Those sources which are most critical of the ’secret family justice system’ often suggest that the courts [...]
Posted in family, fathers, residence on September 3, 2007 | No Comments »
Interesting post on Family Lore about how the Aussies are doing it…
Posted in fathers, stuff on August 27, 2007 | No Comments »
I seem to have generated a certain amount of interest from supporters of F4J and related organisations who have adopted a scattergun approach to commenting on various of the entries in this blog. It’s quite overtaken my bank holiday weekend, but I suppose its self inflicted - some people can’t resist the bait (myself included).
Anyhoo, [...]
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