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Judge favours father over mother in custody dispute
posted by Adam on 09:27 AM July 3rd, 2004
Fatherhood Amom User writes "That unusual still that this is the actual headline of the piece in the UK's Telegraph newspaper. What's really great though, is that it appears that there has been some real, though small, movement for father's rights here: "Mrs Justice Bracewell supported calls for new legislation. The courts needed the ability to refer parties to mediation at any stage of the proceedings and additional powers were required, short of imprisonment, to enforce contact orders." It still took a case involving "constant litigation since the year 2000, which has involved 17 court orders and directions and 16 judges" for her to realise this, but it's a small step forward."

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Pro Activism Gets Results (Score:2)
by Luek on 09:28 AM July 4th, 2004 EST (#1)
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I just bet if it hadn't been for the creative protests of Fathers4Justice this would not have happened. You have to make that damn worm turn, it will not do it on its on.
recognizing reality and changing it (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 01:41 PM July 4th, 2004 EST (#2)
Mrs Justice Bracewell, who sits in the Family Division, said there was a public perception that courts routinely "rubber-stamp cases awarding care of children to mothers and marginalise fathers from the lives of their children".

Public perception? This is the reality of anti-male discrimination, only now becoming a "public perception." Good work Fathers 4 Justice!!!

Some of the problems are difficult. One easy step to "gender equity" is simply ensuring that roughly an equal proportion of fathers and mothers get primary custody of their children. That wouldn't prevent some tough cases, but it would eliminate the gross bias against fathers. Interesting that this action is never considered.
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