The fight goes on for Dads

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'Imagine a child living without a father. A little boy or girl clutching a teddy bear on the stairs waiting for their dad to walk through the front door. In a broken household a child will spend many nights missing a dad wishing things were different. A million parental couples go through the family courts every year, and of those at least 40% of fathers have little or no contact with their children after separation.

Of 12 million children in the UK, one in four will have suffered the grim reality of separation from a mother or father during their childhood. Matt O’Connor, founder of one of the most high profile and controversial campaigns of the modern era, Fathers 4 Justice, described the British family courts as “the Devil’s Labyrinth” because as he bluntly puts it, “when you get into the system it’s near impossible to escape”. His formidable struggle to see his two children, aged eleven and nine at the time of divorce from a previous marriage, was a battle through a legal system that ‘ criminalises and crushes you before suffocating you with a blanket of secrecy and censorship’, as described in his biography Fathers 4 Justice: The Inside Story, published in 2007.'