UK: Fathers will be denied the right to have a 'meaningful relationship' with their families, report suggests

Submitted by Broadsword on Fri, 2011-11-04 18:07

Article here. Excerpt:

Fathers and grandparents will not be given any legal right to see children after a break-up, under the biggest changes to family law in a generation.

In what was immediately denounced as a ‘betrayal’ of the family, a major report today rules against giving men shared or equal time with their children when a relationship ends.

It suggests fathers will even be denied the legal right to maintain a ‘meaningful relationship’ with their families, as this ‘would do more harm than good’.
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The report says: ‘No legislation should be introduced that creates or risks creating the perception that there is a parental right to substantially shared or equal time for both parents.’
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Mr Norgrove believes that enshrining such rights in law could slow down already lengthy and expensive custody cases.

Instead, the courts will simply have to consider the benefits of a meaningful relationship when they decide where children should live and how often they should see each parent.

The final report flatly rejected claims by fathers’ rights groups that the current system is biased – despite figures showing that 93 per cent of custody battles are won by the mother.'

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Where does all this anti-father hatred come from? What do they hope to accomplish? Are the men who issue these reports really prepared to be treated the way they recommend?

Basically, the UK, like the US, is trying to destroy the family by government mandate. Do they really believe this is good for kids? For women? For whom?

I understand the feminists have made great inroads in all areas, but are there really men who believe being separated from their own children because of mom's whim is a good thing? Or do they simply believe it will never happen to them--just the "other guy."

Two things will end the system: armed rebellion or men refusing to get married and have kids. The latter is already starting to happen.

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Submitted by el cid on Sat, 2011-11-05 00:06

I bet you would have to research a lifetime of case law and family law, and relationship research to understand the reasoning behind marginalizing fathers judicially. Political thinking here is on two fronts: a) to reconfigure the marriage and family relationship legally to undermine patriarchy, because marriage gets its legitimacy from the value of female viginity, and b) to drive the value of reproduction up for men while removing the rules that typically structure those relations. The structure of courtship, romantic relationships, and marriage is more and more being determined by media and technology, driving up the value of heterosexual sex for men while lower their economic status. This gives women more and more privilege in many social systems, like education, health care, famile life, physchological security, and economic security. The best road to recovery is to develop programs to help men who are the victims of a feminist judicial system (ie: homeless veterans) establish productive lives in modern soceity.

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Submitted by cwondermagic1 on Tue, 2011-11-08 17:12