UK: Fathers' rights stunts aren't very clever, but we should take the message behind them very seriously

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'At the weekend, two desperate fathers once again risked their lives with the kind of publicity stunt we are now well accustomed to.

This time, Martin Matthews, 48, a represenative of fathers' action group Stop The War On Dads and Bobby Smith, 33, of New Fathers 4 Justice, scaled Buckingham Palace walls and climbed onto the top of the Queen's Gallery.

Like protesting dads dressed as Batman and Spiderman before them, they were calling for equal rights for fathers in divorce settlements, and for a reform of the family courts system which they feel is stacked against men, favouring mothers as sole custodians.

Holding a banner that read ‘I Am Harry’s Dad’ and referring to the recent ISIS atrocity in Paris, Mr Matthews said, “Obviously there were a few concerns. People are going to be nervous at the moment. But even if I had taken a bullet, it would have been worth the risk.”

So here we have a man who is willing to take a sniper bullet to the head in order to promote the cause of fathers' rights.'