Opposition Grows to British Government’s Parenting Proposal

Opposition Grows to British Government’s Parenting Proposal


In England, the anti-father forces are gathering for their fight against paternal involvement in children’s lives.  This of course has been going on ever since the Cameron/Clegg government announced its intention to ignore the non-recommendations of its own commission that looked into the matter of child custody and, against all the odds, found everything regarding father-child access to be fine and dandy, thank you.  As in so many countries, fathers in England are routinely kicked to the curb by family courts.  First, they’re denied primary custody in all but 10% of cases.  Those 90% of fathers whom courts render mere visitors to their children find that even that modest status is too much for mothers and the courts that do their bidding.  In England as in so many places, if a mother wants to impede or deny access by the child to its father, she can do so with all but complete impunity.  Partly as a result of the behavior of family judges, 33% of British children have little or no contact with their fathers.