Our thanks to Melanie Phillips for this excellent article in the Spectator
So what do you expect if you have something called an ‘Equality Minister’? She will impose gross injustice wherever she can in the interests of a coercive and preposterous ideology. Harriet Harman’s proposal that companies should positively discriminate in favour of women job candidates (ie discriminate against men) is yet another example of the way in which feminism got hijacked and turned from a campaign for fairness for women into an onslaught against men. Her proposal is not only …

Not content with attacking men, the feminist lobby is now turning its vitriol against boys.
This morning we see in the press yet one more plank in the Government’s campaign to vilify and demoralise boys. Psychologist Linda Papadopolous published her report on the sexualisation of youngsters. Commissioned by the Home office, the report finds what everyone already knows, that children are exposed to inappropriate sexual images. The sub-text to the report, however, is that girls are victims of sexual abuse and boys are to blame.
The facts of domestic abuse are studiously …

– many different kinds of fathers needed!
· African Caribbean men and women (for TV documentary)
· Young fathers, young mothers & midwives (for research project)
· …

New Government research explodes the myth that domestic abuse victims are overwhelmingly women. In Scotland the number of male victims of domestic abuse in the last 12 months is far higher than previously thought. In fact there are as many male as female victims.
The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey 2008-09 published its results on 15th December 2009. Scotland’s chief statistician reveals that in the last 12 months as many men as women were victims of partner abuse, and perpetrators of abuse were also in almost equal proportions (48% men, 45% …

Those of us who can still remember earlier days of this Labour government, will recall that the Conservative party had some pretty radical ideas about transforming family law when they were in opposition before the last general election. These included a promise to abolish CAFCASS (though I don’t think they ever said exactly what they’d replace it with!).
The personalities involved seemed to have a really good grip on the problems with our current system. I particularly remember Theresa May, Tim Loughton and Dominic Grieve all appeared to understand the issues.
As …

See link to Daily Mail Article.
A British Airways Policy which presupposes that only men are paedophiles. Don’t they read the papers?

I was back in court again on 15th Jan trying to bring a private prosecution against my ex-wife for harassing me by damaging my relationship with my children.
An earlier post on this site reported I had won a Judicial Review of the Magistrate’s decision to refuse to issue a summons. The Magistrate’s decision was quashed and the matter was referred back to the Magistrates for reconsideration.
The 15th January hearing was to reconsider it, and unfortunately it was again refused, this time for a different reason.
I take a number of …

3 of us were arrested in 2008 during a peaceful, orderly protest against draconian Police actions against fathers. Here is a link to the original story. Following an internal Police investigation and a claim for damages, the Police have finally paid up and admitted they were in the wrong. To arrest us during a peaceful protest simply because fathers rights protesters have a reputation for climbing on buildings was, as the Police report put it, “too great a leap of faith.”
It is a small victory, but an important one.

A survey of 4000 parents and children from broken families, conducted by the Centre for Social Justice on the 20th anniversary of the Children Act, found that:
* a third of children lost touch permanently with their father
* a tenth of children felt suicidal
* a quarter of children had been asked to lie by one or other parent
Leading Family Lawyer, Sandra Davis, commented “”The adversarial nature of the system invites people to come and use the courts system as a punch up and the children get used as pawns.”
See Daily Telegraph …

I have recently won a small legal victory in my fight to stay in touch with my children which may help others – private prosecution for harassment.
The effect on me of losing my children is simply not addressed by the Children Act, which discounts the interests of any party other than the child. Even when a father is driven to suicide by the loss of his children, that is held to be a matter of no concern to the Family Court.
So, how are the rights of parents to be protected? …