MEDIA RELEASE – MON 6TH SEPT 2010 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ombudsman finds domestic violence campaign ‘misleading’: men’s groups call for changes
On the first anniversary of the launch of the South Australian government’s Don’t Cross the Line campaign, the Ombudsman has found the Office for Women guilty of unreasonable and wrong administrative action after failing to correct false and/or misleading information on the campaign website.
The Ombudsman asked the Australian Institute of Criminology to investigate the errors after a complaint by Men’s Health Australia showed that statistics on the website misled the …

On 26/8/2010 Brazil became the first country to legislate against parental alienation. Please God it will not be the last.
Here is the text of the Act, with apologies for the Google translation. Article 6 sets out sanctions for the offender, including fines, and favouring the targetted parent by extending family time, or reversing custody.
Law No. 12 318 , DE 26 AUGUST 2010
Provides for parental alienation and amending Art. 236 of Law No. 8069 of July 13, 1990 .
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC
I know that the Congress decrees and I sanction …

New study: Men suffering ‘intimate terrorism’ by women partners Thurs 12th Aug 2010
“Why don’t the men leave? The men do not want to leave the children with a violent woman, and they are often afraid that they would lose custody of their children in a family court system that tends to favor mothers in custody disputes.”
Clark University research assistant professor of psychology Denise A. Hines is the lead author/researcher on the Men’s Experiences with Partner Aggression Project, a study at Clark University funded by the National Institute of Mental …

An alternative approach if the other parent unreasonably stops you seeing your children.
Bring a private prosecution for harassment.
Too often it is the innocent party in domestic disputes who ends up on the wrong side of the law.
Take this common example:
A father comes home from work to find his partner has left and has taken their children. Beside himself with anxiety, he texts her again and again, asking where his children are, are they safe, and when and how he will see them? Shortly afterwards, he is arrested and …

We need as many people as possible to go to this link and to register their approval.
The issue: The present law allows resident parents to emigrate, and remove a child to another country, unless there is good reason not to. The fact that this will result in the termination of the child’s bonds with the non-resident parent is not generally held to be a good reason to refuse the resident parent leave to remove the child.
All of the research evidence show this practice is contrary to the welfare of children, …

Earlier this year, Michael Robinson, who runs the Custody Minefield web-site, published a report on the adverse impact on children of the current practice of courts granting leave to resident parents to remove children from UK and relocate in a another country. Bob Geldoff wrote a stunning Foreward to the report which captured the attention of the national press.
Mike Robinson has now come up with another coup in the form of an e-guide on shared residence.
It is an invaluable resource for anyone handling their own case through the Family Courts, …

” We will conduct a comprehensive review of family law in order to increase the use of mediation when couples do break up, and to look at how best to provide greater access rights to non-resident parents and grandparents.”
Here is the full text of the section on Families and Children in the coalition’s published programme for government:
14. FAMILIES AND CHILDREN
The Government believes that strong and stable families of all kinds are the bedrock of a strong and stable society. That is why we need to make our society more family friendly, …

“High unemployment levels owe more to depression after loss of children than to immigration.”
The constituency of Wolverhampton South West, made famous by Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech, became the focus of the immigration debate again today.
Equal Parenting Alliance candidate Ray Barry said immigration had become a “political football” yet closer examination showed the effects on unemployment had been misrepresented.
“So much long-term unemployment traces back to people losing touch with their children. There’s a strong correlation between it and people being alienated from their kids, which drains the …

Ray Barry, the official Equal Parenting Alliance candidate for Wolverhampton South West, launches his Election Leaflet.

EPA candidate for Oxford East, Roger Crawford, met with Henry Bellingham, shadow minister, on Saturday, and heard directly what the Conservatives would do to reform Family Law if elected. Mr Bellingham made 4 commitments:
1. Family Courts will be made open, with no caveats. They will be brought into line with the Crown and Magistrates Courts.
2. There will be, in law, a presumption that each parent …