I believe strongly that when we have children we have a duty to protect and care for them and a responsibility to them, and to society, in regard to their upbringing and welfare. I further believe that when allegations of abuse are made, be they sexual, emotional, physical or neglect, that they should be investigated fully in a criminal not family court, to ensure the safety of all, most especially our children, and to ensure that abhorrent false accusations are not rewarded with full custody and no contact but are instead punished as perjury, since they would then have to be made in open court.
I do not believe that one parent has the right to eliminate the other from a child’s life because they don’t want them in it and by the same token I do not believe that one parent should be allowed to disregard their duties and obligations to their child because they don’t want a part in the child’s life. It took two people to create that child and, if one person didn’t want a child they should have ensured they used contraception to prevent its conception, because those two people should both be responsible for the child and its parenting.
To you who do not feel this situation will have any bearing on your lives, especially the women amongst you, I say Beware! Maybe the family law system benefits you now but that may not always be the case. Your sons and grandsons certainly will not benefit from the secretive practices of our family law system and neither will their children. You may be one of those who in the future will have the horrors of this system turned against your family and if that is the case you may never see your grandchildren or great grandchildren again. Unfair legislation has, as the past shows only to well, the capacity to turn on us all.
And beyond this, well once the system has gotten rid of the fathers, there is only one parent left to go and then the state will have all our children to itself, (despite its appalling record on ‘looked after children’)
Beyond fantasy you might think?
Well, let’s face it the adoption targets managed to net quite a few lovely babies straight from maternity wards as well as pretty young children for the adoption market, before they were abolished after sustained outcries by prominent figures at some of the cases involved. And now we have some MPs backing ‘Stonewall’ proposals to have the words dad and MUM removed from early learning stage books, to be replaced by the term Carer because not all children have a mum and a dad! Sounds reasonable maybe, until you really think about it and then, given what is happening to fathers now, it should scare the hell out of you. It does me!
I do not want to see any downgrading of a father’s role in a child’s life and nor do I wish to see any downgrading of a mother’s role just to comply with political correctness gone mad. I certainly do care for my children, but I love them too and that far exceeds the role of a carer. Perhaps if the Feminazi members of our government dispensed with their nannies and spent more time with their own children instead of deriding those parents who want to be with their children as much as they possibly can be, they would understand why so many fathers fight to stay in their children’s lives after separation or divorce.
The balance in our Family Law System must be redressed now, not in favour of men or women, but in favour of the real long term best interests of the child who should have the right to be parented by both of their parents, and in doing this not only the welfare of the child but also that of the family and society as a whole would benefit. It’s time our politicians stopped allowing themselves to be ruled by fascist feminism at its worst and swapped political correctness for commonsense policies, then we will all benefit, not just the minority at the expense of reason and justice.
Tracey Wilkinson
Equal Parenting Alliance Committee
23 May 2008
