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		<title>Using Harassment Law to enforce contact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2010/07/using-harassment-law-to-enforce-contact-2.html</link>
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		<title>Review of Leave to Remove law.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2010/07/review-of-leave-to-remove-law.html</link>
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		<title>Excellent new guide to shared residence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2010/07/excellent-new-guide-to-shared-residence.html</link>
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		<title>A new service &#8211; help with your case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the Equal Parenting Alliance was formed we have received a constant stream of requests for help with individual cases, which we have responded to as best we can from our limited resource.
This year, 3 of our main advisers decided to set up a more organised support service to respond to the demand, and in the last 10 weeks alone we have handled over 300 enquiries.
To access this service, click on &#8220;Need help with your case?&#8221; at the top of this page.
The initial enquiry is free, after which we make ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2010/05/a-new-service-help-with-your-case.html</link>
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		<title>Government Programme for Family Law Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; 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.&#8221;
Here is the full text of the section on Families and Children in the coalition&#8217;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, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2010/05/government-programme-for-family-law-reform.html</link>
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		<title>Election results for EPA candidates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spiderman Votes 
Ray Barry tried some old-fashioned canvassing with a modern twist: spiderman driving around the Wolverhampton South West constituency delivering key messages through a megaphone. Roger Crawford did things on an altogether bigger scale, driving a double-decker bus, emblazoned with slogans, around Oxford East.
Here are Ray&#8217;s and Roger&#8217;s results:
WOLVERHAMPTON SOUTH-WEST
Paul Uppal  Conservative                             16,344 40.7 +2.6
Rob Marris  Labour   ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2010/05/election-results-for-epa-candidates.html</link>
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		<title>EPA join the election immigration debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;High unemployment levels owe more to depression after loss of children than to immigration.&#8221;
The constituency of Wolverhampton South West, made famous by Enoch Powell&#8217;s &#8220;rivers of blood&#8221; speech, became the focus of the immigration debate again today. 
Equal Parenting Alliance candidate Ray Barry said immigration had become a &#8220;political football&#8221; yet closer examination showed the effects on unemployment had been misrepresented. 
&#8220;So much long-term unemployment traces back to people losing touch with their children. There&#8217;s a strong correlation between it and people being alienated from their kids, which drains the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2010/04/epa-join-the-election-immigration-debate.html</link>
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		<title>Irish Times &#8220;Another step towards criminalising fatherhood&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Irish Times:
&#8220;The father has no entitlements, but is usually expected to pay for everything. Even when the mother is responsible for the break-up, the father must subsidise the abduction of his children.&#8221;
JOHN WATERS
Family ‘contact centres’ will normalise the wrongdoings of a heartless, misandrist family law system
I COULDN’T help noticing the enthusiastic media welcome for the announcement by Barry Andrews, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, of the possibility of a pilot scheme for “contact centres”. The Minister was responding to a study carried out for the Family Support Agency, calling ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2010/04/irish-timesanother-step-towards-criminalising-fatherhood.html</link>
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		<title>Ray Barry Wolverhampton SW candidate Equal Parenting Alliance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My passion is to dismantle the multi-billion-pound Family Law industry which has led to a quarter of the country’s children being alienated from their fathers, as mine are from me. At its root it is a money-making scam, in which lawyers, judges and others grow fat from a system which relies for its continued existence on its adversarial nature which destroys the innocence of children and goads parents to fight each other: a system which those who earn their living from it do not want to see changed.
When my wife ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2010/04/ray-barry-wolverhampton-south-west-candidate.html</link>
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		<title>Election Leaflet Wolverhampton SW, Ray Barry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ray Barry, the official Equal Parenting Alliance candidate for Wolverhampton South West, launches his Election Leaflet.
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		<link>http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2010/04/epa-candidate-wolverhampton-sw-ray-barry.html</link>
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