Equal Parenting Alliance News – April 2006
© 2006 The Equal Parenting Alliance
FATHER’S DAY EVENTS
On Friday 16th June there will be an all group Dads United March in London. The Equal Parenting Alliance will have a speaking slot after the march.
The following day, Saturday 17th June, a joint United Equal Parenting conference is to be held in Central Hall, Westminster opposite Houses of Parliament 10am - 5pm Web site. All are welcome and entry is free. The Equal Parenting
OTHER NEWS
One of our main aims in setting up the Equal Parenting Alliance was to co-operate with other compatible Equal Parenting Organisations (which we call EPOs).
We realise there are a multiplicity of groups that people can join and get involved with. We don’t see ourselves as the alternative to any of these groups, and we don’t want or aspire to be in competition with any of them. Our intention is to be complementary to them all.
Although these groups tend to have similar aims, they all, of course, approach the issues from a slightly different perspective. We hope to be able to get input into our policies and strategy from all of them.
To achieve this we are organising an Equal Parenting Organisation conference on the 10th June 2006, where we are inviting all of them to send a representative to contribute and share ideas.
We may also consider combining this event with
Family Law Survey – Coming Soon
Another project we are working on is a survey of family law and its outcomes. We plan to get as many people who have been through the family law mill as possible, to try and build up some useful statistics on the outcomes of contact cases.
We are conducting this survey because this information is not available or collected elsewhere, and we believe it is essential that this information is collected. Otherwise, how can anyone assess the success of current policies, or sensibly formulate new ones?
Of course, much better still would be the compulsory collection of the outcomes of cases with central collation. In this way, all cases could be covered, not just the self-selected sample we know we’ll be getting.
This will allow us to answer questions such as “How many fathers say they have false allegations of child abuse made against them in contact disputes?”.
No-one currently has any idea!
This is simply another example of the utter moral bankruptcy of the family courts and associated legal industry. They prefer not to know how they’re doing, or how they’ve done in the past, so we have little choice but to do their work for them – as best we can.
We hope this survey will get us some good publicity and also be a good advertisement for us; cementing our position as something a little
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different in the campaign for reform of family law.
Even better, we hope this will also wrong-foot the government and judiciary – they just won’t know what to do about it.
How can they possibly object to someone doing their best to collect data on the performance of the family law system? Something they should have been doing the past thirty years!
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