PRESS RELEASE
From: UK Political Party "Equal Parenting Alliance Party"
Date: 11th December 2006
Re: NAMING AND SHAMING OF ABSENT PARENTS
The Government are proposing to “name and shame” absent parents who do not pay child support in their white paper later this week.
These proposals are nothing more than a poorly considered knee-jerk response to a situation largely created by a dysfunctional family justice system and Government policy.
While naming parents who refuse to pay initially sounds appealing, the real problem is far more complex and will not be solved by such simplistic solutions.
Of course, there is a problem with irresponsible parents, but parents who don’t pay are just one part of the problem. The bigger issue is that we have Government policies and a family justice system that fully support and encourage the irresponsible parents who deny their children a right to two parents for no good reason.
Are the Government proposing to name and shame these irresponsible parents? Of course not, because this would be no more benefit to the children than will a token humiliation of their other parent (when there could be any number of reasons why they apparently don’t pay).
ENDS
NOTE TO EDITORS
The Equal Parenting Alliance is a new UK political party, formed in February 2006. We aim to promote a system of family justice in the UK that puts the needs and interests of children first.
It can hardly have escaped anyone's attention over the last few years that there is a great deal of disquiet about the operation of the family justice system in the UK. Indeed, we share the view that there is an awful lot to complain about.
We think the family justice system should respect the right of children to normal parenting by their two parents above the rights or wishes of either of their parents alone. The current system does not do this. To give the most obvious illustration of this; it allows one parent to easily eliminate the other parent from a child’s life, if they wish. We believe this is fundamentally wrong and bad for children.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
See our website: www.equalparentingalliance.com
Media Contact : Ray Barry, 0790 550 2856
