Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Shared parenting - the solution that removes the problem.

Attached (when I work out how) please find letter received from our AG Mr. Ruddock today .
Note his reference to engaging with "stake holders" in point 5 - those who derive the living from the system (who rely on the exclusion of one parent for their cash flow). Pity he can't give at least equal time engaging with people who have been affected by the dysfunctional system.
However, nice to see he's going fund research into how alligations of violence and abuse are raised and addressed in Family Law, after all its widely acknowledge by the lawyers and 'stake holders' that most are contrived and that false alligations are damaging to children. In the next sentence he to says how concerned the govt is about rising incidence of "reported child abuse" and that they are focusing prevention and early intervention. ..Classic Ruddock ....keeping both "sides" happy - the vested interests on one hand, the shared parenting lobby on the other.
There will be those that assert that its better that many children are denied their fathers in custody litigation if a few are protected from child abuse.
Personally I have great difficulty with this argument, especially considering the increasing incidence of child abuse amongst children who've had their fathers removed with fraudulent intervention orders (AVOs). In other words if having a father is a determining factor in reduced levels of child abuse surely its best that the problem of false alligations be a predominant focus?
The government initiatives listed by Mr Ruddock will provide lots of work for his stake holders and increasing incidence of child abuse by way of father removal (and/or mother removal)...more work.
Children don't need the government to protect them, we all now the damage they cause. They need the love and protection of both their parents (shared or jointly) - the two people for whom protecting their children is a biological imperative.
He finished up by denying the link between Family Court ordered restriction of the parent it deems the non "custodial parent" and suicide....and not to write to him further unless I have new issues to discuss.
Shared parenting - the solution that removes the problem.

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