Philip Ruddock - RCO's to protect children....and mothers ...and fathers !

To all,

RCO's to protect

To All
RCO's to protect children....and mothers ...and fathers !

(Now that'll silence the anti shared parenting brigade!)

Also please see Anne Blessington MP interview on children of divorse http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=22625518

Just got the above interesting letter from Ruddock (pity he's no longer involved) ...attached.

If only he would recognise that it will only stop once children are protected from having one parent "disqualified in the first place - ie: with a Recovery of Contact Order, effective immediately and answerable in Court within days (like an AVO). The immediate enforcement of an RCO could be prevented by laying criminal charges with the Police of abuse of neglect of the children. Family Violence allegations would not be allowed to deprive the children of a parent when change overs can be arranged at day care, school or through 3rd paries.

This would mean the parent seeking to exclude the other, would first have to convince a Court that its was in the children's interests. Not as now, when the excluded parent has to convince a judge that they should be included, when the status quo of living arrangements have already been established - unilaterally, often with the help of AVOs - a process that takes expert reports and sometimes years of graduated increases in contact to a weekend a fortnight, half holidays regime). An RCO mechanism would move the onus to the parent who wanted to exclude the other, to prove that their children would be better off without their other parent substantially in their lives.

The ongoing suffering caused by the alienation of a child's parent with smears and allegations of abuse, comes home to roost, with these children growing up to be ;

5 times more likely to commit suicide;

14 times more likely to commit rape;

9 times more likely to drop out of high school;

10 times more likely to abuse chemicals;

9 times more likely to end up in a state-operated institution; and

20 times more likely to end up in prison.

Once RCOs can protect children from losing one of their parents, in most cases there's nothing to fight about. Most applications are brought about by fathers who have been denied equal or sufficient time with there kids, so the cases that do get fought over would be the ones where there were real problems with one of the parents. It protects both parents from being excluded - man and woman alike - not just one of them. This takes away most of the fear of losing the custody battles - fear of loosing the children. Fear that is typically exploited by Family Court lawyers and practitioners.

Regards,
Simon Hunt
PARENTS AGAINST INSTITUTIONALISED CHILD ABUSE
Mornington
Phone: +61 (0)3 5973 6933
Mobile: 0414 415 693
vascopajama@dodo.com.au
http://mumsdadsandkidsagainstsolecust.blogspot.com/
http://thefamilycourtphenomenon.blogspot.com/
www.dashlite.com.au

"Protecting children from having one of their parents removed by the other upon separation".

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----- Original Message -----

From: Ron de Mouilpied

To: fathers4equality@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 3:14 AM

Subject: RE: [fathers4equality] Re: [MichDads] Mandatory joint custody | A Family Court judge's view

Yes but we are up until now mostly pommie, Irish or Welsh descendant. Aussie men have been pushed to the wall and I am really pleased to see the fight back growing now. It's a 'new breed' of 'DAD' - I am pleased to say for the most an improved version on the 1920/30's version. The change to 'Rebuttable presumption of Equal Parenting Time' will happen, shoulder to wheel - now in the trenches (where we are) there's no match for us! The divorce statistics show the numbers of 'disqualified Fathers' which is growing. It's just now reaching a significant number to 'worry' the politicians and they are beginning to take note. A real eye opener will be if there is a swing against both major parties 24/11. That's when we push harder and say - You weren't in touch with us Fathers and Gov't is swinging away from you and will continue to do so. A Gov't that can't pass it's own Bills will be a great result for 24/11.

CHEERS !Ron Email macroes6@hotmail.com

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