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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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is to find a group of fathers in the same situation, and present your case all together. Not complain each time she breaks the agreement, but make sure that the law includes punishment for her when she does it.
(, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 14:18, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Not if the child is living with her full time.
(, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 14:19, Reply)
but you are wildly underestimating the size of the legal hill.
(, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 14:25, Reply)
It makes me feel very sad, though, that the law permits this and protects the person who's doing the harm.
(, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 14:27, Reply)
it's all in the best interests of the child
(, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 14:28, Reply)
The court is wrong, clearly. The best interest of the child is to have both a mother and a father.
(, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 14:30, Reply)
Particularly as in my case the mother's family are bunch of fucking peasants.
(, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 14:33, Reply)
but in some cases the parents won't be together, or the father won't have any interest, or will have interest but be a violent bastard. There has to be some kind of law to protect the child in those sorts of instances, but unfortunately the way it is now punishes people like Monty. Or rather, allows his ex to punish him.
(, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 14:33, Reply)
But if it's the mother the one that is a bastard, then that doesn't count. She doesn't have to prove anything. She's the mother and that's all that counts.
(, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 14:46, Reply)
on the whole, if the child is to live with one parent then most of the time they are better off with the mother, particularly at a very young age.
unfortunately I imagine when the law was written they didn't consider that some people might use it to exact their own petty revenge on a partner who they think has slighted them.
(, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 14:48, Reply)
But the way your law works here, as I see it, is believing that the mother is good until the opposite is proved, and believing that the father could be a cunt, so just we better don't bother with him too much, just in case, eh?
(, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 14:56, Reply)
in a lot of cases it works fine, because the mother is willing to give access to the father, either with or without court action.
but in some cases, like that of our unfortunate colleague, the mother is a psycho hosebeast
(, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 14:58, Reply)
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