People who clearly use their children as pawns and the idiots who fall for it.... warning, video contains distressing content.

[SummerGems]

So, a video has been posted by one of my FB friends by an individual who is telling the story of how the family courts just awarded residency to his ex, and how the police came to collect the children because she is afraid of him.

The video shows the police wanting to collect the children, and the children screaming that they don’t want to go. It’s been alleged that the mother hits them but the words they use are clearly the words of adults.

I will state at this point that the police officer handling it didn’t quite cover herself in glory either as when the child lashes out at her she threatens that he will be put in handcuffs and thrown in a van.

However she then tries to calm the situation and tells the children they can pack anything they want, and when they refuse she asks the father, who has thus far said very little, to stop filming and help his children, to which he responds “no.”

The children are then put into the car and when the little boy screams for his dad to help he replies that he can’t.

There is no attempt for him to reassure the children, no attempt to tell them he loves them etc, and he posts this video on fb asking everyone to share it to raise awareness of the unfairness of the family court system.

And it has thus far been watched 750000 times.

Now, I get that we don’t know the mother’s side to this. However it is very, very obvious that the father is trying to make some point at the expense of his own children. And yet people are posting and sharing this video, believing that the courts are in the wrong here and that these children should just be allowed to stay with their father.

There are quite clearly reasons why residency has now been awarded to the mother, and yet people are so very blinkered about his motives.

How do people believe this stuff? How is it that people are so blind that they can’t even see what’s in front of them i.e. a man filming this situation rather than stepping in to comfort his clearly distressed children?

PS: this is a fb link so no idea how easy it is to watch it from here. And contains distressing content of upset children....

www.facebook.com/1147563648/posts/10217570060940521/

I've seen it. And I have read that the mother was badly abused by the father. He did fuck all to help his kids and o actually thinks he police did a good job in the circumstances- she even told the dad to help out rather than film. The children's reaction is quite typical of children in a stressful family situation. But now all their school friends have probably seen this thanks to Dad of the Year posting it online.

I feel deeply sorry for the Mum in this. As usual, mums get a lasting online and a lot of assumptions made, and he's an 'amazing dad' for some reason or another. I do wish people would bear in mind that if police are taking your children away to live with your ex there's probably a very good reason for that!

There's already a long thread about this.

Do you have a link?

well if there’s another thread on this it’s not very obvious.

Gun I too feel desperately sorry for the mum in this, although tbh this man is so transparent that surely although there are always going to be some who fall for it, many will not? I do wonder what his kids will think of it all in years to come though, knowing that that video is out there....

The fact is OP that men, especially dad's, seem to be Teflon coated - all they have to do is show up and do the bare minimum and they're an 'amazing dad'. I've seen so many people saying things like "ooh the boy said X that must mean his mum hits him, BURN HER" without acknowledging the damage the dad is doing both by filming it and then posting it online (and 'signing' it off form his kids - fuck off, useless twat). Internalised misogyny means that so many people can't ever hold men accountable for anything, even when its in plain sight - they blame the nearest women for men's fuck ups.

By the by I do think it's useful to link the already running threads, and unless it's one page one, it's not always obvious a thread is always running

Agree re previous threads. I did look and have looked subsequently and there clearly isn’t a thread about this in plain sight so unless it’s been deleted.....?