Foreword
I can hardly read the literature on Family Law without
simultaneous feelings of an awful sadness and
profound rage. Sadness at what has been done to our
children and their families and deep rage for our
Family Courts and the inadequate practitioners that
work within it.
In the near future the Family Law under which we
endure will be seen as barbaric, criminally damaging,
abusive, neglectful, harmful to society, the family, the
parents and the children in whose name it purports
to act. It is beyond scrutiny or criticism and like a secret society its members – the judges, lawyers,
social and child “care” agencies behave like any closed vested interest and protect each others’
backs.
The court is entirely informed by outdated social engineering models and contemporary attitudes
rather than fact, precedent rather than common sense and modish unproven nostrums rather than
present day realities. It is a disgraceful mess. A farrago of cod professionalism and faux concern
largely predicated on nonsensical social guff, mumbo-jumbo and psycho-babble. Dangling at the
other end of this are the lives of thousands of British children and their families.
Here is one more report that empirically nails the obvious fact that to remove a child from their
father (in the hugely vast majority of cases), their grandparents and other family, their school and
friends, is wholly destructive to a child and its family.
How much longer must we put up with the state sanctioned kidnap of our most vulnerable?
Because in effect that’s what “Leave to Remove” amounts to. How much longer do we tolerate the
vested interest intransigence of the appalling U.K. Family Justice system? How long before just one
of them admit they have got it ALL wrong and apologise to their myriad victims?
This report is important, timely and vital. To accept its findings, which could have and should have,
been conducted at any time in the past 30 years, is to accept the awful conclusion that rather than
Solomon like resolving our tragically human disputes with understanding, compassion and logical
pragmatism the courts have consistently acted against society’s interest through the application of
prejudice, gender bias and awful impartial cruelty.
This report proves it. May God forgive them. I won’t.
Bob Geldof
Taken from published work on www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.Aspx?i=ed46050
A report by The Custody Minefield
Foreword by Sir Bob Geldof
December 2009