Dispatched: family court

[Rabbitheadlights]

Just gobsmacked .... Thoughts?

Just finished watching quite sh

Sorry posted too soon! Shocking but I don't know what the answer is except for throwing money at the problem very sad for families and children :(

I am actually quite an emotional person anyway, but the footage of those children being removed made me cry, really cry! The sound of the screams was horrific.

I've recorded this for later and I'm anticipating a hard watch. A close friend is a police officer who's been in attendance along with social services when children have been removed, and however necessary it might have been to take that action, it really haunts her

@DramaAlpaca that is the question however necessary?

What channel was it on so I can watch it tomorrow ?

Yes shocking and not subject to any scrutiny at all. Some of the the tales of judges behaviour were shocking but sadly not a surprise to me.

Channel 4

I'm surprised this hasn't generated more discussion on here

@Rabbitheadlights

I'm surprised this hasn't generated more discussion on here

I agree there is normally lots of talk about the family court. I guess as the programme showed people are scared to speak :(

Didn't know about it.

Will look for it in catch up.

Ok - well that was a hard watch.

But necessary.

Yes, a hard watch indeed.

I also must qualify my post from yesterday - my police officer close friend's attendance in the removal of children from their homes was in entirely different circumstances to that described in the programme.

The programme was shocking and very upsetting.

Awful. Just wrong, they didn't seem to explain who thought just after midnight was an appropriate time for this to happen.

If it's allegedly in the children's best interests and for their mental well-being then explain dragging them out of their beds by force in the early hours.

This was partly my thoughts @uktrippin how anybody thinks that either necessary or acceptable is truly beyond me.

Agreed that there has been very little discussion on here considering.

I have no idea how anyone ever sanctioned the removal of those children in the way they did. And they were teenage children, entirely capable of making their own decisions. I’m guessing none of those children actually ever saw their fathers again after they finally went back home. What kind of a selfish fucker parent would willingly put his children through being dragged screaming from their beds at midnight.

And the woman who found out her ex was a paedophile and still he’s taken her to court 38 times. he should surely never have been allowed back to court after the 1st time.

And even with all that in mind, imagine how shocking it must be to find out after you’ve had children with someone that they are in fact a convicted paedophile. Hideous.

It was awful, sat and watched it last night, absolutely horrific. Answer sounds like a lot more education and training for the Judges.
I used to work for an organisation in which I heard a lot of stories about the family court and what I heard was very often the court order was very rarely enforced by the Police.
Therefore it makes it extremely shocking to see them remove those children.
The woman who’s ex was a paedophile still with access does not surprise me, saddening as it is.
The law is a child has a right to access to a parent but apparently no right to not have access!

Many years ago a neighbour went to jail for abusing his dd for 10 years.. She attended a SEN school for her issues that had been caused by his abuse...
On release he was granted unsupervised access to a ds and a younger dd... Which was OK apparently as he had never touched them.
The woman moved and took those beautiful dc to safety.
Where were SS for them?
For that reason I haven't watched this program..

If the judges were made to attend the forced removal of these children I think that would be a start.

Family court do literally threaten mothers into silence. I was told that if I told anyone outside this room anything that had been said I could he jailed for contempt. Literally.

One prominent campaigner Is a survivor of the Rotheram grooming case. The rapist who fathered her child won some contact albeit indirect.

I know someone for whom Ss did this
Middle of the night. Children made to wake up to be taken away while she (their mother) packed their bags.
Horrific.

It was a hard watch and there seems to be little common sense and far too much energy towards making sure the mother isnt favoured.

Sorry to say it and I recognise I dont know full picture, but if my teenage kids were in the middle of a distressing removal I wouldnt lie distraught on the pavement as they drove away in bits. That's not helpful. That behaviour did make me wonder about emotional manipulation. Would have been good to hear some of the other sides of the story for balance.

There definitely needs to be overhaul, however from the opposite perspective I feel like this will give some parents ammunition to justify keeping their children away from the other parent, as it only shows the extreme cases.
Clearly the cases shown are awful and the courts have acted in completely the wrong way, I just felt saddened about parents that have been alienated when I watched.
More openness is definitely necessary, as I have had experience of one parent saying the court order says one thing and the other parent saying the court order says the opposite, but then not being able to show proof of what it actually says as that could be contempt of court 🤦🏼‍♀️

Great piece of investigatory journalism. I have lost faith in nearly every institution these days.