you are right littlebella, the scandinavian model of presumption of shared care on separation is a very good one and works but you need the re-education away from only one parent can look after a child properly syndrome. but there is also one big obstacle in the way at this moment. when other european countries are moving towards this shared care assumption, our government is moving away from it because of 3 women, harriet harman, anna coot and patricia hewitt. this is what the NSCFC said on harmans bid for deputy PM who now holds sway over brown as she did over blair.
WHY THE NSCFC DO NOT WANT HARRIET HARMAN TO BECOME DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
As the Deputy Prime Minister contest hots up within the Labour Party, the National Society for Children and Family Contact (NSCFC - link) have declared that the worst possible winner for fathers and families would be Harriet Harman. Their press releases are listed here (link) and their release on this subject is listed below.
NSCFC on Harriet Harman
First it must be said that Harriet Harman is possibly the worst anti family politician to ever hold office, hence if her power and influence is increased it would be one of the saddest days for the family in particular and society in general and this despite her claims to the contrary. But why, you may well ask? Well, let us just look at the facts behind the woman and her ideology. In 1990, Harriet Harman (who became a Cabinet minister), Anna Coote (who became an adviser to Labour's Minister for Women) and Patricia Hewitt (yes, she's in the Labour Cabinet, too!) expressed their beliefs in a social policy paper called ?The Family Way?.
It said: "It cannot be assumed that men are bound to be an asset to family life, or that the presence of fathers in families is necessarily a means to social harmony and cohesion." This in itself as Erin Pizzey founder of the first battered wives refuge said of late was a staggering attack on men and their role in modern life and in my view a forerunner of what was to come, a very subtle yet insidious agenda inflicted on families of a kind never witnesses before.
Hewitt, in a book by Geoff Dench called Transforming Men published in 1995, said: "But if we want fathers to play a full role in their children's lives, then we need to bring men into the playgroups and nurseries and the schools. And here, of course, we hit the immediate difficulty of whether we can trust men with children."
For nearly four decades, these pernicious attitudes towards family life, fathers and boys have permeated the thinking of our society to such an extent that male teachers and carers are now afraid to touch or cuddle children and as for fathers they fear to embrace their daughters.
Men can be accused of domestic violence towards their partners and sexual abuse without evidence. Courts discriminate against fathers and refuse to allow them access to their children on the whims of vicious partners. And yes let?s be frank here, this is all down to the feminist movement and the agenda I mentioned earlier, divide and conquer was and still is the plan and it comes in many different guises of this there is no doubt! So when Harriet Harman says Families need practical support one needs to ask just what her definition of family really is given her staggering attack on men and their role in modern life back in 1990 or is this simply another case of deception and spin?
Fact being, since 1997 when Labour came to office nearly 400,000 children have needlessly lost contact with their fathers due to the unjust family court system which favours mothers and denies children and fathers the Right to family life as should be so in accordance with Human Rights Act article 8 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Sadly due to Labour policy and ideology re family law 100 children per day loose contact and over one million grandparents like all grandparents have no legal presumption to see their grandchildren, indeed all the paternal side of the child?s family is removed after separation or divorce by judges who put the interest of mothers before the best interest of the children.
Result being that the innocent children involved have lost out on the very role models they need and are entitled to. So now we have a generation of children stripped of their right to be nourished and cherished by the paternal side of their family in their formative years hence its no wonder therefore that we now see a rise in dysfunctional and anti social children. For Ms Harman to be in support of the traditional family her priority since coming to office would have been to give Human Rights to fathers and the paternal side of a child?s family only then could we say she had the best interest of society at heart, instead she has continued in her ideology that men are not an asset to family life and as such has endorsed the downward spiral of our youth and society by so doing.
Suffice to say Harriat Harman and her ilk has been the main driving force behind the destruction of the traditional family this to the detriment of the very fabric of society itself. We for our part at the NSCFC will continue to highlight the governments destructive policy which undermines the marriage based family, fact being according to UNICEF the traditional family unit is by far the most stable environment for children to grow up in and as such condemns both Ms Harman and her party for continuing to undermine it.
That Ms Harman would now become Deputy Prime Minister is by far the worst of all possible outcomes for families and society alike, this based purely and simply on her track record and ideology alone and yes if she has her way the traditional family and its values will be no more.