Please sign and share?

[howdeydudey]

I've noticed over the years that various individuals and organisations create petitions that sound really promising, but the support gets fragmented across them.

If we all pulled together and supported just one petition, we might get enough signatures and traction to actually make something happen?

With that in mind, could we perhaps all sign and share the following? Share with family, friends, anyone who might possibly sign. And ask them to make sure they share too?

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/603110

@howdeydudey

There are so many mistakes here I'm not sure where to begin.

Let's start here...

I didn't contract "away from home"

I was always the one giving the children breakfast. Every morning of every day of every week. I was the one putting them to bed and reading to them. Every night of every week.

On top of that I worked from home one day, and did the majority care at the weekends. And I was the one at home with them every night while the mother was out 3 or 4 nights a week. You might not like that, but that is what happened.

However, you are still making personal attacks about my specific situation.

Why do you feel the need to do this so badly?

It is really interesting to observe.

Please don't take this as a personal attack, it's really not. I am simply responding to what you have stated in your posts. All of the information came from your posts.

@ChoiceMummy

As I've said, you've got the info wrong.

I never worked away from home. I worked 5 day weeks, giving the children breakfast before leaving and was always there to read to them before bed. I worked a minimum of one day a week from home. This meant I was home at least 3 of the 7 days per week (weekends plus the one extra day).

I often took several months off between contracts to spend time with them.

Yet in our society, the children still apparently aren't entitled to 50% of their time in my care. You can say that children say what they want their parents to hear. And I'd usually agree. But mine don't - they are actually telling their mother that they want more time with me. They didn't for many years - because they didn't want to upset her. And I've always, always stressed to them that they can be honest with me about their feelings, and if they are happy how things are then I'm ok with that, and won't act any differently towards them over it.

They WANT the time to be more equal. I'm as certain of that as I can be. I do not put any pressure on them for this - the mother does and yet they are still now starting to tell her their true thoughts and have arguments with her.

I've been to court a few times. They refused to seek the children's views. They just basically tell me to go away.

This is the sad fact of our courts. Sometimes, "bad" fathers get far too much access. But even more commonly, good fathers, acting on the wishes of their children, get refused.

I strongly suspect their mother fights it purely so she gets to keep the frankly obscene amount of maintenance I have to pay. Money, by the way, which I'm not actually earning. I draw it from my ltd company in order to keep a roof over the children's heads. But due to illness, chemo and so on, I haven't worked as much in recent years. So funds that should be there to keep me comfortable in my dying days are actually just paying for her loft conversion and house renovation, which they completed last year.