BBC News - Paedophiles - Take Parental Rights away from convicted Paedophiles BBC news

[MariaMcGeady]

Thank you to everyone who has signed the petition so far to remove parental rights from convicted child sex abusers and for support for the thread

URGENT - Help protect our children

There is current agreement by the government to strip parental rights from convicted child sex offences but it is limited to rape currently. This does not go far enough.

Paedophiles could be stripped of parental rights under new law - BBC News

Most child sex offences occur at home. Parents and step parents (with their own children in the family) are responsible for the majority of these home related offences. The current family law means they still retain all of their parental rights allowing them a right of involvement in their children's lives and control over all decisions pertaining to them. This leaves the protective parent in a never ending battle to protect their children.

As this topic is being hotly debated at present, I have re attached this petition, which extends the remit of the current proposals (your name will not be shown so you are safe to sign it).

This petition only has 2 more days to run.

Please sign it and get as many people as possible to share it.

Remove parental responsibility from child sexual offenders and child abusers - Petitions (parliament.uk)

Many thanks

Signed, and thank you.

Amongst many good sections in the article, two here:

1 (Harriet Hartman) described this as "part of the hangover of the patriarchy".

2 **Bethan and her parents believe their experience shows the value of reporting proceedings in the family courts.

Coverage of her case was permitted through the Transparency Pilot, which allows journalists to report family courts in a meaningful way for the first time. This pilot has been extended to cover almost half the family courts in England and Wales.

This story uses a false name to protect Bethan's privacy.**

Also:

**Bethan's Cardiff Family Court case was relatively straightforward, but nonetheless cost £30,000 in legal fees. Her parents extended their mortgage to help fund the case.

The new legislation would mean parents like Bethan will no longer have to pay thousands in legal fees to ensure their children are safe.

Children would be protected from the moment a parent is convicted in a criminal court. Bethan told the BBC it was "a tremendous victory".**