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The downside of modern day parenting
As a guy and coming from a poor single parent household, I did not want children until I could trust a partner not to desert the family and enough money so we could provide our children with a secure and comfortable life, so we could fully cherish the love we would all share with each other.

However, due to stresses of the modern world, an incompatible partner & from co-habitating too young without realising who I was, after 15 years we ended up in separation and before I knew it – was in a bitter Family Court dispute.

The atrocities of the Family Court and Family Law System unfortunately exacerbated hostility rather than promote mediation between parents.

Due to the many people around me suffering a similar fate, needing HELP, I formed with friends, an organisation called Survivors of Separation (www.sos-family.org.au) and Fathers 4 Justice (www.f4joz.com) in Australia, supporting Matt O’Connor and F4J in the UK.

Work towards a better way for families!

The Father's Crusade
8 May 2005
New York Times

After tomorrow, I'll have done everything there is to do, ''Jason Hatch said one night in February, staring wistfully into a near-finished glass of beer at a bar in Shrewsbury, England. Just a few hours earlier, he and some friends were enjoying a raucous, boisterous evening, all but driving out the other diners at a decorous French restaurant. Now, after several drinks at the bar, the lateness of the hour and the increasing proximity of Hatch's plans for the next day seemed to be catching up with him, and his mood took a turn toward the tense. By the following afternoon, Hatch, a 33-year-old former house painter and contractor, intended to scale a government office building near the prime minister's residence at 10 Downing Street. His friends, many of them co-conspirators, had gone home, the revelry had died down and he was clearly trying to regain some focus. Read More.

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