
Fathers spared jail over Harman roof protest
Father guilty over Harman roof protest
- Last Updated: 17 December 2008 3:31 AM
- Source: Press Association
- Location: The Press Association Newsdesk
Parental alienation involves the systematic brainwashing, poisoning and manipulation of children with the sole purpose of destroying a loving and warm relationship they once shared with a parent. My story involves this form of child abuse & exploring the bias favouring a mother in the social ecosystem around Family Law.
The growth of single-parent families has led to a quarter of children growing up in the poorest fifth of homes, an official report said yesterday.
The study by the Office for National Statistics found the number of children living in the poorest households has soared in the last 30 years.
The analysis by the Government's statistics body is intended to show who has won and who has lost from the big changes in earnings, taxation and state benefits over the three decades to 2007.
It said the number of single parent families represented only 3 per cent of homes in 1977. This has since doubled to 6 per cent.
In 1977, 19 percent of children lived in the poorest fifth of homes. This rose to nearly 30 percent by 1997 as the numbers of lone parent families grew.
Nearly a quarter of all children now live with single parents and the numbers of lone mothers have trebled since the 1970s.
Author Francis Jones said that the history of the economy over three decades had been 'a game of two halves'. During the 1980s high earners became much better off, but rich and poor have stayed in much the same position since the early 1990s.
Even the poorest have seen their incomes rise as the overall wealth of individuals and families has more than doubled since the 1970s.
Labour's tax and benefit changes since 1997 have made little difference to the equality gap between rich and poor, it found.
Rich and poor have stayed in much the same position since the early 1990s
But while ministers have tinkered with the levers of the economy, the shift that has really decided on who is well off and who is poor is the revolution in family life, the report said.
The ONS said that the count of children in the poorest fifth of homes has fallen to 25 percent since Gordon Brown introduced the tax credit benefit system in the late 1990s.
However, a series of Whitehall studies have shown that tax credits, which pump money into single parent families, has left two-parent families who rely on just one earner much worse off.
Department of Work and Pensions figures this year showed that children now dropping into poverty are almost entirely those who live with two parents.
Numbers of children in the poorest fifth of households - which rely on state benefits for most of their income - is now nearly a third higher than in 1977.
The ONS report yesterday that children have now joined the elderly as those most likely to be poor.
It said: 'Along with retired households, one adult households with children are the other main group of households that are highly concentrated in the lower part of the income distribution.
'The combination of low employment income and the presence of children results in low incomes.'
It added: 'The increase in one adult households in the bottom group was simply due to the increase in their number, rather than any change in their overall position in the income distribution.'
Labour is pledged to lift children out of poverty.
However, the Government has maintained since coming to power in 1997 that all kinds of families are equally good and that there is no advantage for children in having two parents or married parents.
All research continues to show that, despite the availability of tax credits, children with single parents are poorer, less healthy, do less well at school, and are more likely to fall into worklessness, drug abuse, crime and single parenthood themselves as adults.
The report led to new calls from supporters of the traditional family for new state policies to encourage parents to stick together.
Robert Whelan of the Civitas think tank said: 'It is gratifying to find that the Government's own statistics body confirming what we have been saying for years: low income is an intrinsic problem of one parent families.
'If you really care about lifting children out of poverty you have to try to encourage two-parent families.'
He added: 'The Government's approach has always been to deny that family structure makes a difference. They have been throwing money at the problem, but even the most generous benefit system cannot replace an absent father.
'Fathers do far more for families than pay the bills. It's the father that matters, not the benefits.'
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December 16, 2008
SANTA CLAUS NORTH POLE H0H 0H0 CANADA
Dear Santa:
Project Save Christmas: http://www.fathers-4-justice-
Three and a half years ago on June 8, 2005 my children were torn from me and I did not find them for 7 months. Christmas in 2005 was the loneliest day of my life. I cried and cried for their presence but it was not to happen.
For the past 3.5 years, due to the winner-take-all adversarial “no fault” court process I have been fighting to regain my equality as a parent in their lives. It is a very expensive process that is not yet over and the only winners will be the lawyers who keep bringing their customers to court instead of doing the right thing and keeping both parents in the children’s lives on an equal basis.
I will be living below the poverty line after it is all over and likely be homeless.
Equality by definition means just that except in our family court. Instead of the best interest of the children it is confrontation after confrontation through the court to win back the God given gift of fatherhood and parenthood that my government has taken away from me to the detriment of the health and well being of my children. All studies point to the fact children do far better in all situations when both parents remain in their lives equally.
Ten years ago, on December 9, 1998 a report was filed to the then Liberal Government of Mr. Chrétien entitled “For the sake of the Children”. It can be viewed here. http://www2.parl.gc.ca/
In it was recommended a new way of dealing with the end of marriage by which there would be a presumption of shared parenting. Australia introduced it in 2006 and some U.S. states have added it since, including Florida on October 1, 2008. Canada has not acted on this recommendation.
The spirit of Christmas is being eroded from the lives of thousands of families and I would wish you to help bring about changes to give us Equal and Shared Parenting for all affected Mom’s and Dad’s for Christmas. It will help to bring some joy back to this wonderful celebration of giving and that is indeed in the best interest of our children.
Michael Murphy
A sad but optimistic dad.
Fathers 4 Justice
Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A6J8
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario |
Perth, Western Australia |
Of the nearly 19 million Canadians who had a current or former spouse in 2009, 6.2% or 1.2 million reported they had been victimized physically or sexually by their partner or spouse during the five years prior to the survey. This proportion was stable from 2004 (6.6%), the last time the victimization survey was conducted, and down from 1999 (7.4%).
A similar proportion of men and women reported experiencing spousal violence during the five years prior to the survey. Among men, 6.0% or about 585,000, encountered spousal violence during this period, compared with 6.4% or 601,000 women.
The Daily summary:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/110127/dq110127a-eng.htm
The 53 page report.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-224-x/85-224-x2010000-eng.pdf
Keep in mind what you see in the paper is what is reported to police. The numbers above from Stats Canada are those based on surveys which are more comprehensive.