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Stop The Responsible Fatherhood Bill

"All I ever wanted was supervised" a repeated phrase amongst family violence survivors.  The Family Court has come under recent scrutiny over unsafe contact and the controversial use of Parental Alienation Syndrome a diagnosis that has not been accepted by any scientific organization globally.  The bottom line is that children are ordered by the court to attend access visits where the parents are abusive.  If the mother objects, she risks losing the children altogether.  That is the state of not only the Family Court in Australia, it is an international problem.  
Until recently, there were few groups that were advocating for children and far too many groups advocating for such forced contact.  "Pro Contact" culture is really just being polite.  "Contact No Matter what" Cult, is more appropriate considering the facts that there is no limit as to who they wish children to have contact with.  

Cult definitions coined from 1920 onward[1] refer to a cohesive social group and their devotional beliefs or practices, which the surrounding population considers to be outside of mainstream cultures. The surrounding population may be as small as a neighborhood, or as large as the community of nations. They gratify curiosity about, take action against, or ignore a group, depending on its reputed similarity to cults previously reported by mass media. -Wikipedia


Bizarre punishments against mothers are initiated by the courts if they do not comply without consideration for the impact that the children suffer.  
Some of these punishments include:

"Isolating The Child From The Protective Parent"
"Orders inhibiting the Child From access to Counseling"
"Removal of The Mothers Passport'

In cases where the parent has a mental health condition that is one of the leading causes of homicide, the protective action is often minimal.  Some orders are for the parent to take their medication and see their doctor, but left entirely to the device of the patient and the potential victims are left restricted by the court order and helpless to what might come about.  The Court evaluators who make the decisions that the judges often solely rely on are often untrained for these cases, but overtrained in the area of "pro - contact' and too well understand the terms of "maternal gatekeeping" "Alienation" and "False Memory Syndrome".  They believe that the child is not unsafe in relationships with sex offenders if they "just accept it" without the interference from mothers.  

This is due to the fact that in the early 80s, Dr Richard Gardner coined the term, "Parent Alienation Syndrome" and travelled the world with the help of Association of Family and Conciliation Courts(AFCC).  Many conferences were held indoctrinating lawyers, psychologists and judges into the belief that children are better off with abusive parents.  This belief was also supported by the international Child Emancipation, a lobby group for pedophiles.  

Cases where there is not enough evidence to support Family Violence are often referred to as, "False Allegations" and in most cases the victim is required to pay costs to the alleged perpetrator. This goes against studies that support the notion that in 95% of child abuse cases are true.  Clearly it is the interference that the victims receive during the court processes that leads to the lack of evidence that is able to be provided.  

Like the German Lebensborn organization, they said, "Best Interests" but the intention was to reintroduce laws that tie women to men and diminish any concerns regarding child abuse and violence against women.  The current family law regime reduces the value of children and mothers compared to men and promotes the cycle of violence continuing through to another generation.  Like a genetic disease, our children have been infected with family violence.  

The German Lebensborn organization was similarly cruel in its time.  In the context of the German welfare system, it was considered that it was the "best interests" of the child to be German.  By abducting babies of other origins for German families, "Best Interests of the child" was created to serve the purposes of racial intolerance.  Today in the context of Family Law, "best interests of the child" refers to the amount of time spent with a parent no matter how abusive they may be. 

Although there have been more efforts to protect mothers and children affected by family violence with the Violence Against Women Act and the introduction of the Protective Parent Bill, PAS is still alive in the US court system and have progressed to a point where they are supporting it through the "Responsible Fatherhood Bill".  Like best Interests, it is aimed at enforcing contact with fathers regardless of the rise to epidemic proportions of murder suicides.  In sect 2, "Findings" it states that the reason to provide fathers with billions of dollars in funding is due to:
      6) Children who live without contact with their biological father are, in comparison to children who have such contact--

        (A) 5 times more likely to live in poverty;

        (B) more likely to bring weapons and drugs into the classroom;

        (C) twice as likely to commit crime;

        (D) twice as likely to drop out of school;

        (E) more likely to commit suicide;

        (F) more than twice as likely to abuse alcohol or drugs; and

        (G) more likely to become pregnant as teenagers.

      (7) Violent criminals are overwhelmingly males who grew up without fathers.
        
The findings stated here is derived from a confirmitory bias. If you look deeper into the research, it becomes obvious that:
Children were economically abused by the fathers and the state for withdrawal of financial support of children.  It is in fact written in the convention on The Rights Of The Child:
 
Article 26
1. States Parties shall recognize for every child the right to benefit from social security, including social insurance, and shall take the necessary measures to achieve the full realization of this right in accordance with their national law.
2. The benefits should, where appropriate, be granted, taking into account the resources and the circumstances of the child and persons having responsibility for the maintenance of the child, as well as any other consideration relevant to an application for benefits made by or on behalf of the child.
 
The "Violent males who grew up without fathers", were in fact infected prior to the separation by witnessing the actual violence.  According to Amy Coha:
  • Boys who witness domestic violence are more likely to batter their female partners as adults than boys raised in nonviolent homes. Of the children who witness domestic abuse, 60% of the boys eventually become batterers.
  • Sixty-three percent of boys age 11-20 who commit homicide, murder the man who was abusing their mother. In 50% of the time, if the wife (mother) is being physically abused, so are the children.
Teenage pregnancy is an old sexist phrase that draws the need to look at the pregnant women as the problem.  Contraceptives apart from the condom are directed at her as entirely responsible for the pregnancy.  According to Rape Abuse and Incest Network(RAIN):

Girls ages 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.


 


Victims of sexual assault are:7
3 times more likely to suffer from depression.
6 times more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
13 times more likely to abuse alcohol.
26 times more likely to abuse drugs.
4 times more likely to contemplate suicide.

The fact that in some states, the perpetrator can apply to the Family Court to stop the abortion and continue these attacks on her suggests that women and girls are considered by the state as objects rather than human beings.  If such a bill were to pass, it would be a greater violation to the already eroded human rights of women and children.  

News.com.au Attacks Mothers

The column is called, "Money Mum" and the headline is, "What would you charge for sex?".
It implies an assumption that all mothers would involve themselves in paid sex work.  In a time of economic downturn, it is a cheap advertisement to draw mothers into an assumption that it is their only worth.  

This article is degrading and shows just the type of culture that is behind the news.  We hardly sight anything on the suffering of mothers as most articles are directed towards supporting fathers when the subject of family law arises.  
Our lives are already deemed, "cheap" by the judicial community and if we don't take a stand against it - It will be deemed "cheap" everywhere else.

If you feel offended by this article, you have every right to complain. 

You can make your complaint here.  By doing so, you are making a statement that mothers are not rubbish and are not to be treated as such.

Media Release: Family Court in Violation Of Human Rights Without Changes

“After the recent Family Law Campaign in Australia, demonstrated negligence of child abuse and Family Violence Victims, it became clear that changes were needed....”

Family Court in Violation Of Human Rights Without Changes
 Date:
Thu, 7 May 2009 04:53:01 GMT
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Fathers Rights Groups who campaigned for the current laws have made statements again to diminish victims 
rights when accessing the Family Court. The president for Fathers4Equality stated in his press release, What 
is more astonishing it seems is that unlike the parliamentary committee that recommended these laws in the 
first place, the Chief Justice has not consulted widely before making such an extraordinary intervention (in fact 
she has not consulted with any fathers groups at all). 
One of the speakers at the Rally included a fathers rights advocate, Ann Blessington. Some of the attendees 
were fathers who were concerned about child abuse in the Family Law. Not only were they consulted, one 
contributed his story of concern for his child on the youtube videos as part of the campaign. The message was 
clearly not about gender but of child abuse and violence that is constantly overlooked within the pro contact 
framework. The consensus of Anonymums decided to support the promotion of the rally as it raised a lot of the 
issues they had been raising for quite some time. 
It is noted that The Council of The European Assembly has investigated UK Family Court for Human Rights 
violations, The Assembly further notes that mothers have had their children removed because they were 
victims of domestic violence or on the basis of medical evidence for which there had been no second opinion. 
It was further stated, The Assembly further notes that England habitually gives judgment in family 
proceedings without the judgment being in public (in conflict with Article 6). This Assembly notes that there 
can be an argument for anonymity, but not for the reasoning of the court to be kept secret which means that 
the court’s reasoning is not properly accountable.. 
At Present numerous cases have been decided upon with little external expert evidence and public judgement, 
inviting opportunity for children to be at risk especially when dealing with Family Violence and Child Abuse. 
Despite Parent Alienation Syndrome being largely debunked within the scientific community, it is well known 
that these diagnosiss are ruling proceedings to the cost of children well being. Last year, a ruling was 
debunked in Brisbane and the Family Consultant involved was disciplined. Parent Alienation Syndrome was 
created by DR Richard Gardner and also promoted pedophiliac philosophies that were compared to the 
Leadership council to a North American Man Boy Love Association(NAMBLA). He recommended that threat 
therapy where the abused child is threatened with time away from the protective parent(mostly mothers) if 
they continue to hold resentment about the abuser. Most legal practitioners refer to it as, Parent Alienation 
but in most cases the outcome is the same. The laws are loose on what level of evidence and whose side the 
judge takes and the culture of the court has been extreme upon the side of the accused with little 
accountability for the outcomes. 

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