Parenting - Shared Parenting

AFA Conference calls for strengthening of marriage law

News Weekly - Saturday, 18th October 2003

http://www.newsweekly.com.au/articles/2003oct18_f.html

The National Conference of the Australian Family Association (AFA), held
in Adelaide early this month, called >...More

Parental rights are a gender issue

Irish Times - Monday, 22nd September 2003

By John Waters

The wreathed whispers of the sisterhood are issuing forth for Bob Geldof
since he assumed advocacy of the least PC human rights issue on earth.

I wondered if they would. He is after all the man who saved the world, put
char >...More

Right forms family lobby

The Age (Melbourne) - Monday, 22nd September 2003

By By Annabel Crabb

http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2003/09/21/1064082866149.htm

Forty-five conservative Coalition MPs have formed a new lobby group in
Parliament to >...More

Lives in the imbalance

The Courier Mail (Brisbane) - Friday, 12th September 2003

By By Margaret Wenham

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,7236465,00.html,/a>


12 September 2003

The House of Representatives Standi >...More

The Real Love that Dare not Speak its Name

The Sunday Times (UK) - Sunday, 7th September 2003

By Bob Geldof

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-806406_1,00.html
This is an abridged version of a chapter entitled The Real Love that Dare not Speak its Name by Bob Geldof, >...More

Geldof lashes courts over fathers' rights

The Times (Britain) - Saturday, 6th September 2003

By John Elliott

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-807377,00.html

Sir Bob Geldof, the singer and Live Aid organiser, has unleashed a
blistering attack >...More

After divorce, kids need both parents

The Age (Melbourne) - Friday, 29th August 2003

By Bettina Arndt

The Age (Melbourne)
29 August 2003

After divorce, kids need both parents
By Bettina Arndt

Children are distressed by divorce. Contact with both parents should
start immediately after separation, writes B >...More

Marriage on MARS

Civitas - Friday, 29th August 2003

By Nadia Martin

Executive Summary
In 1998, the government published the Green Paper, ‘Supporting Families: A
consultation document’, that set out the benefits of marriage, as a component of a
strong civil society, and laid out a strategy to pro >...More

A Fair Go For Mums Means Giving Dads Their Chance

Sydney Morning Herald - Tuesday, 12th August 2003

By Pru Goward

Fathering is back in the news. And for once it is not about conception. It has been discussed in a number of contexts including the parliamentary committee considering the feasibility of equal residency for parents after separation and the current shortag >...More

Violence risk for kids

Herald Sun (Melbourne) - Tuesday, 12th August 2003

By LEELA de KRETSER

Proposed joint-custody laws would increase the burden on the Family
Court and endanger domestic violence victims, women's groups warned
yesterday.

The Victorian Women's Legal Service and domestic violence groups said >...More

The Labour Of Love That Makes Divorce Harder Work For Fathers

Sydney Morning Herald - Tuesday, 29th July 2003

By Bettina Arndt

Long hours at the coalface can prove a double-edged sword for men if their marriages fail, writes Bettina Arndt.
Unlike many of her predecessors, the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Pru Goward, has resisted the temptation >...More

New Generation Of Men Who Share The Load

Sydney Morning Herald - Tuesday, 29th July 2003

By James Woodford

With a little flexibility, juggling work, a modern marriage and parenthood can be done, writes James Woodford.
It takes more than one woman dressed like a cowboy and armed with a big chainsaw to make a trend >...More

Shared Custody? Share The Work First

Sydney Morning Herald - Friday, 25th July 2003

By Sherrill Nixon

Pru Goward wants young women to add another box to tick on their checklist for Mr Right.

Single girls contemplating a career and children should make sure the man of their dreams is willing - really willing - to carry his fair share of the >...More

Men Told To Change Role

The Daily Telegraph - Friday, 25th July 2003

By Matthew Denholm

Fathers must take an equal role in parenting before their marriages end in divorce if changes to child custody laws are going to work, Pru Goward said yesterday.

The Sex Discrimination Commissioner took issue with plans for automatic 50-50 >...More

Australia Headed For 'Gender War'

The Courier Mail - Friday, 25th July 2003

By Matthew Denholm

Australia may be headed for a new gender war unless men take a far greater role in raising their children, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward said yesterday.

Ms Goward said workplace equality had hit a brick wall and that further ad >...More

Equal custody? It's not that easy

Sydney Morning Herald - Tuesday, 22nd July 2003

By Patrick Parkinson

Forget the formulas - real help for children is only in the details, writes Patrick Parkinson.

The establishment of a parliamentary inquiry into what the Prime Minister calls "joint custody" has aroused great interest. The committee wi >...More

'Parallel Parents' A New Concept In Divorce Law

National Post (Canada) - Monday, 21st July 2003

By Janice Tibbetts

Judges Change Focus Duties to children split by couples, even if they loathe each other.

Ottawa - Judges in child custody disputes are beginning to embrace a new concept dubbed "parallel parenting" for mothers and fathers who cannot get alo >...More

50 – 50 Vision: A Matter Of Caring For Kids

Brisbane Courier Mail - Saturday, 12th July 2003

Behind the politics of child custody and the rights of separated parents for equal access there is another issue, one too important to ignore, writes Margaret Wenham.

It's just after big lunch on Tuesday, June 24, Ben Rassmussen is sitting >...More

Father's Torment

The Daily Telegraph - Monday, 7th July 2003

When Val McEwan sought legal advice on the custody of his four children, the advice was don't bother.
"The lawyer said it could cost $30,000 in legal fees and there was no guarantee," he said.

Rather than embark on an uncertain Fam >...More

Putting Interests Of The Children First

The Advertiser (Adelaide) - Wednesday, 2nd July 2003

By Alastair Nicholson

A lot of misinformation has followed the Prime Minister's decision to hold an inquiry into family law reform, including the concept of rebuttable joint custody. The Liberal member for Sturt, Christopher Pyne, wrote in The Advertiser last Friday, that the >...More

In the Best Interest of the Children...

By Wendy McElroy

A new legal term is creating debate across North America: the "rebuttable presumption of joint custody." It means family courts should presume that divorcing parents will equally share the legal and physical custody of children unless there is compelling >...More

Matilda Bawden - President Shared Parenting Council of Australia

Dads On The Air - Monday, 28th April 2003

By Sydney 2GLF FM 89.3 9am-12.00

The creation of the Shared Parenting Council of Australia, a loose alliance of over 20 family law and fathers groups, has been a significant step forward for the many people campaigning for family law reform.

Here's some of President Matil >...More

Children of Divorce Fight Stereotypes

Brigham Young University NewsNet - Friday, 4th April 2003

By Laura Cantera

Twenty-year-old Emily Johnson recognizes the stigma associated with children of divorce, and said she thinks people often wonder how well she can handle relationships and whether she's a stable person.

"When I tell people my parents are di >...More

Study sees Joint Custody as Disincentive to Divorce

CNN News - Friday, 24th September 1999

By http://cnn.com/US/9909/24/fathers.rights/

WASHINGTON (CNN) --

In the past, when a mother and father were divorced, the kids went with Mom, and Dad went out the door. But in the 1990s, roles aren't so restricted.

An increase in courts granting joint custody, where m >...More

Maternal Gatekeeping

Journal of Marriage and the Family - Tuesday, 6th April 1999

By BYU Family Studies Center

Premier Family Journal Publishes First Study to Define and Document
"Maternal Gatekeeping"

PROVO, UT-April 6, 1999-With dual-income families now the norm, why are many women still carrying the majority of the responsibility for house >...More