Well this post is in response to so much I have experienced personally as a mother denied access to my youngest son and also trying to support the two children who live with me, one a 17 year girl making her way in life and one a 20 "boy" with Downs Syndrome.
There are many on here both men and woman who have had traumatic problems as a result of divorce and the financial implications of that.
I am sort of wondering whether it would not be more apt for Families Need Fathers to be renamed as Children need Parents.
The reason is when an adult relationship breaks down where possible the best solution is a
Clean Break and for neither party to have to look after the other spouse either as a type of legally sugar Daddy or sugar Woman.
There is always a duty of care to the children.
The recent post about Children being hit by a wooden spoon really highlights that - that a decent father and a decent step parent are doing their best in duty of care without, it appears to me, completely excluding the mother from her responsibilities but mosting the childrens rights to access not only to decent and safe parenting but also access to both their birth parents.
This is important to me as although all our three children were abused by their father (and the eldest very seriously so I do not ever let him go there anymore - not because the NSPCC told me I could be charged with child abuse if I let it but because I believe I am a decent and caring parent and in any case my son doesn''t want contact he is terrified not only of his ex-father but also the step mother).
I suppose what I am trying to say is it is not families that need fathers (family life breaks down and then a husband leaves - the husband is not a father to the wife - both should be grown ups). It also works the other way round.
Well, its a start don''t know what others think.