Supervised Contact is a form of domestic abuse.

Contact centres arent ideal - I dont think anyone thinks that they are, but they do have their place for extreme circumstances.

I entirely agree that they are not to be used by a RP for no reason, or to inflict hurt or distress on the NRP - however it is possible to increase contact once its been occuring, it just means playing the "court game" for a while.

My partner would have given his right arm for the offer of a contact centre between October last year and April of this year, when he was forbidden from seeing his child. He now has a full contact order - alternate weekends, half of holidays and special occasions - it was worth the battle.

You may well feel that the use of these centres for NRP who have done nothing to deserve it is not fair, however walking away and refusing to engage in it leaves children without a parent and I think thats a drastic decision to make

take care

A drastic action to take such as refusing to sit at the back of the bus?

It is time that people came to see this as another manifestation of domestic abuse.

It is about time that we did away with this gender discrimination which men have been conditioned to accept by the legal profession as a normal occurrence.

Say NO to Court Sanctioned Child Abuse

James,
The truth will out and anger will not help your case. Khan was being supportive

James,

In an earlier post, you said you were offered supervised contact to be held with friends/family. If this is the case, couldn''t you have contact at your parents house with your parents ''supervising''?

Please think this through before refusing the contact offered. Yes, it''s not what you want, and it''s far from ideal, and certainly seems unjustified. But if you continue to refuse, you could establish a very dangerous status quo.

A dangerous status quo could be established by a court system that claims to act in the "Best interests of the children"

How is this possible that any court can sanction a situation that amounts to child abuse?

I was just trying to help, and point out a fact.

Supervised contact is better than no contact.

You have no rights to contact - Your children do.

James,

How do you propose to see the kids then?
Or will you never see them again?
Just curious?

HRH