Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

Family Units

Carol Sarler wrote a piece in The Times yesterday in which she questions the proposition that children need a father. She is clearly supportive of non-traditional family units, including same-sex two parent couples and rightly so. The thrust of what she says is: that the modern notion of the role of a father is just that – [...]

I HATE MEN (allegedly)

Actually I quite like them. They are very useful. I am married to one and he has been put to work cleaning the house as I type…But I have discovered that these men types are not all as loveable as him upstairs: I came across a rather unpleasant cluster of websites today whose focus is [...]

Enforcement of Contact Orders – let it be shouted out from the roof-tops

The privacy of the family justice system makes it difficult for the public to get a good idea about what steps the courts are prepared to take in order to ensure that a child has a relationship with both parents. Those sources which are most critical of the ‘secret family justice system’ often suggest that the courts [...]

Australian Shared Parenting

Interesting post on Family Lore about how the Aussies are doing it…

let the discussion commence – or be postponed at any rate…

I seem to have generated a certain amount of interest from supporters of F4J and related organisations who have adopted a scattergun approach to commenting on various of the entries in this blog. It’s quite overtaken my bank holiday weekend, but I suppose its self inflicted – some people can’t resist the bait (myself included). [...]

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