This "Father's 4 Justice" thing ( Palace balcony protester removed - ta to BBC News) is beginning to worry me. The group's aim is to highlight the plight of fathers denied access to their children, and they've tried to do so by a series of protests involving men dressed as superheroes climbing up structures including cranes, the London Eye and now Buckingham Palace. I may be missing something here, but it seems to me that it's a strange way to demonstrate your fitness to share the childcaring duties. Just imagine the access hearing:
"Judge: So Mr X, you're applying for increased access to your child are you?
Mr X: That's right, your honour.
Judge: And you believe you're a careful and responsible parent who will always put your child's interests first, do you?
Mr X: Got it in one, your Honour.
Judge: And you demonstrate this by?
Mr X: Dressing up as cartoon heroes and scaling famous buildings.
Judge: Say no more! I can't imagine how any court in the land could possibly conclude you aren't the ideal person to have a role in child-caring duties. I'd have thought climbing tall buildings dressed as a superhero is just the sort of skill that any young person should expect their parent to be able to pass on to them. I hereby award you access to your child, beginning from this Thursday.
Mr X: Sorry, your Honour, does it have to be Thursday? Only I'm supposed to be abseiling down The Angel of the North dressed as Wonder Woman."
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Your logic is flawed - this is a circular argument. Had these men been granted reasonable access to their children in the first place, as I'm sure you would agree should happen in any civilised society, they would not have to raise the profile of their cause by taking part in such outlandish (yet effective) stunts.
There is a clear double standard here - if women were being denied access to their children by the fathers there would be an outcry; yet the same society that makes punitive legislation (e.g the CSA) against what it perceives as feckless fathers, denies those same people the right to see their children.
Speaking frankly (and this is an entirely personal opionon), I think it is this kind of post-feminist ill-informed thinking that has led to a lack of civic responsibility amongst the general populace. The state gives one group of people many rights and few responsibilities, then takes away the rights and adds obligations to another section of society.
Get to know one of these fathers and then make your mind up.
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