The government is splitting our families
Added: (Mon Nov 02 2009)
Pressbox (Press Release) -
The one sided interpretation of British family law favoring one parent over another is dividing families and causing more and more children to seek that belonging feeling from street gangs which can be the university of crime.
This biased interpretation that one parent gets custody of the children with the full weight of the law behind them. The other parent and grandparents are unjustly cut out of the children’s lives which leaves children wondering what they have done and why their dad and grandparents are not coming to see them anymore.
Banning orders are very easily obtained and when the absent parent or grandparents do get contact orders they are being flouted by a defiant parent who’s attitude is that to enforce the order will have a bad effect on the children..
It is understandable why judges shy away from awarding contact orders for when flouting of their order comes back to their court the flouting parent is laughing up their sleeves, knowing they are getting away with it.
The governments are failing to address this problem of keeping families together and they alone are responsible for the rise in crime from street gangs which we all know are causing havoc throughout our cities. Older folk are afraid to open their door or go out at night. You drive your children to clubs and parties for fear that they will fall foul of these gangs. The streets are just not safe anymore.
We need a government that makes “Bringing Families Together” (Our Motto) to be ‘Top Of The Pops’ and to create policies that encourage families to have two parents and the extended family in bringing up children.
Jimmy Deuchars
Grandparents Apart UK
22 Alness crescent
Glasgow G52 1PJ
0141 882 5658
http://www.grandparentsapart.co.uk