Peterson: <"Or do you prefer to play in the gutter with Pynchme?">

I doubt you upset CJ except re: your spelling boo boos.

What do you mean "in the gutter" ?

Hi All

I am somewhat disconcerted at some of the replies.
When I posted I mentioned how we as a socieity have failed to protect our children etc.

I was surprised that no one responded to the failure of child protection or offered an alternative solution that would protect them.
Most of the comments related to whether the male or the female received favoured responses.

Personally I am not greatly concerned about the parents. I accept the various propositions that some should not become parents but reality is that it happens leaving the children the victims.
I also accept that sometimes partners grow apart. that is a fact.
So why not accept reality and agree that the relationship is finished and move on, each working towards the interests and welfare of your children.

I believe the law needs changing or amending so that the children are protected, treated with respect and also legally acknowledged as individuals instead of property.
To reiterate I believe in the Rights of each parent to have access to their children but not when it means children suffer as a result.

The 50/50 Shared Parenting rule is an archaic throwback to Solomon's type of reasoning. The only decision to be made is How would you like the children to be split? - Horizontal slicing or Vertical Slicing or perhaps even diagonally. What is happening as a result of this stupid kind of thinking is that children's hearts are being metaphorically divided in these ways because each parent must have their piece of the child ~ after all, it is their right under the FLA. But of course, it is all in the children's best interests to be divided up in this way along with the house, money, cars, record collection, ornaments, and all the other goods and chattels.
The rest of the FLA is just an exercise in restoring the Victorian position of the omnipotent, omniscient and tyrannical father. Some people are so very obviously still stuck in Victorian times and it was such thinking that led to this unworkable mess of legislation which claims to be concerned about the `Family'.

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Antiseptic ~ Oh boy that rattled your cage Old Buddy!. Don't like a mirror being held up for you to see yourself. I see you're still trailing your knuckles on the ground. Long live the Neanderthals eh!. Good on yer.

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