Which Party Will Win the Parents’ Vote?
With the devastating social effects of fatherless children now apparent there are some 4 million “non-custodial” parents (to adopt an oxymoron) having lost their children to divorce and separation ready to vote for the party that fights this destructive injustice.

This massive voting bloc (about 10% are mothers) roughly doubles if one adds second wives, whose families are devastated by the shake-down of their husbands, and grandparents, who are cut off from their grandchildren and often forced to take in penurious sons.

Yet Conservative politicians pander to feminist votes they can never win with demagoguery against “deadbeat dads,” “domestic violence,” and other questionable evils on which the public has never demanded any government intervention or expenditure. The beneficiaries are left loyalists: lawyers, judges, social workers, psychotherapists, single mothers who will never vote conservative

Wake up LNP – opportunity is riot in your face. Every recent election has seen the specter of a new and supposedly decisive voting bloc (soccer moms, NASCAR dads). This is more than an emerging demographic, however; it is a political pressure cooker that has been building over decades by an extremist ideology that has used fear, hysteria, and emotional blackmail to build a bureaucratic machinery of Soviet proportions to oppress millions and intimidate opposition. The courage to challenge this machine will bring a windfall for Conservatives that could influence elections for years to come.

Howard’s weak shared parenting reform reduced litigated divorced by 22%. The Left needs more divorce for unmarried/divorced female votes (70% vote for welfare protection of the Big Brother party) and re-election funding from a multi-billion dollar divorce/family violence industry. Decimating the traditional conservative voting powerbase of working family & redistributing that wealth to it's welfare dependent mothers is good socialist politics

However, throwing out the baby's father with the alleged “family violence” bathwater is neither prevention nor protection. 80% of child abuse occurs in single parent homes which will unavoidable increase with this bill. More than 50% of first time family violence “assault” occurs after separation which this bill encourages.

Hysterical unsubstantiated propaganda about family violence is destroying families, endangering children, and making criminals of innocent parents. It’s time to listening to those self-interest groups paid to cry “family violence ” wolf and stop spending any more taxpayers’ money to promote family dissolution and fatherless children that causes a self-perpetuating cycle of family violence.

The London riots demand the role and rights of fathers must be respected equally with those of mothers, and for equal shared parenting laws to discourage the use of children as weapons.

Seldom does public policy stand in such direct defiance of undisputed truths, to the point where the cause of the problem — separating children from their fathers — is presented as the solution, and the solution — allowing children to grow up with their fathers — is depicted as the problem. If you want to encourage child abuse, remove the fathers.

Anti:>> What's driving this massively gender-correlated shift in opinion? Is it just the woeful performance that the ALP has put in, or is it deeper?<<

Men are smarter than women.

sonofgloin,

Absolutely..... there's a rumour going round to that effect.

All the women who inhabit OLO have been patiently waiting for years in the hope that we'll see the first evidence here on the forum (no such luck up till now, but we live in hope : )

Howard Beale

Unfortunately many on the conservative side are willing to be emasculated in order to get to power also. Even though the Howard Government was 500% more competent than the current Government he did little to stop the erosion of the family unit. THankfully he enshrined a clear unpeverted defintion of marriage.

What we learn from Politics is that personal belief greatly affects public performance. Ms Gillard's dismal performance confirms this. Bob's Browm and the Greens obsession with destroying the natural family is another example of this. They see schools as the place to indoctrinate kids with their total lack of morals. Unfortunately good men and women in Politics need to stand against the tide of evil. Men like Abbott and Barnaby Joyce do give a glimmer of hope. They need to distant themselves from the godless, corrupt UN which has managed to stuff Europe and now wants to stuff the rest of the world.

Good onya Poirot, well said and most posts prove you right.
Now if we looked at the uniformed bigotry, men hands down in this one.
SOG mate is it not clear Gillard has no talent, acts like a bad mother in law, and its nothing to do with sex.
Your mate Abbott acts just as silly and like some wives can only say no!