Avoca Beach Picture Theatre Coasties 2012 Winne Every 2nd Weekend Every father who is separated from his children understands the meaning of the term “Every 2nd Weekend”. The ‘every 2nd weekend’ template was the standard contact a newly separated father could expect to have with his children. The devastation in firstly, losing one’s wife/partner and then
Just as well The Age and the ABC don’t give oxygen to people who seek attention by slagging off….. Catherine Deveny in The Sunday Age, Sunday: I REMEMBER when I was about 14 slagging off some poor girl with my classmates … I am no stranger to trolls. They try to get
To celebrate this Father’s Day, White Ribbon engages in a spot of good old man- and dad-bashing http://www.menshealthaustralia.net/content/to-celebrate-this-fathers-day-white-ribbon-engages-in-a-spot.html If you want to enjoy this Father’s Day and celebrate being a Dad, or indeed celebrate your own father, it might be wise not to read the latest ‘paper’ from the White Ribbon Research Series titled Fathers, Fathering
http://www.couriermail.com.au/spike/columnists/lets-hear-it-for-dad-hes-the-man/story-fn8fquew-1226463025067 Fathers will be able to embrace quality time with their children.Source: National Features DEADBEAT dads has a certain ring to it, probably because we’ve heard it so often. But for every father who is at best useless and at worst destructive in the lives of their children, there are others who are
IS there a word for it? I can’t think of one. The label “maternal” is fenced off by women, exclusively, proudly; “paternal” – well, feminism has stained its meaning, it’s veered into something hegemonic, domineering, controlling, hardened, a word a lot of females flinch from by instinct. But how to describe what I see all
Male victims of family violence face gap in services and need special consideration: NSW Government report The NSW Government Legislative Council’s Standing Committee on Social Issues this week released their report on domestic violence trends and issues in NSW: the first ever to acknowledge the existence, needs, barriers to reporting and barriers to accessing support faced
FORGET the socks, ties, DVDs and other trinkets you might be thinking of picking up for Father’s Day. This year, give dad what he really wants – time with the family. A study called The New Dad from Converge International and Boston College Centre for Work and Family says Australian dads are looking to shift
The majority of Australian children in state care are there because of violent family separations, Queensland’s child safety inquiry has heard. One in four children in Australia witness violence against their mother or stepmother, the inquiry’s Commissioner Tim Carmody said on Monday. He also said 90 per cent of Family Court matters involve violent separations.
This cartoon says it all. It didn’t take Julia Gillard long to play the victim card ….first she was “young and naive” and now all these “misogynists and and nut jobs on the internet” are attacking her. Poor Julia! Just look how the sisterhood has rallied round to protect her. Does she deserve your sympathy? Not in my opinion.
Recently, we have seen the effects of many years lobbying by women’s groups and academics/researchers in the passage of the Family Law (Family Violence) Act 2010. This Act has effectively ‘rolled-back’ the shared-parenting gains of 2006 by broadening the definition of domestic violence so it now means anything one wants it to mean; removing penalties for false allegations
