The Rights Of Man

WILL NEW CONTACT ORDER PUNISHMENTS ACTUALLY BE WORTH THE PAPER?

Today, could be a red letter day for all those men who find that their lawful contact with their children is being stopped by recalcitrant ex-wife.

As reported here (Telegraph):-

"Mothers...will be hit with tough punishments for breaking contact orders handed down by family courts. They can be sentenced to up to 100 hours of unpaid work in the community for breaking the orders, with the penalty doubling to 200 hours and a fine if they fail to abide by the punishment.

In addition, parents can be forced to attend therapy sessions and parenting lessons in the terms of the contact orders.

The new rules come into effect from Monday in provisions of the Children and Adoption Act 2006 that aim to strengthen the power of the authorities to deal with parents who block contact."

The biggest single cause for groups such as (Real) Fathers For Justice et al has been that the judges and courts have simply refused to enforce the contact orders that have been handed down. Aided and abetted by weak enforcement, CAFCASS officers who nearly always side with the mother, a legion of mothers have been successful in stopping their children from seeing their father.

The isue here though, is that whilst these will help, it is likely that onlyy in the most extreme cases will they be used. This is because the 'special pleaders' of the family law industry (lawyers, social services, CAFCASS etc) will tell judges looking to punish mothers that it will do more damage to the children. It means they will be used sparingly and will not be the norm so the likelihood is that recalcitrant mothers will continue to get away with it.

For evidence, the quote in the Telegraph article, says:-  

But others claim the new sanctions will criminalise mothers and fathers unnecessarily, and point out that single parents will struggle to find the time to attend courses as well as meeting the costs, which could reach £2,500.

Of course, if all mothers actually abided by the contact orders, then none would fall foul of the new punishments, would they!!

EQUALITIES BILL OPENS UP NEW FRONT IN ATTACK ON MEN

As was feared, in the streamlined package of Bills announced in Wednesday's Queen's Speech, Harriet Harman's Equalities Bill made the cut. This will be a disaster for men and will embed anti-male legislation into the establishment even if the Government loses the next Election.

The Bill (link) which has been covered here before (link) will lump all discrimination legislation together into one Act.

However, it introduces new areas.

(1) Positive Action - If a man and a woman have equal skill, an employer who believes one gender is under-represented will be able to give a woman, for example, the job if the employer thinks they have too many men. Because of the criticism made when the Bill was announced that this would lead to widespread discrimination against men, the Government have laughably tried to say that it will allow head-teachers to pick male teaching applicants above female ones.

As stated in the previous post about this Bill (see above), this is a laughable sop.

We know, because of the previous tone of Harman et al and the rest of the anti-male establishment when the Bill wasfirst announced. It will be used to systematically discriminate against men when used in practice. This will especially be the case when it comes to the public sector and will be used to allow women to bypass men in the management chain because that is where they are supposedly under-represented.

With so many boys leaving school uneducated, the last thing they need is another brick wall placed in front of them solely because of their gender. Trevor Phillips (Equalities Commission Chairman) previously raised this as an issue (link) as did academic Dr Catherine Hakim (link).

(2) Gender Pay Gap/Equal Pay Audits - As covered extensively (link), this is a ruse to attack men, nothing more, nothing less. There is no proof that a woman doing the same job, with the same talent, same experience, making the same profit at the same company gets paid less than a man. Research shows that single women get paid more than single men!

(3) Extension of All Women Short lists/Gender Lists For The Next Five Elections - Parliament is holding a Speakers Conference on how to get more women into Parliament and the political parties will continue to be allowed to 'positively discriminate' against men in selecting candidates for elections (link). This is a clear denial of the political franchise to men and stops men from representing their community and country solely on the basis of the gender.

This Bill is another nail in the coffin of the British male.

It will go through because too many Parliamentarians are supine in the face of the anti-male feminist onslaught to dare resist it.

Daily Mail debate

THREE REAL-LIFE CASES OF DOMESTIC ABUSE AGAINST MEN

Whenever anyone hears claims that domestic violence and domestic abuse does not occur against men or is not that serious, then these, amongst many cases should be sent to the non-believer.

News Shopper

Bury Free Press

Metro

The Bury one is disturbing because the sentence is an absolute joke. Can you imagine the outcry if it was a man who had thrown a knife at a woman for not cleaning the kitchen properly!

PLIGHT OF SCOTTISH MALE DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIMS REVEALED

Figures (press release and report) released by the Scottish Government revealed that since the turn of the century there has been a 130% increase in the number of men being victims of domestic abuse in Scotland. In 2000-01, there were 2,873 incidents reported to the police rising to 6,753 in 2007-08.

Male victims now make up 12% of all reported victims, though of course, there will be a staggering amount of under-reporting because many male victims don't go to the police and if they do, of course many are not believed. As 40% of victims, according to the British Crime Survey (an anonymous survey) are men it shows the level of under-reporting.

The scandal which has been reported on this site (link and link) is that the Alex Salmond and his Scottish Government steadfastly refuse to do anything about it and not one penny spent in Scotland for domestic violence victims is spent on men. In fact, Salmond and the Scottish Government seem quite pleased with themselves about it.

This is the level of cynicism and antipathy there is about men in Scotland and the nation therefore remains a hotbed of anti-male activity. They can no longer justify excluding men if they believe in equality.

The report was well covered in many areas including an interview on Scottish TV:-

Scottish TV, BBC, Aberdeen Press and Journal, Times

There were also reports in papers like the Scotsman and the Dundee Courier but they disgracefully ignored the male issue so are not deemed worthy of a link.