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These proposals were formulated at the
request of Jim Bailey, who has posted them on the page http://www.handsonequalparent.org.nz/34537.html
. He has placed above them the introductory line:
"**NZ-FATHERS-Coalition** will get off yours lawns WHEN:"
Those are his words, not mine. I distance myself
from the tactics of that coalition with regard to individual lawyers
and judges.
- Set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry into societal trends since
the introduction of no-fault divorce and separation. This should include
trends such as the divorce-rate, separation-rate, truancy, youth and
adult crime, youth and adult suicide, youth and adult drug use, youth
and adult prostitution, teen pregnancies, child abuse, the statistical
characteristics of the children of intact, natural-parent, two-parent
families, as opposed to children of solo-parents and children with
step-parents, and any links between the Maori rate of intact, natural-parent,
two-parent families and the Maori crime rate.
- Write a White Paper on the Welfare of the Child and the Best Interests
of the Child, with respect to how reasonable, practical and possible
it is for a Family Court to make decisions based on these principles
-- especially in view of the implicit requirement to foresee future
occurrences.
- Write a White Paper on the Human Rights of parents in relation to
the care of children after separation and divorce.
- Write a White Paper on the possibility of linking the care of children
to child support. This might involve placing responsibility for child-support
enforcement in the hands of the same institution that administers
parental care of children, so that the injustice is avoided where
a liable parent has little access to their child. Custodial parents
who move away from the non-custodial parent should be penalised in
relation to child support payments, because they are depriving the
liable parent of easy access. This should also investigate ways of
ensuring that child support payments are spent on the child, rather
than on the custodial parent's lifestyle.
- Write a White Paper on ways to outlaw implicit, domestic violence-related,
anti-male hate-speech in the media -- such as references to "violence
against women", to the exclusion of violence against men. This
creates a hysterical and totalitarian atmosphere which dominates the
public discussion of the serious issue of domestic violence.
- Draw together the outputs from the above five processes into a Bill
reforming the relevant areas of Family Law, including Child Support
law. N.B. It might be possible to conflate all these six processes
into one Royal Commission of Inquiry, or to deal with them other than
through White Papers.
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