MELINDA Stratton is a woman on the run. In April last year, she fled Australia with her four-year-old son, Andrew, to avoid a custody hearing in the Family Court. In December, her husband, NSW deput

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A TASMANIAN father described in court as a paedophile has been given regular access to his young daughters, provided his mother - their grandmother - never takes her eyes off them. The Australian rep

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It seems to never end. The ongong attacks by "mothers" and the male haters like the leader of the breastfeeding mothers asscociation continually rage against any attempt when Father try to get some, a

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Caroline Overington, journalist for the Australian newspaper and a mother with an alleged on-again off-again on-again marriage, is at it again with Titles to her articles that mis-represent the facts

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THE Family Court has ordered a six-year-old girl to live with her father, despite evidence she was forced to pose for pornographic photographs while staying with him on a contact visit. Girl abused

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A WOMAN who allegedly drowned her two young children in a bath was trying to bring them home to Australia. Caroline Overington From: The Australian February 04, 2010 Dad scared of losing childr

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HIS greatest fear was that his estranged wife would take his children from their home in a tiny, snowy town in Canada, and run away to Australia. Caroline Overington From: The Australian February

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A WOMAN who allegedly drowned her two young children in a bath was trying to bring them home to Australia. Caroline Overington From: The Australian February 04, 2010The dad's greatest fear was hi

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THE shared parenting law introduced by the Howard government has resulted in more children spending time with both parents after divorce, but the numbers who do so are minuscule and most children stil

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MEN'S rights groups will fight any planned rollback of the shared parenting laws, saying reports released yesterday prove an overwhelming majority of Australians support the right of children to know

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A MAJORITY of family court lawyers believe shared parenting laws introduced by the Howard government in 2006 favour fathers over mothers and parents over children. Caroline Overington From: The Au

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EDWARD Dabrowski is the executive director of the Shared Parenting Council. He's based in Western Australia, where he works for BHP. He has two adolescent children and he's in a shared care arrangemen

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A REPORT commissioned by the Rudd government recommends major changes to the controversial shared parenting law introduced by former prime minister John Howard, saying it has put women and children at

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Separated fathers are not entitled to a 50-50 time split with their children, and legislation introduced by the Howard government in 2006 should be amended to make that clear, a report says. Herald Su

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SEPARATED fathers are not entitled to a 50-50 time split with their children, and legislation introduced by the Howard government in 2006 should be amended to make that clear. Caroline Overington

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One of the most contentious areas of the law has been the way it has been interpreted in cases where the children are under the age of two. Caroline Overington From: The Australian January 13, 20

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WHEN about 40 per cent of Australian marriages end in divorce, it is not feasible to entertain any return to past practice on custody arrangements, under which women were perceived to have the first c

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Most people on the street would be quite familiar by now with an avalanche of newspaper articles over the past year condemning Australia's shared care laws and suggesting that they put Australia's chi

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THE Rudd government has been urged to replace shared parenting laws with a model similar to that of Canada, where shared parenting after divorce is not necessarily considered in the best interests of

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IF you are a separated parent, and your children are living in a shared-care arrangement with your former spouse, who should pay for their school uniforms? Caroline Overington | October 20, 2009 Wh

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THE Family Court has removed a five-year-old boy from the care of his mother because she is living with a man whose own child, a daughter, died of neglect in a house with an "atrocious standard of hyg

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THE Rudd government is planning to roll back the controversial shared parenting law passed in the final term of the Howard government, enraging men's groups, which say the laws have finally given them

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THE Rudd government plans to roll back the Howard government's controversial shared parenting law, enraging men's groups. Caroline Overington October 19, 2009 The groups say the law, passed in the fi

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THE Family Court rarely makes orders preventing a parent from seeing their children, even in cases where there is a history of violence. Caroline Overington | October 05, 2009 That is the conclusio

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THE Family Court has warned separated parents that they are required to hand over children for access visits, whether the children want to go or not. While parents don't have to "physically drag" the

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A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy has been living one month in Dubai, one month in Sydney and back again, in a roundabout arrangement because his parents cannot come to an agreement on custody. Toddler flies 15

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Although nothing new to those involved in men's health in this country , I am writing to highlight another example of contempt and disinterest by key mainstream journalists in writing about the distre

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