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July 2009

Fathers and Families: Why do they both need each other?

Posted by Warwick Marsh on July 30th, 2009 | Category:  fatherhood  Parliament speech 

Please attend this important function. If we don't participate in these events, we will have little say in our children's future. Greg Donnelly MLC who is the Labor whip in the upper house in the N

Dads not the Demons

Posted by Prof Micheal Woods, University of Western Sydney on July 30th, 2009 | Category:  Child abuse  Domestic Violence  Family abuse  misrepresentation in the media  mother abusing child  mother murdered child  Press Release 

Dads not the Demons Recent data from the Department of Child Protection in Western Australia has debunked a common misconception about fathers and violence. The data shows that natural mothers are f

Father’s battle for 50-50 custody long and expensive

Posted by Caroline Overington on July 30th, 2009 | Category:  child custody  shared care  Shared Parental Responsibility 

The Australian 25 July 2009 Father's battle for 50-50 custody long and expensive By Caroline Overington Michael B is one of a small number of Australian fathers who has a 50-50 shared parenting arra

Make it harder to divorce, says Tony Abbott

Posted by Sys Admin on July 12th, 2009 | Category:  Divorce  fault-based divorce 

LIBERAL Party frontbencher Tony Abbott wants laws toughened up to make divorce harder. The opposition families and Aboriginal affairs spokesman has called for a return to the fault-based system of di

Robin Hood for divorced women

Posted by Virginia Graham on July 2nd, 2009 | Category:  Divorce 

You hear the same old story trumped out a lot, the woman who was happily married to a well-off man in a wealthy suburb, has three young children then all of a sudden, he moves out. He is in love