Courts leash net-love mums
Posted by Brigid Delane, MSN on October 29th, 2009 | Category: Brigid Delaney Relocation
The explosion in popularity of internet dating has caused a new crisis
among estranged fathers, a national men's rights group has told ninemsn.
NineMSN
29 October 2009
Courts leash net-love mums
By Brigid Delaney, ninemsn
The explosion in popularity of internet dating has caused a new crisis
among estranged fathers, a national men's rights group has told ninemsn.
Men's Rights Agency director Sue Price said the service has had "an awful
lot" of complaints about internet dating from fathers.
"Mother wants to go off in the wild blue yonder with someone they hardly
know and take the children interstate, and sometimes overseas," she said.
Ms Price estimates around 20 percent of men who contact the service have an
internet-dating related problem, usually when the mother of their children
wants to leave the area and relocate to meet with an internet lover.
"One of the greatest problems in Australia, particularly with our
distances, [is] mothers in particular seem to think they can move without
agreement - they don't seem to understand that by moving away they are
breaking the bond or relationship with the father," Ms Price said.
She said sometimes the fathers did follow their estranged partners, but
away from family and support networks, "it isn't always successful for them".
Men's Rights Agency welcomed a decision by the family law division of the
Federal Magistrates Court, sitting in Newcastle, which found that under
shared parenting laws a child was entitled to stay close to their father.
In that case, the mother of a three-year-old girl met a new lover on the
internet and sought the court's permission to move from Sydney to
Queensland, The Australian reported.
The father of the child protested the move, saying it would seriously
disrupt his relationship with the child.
The mother at the centre of the case met her younger 25-year-old lover on
the internet.
Her age was not revealed in court, but she has a 10-year-old son from a
different relationship.
The decision has been viewed as a win for fathers, who said that old
custody laws enabled many mothers to move away after divorce, destroying
relationships between children and fathers.
Shared parenting laws introduced by the Howard government in 2006 have made
relocating more difficult for mothers.
Ms Price said women shouldn't be stopped from finding new love and
relocating to start relationships, but she said children should not be
"dragged along".
Instead the children should stay in the same area and be cared for by the
father, she said.
"Mum can go off and have a relationship or fling if they want - but leave
the care to the father who is offering stable home life."
As well as issues arising from internet dating, Ms Price said the Men's
Right Agency received many calls from fathers worried about their partner's
internet addiction, which she said led to neglect of their children.
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