The first part is headed “Clueless dads aren’t that funny”. The point which is being made is that the popular portrayal of men as idiots is oppressive to women because it encourages men to be useless.

The second part is headed “An American cat in a Wheelie Bin”. Which includes the reference to thirty three “humans” trapped in a Chilean Mine with the prospect of rescue by Christmas if they survive that long.

No, there is no way in the world, after the foregoing nonsense this  female journalist can bring herself to say thirty three “MEN”.

Anyway, when they get rescued at least the rubbish will get put out!

Judges, in my experience, have refused to allow mention of the words “Parental Alienation Syndrome” in their courts. I expect this is a thing of the past following this case. They will not be able to deny it any more.

The commentary is worth analysing as it demonstrates what non-custodial parents are up against and the control that custodial parents have.

“As a result of the failure to secure a normal relationship with the father and the high level of parental conflict (the child) had suffered emotional harm.”

The child, now twelve, refused to speak to the father and put his hands over his ears during contact with the father. He says he may consider seeing his father after his GCSEs.

Let’s apportion blame where it is due – seeing as the court found that the father was blameless. Call this child emotionally distressed if you want, which is what he undoubtedly is. More significantly, this is one spoilt child and one mother who has caused serious long term problems yet untold. Credit to the father; I find it extraordinary that he didn’t walk away a long time ago; another “dead beat dad”!

While I think about it, have a look at what the mainstream family law bloggers find funny:

http://www.familylore.co.uk/2010/08/now-that-is-tasteful-tasty.html

Is it just me, or is the first one true to life and the second one is just sick?

If you are a man confronted with a woman who shows the kinds of behaviours mentioned below, take a look at the link above:

violence, verbal abuse, lack of responsibility, blaming you for her unhappiness, mood swings.

“But your temper’s just as bad as mine is cos you’re the same as me.”

Not simply an issue of male perpetrators and female victims.

You do not need to read the case, I will tell you about it. It concerns a boy who is now twelve years old. The mother and father separated before the boy was born and  the father went to court and obtained a contact order. The contact broke down four years ago.

In January 2010 the court made an order that the boy (who is, as I have said, now twelve) should go to live with the father even though he did not want to, because the mother failed to promote any relationship between the boy and his father. Efforts to make the mother comply with the order between January and March 2010 failed and the father gave up on the case.

The main thing that is significant about the case is that it is the first time, as far as I am aware, that “Parental Alienation Syndrome” has been recognised by the English Courts as a reality.

What is not reported about this case is the cost. The court proceedings took place over eleven years.

My own inclination is to suggest that nearly all fathers confronted with such obstacles placed in the way of seeing their child throw in the towel. If my own children, by the age of 12 were so spoilt as this I would have walked away. The fact is that the majority of fathers lose contact with their children upon separation from the child’s mother – it is not to do with being a “dead beat dad”, it is to do with the obstacles placed in the way by mothers.

My personal observation is that many men lose contact with their children when the relationship with the mother breaks down. They consider that it is worthless trying to pursue contact – so much so that it becomes accepted that children grow up without fathers.

I think this kind of thing stores up problems for children’s futures.

I can hardly figure out the weirdness of this report. Two people are the victims of a stabbing and are both in critical condition; a 12 year old girl and her mother aged “between 30 and 40″. The Police are “not looking for anyone else in connection with the stabbings”.

I expect a man will be to blame. If so it will be the only way this incident is included in the domestic violence statistics.

I frequently get enquiries from people asking if I do legal aid work. The answer is that I don’t. I ask them how many solicitors they have tried and they usually tell me they have tried many solicitors but none can offer them an appointment for two to four weeks.

I took a decision a few years back not to do legal aid work. I am not totally opposed to legal aid. I think it should be available for criminal cases and public law (cases against social services).

The situation is not about to get better because the number of solicitors firms providing legal aid work is about to drop by nearly half.

My position is this:  If you phone me up or email me with a good case and if you are eligible for legal aid I will take your case on and I will charge you £65 per hour inclusive of VAT. You will have no paperwork to fill in and no bureaucracy to deal with and I will start work straight away. I am especially willing to help people in Manchester, Rochdale, Burnley, Lancashire and West Yorkshire areas.

I cannot do this for everyone. If you are not eligible for legal aid  I will charge you £125 per hour inclusive of VAT and I will not take on any cases if I don’t like them.

Women kill men only about one third as much as men kill women in domestic violence situations. (If you count the number of suicides by men in abusive relationships and the number of men killed by their former partners’ new boyfriends, more men die than women as a result of domestic violence.)

You need to read the details but in brief, Samantha Brown and her boyfriend, Dean Darvil went to the home of Samatha’s sister Toni along with another woman. When Dean accused Samantha of having sex with the other woman Samantha stabbed Dean in the Groin and he bled to death over the next few hours. His life would have been saved but Samantha refused to let Toni call for an ambulance.

It is interesting that Samantha (age 20!) was sentenced to 5 years in a Young Offenders Institution. Toni got 4 years in prison.

Yes, that’s right – 5 years in a young offenders institution and 4 years in prison for the 20 and 25 year old respectively!

Men’s lives are more disposable than those of women. They die from violent incidents at vastly greater rates than women do, although violence against women incites more outrage. (In particular, as parents, men are treated of lesser importance than women.)

If men complain they are told “don’t be a baby” and to “be a man”. Men are considered to be “domineering” or “scary” if they confront a woman about her spending habits or sexual promiscuity. If they just take abuse it is because they “can’t get laid” elsewhere.

I suspect that unless some of us speak out about it women will murder men with increasing impunity in future.

I am supportive of men’s and fathers’ rights, which is something I have tried to express in some of the things I write.

A number of people have contacted me to say to say they are distrusting of the idea that any solicitor could work on the part of men under what they see as a corrupt system. Fathers4Justice, for example, discourage fathers from using a solicitor at all. I have also been contacted by someone who considers family law and those who practice it to be “Satanic” and I can promise that person that I took your point seriously and I read up on the things you emailed me and I thought about them for the past two weeks.