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Main Forums => Father's Issues => Topic started by: Bolivar on Dec 23, 2004, 10:50:33 AM
Change is taking place.
Hot off the press from the Christian Science Monitor:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1223/p04s01-woeu.html
...... the campaign (set to be repeated in the US as the group launches in New York next month) has worked.
Suddenly, there seems to be greater acceptance that troubled youngsters are often the product of broken homes. The opposition Conservatives are already proposing the notion of shared parenting, whereby custody would be split, a practice more common in New Zealand, Australia, and the US.
"Conservatives believe that there should be a strong legal presumption in favor of both parents having equal rights in the upbringing of their children," said leader Michael Howard recently.