Minister: Fathers Should Build Bonds With Kids In Case of Breakup

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Minister tells fathers: Don't be wet
By Paul Waugh Deputy Political Editor, Evening Standard
28 October 2004
Fathers should spend more time alone with their children to help build up bonds that cannot later be broken by divorce, the Government's new minister for the family said today.

Lord Filkin also said fathers who gave up on their children because they received a brushoff from their former partners were "a bit wet" and should persevere in making contact.

The minister, himself a divorced father of three, said the protests of groups such as Fathers 4 Justice were "extreme" but insisted more needed to be done to improve relations between separated parents and their children.

While the state should not tell them what to do, fathers should be "going to the school open day" and also "cooking a meal occasionally or taking children on an outing by themselves".

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/14339105?source=Evening%20Standard

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Prior to my parents divorcing when I was 8, my dad and I would go out for breakfast every Sunday morning, just the two of us (my sister never wanted to come) I loved those mornings.

My dad is the one who taught my mom how to cook and also taught me. He was a great dad and I was closer to him than my mother as the years went on.

I remember the things we did together more than I remember the things my mom did with me. We didn't do much family stuff while my parents where together (that I can remember) however once they got divorced I remember camping, row boat races, picnics etc that my dad did with us, and he continued to do things with us after he got married again.  

My dad didn't do much with my sister and she kinda grew apart from him, I remembered when my dad died (I was a senior in high school) I cried and cried, my sister shows no signs of grieving, to me she just went on as it was another day. She is the one that told me dad passed away (I guess she did show a little compasion as she hugged me and she never did that before)

SO Dads spend as much time as you can with your kids they will remember the things you did with them (NOT what you buy them)


**These are my opinions, they are not legal advice**