Fathers 4 Justice: Pyjama Protest in Central London
21st October 2005
The pyjama protest was in support of overnight stays for children with their dads after separation as the minimum recommended by CAFCASS (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) and The Family Courts.
Marching through the West End, Trafalgar Square and onto the DfES (UK’s government’s Department for Education and Skills), hundreds of fathers joined the Pyjama Protest march with motorised beds and a bus with DJ.
Photos: iamcrest
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About Fathers 4 Justice
Fathers 4 Justice (sometimes abbreviated to F4J) is a worldwide campaigning group with branches in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the USA, Canada, Australia, Italy and Sweden campaigning for equal parenting, family law reform and fathers' rights.
F4J campaigning policy has always been that its organised publicity stunts and protests should be with humour, non-violent and hence harmless.
Founding
The group was founded in the UK in 2003 in the aftermath of the Father Christmas protest on 17 December 2002 in London by Matt O'Connor. O'Connor is a marketing consultant and father of two children. He became involved in the fathers' rights movement after a court temporarily barred him from seeing his children outside contact centres, following his separation from his wife in 2000
Aims of the movement
There are two key publically stated aims of the movement. The first is that something should be done "to enforce the will of Parliament", i.e. enforce existing law, with respect to fathers' rights. The relevant Act of Parliament is The Children Act 1989, which states that the welfare of a child [with divorced parents] is paramount and that the welfare "is best served by maintaining as a good relationship with both parents as possible". F4J says that in practice children of divorced parents often live with their mothers and often lose contact with their father. Although courts can make contact orders that oblige the resident parent to provide the other parent with time to spend with their children, these orders are often broken and according to the group, public officials often ignore these instances. It is this point which ignores the will of parliament, it says.
The second aim is to extend existing law to establish a "legal presumption of contact" between children and parents and grandchildren and grandparents.
F4J says it plans to publish a "Blueprint for Family Law in the 21st Century" with further specific proposals.
Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F4J
More information: http://www.fathers-4-justice.org
The pyjama protest was in support of overnight stays for children with their dads after separation as the minimum recommended by CAFCASS (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) and The Family Courts.
Marching through the West End, Trafalgar Square and onto the DfES (UK’s government’s Department for Education and Skills), hundreds of fathers joined the Pyjama Protest march with motorised beds and a bus with DJ.
Photos: iamcrest
-
About Fathers 4 Justice
Fathers 4 Justice (sometimes abbreviated to F4J) is a worldwide campaigning group with branches in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the USA, Canada, Australia, Italy and Sweden campaigning for equal parenting, family law reform and fathers' rights.
F4J campaigning policy has always been that its organised publicity stunts and protests should be with humour, non-violent and hence harmless.
Founding
The group was founded in the UK in 2003 in the aftermath of the Father Christmas protest on 17 December 2002 in London by Matt O'Connor. O'Connor is a marketing consultant and father of two children. He became involved in the fathers' rights movement after a court temporarily barred him from seeing his children outside contact centres, following his separation from his wife in 2000
Aims of the movement
There are two key publically stated aims of the movement. The first is that something should be done "to enforce the will of Parliament", i.e. enforce existing law, with respect to fathers' rights. The relevant Act of Parliament is The Children Act 1989, which states that the welfare of a child [with divorced parents] is paramount and that the welfare "is best served by maintaining as a good relationship with both parents as possible". F4J says that in practice children of divorced parents often live with their mothers and often lose contact with their father. Although courts can make contact orders that oblige the resident parent to provide the other parent with time to spend with their children, these orders are often broken and according to the group, public officials often ignore these instances. It is this point which ignores the will of parliament, it says.
The second aim is to extend existing law to establish a "legal presumption of contact" between children and parents and grandchildren and grandparents.
F4J says it plans to publish a "Blueprint for Family Law in the 21st Century" with further specific proposals.
Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F4J
More information: http://www.fathers-4-justice.org