Woman's Aid Warrior

The biggest Alienators of loving Dads and devoted Grandparents even when the have harmed no-one is "

"Woman's Aid"

They go to far and will not talk about it to compromise.

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Can you attend this protest? Pleaase give us a short reason of you will attend.

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"WORLDWIDE PEACEFUL PROTEST AGAINST CHILD ABUSE”

       

THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING IN EDINBURGH  

6^TH MARCH   9AM.

My name is Sam Edwards and, I am the Chief Executive to the campaign One voice for the kids and the Against child abuse network.

 I am writing to you to invite you and your organisation to a high-profile event called the "Worldwide Peaceful Protest Against Child Abuse". This event is scheduled to take place on the 6th March 2012 outside the Scottish Parliament building, Edinburgh. The purpose of this protest is to raise the much needed awareness in to the effects of all types childhood abuse and how it irrevocably changes the lives of so many young and vulnerable children around the world. We are opening this event to all support groups and organisations that help and provide vital support to people affected by abuse. We are calling out all individuals, groups and organisations to come together on the same day for the same purpose and do your thing in your own way.

 Grandparents Apart UK.

 My name is Jimmy Deuchars manager of Grandparents Apart UK gives this one rof a thousand reasons why we will attend to point out the abuse of local authorities against our children..  Two of our members had their son snatched 3 weeks after birth and no proper explanation was given by Glasgow social services. They took it to the Court of Human Rights and won their case. Glasgow social services offered them up to £9000.00p compensation (the going price for a child) after years of searching they found their son and with our help tried to see him but the police ordered us away.   They have never got their son back or any contact with him. Why are social services above the law? They are the major cause of  broken families in Britain today.

Banned from seeing the grandchild I love: Susan hasn't seen her granddaughter for 14 years. Her heartbreaking story will resonate with anyone who's felt the pain of family breakdown

Last updated at 1:48 AM on 24th January 2012

Looking out of the kitchen window, Susan Stamper let her mind wander to a time when the apple tree in her garden wasn't bare, but bright with blossom and the promise of spring.

One of her favourite memories flooded into focus. Annabel's chubby fingers scrabbled around a hole in the bark of the tree. 'Nanny, I've found it!' she squealed triumphantly as she pulled out an Easter egg.

The little girl flung her arms around her grandmother's shoulders, her tousled blonde hair tickling Susan's cheek as she buried her face in the curve of Annabel's neck. At three, she possessed the kind of unfettered curiosity peculiar to the very young. As they embraced, Susan's heart filled with hope as she envisaged the possibilities that lay ahead for her beloved granddaughter...

Susan Stamper and her son with his daughter in 1995. Since her Andrew separated from his partner Katie in July 1998, Susan has been denied all contact with the child

Then the memory faded as the joy it evoked turned once again to despair. Fourteen years had passed since that Easter Egg Hunt. Fourteen years in which Susan has been relegated to a footnote in Annabel's life. Since her son Andrew separated from his partner Katie in July 1998, Susan has been denied all contact.

Annabel is nearly 17 now, on the cusp of adulthood. The hopes that filled Susan's heart have been replaced by emptiness and regret.

'Annabel doesn't know me now and I doubt she'll remember any of the happy times we shared,' says Susan. 'Losing her has left a gaping hole in my life which is far worse than bereavement. At least then I'd have closure. This is a living nightmare.

'My only hope is that Annabel will realise how much I love her and that, one day, I will see her again.'

Sadly, Susan's situation is far from unique. There are currently one million grandchildren in Britain who have little or no access to their grandparents.

Last November, the Family Justice Review ruled against giving grandparents any legal rights in the event of their parents' separation.

Grandparents save their families an average of £1,830 a year in child care, adding up to billions of pounds saved for the state. But David Cameron has done little to fulfil his pledge to improve their rights of access.

Teaching assistant Susan Stamper a feels a deep sense of injustice after being denied contact with her granddaughter for 16 years

It is a failing that Susan, 63, is only too aware of. 'Something needs to be done,' she says. 'Just because millions of other grandparents are suffering doesn't make it easier to bear.'

A softly spoken teaching assistant, Susan's desire to share her experience with the Mail is born both out of love for her granddaughter and a deep sense of injustice. She doesn't wish to apportion blame or dissect the rights and wrongs of her son's failed relationship with Annabel's mother. She simply wants to be reunited with her own flesh and blood.

Her four-bedroom home in Lowick, Northamptonshire, is filled with mementoes. Photographs from Annabel's first and second birthdays adorn the mantelpiece, and her silver hair clip is pinned to the kitchen noticeboard. Upstairs in her dressing room sit 14 years' worth of birthday and Christmas presents, carefully wrapped up, waiting for Annabel.

Susan recalls how she and her husband, John, rushed to Kettering Hospital on hearing of her arrival in 1995. 'She was our first grandchild and we were overwhelmed with joy,' she says.

Also present was their son, Andrew. He had met his partner, Katie, on a night out five years earlier. A confident office manager, Katie was as outspoken as Andrew was introverted and ten years his senior — it was a case of opposites attracting.

Their relationship prospered and they bought a three-bedroom house in a village down the road from Susan and John.

Susan had always relished her own happy family. She and John have been married 43 years and have five children: Michael, 40, a police officer, Andrew, 39, a carpenter, plus Helen, 37, Karen, 32, and Sarah, 28, who work in the hospitality industry.

Becoming a grandmother gave Susan a new lease of life. She marvelled at Annabel's every development. 'I'd lose hours singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, enraptured as she learned to flutter her fingers in time to the tune,' says Susan.

Annabel's other grandmother had died young, and when Katie went back to work part-time after six months, Susan was determined to help. 'I was aware of the boundaries of my position, but I tried to help, as I understood how tough it is to be a working mum,' she says.

'I bought nappies and knitted cardigans. I rocked Annabel to sleep and comforted her when she cried. I showed her the ducks on our village pond and taught her to say "quack".'

Desperate: Susan pleaded in vain with Katie to let her see Annabel but was not allowed

John, 64, works as a decorator for a country house and the family lives in the grounds. It is an idyllic environment for a child to play in.

Yet Susan's enjoyment of her granddaughter was tempered by increasing tension between Andrew and Katie as the differences that had drawn them together began to tear them apart.

She is reluctant to reveal the details of their break-up. Truth be told, she doesn't fully understand them herself. Suffice to say that in July 1998, after eight years together, Andrew turned up on Susan's doorstep.

He said Katie had kicked him out after an argument, but that he had no intention of going back. 'I was shocked, but knew he'd been miserable and vowed to support him,' she says.

Of course, there are two sides to every story. It is entirely possible that Andrew was as much to blame for the disintegration of the relationship as Katie. But whatever the reason for the split, it had devastating and altogether undeserved repercussions on Susan.

'Katie was furious that he refused to come home and wouldn't let me see Annabel,' Susan says. 'She wanted me to talk Andrew into going back, but he was adamant.'

Soon, the issue became not whether they would stay together, but what would happen to Annabel. There were accusations, claims and counter-claims, until Andrew was denied any further legal aid. Annabel was born before 2003, when the law changed to give unmarried fathers better access. So the fact Andrew was named as her father on her birth certificate gave him no automatic rights. As Andrew and Katie hadn't been married, he could see his daughter only with Katie's permission or by going to court.

Andrew was told any effort he made to contact Annabel would hinder future access attempts. He had neither the finances nor the confidence to fight the law.

'He was heartbroken,' says Susan. 'That autumn I hired my own solicitor, but they told me I needed Andrew's support to apply for a contact order, that the process would be lengthy and cost money we didn't have.'

'Grandparents have no automatic rights to see their grandchildren but can play a vital role in the child's life.'

Desperate, Susan pleaded in vain with Katie to let her see Annabel. That Christmas, she sent presents through Andrew's solicitor — some hair ties, socks and a doll. They were returned, unopened. The following February, Susan was walking down the street in Thrapston, Northamptonshire, when she spotted Annabel and Katie. 'My heart was pounding as I asked how she was,' says Susan. 'But she didn't reply. It was as if she didn't know me. I sobbed as Katie led her away.'

Katie and Andrew sold the house they had shared that spring. In July, Andrew told his mother that Katie was moving away and taking Annabel with her. She had refused to tell him where they were going.

'It felt like we'd hit a dead end,' says Susan. 'I tried to pick up the pieces of my life and be positive.

'But thoughts of Annabel dominated everything. My joy at watching my other four children marry was marred with sadness because she wasn't there.

'In 1999 our second grandchild, Jordan, was born. Holding him was bittersweet. He reminded me of her. As the months passed, I realised I couldn't simply give up hope.'

So she searched the internet for support groups for grandchildren robbed of contact. In January 2001, Susan was tipped off by a friend that Katie had changed her name and moved to a suburb of Nottingham. She contacted Nottinghamshire social services in a bid to confirm it was her, but they couldn't help. Neither could the NSPCC. Desperate, she and John drove to the neighbourhood one winter's morning so that, at the very least, she could ascertain that Annabel was all right.

Their breath steamed the car windows as they sat and waited. 'We felt like criminals,' says Susan. 'It was two hours until I saw her — she was with Katie, in what must have been her school uniform. She was taller, with longer hair. Her walk was grown up. Every fibre of my being wanted to call out, to take her in my arms. But I knew it would backfire. We drove home, heartbroken but relieved.'

Susan sent cards, praying Annabel would see them. She put money in a Post Office account for her every Christmas and birthday. Other relatives continued to buy presents. Susan has three bags of them now. 'They offer a strange comfort,' she says. 'They give me hope that one day Annabel will be able to unwrap them, to understand how loved she was by the family she never saw.'

In the intervening years, Susan has been blessed with ten other grandchildren. Watching them grow has helped to heal her hurt but reminded her of the milestones she has missed.

Annabel's first school play and first day at secondary school were events she could only imagine. Susan keeps video footage John took locked in a cabinet, the shaky images of Annabel playing too painful to watch.

When she closes her eyes she can still picture her granddaughter on her garden swing, giggling and demanding that Susan push her 'higher, Nanny!' In 2005 she started volunteering for the Grandparents' Association, which receives 8,000 calls a year from people denied access. 'I was stunned by how many others were in my position. Knowing I wasn't alone offered some comfort.'

In 2008, Andrew heard of a minor change in the law that made it easier for fathers to apply for contact orders. He took out a £5,000 loan and hired a solicitor.

The hearing was at Nottingham County Court in January 2009. But anticipation turned to defeat as Andrew stood before the judge. Annabel had been interviewed and had said she didn't want anything to do with him.

At 13, she was old enough to make up her own mind, but old enough, too, to have forgotten the happy times they'd shared. 'I didn't blame her,' says Susan. 'How could I?

'She wouldn't remember the hours Andrew had spent singing lullabies or building her Lego. My only consolation was that at least she knew we existed.'

After the disappointment, hope dwindled. Susan says Andrew has never recovered from the loss of Annabel and his subsequent court defeat. Susan, meanwhile, surrounds herself with memories.

'I have a scrapbook of her squiggles that is more valuable to me than any masterpiece,' she says. Annabel's presents were the last to be taken from under the Christmas tree last month, placed with the others upstairs. 'She's in my will with my other grandchildren,' says Susan. 'They hope that one day they'll meet their cousin.'

She is counting the days until Annabel turns 18 next February. When she is no longer a minor, Susan will feel more confident about contacting her again.

'I just want her to know how much she means to me,' she says. 'Hopefully she will one day understand that although I haven't been a part of her childhood, she was always in my heart, and always will be.'

Katie and Annabel are pseudonyms.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2090899/Banned-seeing-grandchild-I-love-Susan-seen-granddaughter-14-years-Her-heartbreaking-story-resonate-whos-felt-pain-family-breakdown.html#ixzz1kONpgwEF

Emotional Abused Children

Emotional Abused Children    Saturday 21st January 2012
I have been asked to write from the experiences that I have had through the Self Help Group Grandparents Apart Wales and I am humbled that I should be asked when there are so many people more qualified than I to write on such issues.
When parents separate it should be clear to everybody involved such as the Social Services and the Courts that where there is conflict and argument between the parents the children of these parents are in great danger, both of mental and physical abuse and that they will receive this abuse from the resident parent who thinks that the children can be used as a pawn in an unnecessary game for control.
The children involved in their parent’s feuds adjust themselves to their situation and this is universally recognised and accepted by the professionals in Children’s Agencies but what is not investigated is the infinite damage that their situation is causing them mentally.
I could write about the love and affection they have lost as they are forced to listen to one side of the argument from the resident parent whether they want to or not but what I would rather dwell on is the health issue of the children.
How a child recovers from years of emotional abuse comes to the fore when they are removed from the resident parent who has inflicted this abuse whether consciously or not and this does in my experience need addressing,
The child removed from a place of abuse has to reconnect and adjust to a safe stable and secure environment which in many cases they will need time to understand and when the children are assessed for beneficial therapy, it does not totally heal the confusion which rages at times in the child’s mind as the child reacts to therapist and is skilled in doing so.
The child’s intelligence in many cases has been held back and underdeveloped creating many dark places hindering the child’s keenness to learn or to think age appropriately. Some children themselves can be extremely exasperating even when their environment is safe so long as they spar with the demons their previous situation brings to their mind.
There is clear indication that the child recognises fear and punishment as a fact of life and does not know how to appreciate and react to love and affection, consequently the child will at times push the boundaries of its limitations as far as they will go in an effort to break the control of the new carers.
Some children will self harm while others will cause alarm by other means such as screaming defiant disobedience where they will just not do anything such as wash, go to bed or school etc.
I could go on but it is time for me to suggest how we address this situation and I have to say that we must or society itself is in danger of crumbling as these countless children reach maturity.                                                
We can start with education in our schools and at home about family values and how they benefit children and I don’t mean pay lip service to it. I mean realistic family values where the whole family is involved in caring for one another and it is only when the courts and politicians extend their vision and accept that all citizens of this great nation should be treated equally that we will go some way to avoiding parody.
Children Services and the Courts state that children’s interests are paramount and I wrote on face book this week asking why should that be, as surly all human life should be equal and their interests and rights protected. If Grand/parents and children had the same rights then perhaps we will have gone some way in eradicating the Emotional Abuse that some of our children suffer when their parents separate.
It is advised that when leaving this world one should have a contract saying what one wishes after death then surly one should have such a contract drawn up of their wishes before they are born when their life is all before them.
That would be the responsibility of the parents and I am sure such contracts would add to the security of the child and all the family would have an interest in it.

I of course take notice of any comments that you make and I do thank you for your support.

Best wishes

Frank

Plea to Grandparents about the Survey.

Dear Grandparents,

The Survey we are getting done could be the making of Grandparents Apart UK and for every grandparent who needs a bit of comfort and guidance not to mention the campaigning which has got us the Charter for Grandchildren.  This Survey could also be a double edge sword and could put an end to us if we do not get the replies back. It could discredit us if we don’t get replies. No government would listen to us and there would be no point in carrying on.

We have worked long and hard these past 12 years to reach where we are and it would be a shame to let it all go to waste..

Please fill the survey in as honestly as you can and get it back to us.

http://www.grandparentsapart.co.uk/survey/survey.doc 

Jimmy.

Grandparents Apart UK

Grandparents Apart Survey

Dear All,                     

               Urgent! Urgent! Urgent!

                        Win!  Win!  Win!

                          £50!  £50   £50!

£50.00 can be yours to win if you complete this survey on http://www.grandparentsapart.co.uk/  shortly and get it back to us with your contacts.

Grandparents Apart UK is a volunteer-led organisation that aims to support grandparents who are experiencing difficulties in maintaining, or who have been denied, contact with their grandchildren.

This survey has been developed in partnership with About Families, a BIG Lottery Funded project, to help Grandparents Apart UK determine how grandparents are using the support they provide and what difference it is making. This will help Grandparents Apart UK plan how their services develop in future. In addition, the questions about equality characteristics will help Grandparents Apart UK ensure that their support is accessible and appropriate for all grandparents in society.

This survey should take 15-20 minutes. It can be completed electronically and returned to Jimmy or June (email addresses below), or please print and post the survey to Grandparents Apart UK, 22 Alness Crescent, Glasgow, G52 1PJ. Please complete and return by Friday 10^th February.

This survey is anonymous. If you have any questions please contact Jimmy Deuchars at jimmd@sky.com or June Loudon at grandparentskk@btinternet.com.

Please send us the completed survey by the 10^th of February. 

Woman's Aid Warrior

Woman's Aid. The true alienator of dads and grandparents.

They are funded by the governments for domestic violence but have taken it upon themselves to alienate all dads and grandparents even if they have done no wrong.

Is that in the best interests of children?

Think about it all you grannies would you believe another mum could do this?

Divorced parents will have right to see their children under new law

Woman's Aid must be curtailed in their alienation fo Dads and Grandparents.
Grandparents Apart UK

• Those who refuse to accept ruling could risk jail
• Coalition hopes to succeed where Labour failed when it mooted curfews and electronic tagging in 2005

By Daniel Martin

Last updated at 9:05 PM on 6th January 2012


Ministers are drawing up new rules to put courts under a legal duty to ensure divorced parents are guaranteed access to their children.

Parents who refuse to accept the orders will be in contempt of court and risk serious penalties or even jail.

The move will delight fathers’ rights campaigners who believe dads are penalised under the present system which usually grants mothers custody.

Hope: Fathers rights' campaigners will be delighted at the news because they can currently be refused access when mothers are granted custody

The Coalition is hoping to succeed where Labour failed. In early 2005, it tried to force mothers to let partners see their children by threatening to impose penalties such as night curfews and electronic tagging.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Tory work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith have apparently agreed a different approach which they hope will be more successful.

Around 3.8million children - one in three - live without their father.

Last night children’s minister Tim Loughton said: ‘Our vision is to establish that, under normal circumstances, a child will have a relationship with both his or her parents, regardless of their relationship with each other.

'We must do everything we can to improve the system so that it gives children the best chance of growing up under the guidance of two loving parents.
New families: Nick Clegg believes the Coalition's efforts will give more children the chance to grow up with two parents

'All the evidence tells us that children genuinely benefit from a relationship with both parents, with the potential to make different contributions to their child’s development.

'The culture has shifted away from the traditional view that mothers are primarily responsible for the care of children. Increasingly society recognises the valuable and distinct role of both parents.

'We are looking closely at all the options for promoting shared parenting through possible legislative and non-legislative means.'

Mr Loughton’s comments indicate that ministers have gone against a key finding of November’s family justice review, which rejected equal access for mothers and fathers, saying it would put too much pressure on judges.

It is believed that the law could be changed by amending the 1989 Children’s Act to include presumption of shared parenting.

Another option would be for the Government to support a backbench bill by Tory MP Charlie Elphicke, which will be debated later this month.

The bill requires courts and councils which are enforcing contact orders for children ‘to operate under the presumption that the rights of a child include growing up knowing and having access to and contact with both parents involved’.

Nadine O’Connor, campaign director for Fathers4Justice, said a Government move would be a ‘massive step forward’.

'It is saying that dads have as many rights as mums,' she said. 'I will believe it when I see it, but the reform has to apply across the family justice system.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082970/Divorced-parents-risk-jail-stop-ex-partner-seeing-children-new-law.html#ixzz1ixULMWWp

Social workers invite networking sites to collaborate over threat to adopted children

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Can it be that the children are so desperatly unhappy at being snatched from their birth family that they are desperat to regain contact.

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By Joe LepperThursday, 05 January 2012

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Social workers and social networking sites must work closely to protect adopted children from unplanned contact made by birth parents, according to social care groups.

Abusive birth parents using social networking sites to contact their adopted children. Image: iStock/posed by model

Such contact can be hugely disruptive to families and in some cases put young people in danger if their birth parent had previously abused or neglected them.
The British Association of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF), the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) and The College of Social Work are among groups calling for regular meetings between social workers, adopted children and social networking sites on security issues.
Nushra Mansuri, BASW professional lead, said such meetings would help social networking sites, such as Facebook, better understand the specific security issues adoptive families and adopted children face.

She added: "One of the issues that could be discussed is how Facebook and others give information to adopted children about the risks. It could emerge that a simple message in the style of a public health warning won’t work. Instead there could be ways that more practical information can be given.

"Answers should be made clear through Facebook to questions such as what should young people do if a birth parent contacts them."
Mansuri is set to talk to members of the Child Centred Care Alliance – an umbrella lobby group for the care sector – to see if internet security and adoption issues can be raised when the alliance meets with children’s minister Tim Loughton later this month.
Julia Feast, an adoption, search and reunion consultant at BAAF, would like to see Facebook either publish or provide links to existing advice for adopted children on the risks of using social networking websites.
This includes BAAF’s adoption, search and reunion website which contains a top 10 tips section on staying safe online and another on making contact with birth relatives.
Feast said: "Advice is already out there. It would be good to see that readily available on Facebook and others sites."
BAAF advice includes ensuring only a young person’s friends can view their profile and making sure that birth parents are aware of the emotional distress that can be caused by looking up their children’s profile and other information.
Social worker and College of Social Work spokeswoman Linda James added that another problem is adopted children making unplanned contact with birth parents through social networking sites.
She said: "The curiosity that young people have for looking up their birth parents on social networking sites can be hard to resist. It is important that they are aware of the risks and Facebook can do more to promote that."

Divorced mums and dads could get legal right to see their children

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/8995395/Divorced-mums-and-dads-could-get-legal-right-to-see-their-children.html

(This could be good news for grandparents too if Dads & Grandparents stick together) Grandparents Apart UK

Divorced mums and dads could get legal right to see their children

Divorced parents will be given a legal right to see their children under plans being drawn up by ministers, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

According to the Office for National Statistics, one in three children, equivalent to 3.8million, lives without their father Photo: ALAMY

By Christopher Hope, Senior Political Correspondent

10:00PM GMT 05 Jan 2012

Courts will be put under a legal duty to ensure that both fathers and mothers are given access to children in divorce settlements.

Parents who refuse to accept the orders will be in contempt of court and risk serious penalties or even jail.

The news will give hope to campaign groups who have argued for years that the role of fathers in bringing up their children should be enshrined in law.

Under the present system family courts tend to leave children with their mothers in the vast majority of cases.

According to the Office for National Statistics, one in three children, equivalent to 3.8million, lives without their father.

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Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, and Iain Duncan Smith, the Welfare Secretary, are understood to support the plans. The Conservatives also pledged to introduce the reforms while in opposition.
Tim Loughton, the children's minister, said: “Our vision is to establish that, under normal circumstances, a child will have relationship with both his or her parents, regardless of their relationship with each other.
“We must do everything we can to improve the system so that it gives children the best chance of growing up under the guidance of two loving parents.
“All the evidence tells us that children genuinely benefit from a relationship with both parents, with the potential to make different contributions to their child’s development.
“The culture has shifted away from the traditional view that mothers are primarily responsible for the care of children. Increasingly society recognises the valuable and distinct role of both parents.
“We are looking closely at all the options for promoting shared parenting through possible legislative and non-legislative means.”
The decision would overturn the main finding of a major family justice review, run by businessman David Norgrove, which reported in November.
Mr Norgrove dropped a plan to allow to enshrine equal access rights in law from his final 220-page report.
He said it would put too much pressure on judges to set out the exact length of time that each divorced parent should spend with their children.
He cited evidence from Australia which suggested children were more damaged when courts imposed time limits on access to parents.
However Mr Loughton said judges made the mistake of seeing shared parenting “as being about equality of time”.
He added: “As we know, we cannot carve up a child’s existence on the basis of some spurious 50:50 split in terms of time”.
Mr Loughton described the Norgrove study as “a Government-commissioned report, not a Government report”, suggesting ministers were distancing themselves from it.
The Coalition is expected to announce the plans as part of its official response to the Norgrove report by the end of this month.
The law could be changed by amending the 1989 Children’s Act to include a presumption of shared parenting. Mr Loughton unsuccessfully tried to do this when he was in Opposition five and a half years ago.
Another option is for the Government to support a backbench bill being promoted by Tory MP Charlie Elphicke, which is due to have its second reading later this month.
Mr Elphicke’s bill requires courts and councils which are enforcing contact orders for children "to operate under the presumption that the rights of a child include growing up knowing and having access to and contact with both parents involved”.
Last night Mr Elphicke, the MP for Dover, said: “Now is the time to change the law and give our kids the best chances in life. The Government is looking at whether to give children the right to know their fathers.
“Fathers should act now by writing to their local MP and Ministers about their experiences and why the law needs to be changed. Child welfare is best served by a relationship with both parents.
"Anti-dad sociologists and weak-kneed judges have undermined the welfare of our children for too long.”
Last night Nadine O’Connor, the campaign director for Fathers4Justice, said it would be a “massive step forward”.
Mrs O’Connor said: “It is a massive step forward. It is saying that Dads have as many rights as Mums. I will believe it when I see it, but the reform has to apply across the family justice system."
Other measures from the Norgrove report, such parenting agreements detailing how childcare would be cared for after a divorce and information hubs to enable parents to carry out ‘do-it-yourself’ divorces, look set to be accepted.
Last night a Government spokesman said: "The Government fully supports the Family Justice Review's position that the vast majority of children benefit from a continuing relationship with both parents after separation.
"We are looking closely at all options to promote this. We will publish the Government's response to the Family Justice Review shortly.”