Australian Men's Rights Advocates - AustralianMRA
Joint custody recommendations win praise
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( ABC), 29 December 2003
Parents' groups and welfare organisations are welcoming most of the findings from a federal parliamentary inquiry into child custody arrangements.
The joint parliamentary committee is recommending a major shake-up of the nation's child custody system, including significant changes to family law, courts and custody support payments.
In particular, the committee recommends a presumption of equal responsibility for children when a family breaks down, but has shied away from legislating it.
The Australian Council of Social Service says the report's recommendation not to enshrine in legislation the presumed joint custody of children after a marriage breakdown is a positive one.
ACOSS president Andrew MacCallum says personal history must be taken into account when considering shared parental responsibility.
"Rebuttable presumption of joint custody will not go through and I think that leaves it with the courts and I think that's where it should," Mr McCallum said.
"I think every case is unique and think there needs to be some discretion given to the family courts to make those decisions in the best interests of the child."
Men's groups are also welcoming the shared custody recommendations.
Ian Hickman, from the Tasmanian Men's Health and Wellbeing Association, says it puts parents on an equal footing before they negotiate their own custody deals.
"I would expect that to happen on most occasions that they reach their own arrangement," Mr Hickman said.
"But the 50-50 is a good starting point because it doesn't mean that one person is being empowered more right from the beginning to dictate terms to the other one."
However, there is less support for proposed changes to child custody payments.
ACOSS's Mr MacCallum says the recommendation to double minimum child support payments to $10 it is unfair to parents on low incomes.
Australian Government Considers Child Custody Changes
ABC Radio Australia News, 30 December 2003
Australia's Minister for Children, Larry Anthony, says the government will seriously consider all the recommendations in the parliamentary report recommending a Families Tribunal to deal with child custody issues in a marriage break-up.
Mr Anthony says the government has already acknowledged that the current system needs to be improved.
But the Minister adds establishing a Families Tribunal will take time.
They have proposed quite a radical proposition here. This will be an area that the Attorney General will look at. But I think we've got to start from the premise, if there can be equal parenting responsibility as a starting point that both parents have a role and a right in raising children, that's got to be a good start.
Related Links
Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/fca/
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/fca/childcustody/index.htm
Read the committee's full report and press releases on Australia's family
law system.
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/fca/reports.htm
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/fca/childcustody
Dr Phil TV Show - Men's Rights
September 2021
Dr Phil mixes both the mainstream men's rights advocates and a nutcase guy looking for publicity to make men look bad to create a controversial and ridiculous show to attract an audience of mainly middle aged non-working women who watch TV in the afternoons.
Advertisers love such controversial shows aimed at women who control over 80% of household spending. The more ridiclous some person on the show is, the better the ratings. Dr Phil is the upscale Jerry Springer. These shows really insult the intelligence of women.
In the show, Dr. Phil, who is no longer registered as psychologist, admits that all of his show management are females as are 90+% of his staff.
The show does have the "Martin Luther King" of the Men's Rights Movement - Warren Farrell. It also has Cassie Jay of The Red Pill documentary fame. Jerry Cox who was falsely accused of rape and kidnapping by a woman is featured. He had the ridiculous charges dropped and successfuly sued the woman.
Biological Mothers Murder More of Their Own Children Than Do Biological Fathers
Australian Institute of Criminology statistics show there were 270 child homicide incidents in Australia from July 1989 to June 1999, involving 287 identified offenders and resulting in the deaths of 316 children under 15.
For example, the revised National Homicide Monitoring Program 2006-07 Annual Report states 11 homicides involved a biological mother and 5 involves a biological father.
The Western Australian figures shed light on who is likely to abuse children in families. Mothers are identified as the perpetrator of neglect and abuse in a total of 73% of verified cases.
Biological mothers account for about 35 per cent of all child murders, while biological fathers account for 29 per cent
BBC - The One Show on Male Victims of Domestic Violence
BBC programme 'The One Show', in which the subject of domestic violence against men is discussed.
September, 2009
UK - not politically correct to fund shelters for men and their children who are victims of domestic violence.
Family Courts’
Violence Review
October 2009
The Attorney-General commissioned a review of the practices, procedures and laws that apply in the federal family law courts in the context of family violence. The Family Courts Violence Review considered whether improvements could be made to ensure that the federal family law courts provide the best possible support to families who have experienced or are at risk of violence.
Men's Rights Agency Reply to the Family Courts Violence Review
Feminist Scholars Say All Heterosexual Sex is Rape
Certain feminist "scholars", such as law professor Catharine McKinnon, equate all sexual intercourse with rape.
Of the 12 recognized categories of feminists, the "Female Supremacists" are by far the most damaging to society.
They inundate our universities with hatred of males and preach that males are inferior people. And you wonder why males don't go to university? If you were black, would you go to a university which teaches "White Supremacy"?