EVEN in this modern age, I'm sure like me, you will often hear it said that “it is still a man’s world," writes Andrew Caldicott.
Certainly over the past few decades, there has been a wealth of legislation aimed at tackling sexual discrimination and balancing up the scales.
When it comes to parenting though, it is arguable that the law treats fathers very differently and for those of us who have practised children’s law over many years, it is alarming just how many men are unaware of their rights or obligations in respect of their children.
The Children Act was brought into force in 1989 and for the first time in legal history, attempted to properly define what parenting involved. It created the concept of parental responsibility and that is defined as “all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority which by Law, a parent of a child has in relation to the child and his/her property.
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DID you know that more and more men are seeking to to claim their wife's assets when a marriage ends?
In Amercia, this is becoming known as 'manimony' - though some men, unsurprisingly, consider the term a little demeaning.
In Britain, divorce lawyers have also reported a significant rise in the number of husbands going after financial reward at the time of a break-up.
Manchester law firm Pannone says it has seen a 300 per cent increase in the number of such cases in the last two years.
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I THOUGHT this was an interesting round-up by Pamela Stokes-Egglestone, who discovered different reports have different slants on divorce stats in the US military.
But she says: "What is consistent across all of my research is that female soldier divorce rates are several times higher than their male counterparts."
Pamela writes that this may be connected with support services being more weighted towards women. That's a real shame.
DO twins mean double the trouble for a lone parent? Two inspirational mothers tell Linda Jones why that old cliché doesn’t always ring true.
Ask any parent of twins and they’ll tell you about the bizarre comments they put up with while out shopping or just walking in the park.
“You’ve got your hands full!” Coo well-meaning on-lookers, or worse ask like so many others before them: “Are they identical?"
But for Catherine Sandy, being clucked over by complete strangers as she negotiated the aisles of her local supermarket with her babies, was the least of her worries.
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