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Vrinder Saluja's blog
Father's Day and Special Days
This year, Father's Day will be on 17 June 2012.
Father's Day is a celebration honouring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. (Taken from wikipedia.org)
How many father's will lose Father's Day this year? What will be the reason given?
The child has a cold, a wedding to attend or will the mother have simply forgotten that the kids are supposed to be with their dad on Father's Day?
CAMHS and the Collection of Evidence
CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) provide specialist mental health services to children who are experiencing emotional and mental health problems.
The Courts will almost certainly make an order for contact where no good reason exists to stop it or deny it - we all know it.
However, over the past 10 years I have seen more and more cases where medical evidence, particularly CAMHS referrals are being used as a blunt instrument to not only frighten a welfare driven court in to ordering no contact, but almost certainly to eliminate the father forever.
Enforcement of court orders – the value of a father
Each year there are approximately 67000 applications made to the family courts. Thirty per cent of these are for enforcement orders. Where court orders are made for contact, the courts and where involved, Cafcass will already have determined that it is safe for contact to take place, so, there is no question that contact has been denied for a good reason. Indeed, any one familiar with the family courts will verify, that court orders are worthless.
Grandparents
The 21st century is the golden age of grandparents. Increased life expectacy has meant that there are more than ever before in history. They were there only in the myth of the idealised family of old. Cold, ruthless historians point out they were normally dead, or soon to be so.
Delusions of Gender
Prof Cordelia Fine is an Austrialian research psychologist. Her book of this name, subtitled ‘The Real Science behind Sex Differences’, is a delight to read.
Frank Field and the reform of Parliament
One person who is surely an asset to what Parliament could possibly really be is Frank Field, MP for Birkenhead. He is an independent thinker, He is genuinely interested in policy ideas. Even if some of his views are, well, a bit batty they speak for a significant point of view and enrich the debate.
He is ruthlessly honest.
Child Benefit
The important thing about an universal child benefit was not what it gave to the rich or to the poor. It was that it modestly redistributed income between those who had children to pay for and those who did not. Children are expensive, whatever your income level. This was help with the costs that fell on all households with children, but not on the others.
Shared parenting and the reform of the social security system.
No-one gets more money on benefits than they do working. This is not to say that absolutely none exist; we all know some.
