Dear Gentle Readers,

Aunty would like to take a moment to talk about a topic which is near and dear to her heart: single fathers, and their children.

Sad to say, in our society and many others (England is a notable example), single fathers are treated not as parents to their children, but as open wallets whose sole purpose in life is to be made to pay and pay, and whose only motivation for anything which they do is assumed to be to try to get out of paying and paying, and to “control their ex-wife and children.”

This makes Aunty so upset and sad, because Aunty knows that nothing could be further from the truth.

In a previous life, Aunty was a noted advocate for single fathers and their children. And Aunty is here to tell you that the vast majority of single fathers want only one thing: to be able to remain involved in the lives of their children. Ironically, the one thing which our family law system does best is to remove single fathers from the lives of their children, and facilitate controlling ex-wives (oh the irony) completely excising fathers from their children’s lives… [Continued]