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Resources For Dads - Shared / Joint Parenting

Joint Parenting Association (www.jointparenting.org.au)

The Joint Parenting Association (JPA) is a national non-profit organization based in Adelaide, South Australia.

Unlike many other organizations with some of the same concerns, we are neither a women’s group nor a men's group. Rather, we advocate what we believe to be in the best interests of children, including the Children’s Bill Of Rights.

For the child's benefit the JPA:

• Advocates a rebuttable presumption of joint residence following separation or divorce.
• Advocates two parents and the kinship network are the best first line of defence against poverty.
• Works to transform the typical adversarial divorce process into one of mandatory mediation.

The Shared Parenting Council Of Australia (www.spca.org.au)

The Shared Parenting Council of Australia was incorporated in September 2002 as a representative body for a range of Parent, Children, Church and Family Law Reform organisations who share the common purpose of prescribing in law, every child's fundamental human right to an equal opportunity and relationship with both their Mother and Father following parental separation or divorce.

Family Breakdown, separation and divorce have become increasingly common in Australia today, with an estimated 50,000 or more families per year experiencing the loss and devastation these life changing circumstances can bring.

Not only is there a loss to familial relationships with your partner and children involved, but very often great financial hardship that can last for years after the event.

The Shared Parenting Council of Australia is well aware of these hardships, and our representatives are experienced in all aspects of the Family Law process as it currently stands.

We have researchers, legal advisors and counsellors as part of our team and through our affiliate organisations can offer genuine assistance to individuals and families in crisis.

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Fathers 4 Justice (www.fathers-4-justice-aus.org)

...is a new civil rights group campaigning for truth, justice and equality.

We campaign for a child's right to see both parents and grandparents.

The group comprises Fathers, Mothers, Grandparents, Teachers, Doctors, Company Directors, Policemen, Barristers - a complete cross section of society – all whom believe that Australia is needlessly creating a nation of children without parents and parents without children.

Fathers 4 Justice have adopted a twin track strategy bases around publicity and press.
1. Raising awareness through publicity 'making the injustice visible' and mobilising a 'dads army'.
2. Applying pressure to the system and MP's to bring around meaningful change & enforce the will of Parliament.

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Fathers 4 Equality Australia (www.fathers4equality-australia.org)

Fathers 4 Equality consists of a large number of fathers, mothers, step-parents and grand-parents, who all share the core belief that sole-residence as a preferred model for post-separated families is harmful to children, and deprives decent non-custodial parents (usually fathers) of being a parent in the true sense of the word.

Help us change the law!

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Equal Parenting Movement
(www.www.familylawwebguide.com.au/epm/index.php?page=start" Target="_blank)

We call for the implementation of a Presumption of Equal Parenting Time in the Family Law Act. This (along with other changes) will allow Family Relationship Centres to do their job in helping to resolve conflict between parents and facilitate negotiation in an informal, inexpensive and friendly environment, so that very few separating couples will need to resort to the Family Court system.

Disgraceful

• The Family Court system is disgraceful in the way it has been amplifying conflict and setting parents against each other in an expensive, formal and adversarial system.
• The Family Court system is disgraceful in the way it has been alienating children from their fathers (and sometimes mothers) at least since the inception of the Family Law Act in 1975.
• The Family Court system is disgraceful in its lack of recognition and action to penalise inappropriate behaviour by parents, such as parental alienation which is so damaging to the wellbeing of children.
• The Family Court system is disgraceful in its lack of transparency and accountability, in the huge amount of discretion afforded judges and magistrates allowing expression of their own personal bias and prejudice, not to mention departure from due legal process.
• The Family Law industry is disgraceful in the way it has served to amplify conflict between separating couples for lucrative financial gain, and now seeks to carve a niche in the new mediation services. Conflict prevention and conflict resolution.

The Equal Parenting Movement aims to promote a radically different response to family separation, a response based on conflict prevention and conflict resolution. We aim to promote local support networks for parents going though separation, and in the years following separation, and to teach the benefits of equal parenting. We have active supporters in cities and towns around Australia. If you would like to find out more about how you can participate, send an email to EqualParenting@optusnet.com.au

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