When i emailed David Cameron about his speech I must admit i did not expect a reply, well i got one, well not from David but from  a conservitive party body, here is the reply

“Thank you for emailing David Cameron – I am replying on his behalf.

Thank you for taking the trouble to write following David Cameron’s recent speech on children. Thank you for highlighting your own situation, we do appreciate you letting us know, and we realise that most fathers who are separated from their child’s mother do an important job and often have to wrestle with a system that seems to be against them. David completely agrees that this needs to be looked at very carefully and is something our Social Justice Policy Group are actively reviewing.

As David said in his recent speech, we want to see as many children as possible looked after by both parents. When parents separate, it is important that fathers are not cut out of their children’s upbringing and we understand that more work is needed to redress the balance.

- as I say this matter is being looked at by the Social Justice policy group and their full details are on this website;

http://povertydebate.typepad.com

Thank you again for taking the trouble to write.”
Fairly standard reply, designed to get me to engage with the conservatives,  but i now know there is life in London, my own MP nothing, not a saussage, NADA, and he got an email with questions in.

Still the debate will rage on “The Fairer Law for Fathers ” is interesting but what is this party thinking of doing, divorce and separation is painful, and Laws are only sanctions they are not tools to support but blunt instruments of last resourt.  The legal paperwork for divorce allowed my X to claim that i would have unrestricted access to my children, then when all was well and done i had to fight for it.  It would have been much better to have had to work out a contact pattern before decree absolute and have rules (and yes Laws) in place to properly enforce this.