Too many men assume that women are best left in the family home with the children regardless of the reason for separation. This creates the stereotypical status quo, which most fathers then struggle to overturn, in their efforts for equal and fair treatment.

Men have a lot to accept, and perhaps the starting point is to accept the positions you lead yourself into. There will be bias when it comes to mothers vs fathers as primary carers, but why undermine your already compromised parenting position as a father, but letting mother automatically take possession of the children and/or the home.

It’s fine time fathers started standing their ground and accepting that they are in many cases up to the job of primary care, and ideally shared care of his child/ren. This in no way justifies the bias and discrimination so often felt by fathers from the Family legal system, but if men allow the status-quo to remain, it will. It starts with a change in the way fathers perceive their own role vs the mothers role, and as long as pedestals are still in vogue, dads will always be second best (if that).

David – RFFJ Web Admin and News Blogger