A recording of our masterclass lecture event, featuring Associate Dean of Law Sandra Clarke and guest speaker the Right Honourable the Baroness Hale of Richmond discussing family law in the 21st century.
There is a better way. Parental custody of children is actually a very simple matter to solve given the true desire of “What is best for the child”. We need to separate and discard marriage from family law as they no longer seem to be connected. We can develop protocols that confer (over time) equal parental rights and responsibilities,…..once parentage is proven. Children’s natural maturation process has 3 essential stages of need. A.The unconditional love of the mother from birth until about 7 years of age. The mother to have “thefinalsay” and to receive child allowance. B.The conditional love of the father, who takes his children out into the world, gives security and teaches social boundaries from 7 until about 13 years of age. The father to have “thefinalsay” and to receive child allowance. C.The friendship and respect of peers from 13 until 18 years of age. The child to have “thefinalsay”. If these 3 stages are not gone through in order, maturation is unlikely to be satisfactorily achieved and mental resilience reduced. This has now become generational. Such a regime of equal parenting rights (over time) would bind parents into a co-operative relationship, because (over time) each will hold the power of “thefinalsay” sequentially when they are best favoured to use it. Such family protocols would be the default position, (allowing love, courtesy and humour to prevail) but could in exceptional cases be varied by the court. Buckminster Fuller said:- “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”. To alleviate suffering is worthy. To prevent it is divine, but thankless.
@Manufacturing Consent It is my own. I am a retired architect. Buildings and family law are both "systems" which are subject to research, design and feedback in a never ending loop. Realisation was based on a book "Childhood and Adolescence" by Peter Hadfield written and read by me half a century ago, but the system redesign is mine.
Wow. I cannot agree that there is no bias. With all due respect Baroness, I think that you stuttered here as you know that it is. Hence why the Depp Heard case will be such an interesting shift in the world's view on abuse hearsay.
Social workers in schools with relationships with both children and parents throughout the child's schooling would stop most false allegations and provide all with support to keep child focused parenting instead of monetizing the child's suffering through the family law courts and lets all please at least try to pretending that child poverty is not linked to family law paying parents.
