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Maintenant que tu ne fait plus d'enfant tu devrais te demander ce que tu sers.
Le temps où les femmes devaient impérativement consacrer toutes leurs forces à la procréation est terminé.
From happiness to hell
Rulings 'all over the place'
LAW changes to ensure shared parenting are not being reflected in court decisions.
Court under huge strain
Family Court case studies
Divorce, custody stats
Parent-child contact and post-separation
parenting arrangements
"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
Henny Youngman
Citation improbable
Tu seras ma Sandrine je serai ton Ricci
Participate in study
Sir Bob Geldof speaks up for the rights of single fathers
Juillet mois des descendants
Date: Monday, July 23, 2007
The Children's Aid Society of Ottawa and each of its Board of Directors members risk getting charged by knowingly and intentionally committing an Offence under section 307 of the Corporations Act. ( Ontario's "Corporations Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C-38" )
According to section 307 (1) of the Act, any person can request a list of the Society's members so that they can communicate with them for purposes connected with the Society, including such matters as the election of Board members, desired changes to the way a Society operates and more.
Normally a person would advocate for improvements within a Society by applying for an annual membership and voting for or making requisitions for change at meetings of the Society.
Unfortunately, the people who are the most concerned with how a Society operates -- its former wards -- are blocked from obtaining a membership with their originating Society simply because they now live outside the jurisdiction of the Society as adults, or because they are currently involved in advocating for improvements to the services a Society delivers to children and families in the community.
The only option a person has once their membership application has been denied by a Society is to communicate with the annual members who reside in the community and who support the work a Society does by making a request for a list of those members as allowed by section 307 (1) of the Corporations Act.
It has been made apparent that the Ottawa Children's Aid Society through its Board of Directors, one of whom is the City of Ottawa's City Solicitor, Rick O'Connor, is even willing to commit an Offence in order to prevent anyone from communicating with the membership for purposes connected with the Society, in contravention of section 307 (5) of the Act which makes it an Offence for the Society not to furnish a list of the members to a person who properly requests it, exposing the Society, and its Board members to the risk of being charged and fined $1,000.00 each in tax payers dollars, not to mention the lawyers fees for defending their illegal actions.
John Dunn, a former Crown Ward and child welfare reform activist who founded The Foster Care Council of Canada (the Council), an organization which seeks to involve current and former wards in the process of child welfare reform, applied for a membership with the local Ottawa Children's Aid Society only to have his application denied without explanation.
After making a legitimate request for a list of the Society's members in accordance with section 307(1) of the Corporations Act, (the Act) the Society -- using Government issued tax payers dollars -- retained a lawyer with over thirty years of experience, Robert C. Morrow of the Ottawa Law Firm, Burke-Robertson Barristers and Solicitors to assist them in committing the Offence of failing to furnish a list of the Society's members, in contravention of section 307 (5) of the Corporations Act.
Also a member of the Council, Gary Curtis, a former Crown Ward of the Ottawa Children's Aid Society who aged out of the system in 1961 who currently lives just outside of Ottawa, applied for a membership with the Society only to be told that he could not be a member since he was not living in the Society's jurisdiction.
Approximately four years ago, Curtis applied for access to his own life records which are held by the Society and in doing so had to put up quite a struggle in order to get anywhere, including a Ministry review by an appointed Director. Curtis had a meeting with a representative of the Ministry of Children and Youth Services, Eastern Regional Office who suggested that he file for a review under subsection 68 (3) of the Child and Family Services Act.
The review took over a year to conclude producing a report to the Ministry which made the following conclusions:
1. There is no guiding legislation the Society can follow with regard to the disclosure of information to a former Crown Ward
2. The Board of Directors were satisfied that the Society's staff complied with all regulations and,
3. The Society believes their staff satisfied all the requests made by Curtis.
The review appears to have accomplished very little, as anything he did receive from the Society was only due to his own persistence with them.
Curtis is now also in the process of applying for a list of the members of the Society in accordance with the Corporations Act so that he may communicate with them regarding the practices of the Society.
Dunn says “Hopefully they will comply with the law in response to his request for a list of the members of the Society so that we don't have to consider our legal options”.
When Curtis eventually earned access to his records, he discovered something amazing. He learned after years of thinking he was an only child, that he had a sister and two half brothers. His sister and one of his brothers live in the greater Ottawa area and the other brother lives in British Columbia. His sister was placed for adoption at birth, but his two half brothers remained out of care. Curtis has slowly become acquainted with them and they have welcomed him as a long lost family member.
Curtis says “Being accepted as a new family member can be a long and slow process and must be done with a lot of caution and care.”
For further information please visit The Foster Care Council of Canada at http://www.afterfostercare.ca
New Zealand Centre for Political Research - www.nzcpr.comBreaking Through
Early last year a little boy was brutally beaten to death by his mother and her partner:
“The child's blood was also found throughout the house. In two rooms - the living area and his bedroom - the blood had splattered so high it hit the ceiling”.
Graphic photographs taken during his post-mortem showed three year old Ngatikaura Ngati’s body had suffered repeated beatings. His left arm was so badly damaged that it had swollen to twice its normal size. When pathologists cut it open they found all the tissue had already died from the beatings he had suffered.
The investigating Police Officer Richard Middleton said, "This is as bad as anything I have seen on a child or any human”.
Ngati’s mother had given him to childless relatives when he was a month old. They raised him as their own. But shortly after his third birthday, his mother wanted him back: “she was claiming a benefit for more children than were living with her and she was afraid of being caught out”. Three months later, the little boy was dead. (See From Happiness to Hell, Herald>>>)
This shocking case highlights the malevolent nature of child abuse in New Zealand – a vicious crime committed by a mother and her partner who were so hungry for benefit money that they placed their dependency on government welfare above the safety and happiness of their child.
For that reason, the second defendant in this case – and in most other child abuse cases in New Zealand - should be the State. The worst child abusers in this country are the government which has knowingly cemented in place social policies that create the environment for child abuse to flourish. Their social welfare policies lead to the disintegration of marriage, family and community as benefit recipients become hooked, realising that they are significantly better off if they stay single and on welfare.
Through unconditional state handouts to vulnerable women with children, whole communities have been created where the two-parent family has vanished, where work is rare or non-existent, and where social degradation – squalor, alcoholism, drugs, violence, crime - is commonplace.
Just last week, the Herald on Sunday reported on child abuse cases at Auckland’s Starship Hospital, stating that last year’s child abuse admissions were the worst on record. It also claimed that the figures for head injuries for Maori children are the highest in the world. (See Doctor Decries Staggering Level of Child Abuse>>>)
Yet the Government’s response to this national crisis is a shameful silence.
In contrast, the Howard Government in Australia has invoked a state of emergency to deal with their child abuse crisis - which is at a level similar to ours. They have introduced controls on dysfunctional families that include compulsory health checks on all at-risk children, linking benefit payments to school attendance, and quarantining 50 per cent of welfare payments to ensure that funds are used for children’s welfare, not booze, drugs or gambling.
The opposition Labour Party, recognising the seriousness of the problem, has pledged to put in place even tougher measures if they become the government, withholding all welfare payments from families that do not do the right thing by their children.
New Zealand remains the only country in the world that has wide open access to the sole parent benefit. Here, girl can get pregnant as teenager and literally have a benefit income for life. She can remain on the Domestic Purposes Benefit just so long as she doesn’t work, doesn’t marry, and from time to time has another baby to keep her eligibility current.
Yet life on a benefit is the very worst incentive that any government could possibly dangle in front of vulnerable young girls as it creates a perilous home environment for their children. Maori girls in particular are susceptible to the government’s anti-marriage welfare ‘bait’ with figures from the Ministry of Social Development showing that Maori teenage parents are on a benefit at a rate of 85 per 1,000, more than eight times higher the non-Maori rate of 10 per 1,000.
Just last week the Ministry of Social Development released a report showing that the number of children living in financial hardship in New Zealand has - incredibly - almost doubled in two decades from 12% in 1982 to 23% in 2004, with sole parent households with children being by far the worst off. (see MSD Hardship Report>>>)
That is why the government’s refusal to fundamentally reform welfare, in order to move sole parents off benefits into supported work and a decent life, borders on being criminally negligent.
In contrast to a situation here, politicians in the US took action over a decade ago: “The designers of welfare reform were concerned that prolonged welfare dependence had a negative effect on the development of children. Their goal was to disrupt intergenerational dependence by moving families with children off the welfare rolls through increased work and marriage... Ten years after welfare reform became the law those who have enjoyed the greatest benefits are the most disadvantaged single parents with the most significant barriers to employment. In particular, young, never-married mothers with low levels of education and young children”. (see The Impact of Welfare Reform by the Heritage Foundation>>>)
Figures from Statistics NZ confirm the dramatic move in New Zealand away from childbearing within marriage. Historically, only around five percent of babies were born outside of marriage. But largely as a result of the introduction of the Domestic Purposes Benefit in the seventies, the trend changed and by 1990 the rate had increased to 35 percent. As of last year, 47 percent of all babies born in New Zealand were born outside of marriage, which means that almost a half of all newborns in this country are being born into family structures that put them at an increased risk of child abuse.
That is not to say that all children born into de-facto relationships will be harmed; of course they won’t. Nor that all sole parents do a bad job; on the contrary many do an exceptional job and raise great kids. But just as there are no guarantees that children raised in two-parent married families will be happy and safe, on the balance of probability married families represent the safest of all environments in which to raise children, with un-married families the most dangerous.
Encouraging marriage is the approach that has now been taken by legislators in the United States in order to improve the outlook for children. It is also the conclusion that has been reached in “Breakthrough Britain: Ending the Costs of Social Breakdown”, a new report produced by the British Conservative Party’s Social Justice Commission. This report, which builds on last year’s “Breakdown Britain”, finds that the breakdown of the two-parent family and the decline of marriage is at the heart of the collapse of values in British society. It proposes a number of strategies to strengthen families and encourage marriage through adjustments to the tax and benefit systems. (see Breakthrough Britain>>>)
The report also discusses the significant contribution made by the voluntary sector, which works at the coalface of social dysfunction, and it recommends that it be liberated from the domination of state control.
According to this week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator Peter Allen, who founded and headed the Prince of Wales Trust, the situation here in New Zealand is dire:
"During my eleven years of involvement with some of the country’s most complex young people I saw many valuable youth initiatives destroyed by the government’s youth policies and bureaucratic pressure. Unfortunately their loss is becoming increasingly apparent as we see more youth crime, assaults on elderly people, property damage, theft, drunken behaviour, increased drug abuse and more truancy from school than ever before".
He goes on to warn, "This Government’s destructive social policies have created divisions between cultures, within families, and across communities, and until there is a full realisation that the problems are politically motivated - and the people of this country demand appropriate action - the situation will continue to deteriorate". (To read Peter's article "The Bureaucratic Destruction of Private Sector Youth Support Services" click the sidebar link>>>)
Peter is right. Many of the complex social problems that we face in New Zealand – like the dreadful child abuse crisis – are being caused by politically motivated government policy. But until the public demands action, there will be no breaking though and as sure as night follows day, more and more innocent children like little Ngatikura Ngati will die.
Poll: The poll this week asks whether you would favour the introduction of policies to encourage marriage in New Zealand.
To vote click here>>>
[Comments received during the week on the column and the poll will be posted here>>>]
Last week's poll asked: Should the welfare reform proposed by the Howard Government in Australia should be adopted in New Zealand?
Result: 96% said Yes and 4% said No.
You can read the hundreds of comments that were submitted by clicking here>>>.
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To contact Muriel about this week’s column please click here>>>.
Tout sur la condition des femmes d'ici et d'ailleurs
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Why men earn more
Status of Women 2003 blacklist - fight not over yet.
Ken Wiebe, spokesperson for a father's rights group seeks support in his fight against the federal government's Status of WomenCommittee.
The one time blacklist of allegedly anti-feminist individuals and organizations which in 2003 appeared on a Canadian Federal Government's website operating under the auspices of the then Secratary of State for the Status of Women, the honourable Jean Augustine, is still causing problems to the spokesperson of a B.C. Men's group, Ken Wiebe, who has been seeking a remedy in the courts against of having his name and that of his organization blacklisted on this now defunct website. See article below.
The Australian False Memory Society also appeared on this blacklist. At the time members of the Canadian False Memory Support Groups met on 28 August 2003 with the honourable Jean Augustine, presented a brief about False Memories (see attachment) and were promised that the blacklist would be withdrawn from the Canadian Federal government's website.
Ken Wiebe has gone further and wants the government to admit that the one-time publishing this blacklist was a serious oversight.
Fighting a federal government agency such as the Status of Women Canada (SWC) to admit error, costs money, and Ken Wiebe and his small organization have difficulty meeting their financial obligations to their lawyer. Unless people give him some financial support, however small, he may be forced to give up his fight to get his name and that of his organization cleared.
Donations can be made to the:
BC Fathers Legal defense Fund
Vila, PO Box 8245Victoria BCV8W 3R9
See also:See story in the Victoria Times-Colonist here:
Ramdam à La Gazette des femmes
ÇA MANQUE UN PEU DE SÉRIEUX CHEZ LES PITOUNES
AUJOURD'HUI C'EST LE 29 JUILLET ET LE NUMÉRO DE SEPTEMBRE-OCTOBRE DE LA GAZETTE DES FEMMES N'EST TOUJOURS PAS EN KIOSQUE.
Ce n'est pas nous qui sommes en avance
ce sont elles qui sont toujours en retard.
1983 - Père RÉGIMBALD
Houps!
Aucune chance à la présidence de la FFQ
Hillary Clinton is a Lesbian?
Je ne croyais pas que c'était possible, mais le mouvement environnementaliste a atteint un nouveau degré de folie…
La dernière trouvaille, il faut que les pays industrialisés réduisent leur natalité. La raison: les enfants sont une source de gaz à effet de serre…
Le "Optimum Population Trust" affirme que les pays industrialisés doivent minimalement réduire leur population de moitié. Par exemple, pour le Royaume-Unis la population doit passer de 60 millions à 15 millions. Pour les États-Unis, il faudrait passer de 300 millions à 91 millions d'habitants ! Plus absurde encore, une diminution de la population dans les pays du tiers-monde ne serait pas nécessaire parce qu'avoir des enfants dans les pays pauvres produit moins de gaz à effet de serre !
L'environnementalisme, plus que jamais un combat contre la civilisation.
Pour s'enfoncer encore plus loin dans l'absurdité:
UK needs a two-child limit, says population report
Youthquake: Population, fertility and environment in the 21st century
· Highest fertility rate in 26 years 'unsustainable'
· Thinktank calls for better funded family planning
