Children ‘need to know both parents’

ONE-in-three children born in Ireland yearly do not have the right to knowledge of, or contact with, their fathers, a lobby group has claimed.

Treoir, the national federation for unmarried parents and their children, is now alerting parents through an advertising campaign of their children’s need to know both parents.

An unmarried father has no automatic legal right to his children in the same way as a married father has.