Single fathers' rights - Appraisal of custody law long overdue

AN initiative mooted by Social and Family Affairs Minister Seamus Brennan should provoke a critical appraisal into the outmoded notion that only a woman is suitable to have custody of children in cases where there was no marriage or a broken partnership.

Single fathers' rights - Appraisal of custody law long overdue

Although the ultimate responsibility to change the relevant legislation lies with Justice Minister Michael McDowell, Mr Brennan has quite rightly brought a focus on an area of family law which is in need of rehabilitation.

What he has prompted in an interview with the Irish Examiner is the concept of equal rights for single fathers, which single mothers already have enshrined for them under the 1964 Guardianship of Infants Act.

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