State violates fathers’ rights

SURELY no one believes that the noises made recently by Social and Family Affairs Minister Seamus Brennan will actually help men to secure a family life and help them the better to protect their children.

As we have recounted many times, the rights of a married father are considerable. Under the constitution he has full custody of his children, so he can provide for them and protect them and the state cannot interfere unless the father disentitles himself by abandonment of this duty.

Unfortunately, this has not prevented the state from gross violations of these rights, to the extent that married fathers are being treated as debt-bonded slaves and no remedy in the practice of law is being allowed them to protect their children, even in a situation where their wives are encouraged to desert them and take their children from the family home without their consent.