Category: Family Law

Three-Parent Children on the Horizon for UK

Scientists in the UK have asked the government to approve three-parent babies after experts ruled the practice “not unsafe” and “potentially useful,” according to a Telegraph report. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) made this ruling after examining “voluminous” amounts of data. To be certain of the HFEA claims it will be necessary to …

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Government Concerned About Cost of Family Breakdown

Government is finally giving attention to the economic ramifications of family breakdown. According to an article reported in The Daily Telegraph, the Government plans to have midwives, GPs, and registrars talk to couples about their relationships in an effort to minimize family breakdown. After talking with couples, these Government workers will encourage couples to seek …

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German Home-schooling Family Allowed to Stay in United States

The Romeike family will be able to stay in the United States following a remarkable turnaround by the federal government. Uwe and Hannelore Romeike have been fighting to keep their family in the United States, where they immigrated legally from Germany in 2008. Had the family stayed in Germany they would have faced heavy penalties …

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Scotland’s Children Bill is Massive Intrusion into Family Life

The Scottish Parliament has passed a bill that assigns one social worker to every child in Scotland. The controversial measure, Known as ‘Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill’, was passed in Edinburgh last week with a vote of 103-0 with 15 abstentions.  It allocates a ‘named person’ with unspecified powers to each child. Christian groups …

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Protests over lesbian adoption of Somali girl

The adoption by white lesbians of a girl from the Muslim Somali community has been halted after protests. The three-year-old was due to be handed over by Harrow Borough Council but a week of protests have left the Council with no alternative but to put the adoption on hold. More than 50 women from the Somali …

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BBC investigates Social Service child-snatching

The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme has investigated child-snatching by social services. In a landmark edition of Panorama screened last night (13/01/2014) entitled ‘I want my baby back’, a number of cases of horrific injustice were revealed. The programme is available to watch on BBC iPlayer for a year and is required – and sobering – viewing …

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Baby Forcibly Extracted from Womb During Nightmare Visit to the UK

By Robin Phillips An Italian mother is working to get her baby back following a forced Caesarean section during a visit to Britain last year. The mother of two was sedated and forcibly operated upon after Essex Social Services deemed she was unfit to be a mother. The nightmarish series of events began last June …

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Family Breakdown Revealed in Shocking New Statistics

The rise in family breakdown has now reached unprecedented levels, according to a recent study. The 2011 General Lifestyle Survey Overview from the Office for National Statistics shows that by 2011 the number of single parent households reached 22%, as opposed to only 8% in 1971. Two-parent families have fallen from 92% at the beginning …

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Succession Bill railroaded through tomorrow

The Governments’ Succession to the Crown Bill will be debated on the ‘fast-track’ in the House of Commons tomorrow 22nd January (2013). In a move seen as ‘railroading’ the  Bill through the House, the Bill will have its 2nd Reading and Committee Stage on the same day. Normally these stages would be some weeks apart, …

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Nick Clegg in ‘Bigotgate’ row

  A red-faced Nick Clegg has had to withdraw remarks he was going to make branding opponents of gay marriage “bigots”. A draft of his speech, circulated to the press in advance of Mr Clegg’s speech to be given to a gathering of homosexual activists last night, had the atheist Deputy Prime Minister saying: “Continued …

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SS ‘hired gun’ may be struck off

A wealthy psychiatrist who provided expert evidence on parents to enable social workers to take children into care may now be struck off the medical register, according to the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Express (the latter has the fuller report, by respected journalist Ted Jeory). Dr George Hibbert misdiagnosed parents as suffering from personality disorders, it …

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Happy ‘Parent B Day’?

Sign our Petition for Marriage (the petition which ‘does God’!)  This Sunday, 18th March 2012, is Mothers’ Day (or Mothering Sunday for the more old-fashioned among us).  But if the Government get their way and enact ‘Gay Marriage’, mother and father could be renamed ‘Parent A’ and ‘Parent B’ on birth certificates.  According to Labour …

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Making a mess of marriage

Sign this petition (the one that does God!) to defend marriage: ‘We the undersigned believe that marriage was ordained by God to be the union of one man and one woman and that marriage between two persons of the same sex can not and should not be legalised by any earthly government.’ Lynne Featherstone, the …

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The Cost of a Permissive Society

In a Jubilee Centre report from last December, author and therapist Guy Brandon demonstrated that the economic ramifications of our permissive society are almost beyond reckoning. Moral Hazard Mr Brandon, the author of Just Sex: is it Ever Just Sex?, used quantitative cost-analysis to disprove the notion that “sex between consenting adults is no one …

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Forced adoption: how the Lord must grieve

Christian Voice is currently preparing a major feature for our upcoming newsletter on the evils of forced adoptions in Britain.  As our report was being prepared, news broke about another heartrending story. Sam, 23, had her baby Angela removed from her in 2009 when Social Services concluded she was psychologically damaged and therefore unfit to …

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The Families in Your Church May Not Be Safe

Churches should be aware of the threat posed by social workers steeling children from their parents, Christian Voice has warned. Secret family courts continue to forcibly remove hundreds of children from their parents throughout the UK every year. The children are then put up for adoption and prevented from seeing their biological parents, many of …

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Nanny State Turns Nasty

HOME SECRETARY CALLS FOR HUGE EXPANSION OF GOVERNMENT INTO FAMILY LIFE Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, announced plans to identify children as young as 5 as potential criminals. In what the Times has called ‘a huge expansion of state intervention in family life’, Ms. Smith said that parents who are not looking after their children …

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Superintendent ‘Wrong’ to Blame Parents

A senior police officer has been criticised for blaming parents for the murder of Kodjo Yenga, whose killers were convicted today. Det Supt Matthew Horne said: “Some of the boys were only 13 when they committed these crimes – children, only just teenagers. “To their parents I would ask them this: what were your kids …

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Christians in Strengthen Marriage Call

Marriage should be strengthened, and no-fault divorce and civil partnerships abolished, a prominent Christian think-tank has suggested. Christian Voice, which has led protests over Jerry Springer the Opera, said that no-fault divorce, civil partnerships and calls for the legal recognition of ‘live-in lovers’ are undermining the primary social institution ordained for our benefit by God …

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Blair ‘Divorced from Reality’

Prime Minister Tony Blair’s speech on crime, anti-social behaviour and parenting is condemned today as ‘divorced from reality’ by Christian Voice. Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today: “Until the Government starts to repair family life in the UK, the problems will continue to get worse. Crime and anti-social behaviour have a direct …

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