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Remove Parental Responsibility from abusive parents.

Submitted on Friday 12th August 2016

Rejected on Friday 19th August 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: fake-name (see below for details)

Petition Action

Remove Parental Responsibility from abusive parents.

Petition Details

In Child Access disputes, the safety and well-being of the child should be paramount, not access to both parents.

Parental responsibility is an automatic right to a mother from birth and to a father from birth if he is married to the mother or listed on the birth certificate.

Additional Information

This petition aims to remove Parental Responsibility from abusive parents in cases involving domestic abuse.

I am a mother and I have fled an abusive marriage; my experience trying to protect my child from an abusive father is that the justice system strives to ensure child access to both parents, despite there being incidents of domestic abuse. This jeopardises the safety and well-being of the child, which should be paramount.

Ultimately, would you want your child in the unsupervised company of an individual that has committed domestic abuse?


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