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Update Children's Act 1989 Introduce Presumption of shared parenting

Submitted on Monday 19th December 2016

Rejected on Tuesday 20th December 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Update Children's Act 1989 Introduce Presumption of shared parenting

Petition Details

UK Family Law is in urgent need of reform. When proceedings involve children, Judges and parents are at the mercy of a horribly outdated piece of legislation (CA 1989). The needs of children are not met and parents are forced into an adversarial contest in which the children almost always lose out

Additional Information

The Children's Act 1989 needs an update. The 2014 updates were not well thought through and based on poorly drafted studies (Norgrove report)

On family breakdown, research proves that children fare far better in a co parent environment

The model of family life is no longer confined to mother as homemaker and father as breadwinner

Children deserve to have an equal relationship with both parents in the event of family breakdown. This should be enshrined in law. Abolish the term "primary carer".


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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