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Our recent media advisory has generated a lot of conversation about the family law situation in Canada. Here is some pertinent information provided by the Canadian Association for Equality Research Committee:
According to the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), 77.7% of sole custody orders were granted to the mother, 5.2% to the father. (The remaining 16% were granted to other family members.)
The same report noted that, “legal shared custody does not necessarily indicate that parents share their children’s physical custody… under one-quarter of children with shared custody as part of the court order lived part of the time with each parent. More than two-thirds lived exclusively with the mother at separation, and 11% lived exclusively with their father.”
That means that, combining sole and shared custody, the reality on the ground is that mothers have physical custody 88.0% of the time, whereas fathers have physical custody 6.4% of the time.
Reference: Canada: Department of Justice. Sharing Custody – When Parents Separate: Further Findings from the Natioanl Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (2004-FCY-6E). Updated: Dec 5, 2011.
http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/fcy-fea/lib-bib/rep-rap/2005/2004_6/p3.html
As for support orders, according to the recent 2010/2011 Survey of Maintenance Enforcement Programs (SMEP), which studied 88,000 cases of support orders covering nine jurisdictions as of March 31, 2011, the support order payors were almost exclusively men (96%), while recipients were almost exclusively women (96%).
Reference: Statistics Canada. Interjurisdictional cases of spousal and child support, 2010/2011. Updated: March 28, 2012.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2012001/article/11628-eng.htm#a1
Canadian Children’s Rights Council – Conseil canadien des droits des enfants: Fatherlessness in Canada
http://www.canadiancrc.com/
MEDIA ADVISORY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
VIOLENCE IN FATHERLESS COMMUNITIES CALLS FOR FAMILY LAW REFORM: NATIONAL MEN’S ORGANIZATION
New UK presumption of equal parenting following divorce should be the norm in Canada
TORONTO, ONTARIO – (July 18, 2012) – Canada’s “Men’s Issues” organization is calling on federal and provincial governments to follow the lead of the UK which recently moved to amend their family law system to ensure both mothers and fathers maintain relationships with their children following divorce.
“The move to a presumption of equal shared parenting has been the primary goal of fathers’ rights groups in Canada for decades,” said Bradley Corbett, Canadian Association for Equality Spokesperson. The issue is made urgent by the increase in violent crime and the strong correlation between fatherlessness and violent communities.
The UK and Australia have made moves to shared parenting based on studies that the absence of a father in a child’s life is also correlated with truancy, delinquency, drug and substance abuse, and teen pregnancy.
“Canada should follow the British precedent in recognizing that denying a child access to their parent is as objectionable as failing to make support payments,” said Corbett. The British system will henceforth punish mothers who refuse access with loss of passport, driver’s license and even custody.
According to the 2006 census, there were about one million Canadian children who live without their father while custody is awarded solely to the mother about 80% of the time. A move to a presumption of equal, shared parenting following divorce in Canada is in the best interest of children, fathers, mothers and society at large.
CONTACT
Bradley Corbett
Spokesperson, Canadian Association for Equality
info@equalitycanada.com
519-318-6169
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A recent facebook update passed along. One of the reasons more men die in incidences of violence is because of the burden of manliness which demands self-sacrifice and suggests the value of a man’s life is a little lower than that of any woman he’s standing beside. When we speak of cultural beliefs that unfairly effect women, we must also start talking about this. And when we insinuate all men are perpetrators of violence against women by manipulating statistics, we might also reflect on the fact that men are more likely to die to protect women than the reverse.