Breaking News! Victoria BC: Passionate Papas Brave Bridge, Educate Electors

Canada's Fathers' and
Family Rights Advocates
Have Something To Say
About The Upcoming Election

Kevin Christiaens the BC Hulk, Stephen Hodges Whitaker the Victoria Spiderman and Robert Robinson the Burnaby Batman, three popular Canadian fathers' and family rights activists, have snuck atop the Johnson Street Bridge in Victoria BC early this morning and unfurled 2 large banners. One banner which reads "Liberal's Deny Children Their Rights" is 18 feet by 24 feet and the largest is a Canadian flag 30 feet by 40 feet.

These Fathers4Justice members and loving fathers, along with Hal Legere Robin QC, Doug Hanlan the Victoria Superman, Bob Waters the Green Lantern, the Victoria Spiderman, the Flash, Supergirl, Batgirl and supporters are hoping to influence voters in the January 23rd election with their nonviolent demonstration.

Fathers4Justice-Canada's message:

1. Children of divorce have a fundamental right to a meaningful relationship to both parents.

Family courts routinely relegate loving fathers to weekend visitors in their children's lives, and than fail to enforce the access orders made “in the best interests of the child".

2. The Governing Liberals have failed to act to protect these children for more than 7 years.

In November 1998, the Joint Senate and House of Commons Sub-Committee released their report entitled, "For the Sake of the Children", containing 48 recommendations to address the serious shortcomings in the current system. The governing Liberals have largely ignored the report.

3. Fatherlessness is reaching epidemic proportions in Canada, and it has a direct relationship to youth violence and crime.

Nearly 40% of our nation's children do not live with their biological father, and youth crime and violence is on the rise. In a 1990 article entitled A Progressive Family Policy for the 1990s published by the Progressive Policy Institute, social scientists Elaine Ciulla Kamarck and William A. Galston addressed the enormous social consequences of fatherlessness. They said:

The economic consequences of a parent’s absence (almost always the father’s) are often accompanied by psychological consequences, which include higher than average levels of youth suicide, low intellectual and educational performance, and higher than average rates of mental illness, violence, and drug use. . . . Equally suggestive is the anecdotal evidence of the difficulties many young single mothers experience in raising their sons. The absence of fathers as models and co-disciplinarians is thought to contribute to the low self-esteem, anger, violence, and peer-bonding through gang membership of many fatherless boys.”

“Nowhere is this more evident than in the long-standing and strong relationship between crime and one-parent families. . . . The relationship is so strong that controlling for family configuration erases the relationship between race and crime and between low income and crime. This conclusion shows up time and time again in the literature; poverty is far from the sole determinant of crime.”

FATHERS 4 JUSTICE

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