Out Of The Ashes Comes the Equal Parenting Alliance, A New Political Party

Peter Molloy, former Fathers4Justice member from Liverpool, announced last night that he and several other men are starting a new political party: Equal Parenting Alliance (EPA). They've been in talks with the Manchester group Children First Party about a possible merger. As reported on IC Liverpool.co.uk Molloy said, "We're offering a lifeline to people who want to continue campaigning for equal access rights for fathers."

Daryl Irwin is the leader of Children First Party. He says the two groups will put pressure on the main political parties to change family law to "better serve" children.

Molloy is quoted as saying, "The issue that Fathers 4 Justice campaign for, is still very much alive, but the group itself has been in slow decline for the last 12 to 18 months. They were really successful at first but they needed to step up their game, but they have just been losing momentum. They had loads of public support at the beginning but the stunts kept on disrupting normal people so they have started to alienate people who used to sympathise with them."

Molloy, a 35-year-old plumber told IC Liverpool, "We decided that politics is the way to go now, and when we heard about Children First, we decided to meet them. Most of our policies are the same, so we are in talks to amalgamate the two groups."

I agree that politics are the way to go. The advances we've made here in California have mostly been through this advocacy group and father-friendly legislators. But I also believe we need to keep this subject in the public eye. How we'll do that in the future will be interesting to see.