In acrimonious divorces fathers are encouraged to use their children as a weapon – and now family courts are being accused of wrongly taking kids away from their mothers. Stella Wainwright investigates the growing controversy ‘Suicidal’ is how Jenny felt when her eight-year-old daughter was taken away from her last year. She was told there would be no communication between them for six weeks. ‘I don’t think there is anything more devastating than being separated from your child,’ she says. Who had ordered this separation? A religious cult? Was Jenny a neglectful mother? No, it was a UK family court that had found her guilty of ‘parental alienation’ – deliberately turning her daughter against a father from whom Jenny was estranged. [J4MB: So she WAS a neglectful mother!!!]
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Justice for Men & Boys 
My experience of divorce in Scotland was that, despite all the prattle, nobody cares twopence about the children’s interest. Nobody ever asked them what they wanted and nobody checked to see whether they were properly cared for.
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