A shake up of family law was announced by the government recently, with plans to give children in separated families the rights to maintain equal access to both parents.
The changes to the family justice system are seen as a formal recognition of the fact that access to both parents is vital during a child’s upbringing. The move is likely to disappoint fathers' rights groups, though, as in their eye’s it doesn’t go far enough; most groups are campaigning for a legal guarantee of equal access.
The Children's Minister, Tim Loughton, commented on the changes, saying that it was part of the state’s duty to ensure that fathers weren’t excluded from their offspring’s lives and that the new laws will give the children the rights to maintain contact with a loving parent who may have, in the past, been pushed out due to legal decisions.
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