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INDEX
- McDowell
believes the District Family Court is "an intellectual and legal slum
… the worst court to decide children's welfare"
- Real Women on Feminism and why Misandry is evil
- Moral Principles for Catholic Voters
- Schooling and the Family
- The Family in the Social Teaching of the Church
- RTE can not be trusted to provide balanced programming and reporting
- Trouble with your School? Are they teaching "sex education" or other moral values against your wishes?
How to deal with bullying schools
- "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a fathers protection" - Freud
- The Image of the Family as a Tree
- Baby
Ann Judgments will cause an abrupt drop
in Family breakdown
- December
General Meeting of the Irish Bishops' Conference
- Home
Schooling in Canon Law - Benedict T. Nguyen
- The
necessity of both sexes in parenting - Reconcilable
Differences
- Married
Love and The Gift of Life
- A
Case for Strengthening Marriage
- The moral divide
between the Roman Catholic Church and civil law
- Scandal
- Incorrect Text Published By Government Stationery
Office - Used By Judges
- Comparing the Lifestyles of Homosexual Couples to Married Couples
- HPV
Condom Study Shows The Failure of Condom Education
- Brainwashing
The Children : A Global Effort
- COMMUNIST
ORIENTED POLICING The consensus (dialectic) process
- AUSTRALIAN
SAFETY SURVEY KILLS FEMINIST DISTORTIONS
- PROMISCUOUS
SEXUAL LIFESTYLE IS LIABLE FOR DAMAGES
- DOUBLE-TALK
OVER CLAIM THAT STATE FACES CENSURE OVER INADEQUATE
CHILD
ACCESS
- Sexual
history now fair game - The Los Angeles Times 7
July 2006
- CENSUS FORM ANOTHER ATTACK ON MARRIAGE
- THE
MISUSE OF THE "EQUALITY CONCEPT" HARMS
CHILDREN
AND SABOTAGES OUR HUMAN RIGHTS
- THE
LAW RELATING TO THE MARRIED FAMILY IN IRELAND
- Why
Joint Custody is Overrated? - The REAL REASONS
- How
we restore civil society
- Harper
Backs MPs Depiction of Liberal Day Care Plan as "Soviet
Style"
- Same-sex
promotion to eliminate Mum and Dad from our language?
- WHY
CHRIST'S MALENESS IS ESSENTIAL TO FAITH.
- Fighting poverty means fighting family-breakup
- Men
are defined by their natural ability to be givers/providers
in society
- "How
to control adults by means of bogus 'children's rights'
"
- Britain's
lop-sided baby famine
- Advocacy
Research - fooling you the public
- Implications
of Papal Encyclical on Pro-Life Movement
- Roe
v. Wade: That Most Unsettling Law
- A
UK Solicitor explains how 'Legal Corruption' has devastated
Marriage
- THE
BOGUS CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY
- Labour
must stop penalising marriage by Jill Kirby
- FAMILY
LAW PASTORAL LETTER
(Scottish Catholic Bishops)
- CATECHETICS
COMMISSION - IRISH BISHOPS' CONFERENCE EDUCATION
IN FAITH
- Canada's
Chief Justice Says Courts Must Ignore Written Laws in
Favour of Judge-Decided Unwritten 'Norms'
- Marriage
and Caste
- Women Who Make the World Worse and How
Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Families, Military School
- The
effects of different kinds of care on children's development
- A Bill That Will Profoundly Divide Canada
- Media telling lies to discredit pro-family Bush
- Abstinence Makes Sense: A Common Sense Rationale
- Study Finds Conclusive Link between Oral Contraceptives
and Heart Disease
- Same-sex marriages are AUTOMATICALLY null and
void!
- The
No-Blame Game: Why No-Fault Divorce Is Our Most Dangerous
Social Experiment
- The
Taking Every Thought Captive - What is a Marriage?
- Mothers'
rights Article an unchanging, timeless, self-evident,
universal Principle
- Men
and Domestic Violence:- What Research Tells Us [Ireland]
- The
advantages of social apartheid
- How
America can end its divorce epidemic
- Letter
To The Bishops Of The Catholic Church On The Collaboration
Of Men And Women In The Church And In The World
- Theresa
Heaney -Reply to TP O'Mahony on Pope, Irish Examiner
- How
Do Fathers Fit In?
- The
demonisation of decency - Melanie Phillips
- Hold
the quiche: Manly men are back
- Figi
Prime Minister says Homosexuality is a sin
- Recent
US Statistics on the gender of child abuse perpetrators
challenges myths
- Facts
& Misconceptions (US)
- The
Fallacy of an evil Patriarchy
- Britain's
Moral Wasteland by Melanie Phillips
- Centre
For Policy Studies (UK) - Must Read Articles
- Faith
and Patriotism Charles J. Chaput is the archbishop of
Denver
- Legislating
vice and demonising virtue by Melanie Phillips
- The
Birth Dearth - LifeSite Daily News;
LifeSiteNews.com (c) Copyright:
- Breeding
for Britain By Melanie Phillips
- Shocking
Four-Year-Old News on Suicide from Australia.
- The
Irish People's Right to a Presidential Election.
- Theresa
Heaney -Reply to TP O'Mahony on Pope, Irish Examiner
- How
Do Fathers Fit In?
- The
demonisation of decency - Melanie Phillips
- Hold
the quiche: Manly men are back
- Figi
Prime Minister says Homosexuality is a sin
- Recent
US Statistics on the gender of child abuse perpetrators
challenges myths
- Facts
& Misconceptions (US)
- The
Fallacy of an evil Patriarchy
- Britain's
Moral Wasteland by Melanie Phillips
- Centre
For Policy Studies (UK) - Must Read Articles
- Faith
and Patriotism Charles J. Chaput is the archbishop of
Denver
- Legislating
vice and demonising virtue by Melanie Phillips
- The
Birth Dearth - LifeSite Daily News;
LifeSiteNews.com (c) Copyright:
- Breeding
for Britain By Melanie Phillips
- Shocking
Four-Year-Old News on Suicide from Australia.
- The
Irish People's Right to a Presidential Election.
Baby
Ann Judgements will cause an abrupt drop in Family breakdown
(13th Nov
2006)
We provide
links below to the Judgments made by the five Supreme
Court Justices in the hearing labelled by the media
as the "Baby Ann Adoption" case.
These judgments
represent a landmark in family law.
The principle
of the case itself is simply that a baby cannot be adopted
from a Married Family against the
wishes of
the parents. What is remarkable and commendable of the
majority of the Justices (see Hardiman J.,
Geoghegan J., Fennelly J) is that they have seized this
opportunity to reverse the slippage in the Rule
of Law - the established law of the Family - that custom
and practice, as exercised in the family law
courts, especially the lower courts, has steadily eroded
in the past 40 years.
[Click
Here to link to full judgements]
PRESS RELEASE 7th DECEMBER 2006
DECEMBER GENERAL MEETING OF THE IRISH BISHOPS'
CONFERENCE
"As Bishops, we cannot but express our amazement
that politicians and public opinion makers shy away
from confronting the basic demands of morality, namely
what is right and wrong. Until such time as morality
is respected for what it is - the bedrock of personal
integrity and of communal life - Irish society, in the
midst of increasing material prosperity, will continue
its downward descent into moral chaos where literally
anything goes.
Fundamentally, our society needs a moral revolution
to replace a culture of violence with a renewed ethic
of justice, responsibility and community. New policies
and programs, while necessary, cannot substitute for
a recovery of the old values of right and wrong, respect
and responsibility, love and justice. The teachings
of Jesus Christ are clear as are the biblical values
of respect for life, peace and justice and community.
The teaching of the Church on respect for human
life and dignity, on right and wrong, on family, on
justice and peace, on rights and duties are available
to us. They are imperatives for the common good. Our
faith challenges each of us to examine how we can contribute
to an ethic which cherishes life, puts people before
things, and values kindness and compassion over anger,
intolerance, vengeance and lack of forgiveness. A growing
sense of national fear and concern must be replaced
by a new commitment to solidarity and an enhancing of
the common good."
[READ
ON]
HOME SCHOOLING in CANON LAW - BENEDICT T. NGUYEN
Throughout 2003, the question of the legitimacy of
home schooling by Catholic parents arose when three
respected priests, Fathers Vincent Rogers, Peter M.J.
Stravinskas, and Clarence Hettinger, attempted to defend
the view that Catholic parents generally do not have
the right to home school their children.
This is their advanced argument as presented primarily
in The Catholic Answer.
[READ
ON]
The Necessity of Both Sexes in Parenting.
Reconcilable
Differences
What Social Sciences Show About
the Complementarity of the Sexes & Parenting
by
W. Bradford Wilcox
In the last four decades, a feminist revolution has
swept the globe. To be sure, this revolution has brought
many beneficial changes to our world. Now, for instance,
much of the world allows and encourages women to bring
their talents into the public spheres of work and public
policy. But this revolution has also brought less`e
developments.
[READ
ON]
MARRIED LOVE AND THE GIFT OF LIFE
by United
States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB),
November
14, 2006.
Men
and women considering marriage yearn for certain things.
They want to be accepted unconditionally
by
each other. They want their marriage to be filled with
love and happiness. They want a family.
In short, they want their marriage to be a source
of joy and fulfilment their whole life long.
In the Rite of Marriage (1969) a man and woman are
asked if they will love one another faithfully and totally.
in short, if they will love as God loves. “Have you
come here freely and without reservation to give yourselves
to each other in marriage?” asks the bishop, priest,
or deacon. “Will you love and honour each other as
man and wife for the rest of your lives? Will you accept
children lovingly from God, and bring them up according
to the law of Christ and his Church?”
[READ
ON]
A Case for Strengthening Marriage
by Leah
Ward Sears Washingtonpost.com :
Monday, October
30, 2006;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/29/AR2006102900548.html
For the first time in history, less than half of U.S.
households are headed by married couples. And on Sept.
29, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released
data showing that almost 36 percent of all births are
the result of unmarried childbearing, the highest percentage
ever recorded.
In family law, as in the rest of American society,
there is an intensifying debate about how we should
respond to this kind of news. Should law and society
actively seek new ways to support marriage? Or should
family law strive to be marriage-neutral by providing
more rights and benefits to its alternatives, such as
cohabitation and single parenthood?
[READ
ON]
The moral divide
between the Roman Catholic Church and civil law
In May of this year a father of four was jailed for
two weeks for contempt of orders
made in family law proceedings brought by his wife
in the Circuit Court. His habeas corpus application
was successful after Justice Smith in the High Court
commented that the manner in which he was jailed contained
"worrying features". He was freed on condition
that he initiate Judicial Review proceedings to resolve
the important issues raised.
The husband had argued that the court had failed
to show jurisdiction over his Roman Catholic Marriage,
that the matter raised constitutional issues as to whether
a marriage can at the one time be soluble and indissoluble
and on that basis declined to appear before the Circuit
Court.
The unhappy and unsatisfactory apparent dismissing
of the Judicial Review in the High Court last week whilst
the father was absent because of illness leaves these
important issues still to be resolved and this essay
is an attempt to analyse the underlying difficulties
that this case has unearthed and why it might suit the
legal system to have this matter swept back under the
carpet.
The essential features of the case are:
- Does
the state have authority to regulate a Marriage
consecrated under the rites and ceremonies of the
Roman Catholic Church? It is accepted that they
can regulate the civil aspects of it after some
form of a Decree has been awarded?
- Which
code has authority over Roman Catholics where the
civil law fails to protect the innocent party and
acts immorally but the Canon law still acts morally?
- Should
the husband in the circumstances be forced to pay
the costs?
- How
should one manage the conflict between following
ones religious convictions and participating in
civil society were the civil law offends the moral
teachings of the Church.
[READ
ON]
Comparing the Lifestyles of Homosexual Couples to Married Couples
by: Timothy J. Dailey, Ph. D.
"Married and Gay Couples Not All that Different," proclaimed the headline of a
news article portraying homosexual households as remarkably similar to married
couples. "We're the couple next door," claimed one partnered homosexual. "We
have a dog and a cat. I drive a Volvo. I'm boring." NOT SO!
says Mr Dailey... Many times, homosexual relationships are touted as being no
different than ordinary married couples. But research shows that in several key
respects, the homosexual lifestyle differs radically from other types of
relationships. [READ
ON]
HPV
Condom Study Shows The Failure of Condom Education
by Dale O'Leary That is a headline you didn't read
in your local paper although it accurately describes
the results of a study published in the prestigious
New England Journal of Medicine. Instead the headline
in at least one paper reads "Condoms protect against
cervical cancer." The subhead is a little more
restrained: "When condoms are used effectively,
a study shows they can help prevent the spread of human
papilloma virus" (HPV).
Most people would assume for example, that prevent
means zero infections, but what the study actually found
was that if 100 women used condoms 100% of the time
for one year, 37 would be infected with HPV. Admittedly
that is better than the results for the 100 women who
used condoms 5% or less of the time, 89 of these would
be infected. What the news story failed to mention is
that if 100 women used condoms 5% to 49% of the time,
there would be 159 infections. In other words some women
would have multiple infections.
How, you may ask, are women who at least use condoms
some of the time twice as likely to be infected as those
who use condoms rarely or never? The answer probably
lies in the psychology of condom use. Those who have
reason to believe that their partners are not infected
are more likely to discontinue condom use, whereas those
who perceive some risk are more likely to insist on
condom use.
[READ
ON]
Brainwashing
The Children : A Global Effort
"As the battle for total control over our children
escalates, the bastions of social services in almost
every nation are working overtime to steal them and
turn them into state property. This is a global effort,
not just an assault on children, and no effort is too
great to those who want to brainwash the children and
make them citizens of the new global order.
Not since the days of Noah has there been such a
systematic destruction of the children, not just literally
(through infanticide), but through brainwashing and
abuse. There's a lot at stake for the liberal elites
and turncoat conservatives, but their plans didn't come
out of thin air. The real source is spiritual, and a
"war in the heavenlies" is mirroring what's
happening here on earth - a war that's more insidious
than those fought with guns, grenades, and rockets.
In its alleged quest for equality for women, the
feminist movement fomented the destruction of the family
(especially poor families) and the creation of a global
harem via the destruction of morals. Women still (as
in ancient empires) rely on their physical selves to
bargain for the crown jewels. Look at the prostitution
rings taking shape on college campuses across this nation.
This is the type of education being nurtured in the
youngest of our females for the good of the New World
Order. The harems must be replenished and our littlest
girls are the source. This is not freedom for women,
it's slavery; and it comes with a high price - the destruction
of their souls."
[READ
ON]
COMMUNIST
ORIENTED POLICING The consensus (dialectic) process
By Detective Phil Worts June 1, 2001
There is a myth that communism is dead and that the
cold war is over. Nothing could be further from the
truth. The problem is that few people today understand
what communism really is and just where the cold war
battle lines are actually drawn. Crack open a dictionary
and look up the term "Dialectical Materialism."
You should find something like this:
"A philosophy founded by Karl Marx… which forms
the basis of Communist doctrine: it combines the materialistic
idea of matter over mind with the Hegalian dialectic
in which opposing forces are constantly being reunited
at a higher level."
Webster Dictionary But that definition might beg
the question, "What is the Hegelian dialectic?"
For modern man, the answer to that question is epic.
The Hegelian dialectic has profoundly impacted the world
in which you live.
[READ
ON]
AUSTRALIAN
SAFETY SURVEY KILLS FEMINIST DISTORTIONS
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Personal
Safety Survey has finally emerged and along with its
appearance, the statistical myths of feminist's victimhood
and women's class oppression - particularly those relating
to claims of epidemic violence against women - have
immediately vaporised.
Their silence is deafening.
[READ
ON]
PROMISCUOUS
SEXUAL LIFESTYLE IS LIABLE FOR DAMAGES
Those who lead high-risk lifestyles - including people
who engage in promiscuous and/or same-sex acts - are
again held liable for not only infecting their partner
but also for telling partners about possible exposure
to infections and disease.
The article below reports a landmark ruling in the
Supreme Court of California which can be cited in the
courts here in Ireland.
The court ruled that anyone who contracts a Sexually
Transmitted Disease (STD) can successfully sue, for
damages, the person that transmitted it to them.
There are very serious implications for schools as
the ruling carries the inference that a person who is
taught in school, as part of the Department of Education's
"Stay Safe" programme or SPHE course where
they are told they would be 'safe' as long as they used
a condom.
If a child taught such a programme at some stage
in their life contracts a Sexually Transmitted Disease
whilst using a condom the school's Board of Management
will from now on be liable for negligence for failing
to properly warn the children about the consequences
and huge risks associated with sex outside monogamous
relationships.
There are a minimum of 50 different strains of Sexually
Transmitted Diseases so the chances of a teacher being
able to properly cover them all is zero.
When one also considers that the STD Human Pampilloma
Virus is associated with the majority of cervical cancers
and the STD Chlamydia is often without any symptoms
but can lead to infertility 5 or more years later one
can only imagine the size of the damages to be paid
out to a woman who has become infertile as a result
or who has developed cervical cancer.
See Reducing
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among our Youth
by Robert E. Rector This decision also will impact very
significantly on 'Marriage breakdown' by bringing conduct
back to its moral roots. If a person behaves badly by
committing adultery and by so doing increases the risk
of physical or emotional injury to their spouse by introducing
disease or some other harm, they will from now on be
liable for damages.
We now know that Sexually Transmitted Diseases are
much more prevalent and harmful than we ever understood
and that condoms do not protect one from the consequences.
This means in effect that almost every case of promiscuity
or adultery and certainly any sexual acts committed
by two males will carry disease and make the transgressor
liable to be sued.
This will have enormous ramifications as the innocent
spouse will now be able to seek compensation for the
harm done to them, regardless of whether the so-called
'family' law has become so distorted by solicitors it
pretends to allow "no-fault" divorce.
Roger Eldridge, Chairman. National Men's Council
of Ireland, www.family-men.com
[Read
On...]
DOUBLE-TALK
OVER CLAIM THAT STATE FACES CENSURE OVER INADEQUATECHILD
ACCESS
Comment Double-talk over claim that State
faces censure over inadequate child access Last week
the Sunday Business Post printed an article where it
said "The state is accused of breaching the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child by failing to
provide facilities for supervised access between separated
parents and their children."
The National Mens Council of Ireland have carried
out extensive research into the whole area of child
and family law and we can confirm there is no so-called
breach of United Nations Convention on the Rights of
the Child that liars claim we have to abide by. There
are however ongoing serious violations of the Constitutional
rights of married fathers to protect their children
[READ
ON]
Sexual
history now fair game - The Los Angeles Times 7 July
2006
California's Supreme Court rightly decides that high-risk
partners have disease-transmission liability before
they know they're infected.
Since the first such case found its way into court
more than two decades ago, only people who knew they
had HIV and didn't inform their partners could be held
liable by the people they infected. This week, the California
Supreme Court rightly decided that wasn't harsh enough.
[Read
On...]
CENSUS FORM ANOTHER ATTACK ON MARRIAGE
The National
Men’s Council of Ireland and Mothers at Home believe the first question in the
census form after the informant’s name should be, as it always used to be, to
determine their marital status. If this is not done the rest of the questions
do not make sense and the answers will not be helpful.
We believe
this census is so badly flawed that the persons who are responsible for it
should be sacked and it should be done again with the money to do so coming out
of the wages of those responsible.
The evidence
suggests that this census form is being used as a tool of the state for social
engineering and no doubt we will be hearing from this census lots of statistics
as to why we should ‘forget’ about and demean the institution of Marriage,
concentrate on our ‘careers’ and let the state look after our children!
For starters
there is no acknowledgement of the legal position in a Married family as to who
is head of the household. The law of Ireland directs that it is the Husband,
yet this form allows any adult to fill it in on behalf of themselves and
everyone else. This is further compounded by a claim that anyone who fails or
refuses to provide information or who knowingly provides false information may
be subject to a fine of up to €25,000.
We ask who in a married family is liable for the
fine if the information is not properly provided?
[See
Census Questions]
THE MISUSE OF THE "EQUALITY CONCEPT"
HARMS CHILDREN
AND SABOTAGES OUR HUMAN RIGHTS
It appears from the research carried out by the National
Men's Council of Ireland and from the experiences of
members of the Mothers at Home group that the "equality
concept" is being MIS-used by our feminist state
to stealthily take control of our lives. Whilst one
can argue over the manner and morality of such a power
grab, one aspect is undeniable. IT IS HARMING CHILDREN
and this article explains how we can reverse that situation
and use it to actually better protect children.
[READ
ON...]
THE LAW RELATING TO THE MARRIED FAMILY IN IRELAND
Please see
appendices in Reference Library for citations
Courts exist to vindicate the rights of the citizens.
The Family Courts exist to interpret and implement legislation in such a way
as to vindicate the rights of the Married Family.
The rights of the Married Family exist in Natural Law, in Common Law, in
statute and Constitutional Law and enshrine the presumption that a child's
welfare requires the making of a relief order that vindicates the child's rights
to be in the society of both their Married parents. (see Articles 41 and 42 of
Bunreacht Na hÉireann; see Finlay C J in re: J H an infant, [1984 Nos 86, 322
and 399 Sp.])
It is accepted as a matter of public policy that it is in the interests of a
child's welfare and development to foster a close relationship between a child
of a Marriage and both of that child's parents.
[READ
ON...]
Why
Joint Custody is Overrated? - The REAL REASONS
Roger
Eldridge Chairman. National Men’s Council of Ireland,
One often reads articles which claim that “Joint
Custody is Overrated?” These are often written by solicitors
(who are in fact Officers of the Court, ie they work
for the state) and so need to be treated with a government
“health warning” - but in this instance to warn us about
the GOVERNMENT trying to damage our health! There’s
a grave risk that their claims about Custody, joint
or otherwise will mislead many, intentionally or otherwise.
The important consideration that is almost always
omitted (maliciously or by ignorance) from these sorts
of articles is the enormous distinction that exists
in the rights and duties of parents who are Married
and those who are not.
[READ
ON...]
How
we restore civil society
Can we humbly suggest that the starting point for
anyone who cares about restoring love, peace, comfort
and happiness back into ordinary people’s family lives
is with an understanding of what has happened to men
which has made them feel so weak and unable to protect
their children and families.
If we accept that men are terribly weak now, we need
to understand what has changed from the time when they
weren’t so weak, from a time when they were actually
strong AND ABLE TO PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN.
[READ
ON...]
Harper
Backs MPs Depiction of Liberal Day Care Plan as "Soviet
Style"
Quote: "Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant added,
"for the previous 13 years,
Canadians ha(ve) been saddled with an interventionist
government that without a doubt has been anti-family.
The worldwide trend away from Soviet style institutionalised
day care has been very pronounced in those countries
that were formerly part of the old Soviet empire and
are now democracies.
Our plan to provide benefits directly to families
is in tune with the experience of other democratic countries."
Same-sex
promotion to eliminate Mum and Dad from our language?
From:
Family Research Council frcpub@frc.org May 12, 2006
Just in time for Mother's Day, the California Senate
has voted to approve S.B. 1437, a measure that could
eliminate mom and dad from school textbooks. [Click
link]
WHY
CHRIST'S MALENESS IS ESSENTIAL TO FAITH.
Peter Kreeft, The Voice Today 28 April 2006
The following
article by Peter Kreeft is very important and one that every man should read
and understand thoroughly. It provides answers to a lot of questions that men
ask to explain how their lives have been devastated, and their families thrown
into despair despite their best efforts to be a good man.
It explains
why feminism has sought to demonise all men. It explains why feminism is
anti-Christian, anti-Muslim, anti-Jew, anti-God.
Most
importantly, if the message it conveys is properly understood, it contains the seeds of a revival in men’s
feelings of self-worth and a return to a culture where the connection between
law and morality is restored.
“As a man
comes into a woman's body from without (=outside) to impregnate her and
performs a miracle in her - of a new life - from without; God creates the
universe from without and performs miracles in it from without. He also calls
to man, reveals himself and his law to
man from without.”
Lest any man
gets carried away that this article suggests he is imbued with God-like
characteristics, this article actually reveals that man may only use his
awesome power in the pursuit of performing his onerous responsibilities.
Furthermore
our present societal descent into the abyss of moral and social depravity will
ONLY be halted and reversed when men recover from the emotional (and physical)
shock we have been thrown into by the feminist allegations of our inherent
badness and we once again act as Husbands.
This, for many
will take a courage that they fear they do not possess. However the good news
is that the tide has turned and there are already signs that those who are
brave enough to dare are actually succeeding in their goals – of protecting
their family from attack by the unholy alliance of big-business, big-government
and the media.
The truth is that the war we wage will only be
won when men once again connect the law to morality through their faith in God.
Fighting poverty means fighting family-breakup
This article applies
unfortunately everywhere Socialists have the upper hand in government - even in
the Ireland who have just commemorated 90 years of its existence as a Republic.
A republic is a country where the people hold the sovereignty and are protected
from state interference by a written Constitution, yet our Prime Minister,
leader of Fianna Fail - 'the Republican Party' - openly admits to being a
socialist and openly makes statements opposing the Constitution.
Quote: ... The state guarantees
a father's income without his presence.
While the middle class can
afford to be liberal about family break-up - lone parents usually have the
money and family support needed - Murray believes this trend is wreaking
catastrophic damage on the poorest reaches of society.
There are now reams of evidence,
he says, showing that the children of lone parents are, for example, seven
times as likely to fall into poverty, four times as likely to be expelled from
school and twice as likely to go to prison.
If you accept these facts -
which Murray says are unchallenged - then fighting poverty means fighting
family-breakup. While this is the approach taken in America, by left and right,
it is too moralistic a mission for any British politician to touch.
"In Britain, if you say the things people like me
say you are seen as hard-headed, mean and nasty," says Murray. "I
believe cruelty consists of a glib assumption that government support for
children can compensate for the absence of the father."
Men
are defined by their natural ability to be givers/providers
in society
Roger Eldridge, National
Men's Council of Ireland
I would like to humbly offer my hypothesis about
the fundamental nature of men and women and how this
appears to unnervingly fit many of the facts that we
have become aware of about the many differences between
men and women that persist despite all attempts at 'equality'.
It also goes some way to explain why we are in such
a predicament and how we might begin to get out of it.
If there is broad agreement that there is some merit
in my hypothesis and it can be further refined by the
movement to the point where every man can empathise
with its basic premise and start to act on the conclusions
that can be drawn we can begin to bring our societies
back into line with common sense again rather than all
the time being surprised at the behaviour of women and
expecting men to act in a way that is counter to their
nature
My hypothesis, simplistic as it is, goes like this.
[Click Link]
"How
to control adults by means of bogus 'children's rights'
"-
"How Paedophiles masquerade behind
Children's Rights"
With the announcement by the Taoiseach last week
that the Office of the Minister for Children would be
established to streamline comprehensive policies for
children it is probably a suitable time to read the
expose written by Lynette Burrows on "How to control
adults by means of 'children's rights' - How Paedophiles
masquerade behind Children's Rights"
One of the very serious points she raises in her
article is how the promotion by the government of the
so-called "Children's Rights" movement in
Sweden - a country with a population only twice what
we have here in Ireland - has resulted in an average
of 15 to 20 thousand children per year being taken from
their parents and put into institutional care.
The figure in Ireland is hard to find but is estimated
at between 500 and 1000. The way that the state has
enabled itself to achieve this extraordinary number
in Sweden was to start more than ten years ago with
the introduction of the exact same so-called "Children's
Rights" institutions and organisations being heavily
funded now in Ireland and who similarly sought, amongst
other things, to criminalise the right of a parent to
use any form of appropriate discipline including smacking.
The main reason that Ireland has withstood the secular
intervention for so long is because of the Constitutional
protections afforded to married parents by De Valera.
These are the very protections that the liberal/feminists
are seeking to eliminate by way of the infamous All-Party
Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution.
The other reason is because of the strength of the
Catholic Church and the fundamental principles it holds
so dearly that the centrality of the married family
be kept sacred.
The research carried out by the National Men's Council
of Ireland shows clearly how the state is continually
seeking to illegally undermine the natural and Constitutional
rights of parents to protect their children from interference
by the state.
It is obvious to any sane person that anyone who
really cares for children will give their support to
the children's parents. Yet the state does the total
opposite.
The National Parent's Council, primary and post primary
who are the statutory body designated to represent all
parents receive less than a 100,000 euros a year to
do their work whereas the Children's Rights Council,
where parents of all the children in Ireland have only
two seats at the table out of more than seventy - are
funded to the tune of millions!
With this in mind please read Lynette Burrows article.
Roger Eldridge, Chairman. National Men's Council
of Ireland, Knockvicar, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
Www.family-men.com
Tel: 00 353 (0) 71-9667138 Email:
Britain's
lop-sided baby famine
Quotes: "We should be incentivising marriage
and prioritising not the Government's fetish of independence
for women but inter-dependence between husbands and
wives. And bringing back selection into the state school
system would do more for middle-class reproductive energy
than any amount of dodgy child-care or paternity leave
for bemused fathers.
Even more fundamentally, the middle classes aren't
having large families because they have lost confidence
in the future. Their values are quite simply under siege.
The core middle-class virtue of respectability has been
all but abolished. Marriage and home making are financially
penalised
The problem is that the Government's 'family-friendly'
policies are almost wholly to do with its iconic goal
of relieving poverty, as well as pursuing the ultra-feminist
agenda of stripping men of their breadwinner role to
give independence to women."
Advocacy
Research - fooling you the public
By
Robert Whiston, April 2005.
A brief explanation of the typical 'research' studies
you read in newspaper.
Frank Furedi, a professor of sociology at the University
of Kent, England.and a commentator on social policy
made a very astute observation in 2004;
"If
you want to get a story circulating in the media, all
you have to do is get some numbers, call it research
and put out a press release."
Implications
of Papal Encyclical on Pro-Life Movement
Quote: "The Pope also points out that while
their roles are distinct, the Church must work alongside
the State in bringing about a just society. The Church
"cannot and must not remain on the sidelines in
the fight for justice. She has to play her part through
rational argument and she has to reawaken the spiritual
energy without which justice, which always demands sacrifice,
cannot prevail and prosper" (n.28).....
The pro-life movement is all about love for our neighbour
in the womb….
This love, furthermore, is self-sacrificing…..
The
encyclical notes, "Love now becomes concern and
care for the other…..
No longer is it self-seeking,
a sinking in the intoxication of happiness;......
instead
it seeks the good of the beloved: it becomes renunciation
and it is ready, and even willing, for sacrifice"
(n. 6).
Roe
v. Wade: That Most Unsettling Law
frcpub@frc.org
South Dakota's Senate has now joined the House in
the capital city of Pierre to challenge Roe v. Wade.
South Dakota's new law banning abortion would allow
doctors to terminate a pregnancy only if necessary to
save the mother's life. We welcome this move by
the people's elected representatives.
The states are not mere chessboards to be manipulated
by national groups.
When I served in the Louisiana state legislature,
I was proud of the fact that when lawmakers debated,
we listened, and some were even persuaded. Too
often in Congress, arguments fall on deaf ears as partisan
politics prevail.
The states are great laboratories of democracy. While
many will assail the actions of the South Dakota legislature,
their new law reflects a pro-life state. The fact
that no South Dakota doctors are willing to perform
abortions speaks volumes about the social stigma attached
to abortion.
Those who perform abortions there are flown in from
Minnesota. South Dakota's actions make clear that
33 years after Roe v. Wade overturned the abortion laws
of all 50 states; Americans have still not accepted
abortion-on-demand.
A
UK Solicitor explains how 'Legal Corruption' has devestated
Marriage
A solicitor tells of the corruption in the way that
family law is implemented in the UK. If you change the
names of the bits of legislation the same misuse of
the law is being applied here with the same devasting
results - families are being torn apart because the
legal profession is facilitating the one who breaks
the contract of marriage, often even by the act of desertion
or adultery to benefit by penalising the innocent spouse.
This is what is fuelling the ever-increasing queue
of wives wanting to end their marriages.
THE
BOGUS CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY
Melanie argues that both young girls and mature women
(who in fact make up the majority of lone mothers) have
chosen to forego the child support system known as marriage.
To expect still to enjoy the benefits of that support,
having explicitly rejected the duties it entails, is
irresponsible and makes a nonsense of marriage. Yet
that is precisely the set of assumptions that the CSA
in the UK and the Maintenance Recovery Section in Ireland
promote.
At the heart of this problem is that child support
policy is explicitly not intended to repair the family.
Politicians are terrified to go down this road, taking
refuge instead in the apparent neutrality of financial
support for children.
But it is not neutral at all. On the contrary, it
is fuelling further family breakdown by failing to acknowledge
that the principal motor behind this phenomenon is the
behaviour of women.
It is women above all who should be made to take
responsibility for their behaviour. If they choose to
tear up a marriage contract or to have children without
committing themselves to the father, they should bear
the financial burden. Instead of being propped up with
benefits or money extorted from rejected men, they should
be expected to support themselves through work.
This may sound harsh. But if women were forced to
recalibrate where their interests lie once they become
mothers, the steam would go out of the lone motherhood
industry almost overnight.
Far more harsh, after all, is the plight of fatherless
children. In treating women instead as victims, politicians
ignore the real casualties of the egregious failure
of its family policy.
Labour
must stop penalising marriage by Jill Kirby
The first, and urgent, step for any Government is
to recognise the problems created by the decline of
marriage, and to signal its determination to restore
this neglected institution. This means acknowledging
that its fiscal policies have been misguided.
Providing a safety net for the victims of family
breakdown is a necessary and compassionate function
of welfare, but this must be balanced by clear tax incentives
for marriage. A welfare system that penalises married
couples, alongside a tax system that ignores them, is
a lethal combination.
FAMILY
LAW PASTORAL LETTER
(Scottish Catholic Bishops)
summarising
the Key Concerns of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland
http://www.scmo.org/_titles/view.asp?id=446
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Following recent changes in the law relating to family
life in Scotland, Archbishop Mario Conti, on behalf
of the Bishops of Scotland, has written a pastoral letter
on the subject. 65000 copies of the letter have been
printed and sent to each of Scotland's 500 Catholic
parishes for distribution to Catholic households this
weekend (28 - 29 January 2006). The full text of the
letter is shown in the full article, preceded by
several bullet points which summarise the concerns of
the Bishops' Conference of Scotland
CATECHETICS
COMMISSION OF THE IRISH BISHOPS' CONFERENCE EDUCATION
IN FAITH
SUNDAY - 5th FEBRUARY 2006
PASTORAL LETTER
Nurturing Our Children's Faith
"As priests
and bishops we have the privilege of being present at
some of the most important moments in the lives of families.
We are very grateful that we are welcomed to be part
of such occasions, not only in churches and schools,
but also in homes. We are happy to be present at joyful
times for our young people, such as Baptisms, First
Holy Communions and Confirmations. We are also present
and available at times of pain, when a family is visited
by sickness, or is distraught with grief because of
death and bereavement. Whether the occasion is joyful
or sorrowful, we can certainly say that faith makes
a great difference".
Canada's
Chief Justice Says Courts Must Ignore Written Laws in
Favour of Judge-Decided Unwritten 'Norms'
The following article, provided by Lifesite News,
explains why Canada is considered the most secular (ie
anti-Christian, anti-marriage, and anti-freedom) state
in the world and also helps us to understand why the
ruling party in Canada was overturned in the election
last week.
This should act as a warning to the activist secularists
who are running Ireland at the moment.
All true believers in the preservation of the dignity
and liberty of our people must be strengthened by the
work of our colleagues in Canada.
One of the prominent groups is the United Mothers
and Fathers of Canada.
It is no coincidence that parents - acting together
- should be at the forefront of the defense of democracy
and liberty as the secularists have made it their prime
target to create a phony war between women and men in
order to eradicate the privacy of family life and the
authority that parents have to bring up their children
according to their conscience.
After the shocking exposé on the totalitarianism
of the judiciary in Canada I give you the opportunity
to renew your hope in mankind by reprinting the latest
newsletter, titled "Grassroots success" from
the United Mothers and Fathers of Canada.
Marriage
and Caste
By Kay S. Hymowitz America's
chief source of inequality? The Marriage Gap.
For a while it looked like Hurricane Katrina would
accomplish what the NAACP never could: reviving civil
rights liberalism as a major force in American politics.
There it was for the whole world to see: the United
States was two nations, one rich, one poor and largely
black, one driving away in the family SUV to sleep in
the snug guest rooms of suburban friends and relatives,
the other sunk in the fetid misery of the Superdome.
Newsweek, echoing Michael Harrington's 1962 landmark
book that ignited the War on Poverty, titled its Katrina
coverage "The Other America" and warned the
nation not to return to the "old evasions, hypocrisies,
and not-so-benign neglect" of the "problems
of poverty, race, and class."
Women Who Make the World Worse and How
Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Families, Military Schools, and
Sports By KATE O'BEIRNE
We
need a strong women’s/mothers movement (working shoulder to shoulder with the
men’s/fathers movement) who are not employed by and funded by the state and so
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