Robert Whiston

Violence and the invisible sex

Father Knowledge Centre — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:59:07 +0000

By Robert Whiston and Nigel Hawkes Published in Straight Statistics on Tuesday 15/09/2009: http://www.straightstatistics.org/article/violence-and-invisible-sex The Home Office claims that violence against women and girls costs £40.1 billion a year. That’s a very big claim. It’s almost as much as is spent on the total UK defence budget (£42.1 billion), and about half the education budget (£79.9 billion). Can domestic [...]

How the panic over rape was orchestrated

Father Knowledge Centre — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:18:50 +0000

By Robert Whiston Published in Straight Statistics on Wednesday, 02/09/2009 http://www.straightstatistics.org/article/how-panic-over-rape-was-orchestrated For years the Home Office and the former Lord Chancellor’s Department have misled the media about rape statistics – and allowed the media to misinform the public. Anxiety has grown as a result of the apparent increase in rape offences and the inability to successfully prosecute offenders. [...]

Anna Freud – Her secret failure (Part 1)

Father Knowledge Centre — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:44:35 +0000

By Robert Whiston FRSA. Sept 2009 Anna Freud is arguably best known for two assets, one being the daughter of Sigmund Freud and secondly the author of a book whose title has like no other passed into a legal mantra. With the death of her father, Sigmund in 1939, she inherited his mantle as acknowledged leader of [...]

12. The Law Commission’s Infamous ‘Supplement to Working Paper No. 96’.

Father Knowledge Centre — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:36:11 +0000

By Robert Whiston FRSA; October 12th 2008 See: Law Commission Supplement to Working Paper No. 96 – Review of Child Custody Law (1986) An Introductory Summary Background – The Law Commission is the body specifically empowered by all governments in Britain to revise laws and propose changes. It has had this role since 1965. It is an [...]

The elimination of shared parenting – The Children Act 1989

Father Knowledge Centre — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:04:58 +0000

By Robert Whiston FRSA. June 27th 2008 Introduction There are elements of British law which are baffling – even to the British. Somehow they don’t make sense. One of these is the infamous Children Act 1989. The reason for this bafflement might be blamed on the convoluted minds that legal technicians are required to develop. However, there [...]

10. Mothers Who Kill

Father Knowledge Centre — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:16:21 +0000

By Robert Whiston FRSA, Sept 17th, 2003; Updated with additional material on 26 May 2008 Victoria Climbie’s brutal death in 2000 rocked the conscience of Britain. News this week that yet again another little girl has been killed by her (single ?) mother has stunned the nation. This week, May 2008, a little 7 year-old girl, [...]

9. Gender Equality Scheme in Britain (GES)

Father Knowledge Centre — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:14:59 +0000

An unlikely piece of legislation that may yet prove a useful tool for Father’s Rights campaigners. By Robert Whiston, April 5th 2007 Passed in 2006 the Equality Act became an operational statute in April 2007. Approved without much fanfare it applies not only to all central government departments but to all registered charities and all NGOs (though [...]

8. Non-Resident Fathers in Britain

Father Knowledge Centre — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:05:40 +0000

Bradshaw, Stimson, Williams & Skinner (University of York SPRU). Economic & Social Research Council Programme on Population and Household Change Seminar March 1997 (A review by Robert J. Whiston, FRSA). This is an excellent if, at 20 pages, a rather short pilot into the uncharted waters of Non-Resident Fathers and, by implication, fatherless children. From the very beginning [...]

7. Government sponsored cohabitation: Pandora or Prometheus ?

Father Knowledge Centre — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:23:41 +0000

By Robert Whiston FRSA The government’s docile acceptance of the Law Commission’s 2006 proposals to increase the rights of cohabitees could threaten social cohesion. Society at large does not know that a similar regime existed 200 years ago and brought only chaos and poverty to women. In wishing society to make a leap of blind faith [...]

6. DNA Doppelganger Dilemma

Father Knowledge Centre — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:38:26 +0000

By Robert Whiston FRSA; 21st Aug 2004; updated version 2.01: Sept 2007 Forensic DNA testing has been trumpeted as unerringly accurate. It has relied for this on the inherent “uniqueness” of DNA It therefore comes as a shock to realise that aspects within forensic DNA testing are far from unique and far from reliable. DNA, as [...]

5. Twenty wasted years – Joint custody is not new or untested, two decades ago it was common in England

rwhiston — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:56:03 +0000

By Robert Whiston FRSA, Updated 2nd edition Family Law Society Seminar, February 4th 2008 Portcullis House, London Chairman: Mr Henry Bellingham MP Lord Falconer, the Lord Chancellor once famously declared that an exact split in contact arrangements was “unworkable”. Not content with proclaiming that fathers “cannot” have an automatic presumption of 50/50 contact he implied that over-his-dead-body fathers “will not” [...]

4. CAFCASS – an end of term report (March 2003)

Father Knowledge Centre — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:08:15 +0000

By Robert Whiston FRSA, March 2003 This is the Executive Summary of a submission [*] made in March 2003 to a UK Parliamentary Sub-Committee Inquiry [**] into CAFCASS [***]. CAFCASS was a direct replacement for the Court Welfare Officer (CWO) regime that had for many years been operated by the Probation Service, a section run by the [...]

3. ‘Self-harm’ is good for you !

Father Knowledge Centre — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:40:12 +0000

By Robert Whiston FRSA, Oct 2007 Civilisations and societies everywhere have, since time immemorial, generally taken a disapproving view and an instinctive abhorrence of suicide.[1] In the recent past, this displeasure towards those that have successfully committed suicide, has been expressed in various ways from the voiding of life insurance polices to a bar on burial [...]

2. Mediacentre Netherlands sees Christmas meeting of Dutch fathers’ organisation “IkVader”

Father Knowledge Centre — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:46:44 +0000

This week I am visiting Pieter Tromp of the Father Knowledge Centre Europe (Vader Kennis Centrum) in the Netherlands. Discussing future coöperation in starting of a UK branch of the Father Knowledge Centre was high on our agenda. Yesterday (Dec. 12) we also visited the Mediacentre Netherlands for a Christmasmeeting at the organisation running the popular [...]

1. Cohabitation in the UK – A Legal and Political Jihad Against Males

rwhiston — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:36:00 +0000

Robert Whiston FRSA; October 2006 In returning to the topic of legitimising cohabitation the Law Commission is attempting to complete what for them is ‘unfinished business’. The Law Commissioners are once again trying to launch another frontal assault on a target which, over the last 20 years, they have failed to overwhelm. 1 [...]

Cohabitation in Britain – a Legal and Political Jihad Against Men

Father Knowledge Centre — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:52:20 +0000

By Robert Whiston FRSA October 2006 This article was written in response to the Law Commission’s “Cohabitation: the Financial Consequences of Relationship Breakdown” detailed in the DCA‘s ‘Consultation Paper No 179’ and issued in May 2006. (http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/docs/cp179_overview.pdf). “Cohabitation: the State-Sponsored Slither into Slothfulness” A submission challenging the Consultation Paper’s views was made on behalf of Men’s [...]

Masculinity – are men in Crisis ?

Father Knowledge Centre — Mon, 31 May 1999 23:17:56 +0000

A favourite slur by feminists – but who hears the counter point ? by Robert Whiston, FRSA, The Ill Eagle, May 1999 Part 1 Reports are still coming in about the recent Conference of Fatherhood (in San Francisco May 28th – June 1st 1999). Some accounts say it focussed on the experience of young black men, the ‘fatherhood [...]