Mens Rights Thread

For 5.4% of children the man they believe to be their biological father is not, Note 1, Ref.[2] and Figure 1. This has health implications for these children throughout their lives

Mispaternity

Ref.[2], Section 15.2, discusses the available data on “mispaternity”, i.e., the ostensible father proving not to be the biological father upon testing. One must be very careful with such data because most of it originates from cases where paternity has been challenged, and hence will be biased towards high rates of mispaternity which will not be characteristic of the general population. Ref.[2] selects out such cases to produce a reduced dataset where there was no pre-existing suspicion of misattributed paternity. The 43 data where testing was not done due to paternity dispute and where there was no reason prior to testing to expect a particularly high or particularly low mispaternity rate comprises 35 cases from European or Anglophone countries and 8 cases from other countries. These data are plotted in Figure 1, below. Ignoring three high-lying data points whose provenance is suspect, and ignoring the nonEuropean/Anglophone data which are also relatively high, the median of the remaining European/Anglophone data is a mispaternity rate of 5.4%. (For comparison, for those datasets where there was prior suspicion the median mispaternity was 25%).

“The regime is very similar to what male prisoners have in open prisons like Shelton Abbey. It is important to note that she is technically still in custody and not on temporary release and her release date with standard remission is not until August of next year.”

When contacted, an Irish Prison Service spokesperson said it does not comment on individual prisoners, but in a statement she gave an explanation of how the Outlook Programme works.

“In the Probation Service/Irish Prison Service joint Women Strategy 2014-2016, which sought to improve outcomes for women offenders,” the statement read, “a joint working group between the two agencies recommended that the most practical and cost-effective way to address the needs identified was to develop a step down facility for women.

“In this regard, the Probation Service and Irish Prison Service worked collaboratively towards the identification of a suitable venue for a women’s step down unit in Dublin.

“The regime structure of the Dóchas Centre allows effectively for the women in custody to progress from their initial accommodation to more enhanced houses in the Dóchas Centre prior to progression to the Outlook step down accommodation facility, or to release, as appropriate.

“To enhance the rehabilitative opportunities for female offenders a new programme in partnership with the Probation Service, called the Outlook Programme, was opened in May 2019.

“The project is managed by Focus Ireland and the vision of the programme is to promote the rehabilitation and reintegration of women leaving prison and those who have accommodation needs requiring support in the community.”

Some claim it’s because women do better out of a marriage split. The wife often gets the family home and custody of the kids. Among the super-rich, alimony means big bucks.

Women today have more confidence to leave a miserable marriage, yet some mediation counsellors claim women may choose to end a marriage simply because they have higher relationship standards.

“Men will jog along in a mediocre marriage as long as there is food on the table and an occasional opportunity for marital sex,” one counsellor told me. “Women want something better. They want emotional understanding, give and take, validation. They’re less likely to put up with an unsatisfactory home life.”

Markle has established the 40x40 programme: “For my birthday I have asked 40 friends, activists, athletes, artists, and world leaders to help kick off a global effort by contributing 40 MINUTES OF MENTORSHIP [weirdly placed emphasis: hers] to support women re-entering the workforce.” 

In the past two years, millions of women across the world have left the workforce, Markle correctly observes. Women have disproportionately borne the brunt of the Covid-19 crisis, as industries they populate – hospitality, retail and tourism – have seen a flurry of job losses. Women occupy most care roles too, where day-to-day pressure has been immense. We are desperately in need of a solution to these severe pandemic by-products.

Webinar Invitation  

‘Solutions for Parental Alienation’ - Diagnosing Parental Alienation using the Five-Factor Method’ by Dr William Bernet, a professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, board-certified in general psychiatry, child psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry.

To Whom it concerns

Alienated Children First (ACF) cordially invites you to join with others working for children and families in Ireland to our third Webinar. This parental alienation awareness Webinar is an important and unique event that focuses on children and their families who are navigating through a high conflict relationship breakdown, namely the too common issue of parental alienation.

We believe this is a timely and hugely important event for all people in Ireland but foremostly the professionals/policymakers who can learn to understand the phenomenon of parental alienation. Until recently this topic was hidden but it has become more and more prevalent in modern Ireland. In recent times due to a parent powered campaign 30 of 31 Irish Councils have voted to call upon the government to address Parental Alienation (PA ). Parental Alienation has been raised in Dail Eireann more than forty times over the past 2 years, this political response has been both cross-party, non-political, and non-gender. The Irish Government has recognised this complex situation and the Minister of Justice Helen McEntee in a recent radio interview outlined future government plans to address this important societal and family issue. The Department of Justice has successfully tendered research and is undertaking public consultation on parental alienation as outlined in the Justice Plan 2021 action 76.

The speaker Dr William Bernet is a leading expert and author on the complex situations and trauma surrounding family breakdown and how it can be diagnosed. William will put forward working solutions on how to practically address parental alienation in family courts. Most importantly, he will outline his methods on how to assess, diagnose and treat parental alienation. 

William Bernet’s research and expertise provide a valuable opportunity to learn about parental alienation. Understand the problems involved in it and hear about the possible solutions on how to diagnose it. Most crucially how it can be prevented, intervention measures and steps that can be taken to stop and or limit its occurrence. This gained knowledge will have a positive impact on practices and delivery of services for children, families and communities who are exposed to this trauma and in danger of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

This webinar is aimed at professionals (interested parents may attend also) and is organised by Alienated Children First. It will be especially useful for professionals working with children and families throughout the island of Ireland. This free webinar is scheduled for 30th August at 3 pm (donations will be kindly accepted via Eventbrite). To register please go to https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/solutions-for-parental-alienation-acf-webinar-series-3-tickets-166712919831. Further details including profiles can be found at http://alienated.ie/.

Questions about Parental Alienation for Dr William Bernet can be sent prior to the event by email to conference@alienated.ie and after the webinar, we will post a video of the webinar with enlightening and informative facts that will be a useful reference for professionals and parents, who have questions about Parental Alienation that remain unanswered. If you have any further questions, please contact us at media@lienated.ie.

Kind regards, 

Paul Anderson, Director, Alienated Children First