A million children in Britain are banned from seeing their grandparents because of family breakdown. Now the forgotten victims are fighting back...
By Diana Appleyard
Last updated at 8:13 AM on 29th October 2008
Margaret Deuchar's cosy front room is filled with photographs of her granddaughters. Pictures of the girls as babies, toddlers taking their first, faltering steps and sitting with their hair in neat bunches with their grandparents beaming beside them.
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Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne)
10 January 2010
Editorial
Family law must be fair
Family law is a vexed and emotionally charged area. It has been a source of controversy and review for decades - ever since 1975 when Lionel Murphy enacted the Family Law Act, which enshrined no-fault divorces.
But, after countless reviews and changes to the law, we are yet to get it right.
In 2006, the Howard government established the principle of shared parenting to encourage...
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