Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
When seven-year-old Sarah Jackson headed off to spend time with her father in mid-November, she and her mother assumed she would be back at the end of the scheduled visitation time. Instead, her father fled with her because, unlike her Continue reading Courts & vaccines for kids
A lot of changes are needed to make the family law/court system work for survivors of family violence and their children. One of the first is for the system to stop treating violence within families as though it is a Continue reading What about the men?
As fathers are celebrated next Sunday, few of the toasts raised to dads at family barbecues or on Hallmark cards will ask what a father is. Easy, you say. A father is the male parent of a child. But, as Continue reading What makes a father?
Yesterday, March 1st, significant revisions to both Canada’s Divorce Act and Ontario’s Children’s Law Reform Act, (CLRA) came into effect. Many of those revisions address the ways in which courts make decisions about parenting arrangements (aka custody and access) after Continue reading Slowly making change