Dads will be frozen out by new Sperm App say Fathers4Justice
Fathers4Justice founder Matt O’Connor spoke on Channel5’s The Wright Stuff this morning to say that a new app allowing women to browse for sperm donors on their mobile phones reduces fathers to the status of ‘sperm banks’. The app from London Sperm Bank Donors lets women browse men by a series of characteristics including height, ethnicity and […]
Statement: Danny Cole
We have been made aware of a number of false and malicious allegations about F4J made by Danny Cole on his Twitter account @ChildNeedFather. For the record, Mr Cole never joined or registered with F4J for advice. He was given pro-bono, goodwill advice, on an ad hoc basis over a short period of time about […]
Tory MP Eric Pickles brands Fathers4Justice “the most pointless organisation in the entire world”
Tory MP Eric Pickles has told a Fathers4Justice supporter he was getting on his nerves and didn’t support equal rights for dads, before branding the campaign group “the most pointless organisation in the entire world”. Father-of-one, Adam Lowe, from Brentwood went to see his MP to ask him for help to see his young son, […]
The London Economic: The Shocking Cost of Fatherlessness in the UK
By Matt O’Connor, Founder, Fathers4Justice While the debate around the fatherless society is normally framed by emotional and legal arguments, few have considered the seismic impact this has on our economy. The devastating cancer of family breakdown and fatherlessness isn’t just laying waste to families, it also comes at a punitive human and economic cost […]
Irish Daily Star: Rose protestor Matt O’Connor did us all a favour
Sometimes people do us a good turn and we don’t even recognise it. Matt O’Connor presented us with an issue for consideration which for far too long has been brushed well and truly under the nation’s dirty carpet. He reminded us how we’ve consistently and deliberately abused the rights of natural fathers. And the simple […]
Fathers4Justice storm the Rose of Tralee
Fathers4Justice founder Matt O’Connor invokes the spirit of Father Ted as he storms the stage of the Rose of Tralee beauty pageant in Ireland. Full story and press coverage below. The Irish Examiner – Matt O’Connor: Why Fathers4Justice stormed the stage at the Rose of Tralee http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/matt-oconnor-why-fathers4justice-stormed-the-stage-at-the-rose-of-tralee-417534.html The inequality and lack of rights facing fathers […]
Fathers4Justice Founder in High Court Judicial Review Final Hearing over Closed Courts, Tuesday 26 July 2016
The founder of Fathers4Justice appears in the High Court (Royal Courts of Justice) on TUESDAY 26TH JULY 2016 for the trial of his Judicial Review Claim seeking to quash the decision of Aldershot Magistrates Court on 20 February 2015 to hold his trial for a minor public order offence in a court which banned 90% […]
UKIP Leadership hopeful promotes Shared Parenting & Family Law reform
Bill Etheridge, UKIP MEP for the West Midlands, has launched a radical proposal for shaking up Family Law by advocating shared parenting as a default setting in the event of parental break-up. The blueprint is designed to give all parents a right in law to have a meaningful parenting relationship with their children. Nearly one […]
Dad banned from schools sports day
PIC 1: Jason Appleyard and his daughter PIC 2: St Thomas More School Catholic Primary School, Eltham A dad who has been banned from attending his daughter’s sports day today, has accused the school concerned of being “bad sports” and waging a humiliating, abusive and sexist vendetta against him. Dad, Jason Appleyard, 37, from Edgware, […]
