Alienated Maltese Dads Commemorate Father’s Day By Demanding Justice And Serious Reform
A group made up of parents who say they are being alienated from their children and finding no help from the justice system are calling for serious reforms to ensure fairness for families.
“No parent should be allowed to arbitrarily alienate the other parent from the life of their child, and the organisation pledges to actively resist and seek legal redress for such attempts, be such attempts made physically, verbally, emotionally, or through the manipulation and misuse of national institutions,” Flimkien Missirijiet Inqumu said ahead of Father’s Day 2022.
“It also pledges to assist and support in whichever way possible the parent being alienated. In short, the organisation aims to create a level playing field between parents, disincentivise alienation and other forms of abuse on their children, and reform current institutional prejudices,” they continued.
They will be holding their first public demonstration outside the Law Courts in Valletta on Saturday, 18th June 10:00am, on the eve of Father’s Day.
They will be sharing stories from “exasperated fathers who are fed up and cannot take more of the Maltese justice system as well as a series of legal proposals for law reform”.
Advocate for Children’s Rights Lynn Chircop Faure, ADPD’s Carmel Cacopardo and Ralph Cassar, independent candidate Arnold Cassola and social worker Emma de Lucca will also be speaking at the event.
Central themes the group will be exploring will relate to gender bias in the executive and judiciary, the near absence of timely, consistent, and effective procedure in cases concerning children and parents, and the outdated, unscientific, and careless approach currently being applied to children’s needs.
The group invites any other parents who are suffering in a similar way to get in contact and/or join in. Any member of the public who wishes to join them in expressing their discontent with the courts is welcome.
FMI has four main aims to pursue:
1. Commissioning, overseeing, and publishing primary and secondary research on shared parenting, custody arrangements, parental alienation, case-law, and other concerns in the humanities which may affect the well-being and dignified treatment of children as well as their parents;
2. Educating the public about shared parenting, custody arrangements, parental alienation, case-law, remedies at law and other concerns regarding the well-being and dignified treatment of children and their parents;
3. Advising, financially supporting, lending legal assistance to, or representing the individual or collective interests of litigating parents who claim unfair or discriminatory treatment towards themselves and/or harmful effects on their children created and/or amplified by the misuse of national institutions;
4. Politically pressuring for reforms in law and justice, including advocacy for a complete overhaul of family law and the recommendation of specific research-based amendments of law in line with our guiding principles
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