I am really a bit bitter and twisted about all this family law stuff and being shunned for so long (ten years now and counting - my daughter will be twenty-two next week for the record).
However, if my small efforts make someone else feel they learned something or found information they wouldn't have seen otherwise I am happy.
In the UK there is a high profile case in the newspapers at the moment where a mother/family has just been reunited with her nine year old child after fourteen months exclusion due to false allegations of abusing her own children. The case is supposed to have cost taxpayers half a million pounds in legal fees, and the judge has condemned publicly the social workers involved who ignored all sorts of good practise regulations or common sense policies whilst taking the child away unnecessarily.
I don't know what is worse, the injustice done to this family, the length of time it all took to resolve, the obscene waste of public money which could have saved thousands of children from starvation in Africa perhaps, or what.
As you can see I'm on a bit of a Friday evening downer.
I had thought I should write to our new Bishop of York recently in conjuction with some other campaigners, to talk about injustice toward fathers in the UK and across the world (no one is spending half a million pounds of taxpayer's money to reunite us with our children).
However this new bishop, the Rt Reverand Sentamu is from Uganda originally. Our lives in affluent western coutries don't bear comparison to the hardships experienced in Africa so maybe I'd be better write offering whatever help I can to them and forget my own situation.
All the best, and thanks for the praise.
Graham