Thank you for your comments.
Here is my response:-
Firstly the petitions number 1 & 3 I posted already have been put on the No.10 Downing Street website. Their success appears to be very limited, and as I have no vested interests in supporting them myself it doesn't really matter to me that you feel they are malodourous. However, as expressions of the views of some people affected by family law decisions, perhaps they should be given a bit more respect, though like yourself I wouldn't sign either of them.
Petition number 2 is my own attempt to encapsulate the change I feel that is needed to our family law and to briefly justify this. You say it amounts to nothing, or that the current system "ensures contact".
I will take what I can that is positive from your comments, and that is if it "says nothing" or adds nothing to the law that isn't already there, then there should be no difficulty getting it accepted by those in authority, or at least no hugely critical issues raised that anyone might object to.
I do not want to argue with you as to whether the current system based on the best interests of the child "ensures contact", other than to say that all those excluded under the present system, or obstructed by it during the process of applying for the court's support may well disagree with you don't you think.
If you cannot support my petition, that I believe gives very straight forward and welcome rights to parents who are no threat to anyone then so be it.
If our UK government refuses to support such a measure, claiming whatever negative impact they believe it might create, then this would seem to refute your dismissal of it wouldn't it (unless their dismissal gives the same justification of course).
The UK main opposition party is coming close to making a rebuttable presumption in favour of contact for "fit parents" their policy I believe. When the subject was discussed in the UK parliament a couple of years ago there was a two hour heated debate, which in itself belies the argument that it amounts to "nothing", to make a shift towards giving parents more rights (or any rights in the UK where we are said to have none as regards our children).
Still you think it stinks so there we are I guess, nothing will change your mind I suspect.
Graham