‘Mummy made me do it’ - when good Dad’s go wrong…
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This depressing trend for children being murdered by their own fathers in the form of being gassed to death in Dad’s car - along with Dad himself - has seen two more innocent children in the UK become two more tragic statistics.
And what has made this latest case even more heartbreaking is that it occurred on the recent Father’s Day weekend.
The scenario’s all have a grim common thread running through them; a bitter divorce, custody disputes, property disputes, deeply aggrieved men…and underneath it all an unfriendly, anti-male family court system. There is no doubt that the majority of family court decisions in the UK are tilted in favour of the mother; the father is reduced in many cases to an occasional visitor in his children’s lives and a faceless source of cash flow to his children’s mother.
It’s wrong and it has got to change.
Whenever one of these tragic situations occurs the usual shock and disbelief is expressed by the man’s family and friends: ” He was a good Dad”…” He lived for those kids”…”We cannot believe he could do this”…”He couldn’t take anymore…”
I am always in two minds when these things happen; Yes, men do generally get a poor deal in divorce and custody cases; women certainly can be nasty, greedy and vindictive bitches towards their ex-partner. Very often women do use their kids as a weapon against their ex-husbands - to get him back - to get more money out of him. When some women decide to end a marriage they expect their husband to just conveniently disappear from not only her life but her children’s as well; he is expected to not just hand over his keys to house but hand over the actual house itself - and the car - and a monthly sum of cash - and half of whatever else he has. Oh, and he is not entitled to see his kids that easily either…
The Family Court backs her up to the hilt. He spends thousands fighting for his rights, his property and his kids - and all the time hits a brickwall. No-one listens to him, no-one helps him so he becomes frustrated and angry to the point of…..wanting to kill someone.
Granted though there are some men who do need to be kept away from their children and their mother in order to maintain their welfare - but in nearly all of these tragic killings the father had enough adequate, unsupervised access to suggest that they gave no hint of being in any way a danger to their children.
There is no doubt though that frustrated dealings with the Family Court system were experienced by all these men, but even so, it beggars belief that an otherwise loving Dad can turn on his own beloved children in such a cruel and malicious way. Even if he does it to wreak revenge on ‘her’ in the end it is the children who pay the ultimate price. Just as they always seem to do.
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