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Fathers Rights: How The Family Responsibility Office (FRO) killed a man!

Father’s Rights and The Family Responsibility Office

Who’s watching the children???

Andrew T. Renouf committed suicide on or about October 17, 1995 because he had 100% of his wages taken by the Family Responsibility Office, an agency of the Government of Ontario, Canada. He asked for assistance for food and shelter from the welfare office and was refused because he had a job, even though all of his wages were taken by the Family Responsibility Office.  Andy was a loving father that hadn’t seen his daughter in 4 years.
 
A memorial service was held in October, 1998, for Andy in front of the Family Responsibility Office at 1201 Wilson Avenue, West Tower, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This is in the Ministry of Transportation grounds in the Keele St. & Hwy 401 area. All members of the Ontario Legislature were invited by personal letter faxed to their offices. Not one turned up. The Director of the Family Responsibility Office and his entire staff were invited to the brief service. The Director refused and wouldn’t let the staff attend the service although it was scheduled for lunch time. There was a peaceful demonstration by followed by a very touching service by The Reverend Alan Stewart. The text of the service will soon be able to be read below.
 
Although the memorial service was not well publicized, a small group attended with 84 letters and emails of support from groups across Canada and the United States. The service made the TV evening news.
 
It was Andy’s last wish that his story be told to all.

Amber Alert in Ontario for Leila Elizabeth May: What are the statistics for these alerts?

 

Again another amber alert has been made in Ontario for a missing 3 year old girl (Leila Elizabeth May).  She is believed to be with her 21 year old mother Kristi Ann Barsanti.

Amber Alert In Ontario

Leila Elizabeth May Amber AlertI’m curious to know more about these amber alerts and the stats behind them.  Does anyone know what the statistics are for the amber alerts comparing fathers to mothers?  Of all the alerts I have heard recently in Ontario most of them seem to be where the mother has abducted the child.  Does anyone have stats on this?
 

What does the Amber Alert say about our court system?

Based on my assumptions it seems that the stats lean toward mothers abducting children more than fathers.   If this is the case why are our Ontario Courts so biased toward the mothers having the children?  Isn’t this a clear disconnect from reality?

Ontario Courts (Oshawa Family Court) and Amber Alert.

I wonder if the court system even cares to look at this in any detail?  I have researched the internet for any supportive documentation either way.  Personally I don’t care what the stats are I just want some transparency.  Too often men are pigeon holed in to always being the abuser and general ‘no good for raising kids’.  This sexist position is often then turned around later in the child’s life  to blame the father for not being involved “the child grew up with no father”.

The Amber Alert and court bias

I think it’s time that a more holistic view is taken when it comes to the children in Ontario.  The Ontario Family Courts and the subsidized arms of that system (OCL, FRO, FLIC Office, DCAS) need to be held accountable for the impact to children as a whole.
 
Leila Elizabeth May
 

The silent pain of Parental Alienation Syndrome

What does it feel like to be rejected by your children for loving them? 

The lonely lost feeling stays with you every day like a pulled muscle ready to break your back in an instant.  When a couple divorces with children it’s hard if not impossible not to have the sore taste and hate flow to the kids.  The kids become part of the anger and an extension of one parents hate toward the other.  The children then become a weapon a knife used at will by the angry ex.  Without knowing it the children are morphed in to a form of the angry parent and lash out without knowing to the other parent.

Symptoms of Parent Alienation Syndrome

How do you recognize PAS in your kids?  There are many articles online you can read and sift through to help form your own judgment of what is happening. 

List of Parental Alienation Syndrome Web Sites

For me I didn’t need a web site or list to tell me what was happening.  I could feel it in the way my kids reacted with me from the simplest movements to the more complex anger and dislike the exhibited.  In all it leaves you very helpless and lost.  Where do you turn who do you talk to? Questions I still have no answer for.  The only way to help your kids is to be near your kids and that won’t happen because your ex is so hell bent on punishing you that you won’t ever have the chance.

PAS (Parental Alienation Syndrome) is a huge mountain to climb.  It will leave you emotionally exhausted and impact every aspect of your life.  It is in the end the goal of the angry ex to ruin your life and make your hell here on earth.

If you feel you are being alienated by your ex speak out here.  Voice your thoughts and help spread the word of this devastating form of divorce poison.