2houses Makes Co-Parenting Easier | TechCrunch

Today, 2houses launches in public beta, offering separated or divorced parents a set of digital tools to easily communicate about and make arrangements with regards to their children.

This is obviously a large – and, in my opinion, unfortunately a growing – market to tap, and what I like about 2houses is that the founder is a divorced parent himself and started the company to scratch his own itch.

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The Family Court, where fathers are the victim

The Federal Labor government appears bent on making it easier for mothers in Family Court proceedings to make false accusations about fathers being violent and abusing their children.

Such accusations are a routine part of custody battles. The Howard government made some effort to limit them; these sanctions are to be lifted in an amending bill to the Family Law Act now before the parliament.

The declared aim of the amendments is to better protect children from abuse and violence. The bill reaffirms that the best interests of the child must be the paramount consideration in the arrangements that follow separation of their parents. That always sounds reassuring. It is the mantra under which the Family Court operates. But when one principle, however worthy, is made pre-eminent, to be pursued whatever the consequences, terrible harm can be done.

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Women's rights push dads aside

IT is hard to fathom that the law would exclude a loving father from the life of his child on social policy grounds. Yet this is what occurred recently in NSW when a non-biological lesbian mother successfully applied to have the name of the father, a sperm donor, struck off the birth certificate of his IVF-conceived 10-year-old daughter and replaced with her own.

This kind of court decision, however, will come as little surprise to many dads, all too familiar with the operation of family law in Australia. Usually women's rights trump the needs of fathers and children, as is again being demonstrated by the Gillard government's changes to the Family Law Act, which will make it easier for separated mothers to exclude fathers from children's lives.

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SA family law changes will 'demonise dads'

Planned changes to South Australia's Family Law Act will demonise dads in the courts and deprive more children of their right to a mother and father, some men's groups say.

More children would be murdered if Labor and the Greens got their way with a bill now being debated, Men's Health Australia and Dads4Kids said.

Men's Health Australia spokesman Greg Andresen said the bill would raise already high levels of fatherlessness to record levels with untold impact.

"Virtually every major social pathology has been linked to fatherlessness: violent crime, drug and alcohol abuse, truancy, teen pregnancy, suicide - all correlate more strongly to fatherlessness than to any other single factor," Mr Andresen said in a statement on Friday.

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Family law bill could raise murder rates

Some men's groups say more children will be murdered if Labor and the Greens get their way with the family law bill. 

Men's Health Australia and Dads4Kids say planned changes to the Family Law Act will demonise dads in the courts and deprive more children of their right to a mother and father.

Greg Anderson from Men's Health says the bill will raise already high levels of fatherlessness to record levels with untold impact. 

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