For over a decade, Fathers 4 Justice has fought to ensure fathers play a fundamental role in the parenting of their children after parents separate. With the support of tens of thousands of fathers, mothers, grandparents and even children, we have campaigned to ensure that the best parent for our children is BOTH parents.

Yet 1 in 3 children now grows up without a father. You only need to look at the youth involved in the summer riots to realise how many of these young men and children desperately need the love, care and discipline of a father in their lives.

The Family Justice Review report on family law published in November 2011 reaches some astonishing conclusions which will feed the epidemic of mass fatherlessness and condemn tens of thousands more children to losing contact with their fathers with catastrophic social consequences.

In a detailed response to David Norgrove, Chairman of the panel, F4J Campaign Director Nadine O’Connor wrote:

• This was a review the Conservative Party committed to scrapping before it was elected in a coalition government, saying it was not ‘credible nor far reaching enough’ in terms of its remit. The reports primary function was to look at procedure, not principle.
• The review panel was not impartial – it excluded parents and users of the system.
• The report has rejected the testimony of over 10,000 parents submitted by Fathers 4 Justice.
• The report supports secret courts and rejects transparency and public accountability.
• The report rejects a parents right in law to see their children.

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Matt O'Connor is the founding father and frontman of the most controversial and high profile pressure group of modern times, Fathers 4 Justice. He is a regularly contributor on TV and Radio and has spoken at the Oxford Union, The Marketing Society, at business functions, and at schools and universities across the country where Fathers 4 Justice is now studied on the National Curriculum.

In 2005 he was GQ Magazine's 7th Top Communicator in the UK, GQ Magazine's 92nd Most Powerful Man in Britain, Esquire Magazine's 35th Most Powerful Man In Britain Under 50 and one of twenty people shortlisted for the Royal Society's Great Briton of the Year Awards. In 2007 he published his first book 'Fathers 4 Justice: The Inside Story' through the Orion Publishing Group.

He is also an acclaimed Creative Director having worked throughout Europe on some of the world's leading brands including Procter & Gamble, Hellmann's Mayonnaise, Knorr, Homepride, Campbell Soups, Mars Ice Cream and Unilever (Ice Cream).

In 2009 he launched his own rock and roll ice cream brand in Selfridges Oxford Street store to rave reviews. In Spring 2011 he opened a flagship store in London's Covent Garden.

He lives in Hampshire with his wife Nadine, and their children.