F4J Father’s Day letter to Prime Minister calls for help for male victims of domestic abuse and for contact denial & parental alienation to be made criminal offences
Campaign group Fathers4Justice have sent a Father’s Day letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling on him to make contact denial and parental alienation criminal offences, and to raise concerns about institutional discrimination against men, especially in the area of domestic abuse where 1 in 3 victims are male. The group called for the government […]
Controversy as Cheryl branded ‘sperm bandit’ by Fathers4Justice
A tweet by Fathers4Justice has caused controversy after the campaign branded singer and TV personality Cheryl a ‘sperm bandit’ after she announced she wanted two more children using a sperm donor from abroad. F4J founder Matt O’Connor said in the tweet that Cheryl was denying children their human rights to a father. The group had […]
F4J hashtag #AbuseHasNoGender trends as ITV presenter Caroline Flack is charged with assaulting boyfriend
The Fathers4Justice campaign to break the silence surrounding male victims of domestic abuse was highlighted this week when former ITV Love Island presenter Caroline Flack’s ex fiancée posted a non-disclosure agreement online with the F4J hashtag #abusehasnogender. It followed Flack’s arrest for assaulting boyfriend Lewis Burton and recent claims by F4J on International Men’s Day […]
The male victims of domestic abuse abandoned by government
By Matt O’Connor, Founder, Fathers4Justice. What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and all things nice. So goes the popular nursery rhyme. But the cultural conditioning that had led us to believe women are incapable of being abusers, has warped our view of domestic abuse. In particular, the ideologically driven “Me Too” movement […]
David Beckham’s sister quizzed by cops over assault on ex
DAVID Beckham’s sister Joanne was quizzed by police over claims her ex was hit in the face with a TV remote control. Former Big Brother star Kris Donnelly said he was assaulted during a blazing row. Kris, 33, who is now an ambassador for campaign group Fathers4Justice, fled to the home of his friend and […]
Fathers4Justice calls for all sexist abuse, including misandry, to be classed as a hate crime
Campaign group Fathers4Justice (F4J) today called for all sexist abuse, including misandry, to be classed as a hate crime. Speaking to The Herald in Scotland and Scottish Legal News, F4J founder Matt O’Connor said calls by the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Jo Swinson MP, to make misogyny a hate crime risks stereotyping men as perpetrators and women as […]
Fathers4Justice issues warning to dads over new DV measures
Campaign group Fathers4Justice today warned that tougher court guidance introduced to allegedly protect children from violent parents was aimed at making contact more difficult for dads separated from their children. F4J said a de-facto presumption of “no contact” already existed between children and fathers in family proceedings, but did not apply to violent mums or […]
Abused husband rigged camera to film wife BEATING him because he feared police wouldn’t believe he was a battered husband
An abused dad set up a spy camera in his own home to film his drunken wife beating him up because he feared police would never believe he was a battered husband. Neil Tweedy, 45, had secretly endured over a decade of physical abuse at the hands of his school teacher spouse Helen. The assaults […]
Cork Pro Choice group apologise to Fathers4Justice for libel and pay damages
Cork Pro Choice, an organisation campaigning to Repeal The 8th Amendement in Ireland, has apologised to Fathers4Justice, and it’s principles Matt and Nadine O’Connor, for claiming they promoted domestic violence with their ‘Change The 8th’ campaign advertisement, ‘A father is for life not just conception’, which features a photograph of a father cradling an infant […]
