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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stop absent fathers ruining childrens lives. More details

Submitted by Andy Turner – Deadline to sign up by: 17 April 2008 – Signatures: 249

More details from petition creator

If an unmarried couple part prior to the birth of a child due to a fear of harm or abuse and the father takes no interest in the child, we need to protect that child from future harm, current law allows a "father" to walk into a child life any time upto it's 16th birthday, this is detroying children and mothers lives, we need to make a stand to protect our children and grandchildren. I am asking the government to re look at the childrens act and take more interest in the effects on the caring parent and child. mothers are being threatend by the courts with seperation from there children and even imprisonment if they stand in the way of contact, even if the absent dad has taken no interest in the child until the day he went to court. the child on the other hand has no rights of contact with an absent father. I am looking for a change in the law . please help me

Current signatories

Andy Turner, the Petition Creator, joined by:

  • Lisa Tatler
  • Catherine Turner
  • Vanessa Trentham
  • jessica taylor
  • lana turner
  • m lancaster
  • a briers
  • Paul Martin
  • william Mills
  • \elizabeth kowalski
  • tracey shaw
  • Stephen Cummins
  • Holly Turner
  • Aron Twose
  • Joanna Hounslow
  • Chris Herd
  • Kevin Simcox
  • Jon Turley
  • Amanda Sexton
  • Ms. Mary Rainey
  • Heidi - mothers for justice
  • Siobhan Clarkson
  • linda kirkham
  • Collette Coetzer
  • melanie wale
  • alison bruce
  • Marcus Hobling
  • Marie-Ann Roberts
  • samantha matthews
  • Nina Logue
  • Emma Messham
  • Laura Surridge
  • Joanne Vango
  • Michelle Regan
  • Claire Dougall
  • lyndsay mappin
  • Debra Smith
  • lisa mohammed-irvine
  • Janet Vango
  • Laura Stopforth
  • a anderson
  • rachel
  • caroline coates
  • Sam Schirmer
  • emma wade
  • Julie Gorton
  • zoe lowther
  • N. Davidge
  • chantelle freeman
  • Alice Cosh
  • Rebecca Goulden
  • Alison Collett
  • jenny reed
  • Amy Walsh
  • emma
  • Adele Matthews
  • hannah machin
  • Helen Morris
  • Jill McKenzie
  • Sara Coe
  • Caroline Kenna
  • claire morgan
  • Catherine Phillips
  • Kirsty Owen
  • Elizabeth Matts
  • Rachel Marscheider
  • amanda
  • Lisette Dixon
  • ANNA RUSSO
  • kerry sharples
  • kerry draper
  • Frances Vango
  • catherine brown
  • Tracey Waite
  • Sophie Cleverly-Edwards
  • louise riely
  • dawn herbert
  • Jackie Milton
  • Zoe Hardy
  • C Healey
  • Tracy Hume
  • lorraine kessey
  • TRACEY SADLER
  • Danielle Throm
  • Samantha Lee
  • Zoe Bulmer
  • Jennifer Finnan
  • frances denholm
  • Marie Leebody
  • Louise Hartley
  • sarah musto
  • Louisa Foster
  • Michael Jones
  • Alanda Robinson
  • sarah haywood
  • Tracey Atkinson
  • Dr David Lemon
  • Jill Farrell
  • Jacinta McKiernan
  • Julie Gorse
  • Clare Greenaway
  • emma ryall- harvey
  • annette fancy
  • danielle scott
  • mrs maureen bonass
  • michelle
  • kathryn o'farrell
  • richard othen
  • Kerry Ellen Darlow
  • helan bagnall
  • anthony barnes
  • Rachael Brookes
  • Janet Throm
  • Helen Sherry
  • nicky
  • Christine Bowyer
  • Jenny Mackenzie
  • saleem bhatti
  • donna clarke
  • Lilian
  • Paul Asbury
  • I scaife
  • k scaife
  • jessis
  • jacqui caulfield
  • clare lewin
  • Debbie Morris
  • Catherine York
  • becky geib
  • Fiona Simpson
  • jeanette martin
  • Louisa Dickson
  • christine allen
  • victoria clements
  • angela jefford
  • Ann Hardman
  • Jill Harvey
  • Kate Astbury
  • safyah begum
  • Amanda Duley
  • diane wilson
  • julie duley
  • melanie hoey
  • Brian Turner
  • Caren Gradel
  • Shirley G
  • Deborah Cutler
  • julie smith
  • Nicola Stanton
  • Mhairi Wilson
  • Claire Rowles
  • Afshan Malik
  • kelly ann smith
  • Kelly Cheesman
  • Lisa Hammett
  • Jennifer Pratley
  • Aileen O'Day
  • Jessica Roye
  • Veena Stephenson
  • Elizabeth Hale
  • Samantha Leeke
  • Fiona Wardle
  • Jan Trask
  • Sophia Litherland
  • coral faye jarvis
  • Karina McFarlane
  • tracy ames
  • K Litherland
  • Susan Street
  • Jim Trask
  • Sue Thompson
  • Maria Tatman
  • Jane Jewitt
  • Allie
  • c mildenhall
  • marie kennedy
  • Kelly Murdie
  • Joanne Davison
  • Gaynor Quinn
  • v cheston
  • Louise Charlton
  • kellie sentance
  • melissa
  • wendy roche
  • jannah leach
  • Deborah Lowe
  • Kelly Gooden
  • Kelly Mcguinness
  • L. Hales
  • amba coleman
  • Stephanie Clark
  • Allister Matthews
  • kellie sentance
  • sharon evans
  • Hope
  • Larry Sovitch
  • david bird
  • Kim Trill
  • Danielle Mcneill
  • Deborah Griffiths
  • kelly lawler
  • Robert Parry
  • Tracy Owen
  • lorraine le-gate
  • dennis le-gate
  • Hannah Keighley
  • Maire Stafford
  • Annelie Fay
  • Healy --- Marston family
  • candice darrington
  • Assal Ravanshad
  • AUDREY BARLOW
  • kelly
  • cal Bailes
  • ailinn gilroy
  • Sonya Homer
  • E Sanders
  • Edward Manning
  • lin jones
  • richard Ghost
  • sharon bradford //petitions.pm.gov.uk/Savekids/
  • Victoria Robotham
  • cytisha martyn
  • Kerry Connor
  • lesley smith
  • Karen Goldstone
  • Jane Patten
  • M Cockburn
  • Andrew Crayford //petitions.pm.gov.uk/CAN-YOU-IMAGINE/
  • tracy jenkins
  • Rebecca Waclawyj
  • Tony Burchfield
  • rachel sharp- daughter of absent father
  • tracey atcheson
  • lisa sayer
  • Kerry Yeomans
  • june Humphries
  • dawn sharples
  • Fiona Fordham
  • Miles Fordham
  • sharon shaw
  • Michelle Lewis
  • C.Brown
  • D Hughes
  • Doona Barnes
  • Margaret King
  • Anne-Marie Young
  • J RICHARDS

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