Families, Change and Social Policy in Europe
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EU Family Policy
Why Change?
If you’re heading in a direction which
leads to somewhere you don’t want to
go to, then if you don’t take action and
change your direction and trajectory
then you’re going to end up where you
don’t want to be.
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EU Family Policy
It’s OK to Change?
Once we understand that imperfect
understanding is the human condition,
there is no shame in being wrong, only
in failing to correct our mistakes.
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EU Family Policy
What type of Change?
I’m mindful of a saying from the
american Indian tradition:“When implimenting change be
mindful of the effects seven
generations hence”.
Think Both Radical and Sustainable!
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EU Community, Family and Society
Where are we at?
Where are EU at?
Where do we and EU want to be?
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INCREASING
• Rate of DivorceMarriage/Relationship
breakdown.
• Rate of Births outside Marriage > 30%
• Draw on Exchequer through massive Lone
Parent Welfare payments.
• Rate of Suicide by Males.
• Number of Family Law cases in court.
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INCREASING
• Level of Frustration of non-custodial fathers.
• Levels of violence/crime involving young
males.
• Overburdening of women – parenting alone.
• Children with no male role models at home or
in school.
• Percentage of child’s life spent in creches.
• Loss of grandparent and extended family
relationship with grandchildren in divorce.
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In which Direction do we wish to travel
Single Parent Families !
Fatherless children !
Rights for women !
Castaway men !
Societal disharmony !
European Union with little
value placed on
Community !
?
Balanced sustainable
relationships between men and
women based on mutual respect,
Parity of esteem and Equal
treatment for both sexes.
Shared Parenting as a cultural
value whether Parents are together
or separate.
Community as the Core Value of
European Union
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Single Parent Families !
Fatherless children !
Rights for women !
Castaway men !
Sorry!
YOU
LOSE!
Societal disharmony !
European Union with little
value placed on
Community !
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Shared Parenting. The Six- Way-Win Program
EASY!
Choose any
Option and You,
me and all EU
Win!
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Shared Parenting
The Six- Way-Win
Program
Click on any
option to
WIN!
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Shared Parenting. The Six- Way-Win Program
for Children by having continuous
love and care from both of their
parents and their extended
families, whether the parents
themselves remain together or not.
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Shared Parenting. The Six- Way-Win Program
for Fathers where Fathers are fully
integrated as equals in childcare with the
love, nurture and validation parenthood
brings with it.
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Shared Parenting. The Six- Way-Win Program
for Mothers where Mothers are fully
integrated as equals in childcare with the
love, nurture and validation parenthood
brings with it.
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Shared Parenting. The Six- Way-Win Program
for Aunts, Cousins, Grandparents
and Uncles in the network of
extended by maintaining
meaningful engagement with
children even if a parental
relationship breaks down.
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Shared Parenting. The Six- Way-Win Program
for Society in general, where the previous
four supported groups have better levels of
emotional wellbeing, physical and mental
health and available emotional energy with
a consequential reduction in the loading of
our health and education resources.
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finally for the exchequer and the taxpayer. A shared
Parenting world where both parents and extended
families contributing to solution building round
childcare (thus ensuring the healthy propagation of
our species) rather than overloading the taxpayers
with ever increasing lone parent, legal, medical,
behavioural problems etc.
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Shared Parenting. The Six- Way-Win Program
OK!
So what’s the catch?
What’s the downside?
So Who loses?
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THE LOSERS ?
WHO LOSES? Well the obvious answer is
the parasites, the range of professionals,
legal, social worker, psychiatrists,
psychologists etc who understandably with
the base human condition respond to the
TOXIC INCENTIVE to fuel acrimony in family
systems.
….whether passively (a subtle agenda in itself)
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BUT!
There is hope even for the Toxic Losers!
In a scene from Zhivago, the revolution has taken
over and the soldiers are returning from the front.
The Bolshevik turns to Zhivago, the aristocratic
doctor who is now disenfranchised in the
hierarchical paradigm shift and with honesty
says:- “Want some advice, honoured Doctor, said
the millstone to the barley …………
ADAPT!!”
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Shared Parenting. The Six- Way-Win Program
So there is a future for those same
professionals who thrive on the
pain, suffering and turmoil which is
the inevitable outcome of
adversarial family law. They can
adapt and become shared parenting
lifestyle coaches and conflict
resolution facilitators.
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Change but HOW?
When Paradigms change everybody goes back
to Zero.
In times of change the learners inherit the world
while the experts are perfectly equipped but for
world that no longer exists.
There are many unknowns, fears for children,
extended families, men and women. There are
fears of the paid professionals of losing status
and earning power.
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Let’s build a taxation/welfare regime which
imaginatively supports share parenting as a
paradigm shift towards positivity, in contrast the
present model, whereby a couple are financially
better off, by technically separating, so that the
mother can be classified as a Lone Parent and get
housing and financial benefits, the father can pay
cash under the table and both can then reside
together illegally but with the guaranteed turning of
the blind eye by a corrupt and vacant social welfare
system.
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My EURO-VISION !
• Fathers and Mothers share equally the
parenting of their children from pre-conception
through their formative years, with the support
of their communities,
• The cultural values actively protect the child’s
right to the love and society of both their
fathers and mothers,
• The courts, statutory and educational services
proactively respect parenting, treating and
supporting both parents equally
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My EuroVision !
• Socio-economic planning is based on
the core value of both parents spending
substantive time with their children
• Women and men struggle together in
partnership rather than against each
other (in a gender war) to manage the
increasing and complex demands of
balancing childcare and career.
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