THE WHY & WHAT of the Australian Family Law System
Speech at Parliament House
August 9th, 2007
Warwick Marsh
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A little boy opened the big family bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. "Mama, look what I found," the boy called out. "What have you got there, dear?" With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, "I think it's Adam's underwear."
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UNDERSTANDING WOMEN

(A MAN'S PERSPECTIVE)

I know I'm not going to understand women. I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root, and still be afraid of a spider.
A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment.

Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, He would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM " He left it where he knew she would find it.

The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight.

Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, "It is 5:00 AM. Wake up."

Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.
By the time a man realises that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charles Wadworth
You knew my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as Dad. I want to tell you a little bit about my dad - a little bit about Cameron and Ashley's grandfather, because not a whole lot is ever spoken about that side of Ronald Reagan.

Michael Reagan
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Fathers Day 2006

Warwick Marsh

September 2006


Happy Father's Day to all the single dads who are reading this today.

Some of you have your children all the time, or maybe half the time if you are lucky. Unfortunately the reality of statistics shows that there are less than 20% of single dads that enjoy this blessing.

Many single dads do not even see their children on Fathers Day, let alone any other day of the year.

In many cases this is through no fault of their own, but by the outworking of the Family Law Court and a system that downgrades the role of fathers and in many cases forces fathers out of their children's lives altogether!

The Fatherhood Foundation has spoken up for single fathers in Federal arliament many times.

When the recent family law reform, that proposes to fix the problems of our current system (if only that were true) was in the final stages of being passed, it was the Fatherhood Foundation team, along with Barry Williams, Lone Fathers Association and Ash Patil, Fathers for Equality, that were at Parliament House making a stand for the truth.

We must also thank Yuri Joakimidis, Mark Bourne and Jim Wallace (Australian Christian Lobby) for their hard work for a fair and just reform process to be instituted.

The current reforms have certainly been a step in the right direction, but they have not dealt with the Family Law Act and its fundamental problems.

Justice Murphy, the architect of the Family Law Legislation said in 1986, "It has been my goal to remove the Judeo-Christian ethic from family law," and there is no doubt that he succeeded.

The trouble is that when you have no values, you only make things worse, not better.

Anything not built on truth will always fail.

For this reason we have such major problems in Western society today in the divorce process because we have forgotten our maker and believed the lie that we can do it better ourselves, always a mistake at the best of times. However the Fatherhood Foundation aims to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.


Good to Great Course for Single Dads

For this reason we are conducting a 'Good to Great course for Single Dads' which commences this Thursday 7th September.

We will be unable to conduct this course unless we have more single dads applying.

We need more single dads who want to become part of the solution, not part of the problem.

We must work with what we have to change the world.

The only person you and I can change is ourselves.

This applies to any dad.

That's where the revolution must begin if we intend to change our families, or to bring about any change.

Please email me immediately if you are interested in doing our course and live in or close by Wollongong.

We even have a father who has offered to pay half scholarships for a couple of dads who want to do the course.

Email me at info@fathersonline.org for more information.


Above all - Have a Happy Father's Day!


Warwick Marsh

 

 

 

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