Our Scottish Campaign Last Year
The Equal Parenting Alliance is a new UK political party, formed in 2006. We aim to promote a system of family justice in the UK that puts the needs and interests of children first.
In the elections in May 2007 we stood a Scottish MSP Parliamentary candidate in Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (and also an English local government candidate in Surrey).
The Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley constituency, in Ayrshire, was held by the New Labour incumbent Cathy Jamieson. Our candidate was Ray Barry.
We decided to base our campaign on the themes of parental alienation and youth crime and the eye-catching design of our campaign leaflet attracted positive attention.
Parental Alienation is a particularly nasty form of behaviour by selfish parents that is unfortunately ignored (or even encouraged) by the Scottish family law system.
Thousands of Scottish children are denied a parent, a pair of grandparents or the rest of their extended family for no good reason – and we hope to draw attention to their plight by our campaign.
You can read a real life story of a father and daughter who were victims of parental alienation in Mike’s Story.
It certainly wasn’t easy choosing parental alienation as our main focus, we could have concentrated solely on the problems of fatherless families and the rise of youth crime, grandparents who are denied any contact with their grandchildren, the failure of this government to do anything about our dysfunctional family law system or simply the many failings of the judicial system itself.
Although Scotland has a separate legal system to England and Wales, unfortunately the problems in family law are virtually identical as the different laws are implemented just as badly. You can read more about these issues on our main Equal Parenting Alliance web site.
Aberdeen MSP Nigel Don?s Family dispute Motion is scheduled to be heard in Holyrood on Thursday 11 September at around 5pm.
Please could everyone contact their MSP and ask them to support this motion.
We would also ask any member who is available to attend this debate to do so and we are hoping to hold the second EPA Scottish Regional meeting straight after the debate, time permitting to assess the debate and update members on recent events.
Please contact your MSP for tickets or Visitor Services at Holyrood, the details are listed below:
Telephone and email opening hours: Mon to Thursday: 09:00-17:00 Friday: 09:30-17:00 Saturdays: 10:30-17:00
Email sp.bookings@scottish.parliament.uk
Telephone 0131 348 5200
Text phone users can contact us on 0131 558 7676.
Fax 0131 348 5601
Address
Visitor Services
The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh EH99 1SP
Regards,
Mark Leishman
Scottish Co-Ordinator
Equal Parenting Alliance
mark@equalparentingalliance.org
