Our cause is the right to children to a relationship with both their parents and with their wider families on both sides. 

In a wholesome society, that would be taken for granted.  It's in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most widely supported international treaty in the history of humanity. The UK has ratified it. 

It observes it in the case of children taken into the care of the state, usually because there is something severely wrong with how they would otherwise be parented. Such children have a right to a relationship with their parents unless a Court has formally ruled it is against their welfare. Social Services Departments must organise it.  

Children whose parents have simply split up have no such right. The parent who gets physical possession of them can do nearly anything they like. An excluded parent has a raft of barriers to overcome before the children are allowed to see them, as we all know.  

Unless the law, i.e., the Government i.e., the political party in control, changes it.   

FNF is non-political in the sense required by Charity Law. We cannot endorse organisations or candidates in elections.  

We have dealings with the political party in power, because they are the Government. 

Our links with the Labour Party – strong when they were the Government - and the Lib Dems have fallen away. 

Anyone out there able to help us rebuild them? Willing to work within them to improve children's rights? Get in touch here: admin@fnf.org.uk. 

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