Fathers 4 Justice: The Inside Story

by Matt O'Connor

Fearlessly honest and utterly irreverent, this narrative will appeal to anyone whose family relationships have been torn to pieces by divorce and the family courts system. 70,000 people a year go through the family courts, which is only the tip of the iceberg: countless uncles, aunts, and grandparents are denied contact with nephews, nieces, and grandchildren by the remorselessly biased British family court system. Over 40% of divorced fathers are forbidden to see their children within two years of the marriage ending. Many of them accumulate serious debt fighting for access in a court system that beats them by financial attrition if it fails to win the argument. The courageous team behind this account decided to fight back, executing some of the most audacious publicity stunts ever seen. Powder-bombing Tony Blair in the Commons and having Batman scale Buckingham Palace petrified the security services and made the "super heroes" world famous. Now the concept of "Fathers' Rights" has finally been recognized and long overdue reforms are being discussed. Find out how one man took on the fight for father's rights by taking on the government with just a handful of other dads, a ladder, and a lot of lycra.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published August 30, 2007

Reviews

[Phil Hume-Hopper · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very self-serving, he just comes across as an arrogant arrogant man.

[Jessica watson]

Dnf: the bias’s got on my nerves.

[Ian Wood · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the story of the worst campaign group you have ever heard of written by its creator and creative director. That O'Connor can be pilloried for his passion for creating publicity it surely missing the point, would we be discussing the head of a protest group who shyed away from appearing in the press, I think not.

That O'Connor has a high opinion of him self it well understood but why not? He took the secret family courts and put them on the front page of every news paper in not only England but all of the Western World. Quite an achievement in it's self. The law has as yet to be changed and inequality between the genders in the family courts will no doubt take generations to change but Fathers 4 Justice has got the debate going after twenty years of PC man failed to generate the correct volume of protest whilst tiptoeing on egg shells.

Weather you love or loathe O'Connor and Fathers 4 Justice is not important, what is important is that you know who they are.

What leads a man to pull on a pair of tights, scale a building and indulge in petty vandalism? Fathers 4 Justice will show you why and how. Is it a plane? is it a bird? No, it's the worst campaign group you have ever heard of. Ker!Pow!