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A pledge might sound like a worthless, out dated and contrived commitment, but at F4J Canada we're
driven first of all by the love of our kids, a sense of duty and responsibility to our children.
We're motivated by the need to create change and bring about justice on behalf of the thousands of
children and parents whose bond has been broken by family courts. F4J Canada is determined to
bring the concepts of truth, justice, and equality to family law in this country.
We know that the cost of our campaign - there will be a very real human cost - can be no greater
than the costs we've already paid at the hands of the system we believed would protect our children,
and we're freed by that knowledge.
Day in and day out we're hearing about the wreckage of peoples lives, broken by the policies of our
federal and provincial governments. As a grassroots movement we aren't isolated from the people who
suffer the horrendous and flagrant injustices, the Canadians whose most basic civil and human rights
are ignored on a daily basis.
For years many fathers have struggled to overcome the debt, poverty and childlessness forced upon
them - a living bereavement - to fight the system that's oppressed them. With the advent of the
Fathers 4 Justice movement in Canada we now have a powerful voice and a proven new methodology that
overwhelms all efforts to quiet the social debate surrounding family law. The press have described
F4J as "the outlaw fathers", "the new militant men's movement" and "the bad boys of family law
reform". Whatever you think of these labels, for the first time they are now writing about the
fathers who are fighting back- if we won't fight for our kids, just what will we fight for?
The movement to reform family law in Canada has become a struggle against entrenched special
interests in the most powerful government department, an oppressive legal system that has become
completely isolated from the views of Canadians and an entire industry bent on maintaining its profit
margins. As individuals we have been all but crushed by that system and found our concerns ignored
in favour of the vested interests and tax bonanza divorce and custody matters have become in Canada,
however, that has now changed. Together, united under the F4J Canada banner, we can create the
camaraderie, spirit, strength and momentum necessary to bring about meaningful, substantive change.
Like never before fathers, mothers and other extended family members will need to make great sacrifices
to help each other. We need to rise up, perhaps risk arrest and even jail. F4J Canada has drawn a line
in the sand and declared that we will no longer tolerate the breaking of the sacred bond between parent
and child by the state.
Our pledge to you is that we will not stop until our work is done, whatever the sacrifice. We will
finish what we have begun - for our children.
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