Week in and week out, parents attend courts and mediation reporting that their former partner is refusing to allow them contact with their children.

Contact denial can occur at any time. It is most shocking the first time it happens, often accompanying (and adding to) the pain of separation or divorce, but the potential for disrupting existing arrangements remains until the child becomes an adult.

Children deserve the right to know and have a loving relationship with both parents but when this is refused and court orders are broken the courts very very rarely issue enforcement orders or sanction the parent denying the child contact.

It should be made a crime for a parent to deny the other parent contact and love from the other parent.

It is important that contact denial is addressed at the earliest opportunity. In an emergency it may be necessary to make an immediate application to the court.but even doing this does not guarantee you getting contact with your child

The presumption should be 50/50 shared parenting for both parents not as it is at the moment where courts, judges and social Workers are bias against fathers and 90% of the time take the side of the mother