These questions arise not merely from my own personal experiences but, more generally, from the continuing and remarkable absence of activity from women’s leaders and women’s groups over the inequalities of fathers in family law. Surely it must be obvious to such fair-minded citizens and lovers of equality that the routine separation by the courts of fathers from their children is the single most insupportable abuse of human rights in our own age? Surely it must be obvious that women cannot be fully equal in the wider society and at work if they are also expected to be the parents who take care of children most of the time? Unless men are fully equal as parents, it will always remain impossible for women to be fully equal in the world.