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Israel
Fathers Take Gender Bias Discrimination in Family Courts, Child
Welfare to Supreme Court
By
Joel Leyden Jerusalem, Israel ---- March 22, 2011 ..... Fathers for Justice and Equal Access in Israel have issued a news release on the nightmare of men in Israel, who are denied visitation rights with their children. But this news release is far different from any which have been written before. The subject of Israel fathers being automatically denied access to their children based on lies and false statements of an ex wife is now subject to Israel Supreme Court review. A
Petition to the Israeli High Court of Justice in Jerusalem was
launched against the Israel Ministry of Welfare and Social Services
on March 15, 2011 by a father who has not seen his child in two
years, which seeks to enjoin Moshe Kachlon, the Israel Minister
of Welfare and Social services from practicing gender bias discriminatory
policies designed to disengage fathers from their children. According to Petitioner whose name and location have been changed to abide by gag orders which protect secret family court sessions from the public, the social workers in the local city or town's child welfare department automatically sends non-custodian fathers to supervised contact centers, where the fathers are allowed one hour a week. "I am a single man in my thirties," said Ron who lives in Haifa. I met this girl who I had sexual relations with under her story that she was sterile and could not conceive any children. A few months later she contacted me and informed me that she was pregnant. I had been targeted. She could have gone to a sperm bank, but chose me instead. I was devastated." Ron continues: "Even though I did not want nor was ready to have a child, I decided that I would be a good father and as such take up a supporting role for this baby. Instead, I quickly discovered that she was interested in only two things - having her own child and having me pay for it. I as a father who wanted to visit, play, teach and protect this child was not part of the equation." Ron, who normally works as a food and beverage consultant is now unemployed as a result of this case. He has spend almost every waking hour trying to gain legal access to his child. Ron, who may soon be entering the Israel Defense Forces for reserve service, is presently being supported financially and emotionally by his older brother. "I have read nightmare stories about women who make millions of dollars in Israel and have used their husbands as sperm banks. Shortly after having children they file for divorce. They selfishly now have both money and a child - the husband and or partner becomes irrelevant," says Ron. "Most fathers in Israel are living just above the poverty line and many cannot afford to pay the full child support. These women with good jobs and some with illegal jobs working in the prostitution industry will then use lack of payment of child support to keep the men away or have them arrested and placed in debtors prison."
"One woman in Ra'anana, Israel went as far as hiring two private detectives to beat up her ex husband and created so much stress that he wound up in hospital with heart problems. Her goal was to kill this father or force him to leave the country. The family courts take no responsibility as they defer the cases to child welfare and and child welfare does nothing stating that only the family court can make decisions. We are placing our trust in the Israel Supreme Court to see through this negligence and stop the suffering of dads who wish to be with their children and can't because they are discriminated upon as men. Women, even if they are mentally ill, drug abusers or even prostitutes are automatically given custody of children in divorce. The father may be a high ranking officer in the IDF, the police or even the Mossad risking their lives for the community on a daily basis but they are denied custody. They can carry an M-16, but they can't carry their own children." The petition to the Israel Supreme Court alleges that the waiting list in the child welfare social workers caseload may take 6 to 9 months during which no access or visitation rights are allowed to these caring fathers. Once the social worker starts working on the case, “all hell breaks loose”. The
social workers humiliate the fathers, collect tidbits of libel
and defamation and places them in writing, instigate the mothers
and motivate them to file false domestic violence claims in order
to rule out any option of joint custody, and it is alleged that
the social workers in general who are female and are biased against
men, and are systematically indoctrinated into an anti-male climate
of “feminist Jihad proportions” against men. "In
Israel, the lethal weapon of choice are false allegations of child
abuse," says Ron. "Just the unproved allegation in itself
is enough to keep the father away from his children and restrict
him to Mercaz Kesher or state supervised visitation center. These
fathers are treated like common criminals. The only way they can
regain their basic human rights as a father is to go to a forensic
psychologist who can interview them and clear their name. But
the cost of this process is in the thousands of dollars and most
men cannot afford to pay for this evaluation. We are asking the
state to take responsibility for these evaluations as done in
many other countries around the world. Family courts and child
welfare should not pass judgment on a loving and caring father
without being able to document whether he is fit or not!" In
Europe, for example, the right to family life is interpreted to
include parental rights to access to the children without institutionalized
intervention or with minimal intervention by the State. Israel,
on the other hand, still does not recognize a parental right to
access to the children, and thus fathers are relegated to the
task of convincing the social workers that it is the best interest
of the child that he sees the father, as a matter of judicial
grace, and not as a matter of a natural indelible right. Israel
social workers from Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem to Herzlia,
Eilat and Tiberius are instructed to grade fathers between 0 to
36 point, when 10 points yields a level of “dangerous Propensity”. In
addition, fathers in Israel claim that social workers compel them
to undergo psycho-therapeutic sessions, without their consent,
as a condition to approving his right to see the child, and then
they use the information extracted from the father to paint him
negatively in the court, simply because the woman announced that
ideologically the child does not need to grow up with a father
figure. "The
single mothers can go as far as "buying" other single
mothers to come to court and make additional false accusations
against the victimized father," says Ron. "The defense
would be the intervention of a forensic psychologist to prove
these allegation false and the Supreme Court implementing measures
to ensure that gender bias discrimination is erased from the family
courts and child welfare." “They
set new rules that contradict the laws of equality and modern
disciplines of social work”. The solutions offered are radical
and extreme: men are sent to supervised contact centers, and women
who do not play by the rules find their children kidnapped to
foster care, based solely on "impressions", "feelings",
"intuitions" and "future risk probabilities"
that have no scientific or legally probative value. “The
social services system in Israel is a corrupt and malicious system
based on intoxicated power egos and systematic feeding of business
to social workers, foster home operators, and “parental suitability”
test institutions, while the children are routinely disconnected
from loving parents and this is all cloaked under “best interest
of the child” slogans.
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