It is national adoption week in Northern Ireland, nearly 4000 children a year need to find new parents, this nationally covered social problem is highlighted quite clearly while at the same time the same amount of children each year in Northern Ireland loss contact with their father and extended family through the family law system, that is in place.
The silent plight of children involved in contact cases needs fully addressed in Northern Ireland in the same capacity that adoption needs to be highlighted. Thousands of children are suffering the social, economic and health implication of losing their father based on the very fact that a child has no right in law to see its father.
RFFJ finds it hard to comprehend that such a public outcry is made in terms of adoption while at the same time no outcry is made for contact cases where children and fathers are placed on a judicial timetable for when they are allowed to see one another.
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