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Fri 02 Feb 2010Disclosures exploited to undo rights of parents
The amendment on children would transfer from parents many rights now bestowed by the Constitution, writes JOHN WATERS
THE SAFEST place a child can be is in the company of his or her father. The misandrist prejudices of our age notwithstanding, this remains an uncontestable statistical fact. It is therefore instructive as to the motives, intentions and agendas of the Oireachtas committees on the constitutional amendment on children that they failed to address the fact that about one-third of the children born in this State in any given year have no right to know their fathers.
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