Family Court Mums

26/05/2026

26/05/2026

🚨ACTION AGAINST CHILD REMOVAL CAMPAIGN

In November 2025, Natalie Page (Survivor Family Network), and Dr Charlotte Proudman (Right2Equality) launched the Action Against Child Removal Campaign in Parliament. At this event, we published findings from our small-scale survey, which revealed:

🚩217 mothers had 342 children removed from their care.
🚩96.8% of these mothers had raised allegations of abuse during proceedings.
🚩81% were accused of failing to facilitate the child’s relationship with the father.
🚩In 45.6% of cases, no fact‑finding hearing was held on the abuse allegations.

Read more here 👇

https://righttoequality.org/re-y-experts-and-alienating-behaviour-the-modern-approach-2026-ewfc-28-fam/

26/05/2026

12/05/2026

“He’s such a good dad. He helps out with the kids.”

Who exactly is he helping?

This phrase reveals an entire social script about gender, labour, and entitlement. “Helping” implies that the real responsibility belongs to someone elseand in heterosexual family structures, that “someone else” is almost always the mother.

A mother feeding, bathing, organising, soothing, remembering appointments, packing bags, managing school emails, buying birthday presents, planning meals, and doing emotional labour is simply seen as doing what mothers are supposed to do. Often invisibly. Often without praise. Often without rest.

But when a father does the same tasks, or even a fraction of them, he is framed as exceptional. Why? Because childcare is seen as women’s natural duty, not shared labour. Fathers are treated as optional participants in work mothers are expected to just do.

We must challenge the myth that domestic labour is simply “love” or instinct rather than labour. Once women’s work is framed as natural, it becomes easier to make it invisible, unpaid, and taken for granted.

So no, he’s not “helping.”

He’s parenting his own children. Which should be the baseline, not an achievement.

12/05/2026

Watch the latest from ITV News - Charities warn abuse is also becoming more psychological with victims manipulated into doubting the brutal reality of their homes lives.

12/05/2026

Economic abuse can take a huge toll on your mental health, and if you’re feeling overwhelmed, low, or isolated because of what’s happening, you’re not alone.

This Mental Health Awareness Week, we want every victim-survivor to know that there is help out there.

If you’re struggling and need someone to talk to, you can reach out to the Samaritans on 116 123.

As Emily* says here, the tunnel is really long, but you will get there. You deserve safety, support, and a future that feels like your own.

12/05/2026

The cries of your baby as he's ripped from your arms is something no mum will ever forget.

Jacob repeatedly told and the that he wanted to stay living with his mummy. He was scared of daddy because daddy made mummy cry. Jacob's mummy has told that her relationship was abusive.

The court's response and the professional's recommendations were to remove Jacob from his mummy and award his abusive father .

This is not in the best interests of the child, this is court sanctioned abuse and this is happening everyday in UK family courts.