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| | Guardian | Court transparency test for Fathers 4 Justice |
 | | Decent, loving fathers either manage to agree contact with the children's mothers without resorting to the legal process, or such contact is invariably agreed at, or ordered by, the court. |
 | | A tiny minority of fathers have usually been denied contact because they have been violent or abusive to the child or mother; or for such reasons as serious alcoholism or drug misuse, which is having a detrimental effect on the child. |
 | | Indeed, all fathers' organisations could play a crucial part in high lighting concern about the deaths of 28 children during contact visits, the granting of contact and indeed residence orders to men with records of offences against children, and the way that the voices of children so often go unheard in family proceedings. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5063897-103683,00.html (407 words) |
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