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  • This law is the cart before the horse if the goal is protecting children and maintaining their rights to physical safety

    This is what abductors may claim. They may claim they are “protecting the children” when in fact they are depriving the other parent any and all contact with their children, just because they don’t like their ex. Do a quick Google search, there are plenty of stories like that.

    There should be an exception for people fleeing violence

    If one of the parents have a criminal conviction for domestic abuse, i. e. the abuse is a fact rather than a claim, sure.

    Otherwise abduction remains abduction. Children are not a property and they do not “belong” to one of the parents. Both of the parents have equal rights to raise their children.


  • In cases of a child abuse, parents should have their parental rights taken away, as simple as that. This legislation is to stop one parent from taking a child for a “short trip” abroad just to text the other parent from abroad that they are not coming back. This is an abduction, pure and simple and the parliament is rightly putting a stop to that:

    In their submission supporting the amendment, Both Parents Matter said: “Currently, a parent will sometimes simply remove the child under the guise of a short trip, as the risk of adverse repercussions may correctly be perceived to be low.

    “Treating child abduction solely as a civil law matter is often ineffective in ensuring the return of children. Closing the loophole would create an effective deterrent that would reduce the occurrence of child abduction.”