National Fathers' Day Rally by CRISP
CRISP is an NGO formed in 2008, at Bangalore by people who recognised the serious effects of parental alienation of children due to single parenting in divorce/separation. Now we have chapters throughout the country.
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS For Shared Parenting will organise a ‘National Fathers’ Day Rally’ on June 19, 2010, to stop the creation of a fatherless society which coincides with Fathers' Day which is celebrated throughout the world to recognise and to honour the fathers for everything they are doing for their children and express gratitude for their love, care and protection to their children. The function will be organised on June 19, between 10:00am to 1.30pm at Mahatma Gandhi Statue, MG Road, Bangalore.
CRISP is an NGO formed in 2008, at Bangalore by people who recognised the serious effects of parental alienation of children due to single parenting in divorce/separation. Now we have chapters throughout the country. CRISP speaks up for the rights of children to remain connected with and enjoy the love of both the natural parents being divorced or separated. Our aims and objectives are based on research findings. Our members come from all walks of life, like software engineers, doctors, teachers, businessmen, social workers, etc which includes women and senior citizens. All family roles like grandparents, fathers, mothers, etc, are being represented. CRISP has charted a pro-family agenda to promote family harmony in our society.
Parental alienation: Psychological effects on the child: Parental alienation occurs when one parent estranges the children from the other parent for personal vendetta. Children are brainwashed (used as pawns in divorce/ separation) by the dominant parent against the non-custodial parent (usually fathers). This brings a lot of mental distress and trauma to the child and the alienated parent and is particularly damaging to the child’s psychology and is child abuse. Extensive psychological studies over decades collectively called ‘The Spectrum of Parental Alienation Syndrome’ describe the detrimental effects on the child. In Western countries, mainly United States and Europe, organisations (including medical, judicial and NGOs) have gone into the depths of this and are trying hard to preserve families and save children. Unfortunately, our own country which once prided possessing ‘family values’ now needs to learn basic lessons from the West. It is a well known fact that neglected children and children from broken families are more prone to take to crime. In India, not even a single such study/ research has been done. There is a serious need to commit to research and save children from this situation, which is completely being ignored. As a society, we are largely ignorant of the effects.
Judicial and governmental apathy: Anti-child, anti-father and anti-Family: Divorce/ separation is between spouses; not child and parent. This is common sense. There is no law requiring a normal father to keep away from his child, in divorce/ separation proceedings. On the other hand, UN’s Child Rights Convention (to which India also acceded about 20 years ago and then did nothing about) requires the state (of which the judicial systems are a part) to ensure that the child does not suffer separation! However, the way justice is administered, the child is separated from the father (mostly) for years! One has to apply for visitation that takes years to grant and even then for a paltry time. Innocent children suffer because parents are separating and fight for their egos! Our judicial mechanism has a deplorable understanding of child welfare based on biased and outdated social concepts. The father is a relegated to a mere visitor, eliminating involvement in the child’s life and just a ‘maintenance’ paying ATM machine. It virtually condemns the child to an illegitimate. This is neither in the child’s nor the family’s interest and destroys the foundation for the future generation.
The Indian judiciary would do well to educate itself, provide training to judges and inculcate good international practices in the family law systems. The judiciary must become more accountable, transparent, improve the quality of justice and urgently implement extensive judicial reforms in right earnest, if it wishes to be a credible and potent justice system.
Why is family institution needed in the first place? Family is the most fundamental building block of society. It builds healthy human beings and healthy society. When family system breaks, its leads to serious social consequences and surge in crime rates. A main contributor to teenage pregnancies is broken families. It is well known that children from broken homes are more prone to crime.
From here it is a short step to even more serious anti-national crimes like terrorism. Social upheaval/ instability are heavily exploited by anti-nationals and terrorists.
CRISP’s achievements
Extensively campaigned to implement shared parenting. Currently engaging with the government on this. In-fact, National Commission for Protection Of Child Rights (NCPCR), Government of India appreciated CRISP for educating the society and legal fraternity on the significance of shared parenting.
CRISP has created a national forum and made representations to the Chief Justice of India, WCD Ministry and Law Commission to make shared parenting mandatory.
Over 2500 members strong and growing. Now CRISP has seven chapters across the nation.
Mothers who have been deprived of child custody are also members of CRISP.
Some reputed women’s organisations are supporting CRISP’s efforts.
Engaging with leading medical professionals to provide quality counseling. This is to prevent suicides of deprived and abused fathers.
CRISP has conducted several workshops, seminars and press meets pertaining to children issues and sensitised the society and successfully spread the message of shared parenting.
Many deprived parents have benefited from CRISP counseling and have successfully got orders for weekends and 50 per cent vacation custody of their children.
CRISP provides quality information through its website. Thousands of victims have made use of this information which is the first of its kind in the country.
CRISP’s demands
Basic right of children to access both biological parents;
Implementation of UN’s Child Rights Convention and Hague’s Convention on Parental Child Abduction;
Implement shared parenting/joint custody as a rule in separation and divorce cases.
Setting up special guardian courts in every major city;
Speedy and quality justice (within three months);
Rational and gender neutral family laws (including DV Act);
Create a separate Child Welfare Ministry at the national level and separate from WCD Ministry;
Laws against International parental child abduction and child alienation;
Enroll organisations like NIMHANS to carry out research on child psychology of separated
children. Laws to be framed based on scientific studies;
Compulsory counseling to parent-litigants on shared parenting for child’s welfare;
Ban child interviews of tender age children, who have not had adequate access with the noncustodial parent;
Appoint psychologists/ child psychologists as mediators and to encourage shared parenting;
Ban lawyers as mediators! They are suited for arbitration not mediation!
Ban lawyers from family courts (implement the Family Court Act which discourages engaging lawyers). Encourage party in person after giving adequate counseling;
Grant visitation rights to grand parents who want to have access to the grandchildren;
Harsh punishment for child abusers including non-compliance of court orders concerning child visitation;
Punish people who misuse dowry and domestic violence act as a weapon to cut off the children from the father;
Make the domestic violence act gender neutral and also to protect the child from domestic violence from even the mother.
We appeal and invite our media friends to kindly grace the occasion since media has a very important role in educating the society on this highly sensitive subject of children who constitute 40 per cent of the population and not vote banks and ensure our children are saved from being fatherless since the divorce rates in the cities are escalating and in Bangalore alone there are over 15000 cases pending.
About CRISP
Parental alienation: Psychological effects on the child: Parental alienation occurs when one parent estranges the children from the other parent for personal vendetta. Children are brainwashed (used as pawns in divorce/ separation) by the dominant parent against the non-custodial parent (usually fathers). This brings a lot of mental distress and trauma to the child and the alienated parent and is particularly damaging to the child’s psychology and is child abuse. Extensive psychological studies over decades collectively called ‘The Spectrum of Parental Alienation Syndrome’ describe the detrimental effects on the child. In Western countries, mainly United States and Europe, organisations (including medical, judicial and NGOs) have gone into the depths of this and are trying hard to preserve families and save children. Unfortunately, our own country which once prided possessing ‘family values’ now needs to learn basic lessons from the West. It is a well known fact that neglected children and children from broken families are more prone to take to crime. In India, not even a single such study/ research has been done. There is a serious need to commit to research and save children from this situation, which is completely being ignored. As a society, we are largely ignorant of the effects.
Judicial and governmental apathy: Anti-child, anti-father and anti-Family: Divorce/ separation is between spouses; not child and parent. This is common sense. There is no law requiring a normal father to keep away from his child, in divorce/ separation proceedings. On the other hand, UN’s Child Rights Convention (to which India also acceded about 20 years ago and then did nothing about) requires the state (of which the judicial systems are a part) to ensure that the child does not suffer separation! However, the way justice is administered, the child is separated from the father (mostly) for years! One has to apply for visitation that takes years to grant and even then for a paltry time. Innocent children suffer because parents are separating and fight for their egos! Our judicial mechanism has a deplorable understanding of child welfare based on biased and outdated social concepts. The father is a relegated to a mere visitor, eliminating involvement in the child’s life and just a ‘maintenance’ paying ATM machine. It virtually condemns the child to an illegitimate. This is neither in the child’s nor the family’s interest and destroys the foundation for the future generation.
The Indian judiciary would do well to educate itself, provide training to judges and inculcate good international practices in the family law systems. The judiciary must become more accountable, transparent, improve the quality of justice and urgently implement extensive judicial reforms in right earnest, if it wishes to be a credible and potent justice system.
Why is family institution needed in the first place? Family is the most fundamental building block of society. It builds healthy human beings and healthy society. When family system breaks, its leads to serious social consequences and surge in crime rates. A main contributor to teenage pregnancies is broken families. It is well known that children from broken homes are more prone to crime.
From here it is a short step to even more serious anti-national crimes like terrorism. Social upheaval/ instability are heavily exploited by anti-nationals and terrorists.
CRISP’s achievements
Extensively campaigned to implement shared parenting. Currently engaging with the government on this. In-fact, National Commission for Protection Of Child Rights (NCPCR), Government of India appreciated CRISP for educating the society and legal fraternity on the significance of shared parenting.
CRISP has created a national forum and made representations to the Chief Justice of India, WCD Ministry and Law Commission to make shared parenting mandatory.
Over 2500 members strong and growing. Now CRISP has seven chapters across the nation.
Mothers who have been deprived of child custody are also members of CRISP.
Some reputed women’s organisations are supporting CRISP’s efforts.
Engaging with leading medical professionals to provide quality counseling. This is to prevent suicides of deprived and abused fathers.
CRISP has conducted several workshops, seminars and press meets pertaining to children issues and sensitised the society and successfully spread the message of shared parenting.
Many deprived parents have benefited from CRISP counseling and have successfully got orders for weekends and 50 per cent vacation custody of their children.
CRISP provides quality information through its website. Thousands of victims have made use of this information which is the first of its kind in the country.
CRISP’s demands
Basic right of children to access both biological parents;
Implementation of UN’s Child Rights Convention and Hague’s Convention on Parental Child Abduction;
Implement shared parenting/joint custody as a rule in separation and divorce cases.
Setting up special guardian courts in every major city;
Speedy and quality justice (within three months);
Rational and gender neutral family laws (including DV Act);
Create a separate Child Welfare Ministry at the national level and separate from WCD Ministry;
Laws against International parental child abduction and child alienation;
Enroll organisations like NIMHANS to carry out research on child psychology of separated
children. Laws to be framed based on scientific studies;
Compulsory counseling to parent-litigants on shared parenting for child’s welfare;
Ban child interviews of tender age children, who have not had adequate access with the noncustodial parent;
Appoint psychologists/ child psychologists as mediators and to encourage shared parenting;
Ban lawyers as mediators! They are suited for arbitration not mediation!
Ban lawyers from family courts (implement the Family Court Act which discourages engaging lawyers). Encourage party in person after giving adequate counseling;
Grant visitation rights to grand parents who want to have access to the grandchildren;
Harsh punishment for child abusers including non-compliance of court orders concerning child visitation;
Punish people who misuse dowry and domestic violence act as a weapon to cut off the children from the father;
Make the domestic violence act gender neutral and also to protect the child from domestic violence from even the mother.
We appeal and invite our media friends to kindly grace the occasion since media has a very important role in educating the society on this highly sensitive subject of children who constitute 40 per cent of the population and not vote banks and ensure our children are saved from being fatherless since the divorce rates in the cities are escalating and in Bangalore alone there are over 15000 cases pending.
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