Get what you choose

Legions of men who faced the secret court system can attest to their naivity when participating in what is called 'proceedings'. The purpose of 'proceedings' is to feed you through a roller where you end up flat on your back, defenceless, exhausted, lost, your assets expropriated, and ready to become the doormat to your children. You become the butt of negative moods, PMT and unreasonable behaviour from the mother of your children. Fathers lacked any countervailing pressure to the rampant behaviour of today's secret family courts. A combination of factors put fathers in an impossible situation when they realised their situation in our secret divorce courts.


The Retreat Strategy may in the longer term provide this. and be used by our judges and social workers as a counter-pressure to fend off rampant radical feminist fashions. It could in the longer term become the de facto new legal system overseeing family matters.


Speak to men and get into their soul and find out what they have to say about the farcical investigations and reporting by untrained Probation Officers. Ask them if they agree with the view that: "Family Court Welfare Officers" have almost magic power within the confines of Secret Courts (not unlike the hypnotic rattle of the deadly rattlesnake in the desert).

The abysmal performance of Probation Service Welfare Officers, their lack in training and ignorance of research into outcome, is evidenced in anual reports published by HMI Inspectorate for Probation.

fig1 The Experts, CWO Quality Assessment
(source: THE HM Inspectorate of Probation, Family Court Welfare Work,
Report of a Thematic Inspection, Home Office 1997, page 104)

We have interviewed hundreds of fathers who had submitted to secret court procedures.