Petition Men to be given automatic parental responsibility like women when a baby is due.

Woman have fought hard for their equal rights and they got it, which is just right, but when it comes to pregnancy men do not have the same rights as women and I aim to change that. I am a father to be and I have discovered that a father has to be registered on the birth certificate to have the....

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same rights as the mother to their new born child unless courts say otherwise. I want you to ask yourself something, what happens when both parents break up and the mother has a severe dislike to the father? lots of people act out of anger. The father has to pay thousands of pounds just to see his child a few days a week when he probably doesn't deserve that kinda treatment. people judge today by the actions of stupid men in the past but if we are all equal then why is the father the outcast?

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30 signatures

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Date closed 3 May 2017
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