Rejected petition Introduce a law for both parents to have equal access to their children.

If you have parental responsibility for a child you don’t live with, you don’t necessarily have a right to contact with them. This is a statement on the https://www.gov.uk/parental-rights-responsibilities. This statement allows a parent to stop a child from seeing a the other parent.

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All mothers and most fathers have legal rights and responsibilities as a parent

Another statement from https://www.gov.uk/parental-rights-responsibilities

That lessens the Fathers Rights.

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Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/226134

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Date submitted 9 August 2018
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