Some Japanese mothers have discovered the proverbial “what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander” experience. Unlike most of the Japanese society, these mothers want their government to join the Hague Convention treaty to fight international child abductions. In the latest article published in Japan Times Natusko Fukue reports on some mothers pushing government […]
Finland and Russia are on their way to sign a Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. A recent diplomatic row between the two neighbours after a Finnish consulate official involvement in a re-abduction of child, may have been a final push.
A new Youtube video has prompted this commentary on a subject that I tried (for obvious reasons) not to cover by this site. I hope that this commentary is not going to start a "us vs them, i.e. fathers vs mothers" war.
Mike, another desperate father, who became a victim of a parental abudction.
My last story was on the 2007 Compliance (or rather lack of) Report on Hague Convention Cases, prepared annually by the US State Department for the United States Congress. Here are my thoughts on the newest report. Has anything improved, or do we get another very pretty, but disappointing report, with many unanswered questions? You be the judge.