My name is Matt and I am a father.

why does that sound like I am at an AA meet and being a father is so bad. I am proud to be a dad. I have four children, one in heaven, one (IMHO in hell) with his mother and whatever man she has got at the moment, and two with me.

I have a wife who is an extreamly nice person. She's a real looker and she can cook! She is also great to spend time with and I do so whenever I can.

The reason I have started this blog is because I wish to examine some issues. These are the issues of fathers rights movements in the UK. I will examine very similar movements in the US and Australia.

I will not be doing this alone. With me on this journey will be other users I do not know who these people are yet and maybe you are one of them. At some stage I will be adding comment boxes and one will be just for those who might like to join. It will be by invite only and limited to a very small number of persons.

Unlike the last blog on this subject (art of darkness) I will not be telling my stroy, nor allowing it to be told in any great depth. The result was that visitors who saw themselves as the antagonist flammed the blog (hosted on blogspot) and before long it became over whelmed by verbal venum and hate posts. It was totally tit for tat and eventually I came to see that it was infact just a giant turd. I stopped handed over the controls and started agian.

This time the aims are simple. Investigate the issues.

Join me if you will and let us take the journey togeather.