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Hello Warwick


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y.jpg> I have been working hard developing our new fatherhood website
with my good friend Wayne Larkin, Visual Design Group: vdg@timms.com.au
<mailto:vdg@timms.com.au>   Wayne completed our 'Good to Great'
Fatherhood Course and is a devoted dad with two delightful daughters,
eleven and six.  He has immense experience in advertising and marketing,
having won numerous national and international marketing awards for TV,
print, radio and other media. =20

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Wayne has experienced the work of the Fatherhood Foundation first hand
and has summarised our work with fathers down to four words: LOVE,
LAUGH, LISTEN, LEARN.  Wayne is a strategic thinker par-excellence and I
believe that he has hit the nail on the head.  Often fatherhood is
portrayed as deadly serious and at times, rather fearsome, but our
children need and want to love, laugh, listen and learn.  Our job as
fathers is to give them both what they need as well what they want.

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Phil Baker, Western Australia, www.philbaker.net
<http://www.philbaker.net/>   was addressing a large group of high
profile community leaders.  He told them that if they really wanted to
affect the community, they had to 'stop being so boring'.  Many of his
audience were quite shocked at his comments.

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The same goes for us as fathers.  We have to stop being so boring and
begin to love, laugh, listen and learn.  We learn best when we laugh.
'Laughter is the shortest distance between two people', Victor Borge.
Laughter helps us to love, listen and learn.  To quote from Rob Parson,
author of 'The Sixty Minute Father', Hodder and Stoughton, and still the
best book on fatherhood that I have ever read.

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"Life is serious.  There is pain and sorrow on every hand.  There are
bills to pay, and examinations to pass, there is healthy eating to
attend to, and discipline to be imparted.  All that is true; but
childhood needs also to be a time of laughter. To see a picture of a
child abused, or hungry, or alone, brings tears, not just because of the
direct pain, but because they are being robbed of childhood and of their
right to laugh.

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 We somehow have to raise children who can cope with the serious issues
of life and yet can remember years of laughter.  That may involve us in
learning to laugh again . . .

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When my children were small they used to love having what we called a
'family night'. They would drag their mattresses into our bedroom and
sleep on the floor.  But once in a while we would have a 'super family
night'. That involved us all sleeping on the lounge floor together.
There are no logical reasons why four people with perfectly good beds
should want to do that; except that it's fun . .=20

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But children love those who have the time not only to teach them, but to
have fun with them."

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Lovework

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Laugh.

That's right LAUGH, and have some fun with your children.

If you can laugh, your children can too.

Your children need a fun dad, not a boring one.

Besides, it's more fun not being boring.

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Yours for loving laughter

Warwick Marsh

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PS  Thanks to those who have given to our strategy to take the
Fatherhood Foundation to the next level.  Our goal is to help children,
inspire fathers and encourage families.  Will you join us?  Your
donation is now fully tax deductible and the end of the tax year is only
weeks away.

Regards

WM

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Warwick Marsh  has been married to Alison for 30 years. He is=20
the father of five children, four boys and one girl, ranging in=20
age from 25 years to 13 years.  Warwick is a musician,=20
songwriter, producer and public speaker who likes to think he=20
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If I had my life over again I would limber up.

I would be sillier than I have been on this trip.

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I would watch more sunsets. I would do more walking and looking. I would
eat more ice cream and less beans.  I would have more actual troubles
and=20
fewer imaginary ones.

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You see, I am one of those people who live life sensibly hour after
hour, day after day.

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I've been one of those people who never go anywhere without a
thermometer, a hot water bottle, a gargle, a raincoat, an aspirin and a
parachute.

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If I could do it over again, I wouldn't make such good grades except by
accident. =20
I would ride on more merry-go-rounds.

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I would pick more daisies.

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Laughter


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The following was overheard at a recent high society party...=20

"My ancestry goes all the way back to Alexander the Great," said one
lady. She then turned to a second woman and asked, "How far does your
family go back?"=20

"I don't know," was the reply. "All of our records were lost in the
flood."=20

_____________________________________________

A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to
make the matter clearer, she said, "Now, class, if I stood on my head,
the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the
face."=20

"Yes," the class said.=20

"Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary
position the blood doesn't run into my feet?"=20

A little fellow shouted, "Cause your feet ain't empty."=20




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By Ian Windsor

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The Fatherhood Foundation is arguably the most respected organization in
this country that espouses family values and the critical role good
fathers play in maintaining those values. I am especially heartened that
the FF affirms and supports the new outcasts of our affluent,
egalitarian society, namely the single dads doing it tough.

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As a family advocate I have always presented 'the best interests of the
children argument' in Family Law inquiries.  I have never mentioned the
needless suffering caused to abandoned fathers for fear of being branded
one of those 'angry white males' or worse still, 'fathers' rights'
activists. Like all other human beings, fathers have needs that must be
acknowledged and human rights that must be enforced. No one, including
the Family Court, has the right to take children away from their father
for no good reason. This precept must be enshrined in hard Family Law
legislation.=20

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I can categorically say that for a father to lose a child through
separation and divorce causes almost as much grief as losing a child
through death.  I can also categorically say that in custody disputes
where a mother won't agree to a shared custody arrangement for no good
reason, her love for the children is far less than that of the father's.

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In far too many cases access fathers are vilified (PAS) and denied
visitation to their own children by delinquent custodial mothers. This
further adds to the father's grief especially when in later years he
learns second or third hand of his pregnant teenage daughter's drug
addiction and his unemployed son's death in a road accident. =20

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I've fought long and hard for the rights of children to have fathers and
for the fathers to be allowed to share the responsibility of child
rearing after separation - but to no avail. The government's
re-iteration of the failed 1996 amendments that entrenches the mother
custody, father liability model, is unconscionable to say the least. We
would be a far better society with healthier children if separated
fathers were allowed to share child rearing instead of being forced to
pay alimony through the CSA for visitation rights that the Family Court
has no intention of properly enforcing.

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.jpg> I see the pain and suffering of too many good men and their
children and I simply ask, 'When are we going to stop vilifying good
men? When are we going to stop blaming good men for all relationship
failures along with all the other ills of the world.'?  And above all,
'When are good women going to stand by good men and turn their backs on
their delinquent sisters?'=20

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Until this happens we are left with a failed Family Law system to deal
with. I may be able to help some deserted and abused husbands. Please
contact me if you think I can help, even if it's just for a re-assuring
voice at the end of the phone line.

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http://www.windsorparalegal.com.au/=20

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Reproduced from =A9 2005 Celebrate Love Australia.=20

Authors: Francine & Byron Pirola=20


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In all the discussions about what makes a wife happy, it strikes us that
the happiness of husbands is often overlooked. Actually, it's rarely on
the agenda. That in itself says something about us as a society.

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Perhaps this is because one of the most significant things that
contribute to a husband's happiness is his wife's satisfaction. When
she's happy, he feels successful in the marriage. When she's unhappy, it
translates as failure for him. A husband instinctively will assume
responsibility for his wife's happiness, and on the whole, most wives
agree he is responsible, even if only subconsciously. When a wife is
unhappy in the marriage, it is NEVER her fault!=20

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Of course, when a man is unhappy in the marriage, that's his fault as
well!

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ing_1.jpg> If there is one thing that is guaranteed to suck the life out
of a husband and crush his spirit, it's an unhappy, critical wife. When
a wife persistently complains and nags and criticizes her husband, he
eventually gives up trying. He concludes that she just can't be
satisfied. In contrast, an affirming wife empowers him to be the best he
can be in all endeavours, including in their marriage.

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Thought of the Week


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Love, laugh, listen and learn

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Wayne Larkin

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Special Feature


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> HOW TO STAY YOUNG

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1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height.

Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them.

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2. Keep only cheerful friends.

The grouches pull you down. (Keep this In mind if you are one of those
grouches :)

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3. Keep learning:

Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let
the brain get idle.

"An idle mind is the devil's workshop."

And the devil's name is Alzheimer's!

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4. Enjoy the simple things.

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5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of
time with HIM/HER.

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6. The tears happen:

Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire
life is ourselves. =20

LIVE while you are alive.

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7. Surround yourself with what you love:

Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

Your home is your refuge.

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8. Cherish your health:

If it is good, preserve it.

If it is unstable, improve it.

If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

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9. Don't take guilt trips.

Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county, to a foreign country,
but NOT to where the guilt is.

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10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

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And if you don't send this to at least four people - who cares?

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Hillsong Family Conference is on again for the 20th year. Look at  the
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Good to Great - The Challenge

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The 'Good to Great' Fatherhood Mentoring Course is a ten week, intensive
training exercise in fathering excellence. It features some of the best
speakers on fatherhood in Australia such as Brigadier Jim Wallace,
former commander of Australia's SAS.=20

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Completion: 16th November 2006 - Duration: 10 weeks=20

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Dad's Prayer


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Help me not become more boring as I grow older.

Help me love, laugh, listen and learn.

Only then will I be truly teachable,

And only then can I teach others.

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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><IMG hspace=3 src="http://www.bosweb.com.au/content/EB3TemplateImages/771/laughing%20Family.jpg" align=left vspace=3 border=0>I have been working hard developing our new fatherhood website with my good friend Wayne Larkin, Visual Design Group: </FONT><A href="mailto:vdg@timms.com.au"><FONT size=2>vdg@timms.com.au</FONT></A><FONT size=2> &nbsp;<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:City> completed our 'Good to Great' Fatherhood Course and is a devoted dad with two delightful daughters, eleven and six.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>He has immense experience in advertising and marketing, having won numerous national and international marketing awards for TV, print, radio and other media.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=2><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Wayne</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> has experienced the work of the Fatherhood Foundation first hand and has summarised our work with fathers down to four words: LOVE, LAUGH, LISTEN, LEARN.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:City> is a strategic thinker par-excellence and I believe that he has hit the nail on the head.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Often fatherhood is portrayed as deadly serious and at times, rather fearsome, but our children need and want to love, laugh, listen and learn.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Our job as fathers is to give them both what they need as well what they want.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>The same goes for us as fathers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>We have to stop being so boring and begin to love, laugh, listen and learn.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>We learn best when we laugh.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>'Laughter is the shortest distance between two people', Victor Borge. Laughter helps us to love, listen and learn.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>To quote from Rob Parson, author of 'The Sixty Minute Father', Hodder and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Stoughton</st1:place></st1:City>, and still the best book on fatherhood that I have ever read.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>"Life is serious.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>There is pain and sorrow on every hand.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>There are bills to pay, and examinations to pass, there is healthy eating to attend to, and discipline to be imparted.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>All that is true; but childhood needs also to be a time of laughter. To see a picture of a child abused, or hungry, or alone, brings tears, not just because of the direct pain, but because they are being robbed of childhood and of their right to laugh.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</SPAN>We somehow have to raise children who can cope with the serious issues of life and yet can remember years of laughter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>That may involve us in learning to laugh again . . .<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>When my children were small they used to love having what we called a 'family night'. They would drag their mattresses into our bedroom and sleep on the floor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>But once in a while we would have a 'super family night'. That involved us all sleeping on the lounge floor together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>There are no logical reasons why four people with perfectly good beds should want to do that; except that it's fun . . <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>But children love those who have the time not only to teach them, but to have fun with them."</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>That's right LAUGH, and have some fun with your children.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>If you can laugh, your children can too.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>Your children need a fun dad, not a boring one.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>Besides, it's more fun not being boring.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>PS<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Thanks to those who have given to our strategy to take the Fatherhood Foundation to the next level.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Our goal is to help children, inspire fathers and encourage families.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Will you join us?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Your donation is now fully tax deductible and the end of the tax year is only weeks away.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align=justify><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Warwick Marsh&nbsp;&nbsp;has been married&nbsp;to Alison for&nbsp;30 years. He is <BR>the father of five children, four boys and one girl, ranging in <BR>age from 25 years to&nbsp;13 years.&nbsp; Warwick is a musician, <BR>songwriter, producer and public speaker who likes to think he <BR>can still laugh at himself.</SPAN></P></SPAN></P>
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      <H2><A name="Section2"></A>Grandads</H2>
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<P><SPAN lang=EN-AU style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Verdana>The following was overheard at a recent high society party... <BR><BR>"My ancestry goes all the way back to Alexander the Great," said one lady. She then turned to a second woman and asked, "How far does your family go back?" <BR><BR>"I don't know," was the reply. "All of our records were lost in the flood." <BR><BR>_____________________________________________</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>The Fatherhood Foundation is arguably the most respected organization in this country that espouses family values and the critical role good fathers play in maintaining those values. I am especially heartened that the FF affirms and supports the new outcasts of our affluent, egalitarian society, namely the single dads doing it tough.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>As a family advocate I have always presented 'the best interests of the children argument' in Family Law inquiries.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>I have never mentioned the needless suffering caused to abandoned fathers for fear of being branded one of those 'angry white males' or worse still, 'fathers' rights' activists. Like all other human beings, fathers have needs that must be acknowledged and human rights that must be enforced. No one, including the Family Court, has the right to take children away from their father for no good reason. This precept must be enshrined in hard Family Law legislation. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>I can categorically say that for a father to lose a child through separation and divorce causes almost as much grief as losing a child through death.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>I can also categorically say that in custody disputes where a mother won't agree to a shared custody arrangement for no good reason, her love for the children is far less than that of the father's.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>In far too many cases access fathers are vilified (PAS) and denied visitation to their own children by delinquent custodial mothers. This further adds to the father's grief especially when in later years he learns second or third hand of his pregnant teenage daughter's drug addiction and his unemployed son's death in a road accident.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>I've fought long and hard for the rights of children to have fathers and for the fathers to be allowed to share the responsibility of child rearing after separation - but to no avail. The government's re-iteration of the failed 1996 amendments that entrenches the mother custody, father liability model, is unconscionable to say the least. We would be a far better society with healthier children if separated fathers were allowed to share child rearing instead of being forced to pay alimony through the CSA for visitation rights that the Family Court has no intention of properly enforcing.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>In all the discussions about what makes a wife happy, it strikes us that the happiness of husbands is often overlooked. Actually, it's rarely on the agenda. That in itself says something about us as a society.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>Perhaps this is because one of the most significant things that contribute to a husband's happiness is his wife's satisfaction. When she's happy, he feels successful in the marriage. When she's unhappy, it translates as failure for him. A husband instinctively will assume responsibility for his wife's happiness, and on the whole, most wives agree he is responsible, even if only subconsciously. When a wife is unhappy in the marriage, it is NEVER her fault! <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>Of course, when a man is unhappy in the marriage, that's his fault as well!<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><IMG hspace=3 src="http://www.bosweb.com.au/content/EB3TemplateImages/771/man_woman%20yelling_1.jpg" align=left vspace=3 border=0></FONT></SPAN>If there is one thing that is guaranteed to suck the life out of a husband and crush his spirit, it's an unhappy, critical wife. When a wife persistently complains and nags and criticizes her husband, he eventually gives up trying. He concludes that she just can't be satisfied. In contrast, an affirming wife empowers him to be the best he can be in all endeavours, including in their marriage.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=5><FONT color=seagreen><IMG hspace=3 src="http://www.bosweb.com.au/content/EB3TemplateImages/771/family%20fun.jpg" align=right vspace=3 border=0>HOW TO STAY YOUNG<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>1. Throw out nonessential numbers.</STRONG> This includes age, weight and height.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>2. Keep only cheerful friends.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>The grouches pull you down. (Keep this In mind if you are one of those grouches :)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>3. Keep learning:<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain get idle.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>"An idle mind is the devil's workshop."<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>And the devil's name is Alzheimer's!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>4. Enjoy the simple things.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>5. Laugh often, long and loud. </STRONG>Laugh until you gasp for breath.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with HIM/HER.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>6. The tears happen:<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life is ourselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>LIVE while you are alive.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>7. Surround yourself with what you love:<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>Your home is your refuge.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>8. Cherish your health:<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>If it is good, preserve it.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>If it is unstable, improve it.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>9. Don't take guilt trips.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>And if you don't send this to at least four people - who cares?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Hillsong Family Conference is on again for the 20th year. Look at&nbsp; the link below:</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=4><FONT color=mediumblue>Good to Great - The Challenge<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>The 'Good to Great' Fatherhood Mentoring Course is a ten week, intensive training exercise in fathering excellence. It features some of the best speakers on fatherhood in Australia such as Brigadier Jim Wallace, former commander of Australia's SAS. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>Commencing: 7 pm Thursday 7th September 2006 at Wollongong Campus <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>Completion: 16th November 2006 - Duration: 10 weeks <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P><FONT size=2><A href="http://www.bosweb.com.au/email_blast/rr.asp?s=3393&amp;v=300&amp;c=21&amp;u=http://www.ausheart.com.au/fathers/about/index.html"><FONT face=Verdana>Click here for more information about us</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></FONT></P>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>Fatherlessness and inadequate fathering has been proven to be a&nbsp;&nbsp; source of harm. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>The Fatherhood Foundation&nbsp;helps children&nbsp;by promoting excellence&nbsp; in fathering. Excellent fathers are in word and deed: responsible, involved, protective, loving and committed to the well-being of their children and their children's mother.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>The Fatherhood Foundation&nbsp;believes that the key to life is giving.&nbsp; That's why this newsletter is given freely without expectation.&nbsp; </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>Life is also about relationships.&nbsp; </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>That's what being a good father is all about, developing relationships with your loved ones.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Verdana size=2>If you would like to give financially to the Fatherhood Foundation Public Fund and receive tax deductibility</FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2>:</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2><STRONG>Fatherhood Foundation Public Fund</STRONG> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>(Name, address and amount details must be&nbsp;emailed&nbsp;for a receipt for tax deductibility)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>Westpac Branch Wollongong</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>A/C: 25-5558 </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>Or mail cheque and address details to:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>WOLLONGONG&nbsp; NSW&nbsp; 2520</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG><FONT size=1><FONT color=#0000ff>The Fatherhood Foundation Public Fund&nbsp; is a public fund listed on the Register of Harm Prevention Charities under Subdivision 30_EA of <EM>the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.</EM></FONT></FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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