This unfortunate man has been removed from his daughter's birth certificate. This triumph of legal misandry means that a child who is now 10 and, most important of all, knows he is the other half of her physical being for all of those 10 years, will just have to content herself with having a two-mothers' day.

What hope for fathers when even the cowardly politically correct media are now involved in this silly game of let's pretend, using the term having a baby "with" a person of the same sex, to describe the pregnancy of a partner of a government minister? Then again, the truth has always been a casualty of political correctness.

However, things are serious when even children become casualties.

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A new report, called For Kid's Sake, will be launched by opposition families spokesman Kevin Andrews next Tuesday at Parliament House. In it, University of Sydney law professor Patrick Parkinson, who is widely involved in child protection and specialises in family law, shows the "alarming deterioration, over the past 10 years, in the social environment in which children and young people are growing up in Australia".

The evidence is the massive rise in reports of child abuse and neglect, the increase in the number of children in care, the deterioration in adolescent mental health, and the rise in risky behaviours, especially among teenage girls. To a large extent the report draws together existing research that is available, but buried in a range of different publications.

And it is the cumulative impact of all the data taken together that is so troubling. It points, in particular, to a rapidly worsening situation, especially for vulnerable teenage girls.

The major explanation for this is the increase in family conflict and family breakdown. Parkinson shows how in two generations the number of children whose parents are living apart by the time they are 15 has increased quite substantially. The report makes major recommendations for strengthening families through a range of initiatives, including relationship education in disadvantaged areas.

We can turn our minds to different solutions for this chaos, but the unrelenting drive for a complete and legal revolution in the nature of the family and especially the role of fathers, built on nothing but a campaign by a vociferous minority, is a recipe for social collapse.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/children-suffer-under-political-correctness/story-e6frg6zo-1226127876896

Here is hoping that people can rise above the political correctness, the gender war and shortsighted populist politics to consider the parlous and deteriorating state of children in modern Australia.  I sure hope so anyway.